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Brandywine Peace Community-Resisting Lockheed Martin
For 15 years, from 1978 - 1993, the Brandywine Peace Community waged a campaign of public education and nonviolent resistance to General Electric and the GE Aerospace weapons production plants in the Delaware valley.
In April 1993, GE sold its Aerospace Division to Martin Marietta for $3.05 billion, causing Martin Marietta to double in size. In 1995, with an announcement stating "And this is just the beginning", alongside rows of pictured weapons, Martin Marietta merged with weapons giant, Lockheed, to become Lockheed Martin, the world's largest weapons corporation. To complete the merger, the US government paid out at least $855 million in consolidation costs, $92 million of which went to top management personnel. Within months, Lockheed Martin acquired the Loral Corporation for 9.4 billion and a list of other large military contractors.
Lockheed Martin spent more than $9.8 million in 2001 lobbying members of Congress and $2.7 million in campaign contributions for the 1999-2000 election cycle, including large campaign contributions to the senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and the self-described "pit-bull" for Star Wars missile defense, Representative Curt Weldon (PA, R-7)
A 2004-2006 Peacemaking Chronology
End the War in
Nonviolent
Resistance to Lockheed Martin
2006
Sunday, January 8 - Area premiere of FORWARD MARCH TO PEACE, in which Canadian film producer, Laura
Jones, depicts the history of GI resistance around
The film presents the history of the Vietnam War
resistance among soldiers of the 82nd airborne in 1969, a 1970 rally with Jane
Fonda, and the subsequent fire bombing of Quaker House in Fayetteville, NC, the
gathering place for the GI resistance then and now. The film relates early
protest history to last March's 2nd Anniversary of the
Iraq War march and anti-war rally in Fayetteville, NC,
featuring extensive footage and interviews with members of Iraq Veterans
Against the War, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out,
Veterans for Peace, and Gold Star Families for Peace. The film will be
accompanied by Sean Crane, long-time associate of Quaker House.
Monday JANUARY 9, 7PM, Friends Center
(Martin Luther King Room), 1501 Cherry St., Phila.,
PA - Planning & Preparation Meeting for those doing civil disobedience on
King Day [Jan. 16] at Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, PA. [See below!]
It is important that those who are planning or considering
civil disobedience on King Day to attend. These pre-civil disobedience meetings
are not briefings, they are for participants to actually plan the civil
disobedience within the context of the overall demonstration and prepare for
what we will do. If you planning or considering civil disobedience on
King Day, you need to be at the meeting on January 9!
Monday, January 16, 2006, 12 Noon Martin
Luther King Day of Nonviolent Resistance Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard
Boulevards, Valley Forge, PA. "Dissent without disobedience is
consent" - Henry David Thoreau.
"The great initiative in this war is ours; the
initiative to stop it must be ours" (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., speaking
in 1967 about the Vietnam War, resounds today about the war in
Complete account of the protest: click here.
Sunday, February 12 - Iraq & Beyond:
Stopping the Merchants of Death - Rev.
Simon Harak, SJ, National
War Resisters League. Simon Harak entered the Jesuits
[the Society of Jesus order of Catholic priests] in 1970. He has a Ph.D in Ethics from
numerous books including Nonviolence
for the Third Millennium: Its Legacy and its Future. As
co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, Rev. Harak traveled to
Unfortunately, this potluck was cancelled due to the blizzard
which occurred. Simon Harak may be rescheduled at a
later date.
"A Celebration of
Democracy, Dissent, & Civil Liberties" - March 8, 2006, Media, PA
March 8, 1971: A group calling themselves the "Citizens
Commission to Investigate the FBI" break into the Media, PA FBI office,
removing hundreds of files which when made public document the FBI's COINTELPRO
[Counter-Intelligence Program] policy of spying, infiltration, and harassment
of civil rights and anti-war activism at the time.
liberties. See the full account.
Sunday, March 12 "
Panelists,
all of whom have just recently returned from Venezuela will include: Pat
Albright, Global Womens Strike.
Eric Gjertsen, Payday (a mens
network who work with Global Womens Strike); and Ray
Torres, Mid-Atlantic Regional Organizer for Witness for Peace, has made
numerous trips to
Sunday, March 19 (3rd anniversary of war's start), Area
Candlelight Vigil & Service, Independence Visitors Center, 5th &
Market Sts., Phila., PA; 6:15 PM.
Monday, March 20: A Global Call for Nonviolent Resistance
to End the U.S.-Led Occupation of
Monday, March 20, Noon, Nonviolent Resistance to
the War's Chief Profiteer, Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards,
Valley Forge, PA (behind the King of Prussia Mall) (Map
and directions) resisting the continuing war and in solidarity
with National Campaign for
Nonviolent Resistance action at the Pentagon and weapons
corporations nationwide. Those participating need to attend the
nonviolent resistance/civil disobedience preparation meeting. Call the
office for more information.
Wednesday, March 22nd
15th and Cherry
SUNDAY, APRIL 2nd, 2pm: A TIME TO BREAK THE SILENCE:
END POVERTY, STOP THE WAR,
COMING TOGETHER FOR JUSTICE & PEACE -
A GATHERING OF ANTI-WAR AND ANTI-POVERTY ACTIVISTS
-
OLD FIRST REFORMED CHURCH
4th and Race Sts. Philadelphia, PA. see report
April 9 [Palm Sunday] - Shane Claiborne,
just published The Irresistible
Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical.
Good Friday, April 14,
Sunday, May 14 - Special Mother's Day program. IN THE SPIRIT OF THE ANTI-WAR ORIGIN OF
MOTHERS DAY...
MOTHERS DAY CONCERT FOR PEACE with Paulette Meir - singer-songwriter, peace educator. Come Join The Circle: LessonSongs for Peacemaking (www.lessonsongs.com) MOTHERS DAY FOR PEACE
PROCLAMATION
June 11 - "OCCUPATION DREAMLAND" (78 minutes, large screen showing) is an unflinchingly candid look into a squad of American soldiers deployed to war ravaged city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. The film chronicles the daily life of young soldiers on patrol in an environment of violence creeping steadily towards catastrophe. Filmmakers Garrett Scott and Ian Olds were given unrestricted access to operations of the Army's 82nd Airborne division as the Iraqi city's waning stability gives way to the final Marine assaults of 2004 "One of the best pieces of visual reportage to have emerged from the war in Iraq." - Jessica Winter, LA Weekly. "Unnervingly intimate." - Dennis Lim, Village Voice.
Wed. June 14,
Noon Phila. 'DON'T SPY ON ME' Campaign - Area Peace Groups Taking FOIA action - , National Constitution Center.
FRIDAY, JUNE 16 Day After (2500) mad milestone of war...Toll the bell of peace and solemnly vigil at noon on the west side of Phila. City Hall, 15th & Market Sts, the day after the report of the 2500th U.S. war death. newspaper article "Don't just do something", as Dan Berrigan once said during the Vietnam War", "Stand there". Can we imagine the number of Iraqis killed - 100,000 plus! Oh God, we must see their deaths in the faces of the U.S. dead. Remember all those who have died - U.S., Iraqis - and Vigil for Peace and right now take the DECLARATION OF PEACE,
June 22, 6:30PM, Phila. at Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St., Phila., PA. Area Organizing Meeting for the Declaration of Peace Campaign, initiated by the Brandywine Peace Community in the Phila. Area. For all Phila. Area Anti-War, Peace, and Community Groups, all Declaration of Peace Pledge signers and prospective signers. Find out more about the Declaration of Peace campaign and pledge. Join in reviewing and shaping plans to implement throughout the Phila. Area. this vital, new national campaign. Join us on June 22, 6:30PM, at Friends Center, 1501 Cherry St., Phila., PA. Together we can make it happen!
July 3rd, 7PM, Declaration of Peace Demonstration (& the 1st Philadelphia Area Declaration of Peace Pledge Signing, Phila. Federal Building, 6th & Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA. Read all about the event!
July 9 - 4:30 PM - COMING HOME: What they never told you when you enlisted. Dr. Jon Bjornson.
Dr. Bjornson is a retired psychiatrist who was a Major in the Army Medical Corps in Vietnam, 1964-65, serving as Chief Psychiatric Consultant, U.S. Armed Forces, Vietnam. Dr. Bjornson was one of the organizers of Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Pennsylvania, 1968 - 72, testified at Winter Soldier War Crimes Hearing in 1971on the war crimes and the medical aspects of war crimes, and demonstrated in Washington returning his medals in 1971. Dr. Bjorson was on the staff of the Wisconsin University Medical School and later at Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia. He is the author a number of medical journal papers. He is a consultant with the Vietnam Veterans program at Graterford State Prison and has counseled both Vietnam Veterans and now Iraq Veterans suffering the scars of war. He is a currently a member of Veterans for Peace and Physicians for Social Responsibility in Philadelphia. He is married with two children and 3 grand-children.
Monday, July 17th, 2006 ST. PATRICK'S FOUR PEACE ACTIVISTS Clare Grady and Danny Burns
were released, after serving six months in
prison for resisting war in Iraq.
Danny was released from the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center,
and
Clare, from the Philadelphia Federal Detention Center. Teresa Grady was
released on May 19th. Peter DeMott is scheduled for release from the Binghamton halfway house on Sept. 17th, 2006.
Vigil, July 17th - Beginning at
8:30AM, Federal Detention Center, 7th & Arch Sts.,Philadelphia, PA.
Clare, as she leaves prison,
wants us to keep in mind and bring to public attention all the war resisters, political prisoners, and prisoners of conscience jailed across
the country - including: Lt. Ehren Watada, the first officer to refuse
activist and political prisoner for the independence of Puerto Rico, now
being held at FDC Philly; the Cuban 5; death row inmate Mumia Abu Jamal,
and all who struggle for justice and for peace. We will gather at 8:30
am, 7th & Arch Streets, at the entrance of the prison. Clare's release time is unknown (Clare thinks that it will most likely be around 11 am).
After Clare's release the vigil was moved to the Federal building (601 Market St.), around the corner from the prison, to bring attention to the
Declaration of Peace, which is a pledge to take action to bring the troops home now; and by Sept. 21st, to have a
Congressionally established a comprehensive plan to end the US war in
Iraq; and oppose future US military interventions. Throughout the vigil,
people will also leaflet in front of the Federal Building about
Teresa and Clare Grady, - all long time members of the Catholic Worker -
who were arrested two days before the start of the U.S. invasion after pouring blood around an entranceway to a military recruitment station in
Ithaca, New York. Their trial on NY state charges ended in a hung jury.
Nine months later, the Federal government filed charges against the four
which included federal charges of conspiracy, trespass, and damage to
property. Each were found guilty and sentenced: Danny Burns (six
months); Peter DeMott (eight months, four of which in a halfway house); Teresa Grady (4 months); Clare Grady (six months).
For more about the Saint Patrick's Four, visit www.stpatricksfour.org
Down by the Riverside and at Lockheed Martin August 6 - 9 Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Resisting Militarism, the War, & Lockheed Martin
August 6, 7:30PM - Hiroshima Day Anti-War Candlelight Memorial 30th Street Bridge,
August 9, Noon - Nagasaki Day of Remembrance & Resistance
at Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, PA. (Report)
Wednesday, AUGUST 16, Noon, Phila. City Hall, west side, 15th & Market Sts. Music, poetry, speakers, and the Phila. DECLARATION OF PEACE
Walk and "Special Delivery" delegations to offices of PA Senators
Santorum (Widener Bldg., south side of Phila. City Hall) and Specter
(Phila. Federal Bldg., 6th & Market Sts.). Thousands and thousands of people across the U.S. are taking the
DECLARATION OF PEACE pledge, declaring peace, and making the DECLARATION
OF PEACE a significant campaign of people and groups across the country
taking peaceful steps demanding that "the troops be brought home now."
Thousands of DoP pledgers are also pledging to engage in nonviolent
direct action and civil disobedience across the U.S., including
Philadelphia, and in Washington, D.C., if a comprehensive plan to end the
war is not established by Congress and underway by September 21, 2006,
International Peace Day.
During this month's Congressional Summer Recess (as Cindy Sheehan's "Camp
Casey", August 6 - September 2, makes its appeal for peace near the Bush
Ranch in Crawford, TX), people across the country are taking to their
U.S. Senators and Congresspeople the DECLARATION OF PEACE Congressional
Pledge, imploring them to make a pledge to work to establish a
comprehensive plan for peace by September 21, 2006, International Peace
Day.
Prior to the Center City DECLARATION OF PEACE Walk and "Special Delivery"
of the DoP Congressional Pledge to the U.S. Senators, "Special Delivery"
delegations will make vigiling visits during the AM hours to the local
offices of Phila. Area U.S. Congresspeople (i.e.: Representatives Robert
Brady, Chaka Fattah, Alyson Swartz, Curt Weldon, Rob Andrews, etc.) with
the Congressional Pledge. Should you wish to join a DECLARATION OF PEACE
Congressional Pledge "Special Delivery" delegation, call the Brandywine
Peace Community, 610-544-1818. Read a full account of the events
Thursday, August 17th, 6:30 PM DECLARATION OF PEACE Nonviolence Training Sessions: - Nonviolent Direct Action Training Workshop for all
those planning to participate in the DECLARATION OF PEACE direct action
and nonviolent civil disobedience in Philadelphia; All sessions are being lead by Dion Lerman at
Friends Center/Martin Luther King Room, 1501 Cherry St., Phila., PA (more)
Thursday, August 24, 6:30PM, Peacekeeper Training for those who wish to play the
vital of role of peacekeepers at the planned DECLARATION OF PEACE
demonstrations in Philadelphia; All sessions are being lead by Dion Lerman at
Friends Center/Martin Luther King Room, 1501 Cherry St., Phila., PA (more)
Monday, Sept. 4 Declaration of Peace/U.S. Labor Against the War at the Labor Day parade. (Call the office for more info.)
Thursday, September 7, 6:30PM, Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Training Session. All those planning on participating in the Declare Peace Nonviolent Civil Disobedience actions at Senator Santorum's office (September 25) are required to attend. All sessions are being lead by Dion Lerman at Friends Center/Martin Luther King Room, 1501 Cherry St., Phila., PA. (more)
Sunday, September 10 - "HEY MR. GANDHI! How about taking on the American Empire?"
Reflections on the art of people power 100 years after Satygraha was
invented, and its potential for today's victims of empire, with:
GEORGE LAKEY, trainer, organizer, author, and director of Training for
Change.
George Lakey, 68, has led over 1000 workshops over five continents,
taught peace studies at colleges and universities, led activist projects
on local, state, and national levels, and authored seven books on
nonviolent social change, peace, and organizational development. He is
Director of Training for Change.
Lakey's first arrest was in the civil rights movement and his first book,"A Manual for Direct Action" (with Martin Oppenheimer) was a handbook for
that movement in the '60s. He was smuggled into the Burmese jungle to
teach pro-democracy students in a guerrilla encampment, and was part of
the first Sri Lankan team of Peace Brigades International, giving
protective accompaniment to human rights activists in the midst of civil
war. He was a crew member of the sailing ship Phoenix which took medical
supplies to the Vietnamese in defiance of the U.S. government. In 2003
he co-authored the most extensively researched training curriculum in the
field of civilian peacekeeping: Opening Space for Democracy 634 pp., see www.TrainingforChange.org
This year George Lakey is the Eugene M. Lang Guest Professor of Issues in
Social Change at Swarthmore College. His upcoming workshops can be found
on: www.TrainingforChange.org
Following the program, there will be a short outdoor vigil marking the
anniversary of September 11, 2001, anniversary of terror, five years of "Bush's war", and honoring 100 years of Nonviolent Action.
Rally to Defend the Constitution!
National Constitution Day,
Sunday, September 17, 2:30 pm Independence Mall, 5th & Market, Philadelphia
Featured speakers:
John Dean, former White House counsel and author of Worse than Watergate:
The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush;
Michael Coard, host of The Radio Courtroom on WHAT 1340 AM Angel Ortiz, former Philadelphia City Councilman and a lead sponsor
of the Philadelphia anti-PATRIOT Act Resolution
Readings of translated poetry written by Guantanamo Bay detainees
Puppets from Spiral Q Puppet Theater
Additional speakers to be announced.
For more information please contact us at info@aclupa.org or 215-592-1513
x123. Rally info
Wednesday, September 20, 2006, 7PM International House, 3701 Chestnut St, Phila., PA Admission: $10. $8 for Students and Seniors
Scribe Video Center Producers' Forum & Brandywine Peace Community
Presents "THE CAMDEN 28"
(Director: Anthony Giacchino, 2005, US, Video, 82 mins.) http://www.camden28.org/
How far would you go to stop a war? On August 22, 1971, twenty-eight men
and women carried out a powerful act of civil disobedience against the
U.S. war in Vietnam by attempting to break into a draft board and destroy
draft files in the Camden, NJ Federal Building. The activists were part
of a nonviolent anti-war movement popularly known as the "Catholic Left."
Apprehended "in the act", the activists stated that their actions were
meant to show their belief that killing and war was morally indefensible
and must be stopped even at the risk of one's liberty. By conducting
their action in Camden, NJ (then and now, one of the poorest cities in
the nation), the activists wanted to demonstrate the war's damaging
effect on an impoverished people.
Winner of both the Philadelphia Film Festival's Audience and Jury Awards
for "Best Documentary", THE CAMDEN 28 is a riveting story of resistance,
backdrop of one of the most turbulent periods in U.S. history.
After the film, join filmmaker Anthony Giaccino, members of the Camden
28, the Brandywine Peace Community, and some of today's generation of
peace activists for a discussion about how the events portrayed in the
film resonate in today's climate and how we can move from opposition to
resistance.
Thursday, September 21, 7:30PM, International Day of Peace Candlelight
Vigil to Declare Peace, in front of historic Christ Church, 2nd &
Market Sts, Phila. followed by short walk to the Phila. Federal Building,
6th & Market Sts; [Part of nationwide candlelight vigils observing International Peace
Day and the start of the Declaration of Peace Week throughout the
country and in Washington, DC.]
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8 Historian ALAN DAWLEY "WHY PEACE MOVEMENTS ARE IMPORTANT"
Alan Dawley is the author of "Changing the World: American Progressives
in War and Revolution" (Harvard University Press, 2003), Professor of
History at The College of New Jersey, and a member of the steering
committee of Historians Against the War (www.historiansagainstwar.org).
November 4, 10AM Stop the Violence: End Poverty; Stop the War: March Under the EL & Justice Tour Begins at Frankford Transportation Center at 10 AM. Concluding Rally (3PM) at Independence Visitors Center, 5th & Market.
Tues., November 21, 9:30AM, corner of Broad St. & JFK Boulevard
(Northeast side of Phila. City Hall, a short block from the Criminal
Justice Center),
Stand with the "PHILA. DECLARE PEACE 14" in Vigil prior to their 10:30AM
Phila. Municipal Court Status Hearing, where they will receive their
future court date.
The American people have rejected Bush's policy of war and occupation in
Iraq, demanding with our votes that Congress act for peace. Bush Won't
Listen. Congress Must Act!
Between September 21 - 28, as part of the Declaration of Peace campaign,
people nationwide demanded that Congress establish a comprehensive plan
to end the war and bring the troops home now.
On September 25, at the Philadelphia office of Senator Rick Santorum, 14
people were arrested for nonviolently demanding that our Senators and
Congresspeople act to end the war. The "Phila. DECLARE PEACE 14" now
face prosecution in Phila. Municipal Court on misdemeanor charges of
defiant trespass, criminal trespass, and criminal conspiracy. On Tuesday,
November 21, all fourteen are slated for a "status hearing" where they
will simply receive a future court date.
Stand with the "Phila. Declare Peace 14"! Following the vigil, people
will walk to the Criminal Justice Center/Phila. Municipal Court, 1301
Filbert St. (Filbert & Juniper)
Demand that our Senators and Congresspeople, the New Congress which We
Elected, Act for Peace.
The "Phila. Declare Peace 14" are: Beth Friedlan, Karen Wisniewski,
Sylvia Metzler, Mary Jo McArthur, Bernadette Cronin-Geller, Melissa
Elliott and Ronald Coburn, all of Philadelphia; Timothy Chadwick and
Robert Daniels, both of Bethlehem; Robin Lasersohn and Thomas Mullian,
both of Media; Robert M. Smith, of Swarthmore; Marjorie Van Cleef, of
Bryn Mawr; and Silvia Brandon-Perez, of Tobyhanna, Pa
Sunday, December 10 - "Who Decides? -- If Not The People, It's Not
Democracy."
Ben Price, Projects Director Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
(CELDF). www.CELDF.org
Ben Price is a cum laude graduate of West Chester State University,
Pennsylvania. He has been an activist for Campaign Finance Reform,
Electoral Reform, Fair Trade and Peace issues, and past president of the
Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network. He served as contributing editor
for the monthly newsletter Groundswell (1995 1999) and in 1997 began
writing about the distorting effects of corporations on democracy. As an
activist for Campaign Finance Reform legislation, he was involved with
the Alliance for Democracys Democracy Brigades and participated in
non-violent civil disobedience actions at the nations Capitol. In 2002
he ran an independent campaign for U.S. Congress in the 19th Pennsylvania
House district. After attending the Legal Defense Funds Democracy School
in 2003, Ben attended Guiding the Conductors classes to prepare to
teach the history, law and lore of corporations. He is a certified
lecturer for the Democracy Schools.
Ben accepted the position of Project Director in the Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund's Corporations and Democracy Program in
2005. As Project Director, Ben organizes and educates community groups
and municipal governments to challenge the Corporate State's usurpations
of people's rights and governing authority. Working with people to create
democracy in their communities, where they live, in violation of state
and federal preemptions, means engaging in "non-violent civil
disobedience through local law-making."
"Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the
exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and
these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows,
or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those
whom they oppress." : Frederick Douglass
Friday, December 22, 7PM - Christmas Candlelight Vigil for Peace Lockheed Martin (the world's largest weapons corporation, the Iraq War's
chief profiteer), Mall & Goddard Blvds., Valley Forge, PA (behind the
King of Prussia
Mall)
In a Time of War: For Peace, a Child is Born!
Join us in the Peace of the Season, in music, caroling, speakers,
bell-tolling and reading names of U.S. and Iraqi war dead!
Join us where the weapons are built and the light of peacemaking must
shine!
2005
Sunday,
Monday, January 17, 2005, Noon - Martin Luther King Day of Nonviolent Resistance - Lockheed Martin,
Mall & Goddard Boulevards,
February 13 - Monthly Potluck - "After the Planned Elections: What Now Iraq",
an expert panel discussion that included Jim
Fine, long-time American Friends Service Committee staff in the Middle East, who
was the former co-director of the AFSC Legal Aid office in Jerusalem.
March 13 - Paul Lyons,
who teaches social work and history at The Richard Stockton College of NJ,
will speak on his new book "The
People of This Generation:
The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia" published by the
University Of Pennsylvania Press.
Sunday,
March 20 Anti-War March
Friday, March 25, Noon, Good Friday Stations of Justice & Peace,
a Trail of Mourning & Truth and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at
Lockheed Martin, the Iraq War's #1 profiteer. Lockheed Martin, Mall &
Goddard Blvds.,
Sunday, April 3,
2005 3:30 PM, Episcopal Cathedral, 38th and Walnut, Phila., PA "Prophets & Martyrs: Interfaith Service
Remembering Archbishop Oscar Romero and Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.", marking the 25th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Romero (March 24, 1980) and
the 36th anniversary of the death of Dr. King (April 4, 1968), an Interfaith
Service honoring their lives and remembering their prophetic vision and call
for peace and justice. Keynote <>speaker:
The Interfaith commemoration is being co-sponsored by the Romero Interfaith
Center and the Philadelphia Area Interfaith Peace Network which includes the
Brandywine Peace Community, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Church of the Advocate
in North Philadelphia, and the Shalom Center. For more information:
610-544-1818
Sunday, April 10
- 30th Anniversary of the End of the Vietnam War (April 30, 1975), Panel
& Poetry Reading: an historian and peace activist panel of military
veterans with: W.D. Ehrhart (www.WDehrhart.com); Paul
Lyons, historian and author of the "The People of This Generation: The
Rise & Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia"; Tim Lilienthal, former midshipman at the US Naval Academy and
Marine Reservist (1996-2000), son of a military family - his grandfather &
great uncle served in the Navy & Marine Corps, respectively, for over 20
years, and his father was a Marine in the Vietnam War and is currently a Tech.
Sgt. in the Air National Guard,
Since leaving the military, he has been active in solidarity work with Latin America
via involvement in the SOA Watch and the US-El Salvador
Sister Cities Network; and Pat Gunn, Navy veteran (1972 - 1972) and Navy
reserves (1976 - 1978), a vocal representative member of Military
Families Speak Out [against war in Iraq], whose son, Jason, is a veteran of the
Iraq War. Poetry reading by W.D. Ehrhart, decorated
Vietnam Marine combat veteran, historian and scholar, renowned and
award-winning poet, author or editor of 18 books of prose and poetry including:
Passing Time: Memoir of a Vietnam Veteran Against the War (McFarland & Co.;
1989), Just for Laughs (Vietnam Generation Inc. & Burning Cities Press,
1990), Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir and Beautiful Wreckage: New
& Selected Poems.
Tax Day, April 15, 2005 - "YOU
PAY; LOCKHEED MARTIN PROFIT$" - Brandywine Peace Community
Tax Day Vigil 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at Lockheed-Martin - World's #1 Weapons
Corporation, Iraq War's #1 Profiteer - Mall & Goddard Blvds., Valley Forge, PA (behind the King of Prussia Mall)
Sunday, May 8, 4:30PM -
University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St., Phila.,
PA
Anti-War Origin & Proclamation of Mother's Day - Mary Day Kent
Executive Director, Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom, United States Section; "AIN'T I A WOMAN" [Sojourner Truth]
Dramatic Presentation by Rev.Hilda Campbell
African-American actress and storyteller; Director, Human Relations &
Leadership for the Eastern PA. United Methodist Conference; Member of theatre
group, TOVA; and minister at St. Daniel's United Methodist Church in Chester,
PA
May 15: Counting the Cost; Stopping
the War Phila. Area Counts the Cost of The War in
May 15,
On
SIGN-UP NOW at www.CountingTheCost.org
so we can send you your number right away.
PARTICIPATE in
the war and occupation in
JOIN US on Sunday, May 15, 2PM, at the Independence Mall Visitors Center (lawn
area), 6th & Market Sts., Phila., PA for music,
speakers, names of war dead - Iraqi, U.S.- read and illustrated, and
"DIE-IN" ceremony.
For more information about the May 15 demonstration in
or e-mail brandywine@juno.com
Local sponsors include: Brandywine Peace Community, Catholic Peace Fellowship,
Delaware County Wage Peace & Justice,
Mishkan Shalom Synagogue, Phila. Regional Anti-War Network, A Quaker Action Group,
and the
For more information about the national campaign or how to sign-up for a
number, call the Women's International
League for Peace & Freedom 215-563-7110 or e-mail: annie@countingthecost.org Other National Sponsors include: Global Exchange,
National Lawyers Guild, and Veterans for Peace..Register Now!
Endorsed by
Wednesday, May 25 at
noon, Broad & Walnut Sts. (Noon - 1:30PM) for an Anti-War
Protest with banners, posters, and reading names of the war dead - Iraqi, U.S.
Secretary of "Defense" Donald Rumsfeld will
be speaking before the World Affairs Council at the Park Hyatt Hotel.
Lockheed Martin + RUMSFELD + Boeing = War in Iraq & War in Space!
The voice of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, the number # 1 and # 2 leading
Pentagon weapons producers and the chief "Star Wars" and space weaponeers, Rumsfeld will not
speak of the 100,000 plus deaths in Iraq, victims of his policy of
"endless war" that includes
"Star War" missile defense and the weaponization
of space. So we must.
(NOTE: the World Affairs Council website annoucing
the Rumsfeld Luncheon and Speech states: "The
[World Affairs] Council thanks the Boeing Company for support of this
event")
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June 12 -
"STOPPING TRAFFIC: Putting the Brakes on Illegal Handgun Trafficking in
Pennsylvania" with Diane Edbril,
Executive Director, CeaseFire PA and Bryan Miller, Executive
Director, CeaseFire NJ Prompted by the alarming surge
in handgun violence throughout the area, Brandywine's June potluck supper and
program - June 12, 4:30PM, University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St., Phila., PA - will be on "STOPPING TRAFFIC: Putting the
Brakes on Illegal Handgun Trafficking in Pennsylvania" with the directors
of CeaseFire PA and CeaseFire
NJ, Diane Edbril and Bryan Miller.
Diane Edbril is the Executive Director of CeaseFire PA, a state-wide, non-profit organization
dedicated to reducing gun violence. She attended law school in
Diane Edbril will be joined at the
After a twenty year career in international business in over sixty countries,
Miller left to become an anti-gun violence organizer after his brother, an FBI
agent, was gunned down in November 1994 at the Washington, DC
Metropolitan Police Headquarters by a lone gunman wielding a concealed assault
weapon.
Monday, July 11,
In his just-released
book, "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to
Death," Solomon examines 50 years of
press-corps complicity in promoting
Just back from a trip
to
Norman Solomon is a
nationally syndicated columnist on media and politics. He is the founder
and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national
consortium of policy researchers and analysts. His columns have appeared in the
To read more about
Norman Solomon and "War Made Easy," go to www.warmadeeasy.com.
July 16 - August 9:
60th Anniversary of the Start of the Nuclear Age 1945-2005
July 16, 1945 - the first atomic test blast,
code-named "Trinity";
August 6 and 9, 1945, the atomic bombings of
60 YEARS SINCE THE TERROR BEGAN
REMEMBERING
RESISTING WAR & LOCKHEED MARTIN
Saturday, July
16,
Saturday, August 6, Noon - Area Hiroshima
Day Rally Lockheed Martin, Mall
& Goddard Blvds., Valley Forge, PA (behind the
King of Prussia Mall - map & directions.)
Speakers, Music, "Die-in", Ceremony of Remembrance & Resistance
Joining hands in a human chain of peacemaking in front of Lockheed Martin &
Nonviolent Civil Disobedience.
Sunflowers carry the hope of a world
free of nuclear weapons and war. Bright and beautiful, a nutritious
miracle from which Native Americans once made bread, sunflowers were even used
near the catastrophic
Sunflowers now carry
a new meaning and have become the symbol of a world free of nuclear weapons and
war. On
Next Saturday,
Lockheed
Martin which incorporates the continuing legacy of
Tuesday, August 9,
(*August 9, 1945,
Sunday, September 11 - "CLINGING TO THE PROMISE OF PEACE"
Commemorating the 4th anniversary of the September
11th terrorist attacks: Complete Program, litany and text of
remarks by all the speakers.
Monday, September 26th Civil Resistance at
the White House: Part of the September 24 - 26 - Mobilization
to End the War in Iraq -
Sunday, October
9 - "ANOTHER WAY: A PANEL ON NONVIOLENT ACTION POSSIBILITIES IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE"
with: *Elizabeth Walz and *Shaina Adams,
Fellowship of Reconciliation Peacemaking Delegation to Israel/Palestine, and
Nonviolence Training in Bethlehem; and *Peter Lems,
program associate for Iraq at the American Friends Service Committee [AFSC] who
has made a number of trips to Iraq and the Middle East, including a delegation
to Palestine/Israel in August.
About Sunday's panel:
Elizabeth Walz is currently the Director of Lay Formation at
Shaina Adams graduated in May from
From May 24 -June 11,
Elizabeth Walz and Shaina
Adams traveled in
Transformation
program, working with Palestinian nonviolence trainers in
Peter Lems is the program associate for
Wednesday, October 26 - NOT ONE MORE DEATH -
NOT ONE MORE DOLLAR candlelight vigil at Phila. City Hall
(west side), 15th & Market
Sunday, November 13 - "Overcoming Oiloholic Addiction: Going After the Oil Pushers"
- Charles Lenchner
Charles Lenchner is the
coordinator of Philly Beyond Oil, a new coalition
working on energy and oil related issues. Charles is an Israel-American who
grew up in
Sunday, December 11 (a Human Rights Day
Observance) "Health & Human Rights in
traveled over the past year to Haiti investigating
massive human rights violations and health care from the perspective of human
rights, and Tom Griffin, human rights and immigration attorney recently back
from another fact finding trip to Haiti.
Mon, Dec 12 Protest the Bush Agenda of War
& Militarism, of "Staying the Course" of Death and Occupation
George Bush is Coming to Phila. on Monday (December 12) to
speak to the Phila. World Affairs
Council at the Bellvue Hotel, Broad and Walnut
Streets. His words about war will not be the only ones heard on Monday
in
Gather from 10 am to
Thursday, December 22, 7
PM, Christmas Candlelight Vigil for Peace at Lockheed Martin, Mall &
Goddard Boulevards, Valley Forge, PA. (off Rt.. #76,
behind King of
War Dead -
[*Elizabeth Walz is director
of Lay formation at
a year in jail. It was legendary peace
activist, Philip Berrigan's last Plowshares act of
resistance. Last summer, Liz Walz traveled to
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2004
January 11 - Monthly Potluck Showing of the movie "UNCOVERED:
The Whole Truth About the Iraq War" which
examines the Bush Administration's distortions of fact which took the
January 19, Martin Luther King Day of
Nonviolent Resistance to Lockheed Martin - Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his philosophy of nonviolent direct action
at the Lockheed Martin weapons complex, Mall & Goddard Boulevards,
February 8 - Monthly Potluck The area premiere of "The
Arsenal of Hypocrisy: Space Program & the
Military-Industrial Complex". The video, produced by the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear
Power in Space, features archival footage
and expert commentary. on the history of the U.S.
Space Program, provides background to the Bush Administration's Mars
exploration, and explains what's at stake with "Star Wars" missile
defense and the increasing militarization of space.
April - People arrested the day after the start of the
April 9 Good Friday Stations of Justice & Peace
and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience at Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge,
PA.
Ten people are arrested for a
concluding act of Nonviolent Civil Disobedience.
April 15 YOU PAY; LOCKHEED MARTIN PROFIT$ Tax Day Protest
at
May 6 War
Protest in front of Hyatt Regency Hotel in Philadelphia where Undersecretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz, in Donald Rumsfeld’s
stead, speaks to the World Affairs Council just as news of torture at Abu Ghraib is breaking.
May 9, Monthly Potluck
Mother's Day, "A Cry of Women for Peace" -
Lou Ann Merkle and women artists from "Peace by
Piece" present slides and share the stories behind their exhibit,
"Collateral Damage: Echoes in the Soul". The program included videos,
sculpture, photography, collage and printmaking.
May - June Demonstrations at offices of
Senators Specter and Santorum with Military Families Speak Out.
June 13 - Monthly Potluck "The Bush Debacle: Where the Bush
Administration Taking Us in World Affairs" - Craig Eisendrath,
senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a former
June 14 - "The Hope of Peace in the
Darkness of War", along
with the House of Grace Catholic Worker, a large gathering to hear S. Olga Yaqob, Catholic Iraqi nun and missionary in Baghdad slums
and prison, Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Catholic Bishop,
peacemaker who has made frequent visits to Iraq; and Brian Buckley, Catholic
Worker, who as part of the "Najaf Emergency
Peace Team", demonstrated in front of the largest U.S. military base in
Iraq,
July 3 Evening Speak-out/Candlelight Walk to
Independence Mall, Ceremony to End the War of Occupation of
July 11 - Monthly Potluck "The Legacy of Hiroshima and Why We
Remember" - Yoko Nishimura, from
July 16 - August 9 Vigils, Protests, and Nonviolent Civil
Disobedience at Lockheed Martin [Moorestown, NJ and Valley Forge, PA]
commemorating the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima &
Nagasaki, Aug 6 & 9.
August 17 Protest of Bush at Boeing in
Sept More
People arrested the day after the start of the
September 9 - "1,000+
September 12 - Monthly Potluck "Voices of Sorrow, Voices for Peace" a
Special 9-11 (3rd) Anniversary Memorial for Peace with music; poetry; Litany of
Stones, Ashes, and Flowers with guest reflections: * Bob McIlvaine,
member of September 11th families for PEACEFUL TOMORROWS, whose son was
killed in the World Trade Center;* Military Families Speak Out: Pat Gunn, whose
son was wounded in Iraq; Mildred McHugh, whose son is in Iraq; and Sue Niederer, whose son was killed in Iraq; and * Rev. John
McNamee, author of Diary of a City Priest.
Sept 25 NO STAR WARS:
October - More
People arrested the day after the start of the
October 10 - Monthly Potluck Showing of "UNCONSTITUTIONAL" , documentary
film about the impact of the post 9-11 USA Patriot Act's impact on civil
liberties.
November 14 - Monthly Potluck "Election Retrospective: "Whither
Saturday,
November 27,
December 11 - Memorial for Bill Stuart-Whistler at the
December 12 - Monthly
Potluck Voices
Rising in the Darkness Seasonal
Celebration of Resistance (dedicated to Bill Stuart-Whistler - Nov. 10, 1926 -
Nov. 8, 2004, GE engineer/GE resister, anti-war activist) with video tape of
Bill's last interview done weeks before his death, also poetry by Beth Friedland and Laurie Pollack, and music by Tom Mullian.
Wednesday, December 22, 7pm - Christmas
Candlelight Vigil for Peace at Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards,Valley Forge, PA.
In this time of empire: to us a child is born!