March for Peace, March 18th

Time to Rally the Creative Forces together!
March 19th marks the 4 year anniversary for the war in Iraq.
Join Acts of Art as we march with Brooklyn Parents for Peace and United for Peace and Justice.
Make the Artist's voice heard!


Assemble: 1:00 pm, 36th Street East Side of 6th AveMarch: 2:00 pm, across 42nd Street to Dag Hammarskjold PlazaFestival of Peace and Justice : continues until 6:00 pm at DH PlazaBPFP and other organizations will have information and resources availableSponsored by United for Peace and Justice


Metaphor to Action
by Muriel Rukeyser

Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform,

who battles a crowd with the hammers of his words,

whether it is the crash of lips on lips

after absence and wanting : we must close

the circuits of ideas, now generate,

that leap in the body's action or the mind's repose.

Over us is a striking on the walls of the sky,

here are the dynamos, steel-black, harboring flame,

here is the man night-walking who derives

tomorrow's manifestoes from this midnight's meeting;

here we require the proof in solidarity,

ron on iron, body on body, and the large single beating.

And behind us in time are the men who second us

as we continue. And near us is our love :

no forced contempt, no refusal in dogma, the close

of the circuit in a fierce dazzle of purity.

And over us is night a field of pansies unfolding,

charging with heat its softness in a symbol

to weld and prepare for action our minds' intensity.