Past Events

On March 19, 2023, organizers with Bronx Anti-War Coalition learned that the following day, US congress members Adriano Espaillat and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be participating in a high school student services fair that promotes the military academies such as West Point. As this is in direct contradiction to AOC’s campaign promises to protest military recruitment, we called for an emergency action. Concerned parents, teachers, veterans, and Bronx community members came out to demand military recruiters out of our schools! You can watch the news coverage on Democracy Now here.

On MLK-Day weekend, BxAWC hosted a community discussion that focused on MLK’s anti-war, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist positions (which have conveniently been left out of history books). Together, we studied excerpts from his speeches, including his famous “Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence” speech he delivered at Riverside Church in Harlem in 1967. We will connect these themes to the military’s recruitment of youth in the South Bronx. A mix of both newcomers and experienced activists from Harlem and the Bronx attended, all committed to building the Bronx Anti-war movement.

To honor the anti-imperialist legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., United National Antiwar Coailition called for a week of action the week of MLK-day. In New York City, hundreds of protestors came together on January 14, 2023 to call for peace. Bronx Antiwar Coalition had a contingent participating in the struggle.

This demonstration was held in coordination with United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), which called for a week of action Oct 15 – 22 to stop Washington’s military aggression against Russia and China, and to stop the endless wars in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Palestine, and all over the world.

The Bronx Anti War Coalition and community organizations went to Gil Scott-Heron Ampitheatre in St. Mary’s park and we came together to discuss a peoples led Anti war movement in the Bronx. We has music as well as a number of speakers that shared their own fight against Imperialism, while concentrating the interconnected nature of these struggles into one collective fight.

Our coalition held our first event at 3rd Avenue and 149th Street in the Bronx, where we stated our demands: an immediate reinvestment in our communities instead of the war machine. Organizers within the coalition spoke on the need to reinvest the billions of dollars put into the military and provide basic necessities for the people of the Bronx.