PEACE OF THE SEASON...A YEAR-END, A YEAR-BEGINNING FUND APPEAL FROM THE BRANDYWINE PEACE COMMUNITY

This is our first appeal for funds in six months which doesn’t mean that our work has abated in any way. It continues with the same intensity, consistency (which you know if you are on our e-mail list or check the website regularly!), and commitment that has marked the past 29 years of Brandywine.  That demonstrative and unceasing history of peace organizing, direct action campaigns, and nonviolent resistance has made Brandywine a national example of peace and anti-war organizing as well as a regional resource that has proved essential to peace efforts and the re-emergence of a vital peace movement.

We continue to organize one of the few continuing anti-war campaigns of focused nonviolent resistance in the country as we return again and again to Lockheed Martin. The cost of Lockheed Martin’s obscene profits are counted daily in the Iraq war’s death toll and an unbounded militarism that poisons the earth and economy.  Indeed, our campaign of Non-violent Resistance at Lockheed Martin remains one of the most direct challenges to war-making we can make.

Over the past few years, however, Brandywine has also been in the lead of the mass opposition to the war in Iraq and the call for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops and bases, organizing demonstration after demonstration, program after program, workshop after workshop. Brandywine has repeatedly worked with other groups, bringing a decades old, hard earned experience to a number of important organizations and campaigns, such as: AFSC’s Eyes Wide Open  exhibition, Military Families Speak Out and Iraq Veterans Against the War, the just launched PA Campaign to Bring Home the National Guard, and the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance. (For a complete list of all 2005 events, click here.)

The Brandywine Peace Community obviously needs to continue.  So please help by giving now as generously as you can.

Make Checks payable to the Brandywine Peace Community. Tax deductible contributions ($25 minimun) should be made out to: New Society Educational Foundation and memo the check "for Brandywine". Mail your contribution to: Brandywine Peace Community, P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081

Thank You and Peace!