P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA, 19081-- brandywine@juno.com (610) 544-1818
5 Years of U.S. War & Occupation in Iraq
LOCKHEED MARTIN THE PROFITS OF WAR CRUCIFIXION TODAY
Trail of Mourning & Truth: Good Friday Stations of Justice & Peace
March 21, 2008, Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, PA
(Report)
Opening Reflection: 5 Years Ago: Under the Bombs in Iraq,
Shane Claiborne, simple way Community, author of The
Irresistible Revolution.
Luke 23:33-49
Litany
Leader: As we remember five years of U.S. war occupation in Iraq,
let us pray that we will break the chains of violence and war; that
we may resist the making of war, empire, and the works of
Lockheed Martin, with acts of Jesus love. May the cross which
over time was transformed from a means of violence to a symbol of
liberation and peace be our symbol of nonviolence and justice, a
sign of nonviolent resistance to Lockheed Martin, militarism, and
war.
All: May we face the worlds suffering with the love of
Jesus.
Leader: By the cross and resurrection...All: We Stand Against
war
Leader: By Jesus witness to truth...All: We Stand in
Mourning and Resistance
Leader: By Jesus passion and death...All: We Resist
Lockheed Martin
Leader: By Jesus victory over the grave...All: We Act for
Peace
1st Station: Pilate Condemns Jesus to Death &
Reading
(A cross will be planted in the grass near at the Iraqi/U.S.
flags draped coffin)
Response (all): In Jesus love and sacrifice, we say: End
the War; Resist the War-maker, Lockheed Martin.
Except where noted, after each station and reading, a pre-arranged
person (others please remain on sidewalk) will carry into and
hold a cross in the driveway cross-walk (remembering the
casualties of war, Lockheed Martin, and domestic poverty resulting
from the economy of war ) as the bell is intoned and all chant:
In Jesus love and sacrifice, we say: End the War; Resist
the War-maker, Lockheed Martin.
2nd Station: Jesus Carries His Cross
3rd Station: Jesus falls the 1st time
4th Station: Jesus meets his most afflicted mother
5th Station: Simon of Cyrene is forced to help Jesus carry the
Cross
6th Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
7th Station: Jesus falls the 2nd time
8th Station: Jesus consoles the women of Jerusalem
9th Station: Jesus falls the 3rd time
10th Station: Jesus is stripped of his garments
11th Station: Jesus is nailed to the Cross
12th Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross
Litany (on reverse side) Period of silence/Adaggio for Strings;
Civil Disobedience (all - except those prepared to face
arrest - should remain on sidewalk) and bell-tolling.
In shadow of the cross, [all] we remember and mourn all the
deaths and human tragedies of war these past five years. In the
shadow of the cross, [all] we stand in mourning and nonviolent
resistance to the war in Iraq and to the economy and culture of
militarism and greed in which many suffer and die here and
around the world so few may profit. In the shadow of the cross,
[all] we insist that reconciliation, reconstruction, and justice
replace war and militarism. In the shadow of the cross, [all] we
know that to stop the war, we must resist the war-
makers.________________________________________
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13th and 14th Stations: Jesus is taken down from the
Cross and laid in the tomb
Leader: We mourn all the victims of war in Iraq and of war-
making around the world. We know that the profits of Lockheed
Martin rest on war and militarism. That is the awful business of
Lockheed Martin. We insist that where war is business, as here at
Lockheed Martin, there cannot be business as usual. We resist war
and the making of war. We resist Lockheed Martin with acts of
Jesus love and a continuing commitment to the cross of nonviolent
resistance.
All: May we face the worlds suffering with the love of Jesus.
Leader: Jesus, by your cross and resurrection...All: We Stand
against War
Leader: By your witness to truth...All: We Stand in Mourning and
Resistance
Leader: By your passion and death...All: We Resist Lockheed
Martin
Leader: By your victory over the grave...All: We Act for Peace
All: In Jesus love and sacrifice, we say: End the War; Resist
the War-maker, Lockheed Martin.
Thank you and have a joyous Easter!
Iraq War Death Toll: Rush-Hour Silent Vigil & Bell-Tolling for
Peace, Phila. City Hall, west side
When the U.S. war dead count reaches 4,000 (www.icasualties.org),
the next working day after the 4,000th U.S. war death is announced,
gather at 5PM, Phila. City Hall (west side) 15th & Market Street, to
mourn all the war dead - U.S. and Iraqi - Not Another Death, Not
Another Dollar, Not Another Day.
April 16, Join with the Brandywine Peace
Community, Kensington Welfare Rights Union
[KWRU] and others:, The Circus is Coming to
Philadelphia (and not just to the Spectrum). April
16, the National Democratic (Obama-Clinton) debate
at the National Constitution Center (the same night
as Ringling Bros./Barnum & Bailey Circus Opens at
the Spectrum). 4PM, Join the Circus for Justice &
Peace, at Phila. Federal Building, 601 Market St.;
5PM, Join the Circus Walk through Philadelphias
historic district to the National Constitution Center.
Clowns - Come in Costume - Minstrals, Jugglers,
Actors, Activists demand an End to Poverty and to
the War. Demand Housing, Economic Human
Rights, Universal [single-payer] Health Care
Brandywine Peace Communitys Monthly
Potluck Supper*/Program, 2nd Sunday of the
month, 4:30PM,
University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St.,
Phila., PA (*bring main dish, salad, or dessert)
April 13 - Compassionate Listening: Israel-
Palestine - Several travelers just back from a
religious leaderscompassionate listening trip to
Israel-Palestine will share their impressions and
facilitate discussion.
May 11/Mother's Day - Celebrating the
Catonsville 9*, [who on May 17, 1968, burned
draft files in protest of the Vietnam War], showing of
Investigation of a Flame; readings from Daniel
Berrigans
The Trail of the Catonsville 9", and discussion on
Resistance, Then & Now
If you are not already, you should be on the Brandywine Peace
Community mailing and email list. Just call or email us.
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1st Station: Pilate Condemns Jesus to Death Reading #1
In a time of empire and military occupation, Jesus
knew where he stood. Betrayed, denied, tortured,
facing death, Jesus knew where he stood and what he
faced. He faced the Cross, a means of execution, a
symbol of imperial rule, of Romes might, an
announcement of the empires will to maintain itself
the only way it can: violence and war.
What we see depends on where we stand.
In our time of war, policies of militarism and
military occupation, of war in Iraq, threats of war
against Iran, we stand before Lockheed Martin and
see the cross of empire and human neglect, of greed
and environmental indifference.
We remember five years of war and occupation in
Iraq. We see and mourn the militarization of our
society, its law, and the denial of civil liberties and
human rights. We see, mourn, and resist the cross
of war that is Lockheed Martin.
Today we stand before Lockheed Martin pitting our
commitment to nonviolent resistance and peace
against Lockheed Martin, the face of nuclear
weapons, the face of war profits in Iraq and around
the world, the face of war-making today.
2nd Station: Jesus Carries his Cross Reading #2
Formed 13 years ago next month in the merger of
Lockheed and Martin Marietta and becoming at the very
moment of its incorporation the worlds largest weapons
corporation, Lockheed Martin announced itself with the
slogan And This is Just the Beginning! atop row upon
row of pictured weapons systems.
Lockheed Martin is the common denominator in the
production of every major weapon systemnuclear and
non-nuclearin the U.S. arsenal and sold by the U.S.
around the world. Lockheed Martin annually receives
from the public treasury more than $32 billion. Lockheed
Martin is the chief beneficiary of the Bush
Administrations policy of endless war on terror, of a
continued war of occupation in Iraq, of the resurgence in
U.S. militarism. around the world and even unto the
heavens. The empire of U.S. war-making has its cross
Lockheed Martinacross the country and around the
world, here in Valley Forge and throughout the Delaware
Valleymeans weaponry: nuclear weapons, Trident
missiles, cruise missiles, combat satellites and computers,
Aegis warships, the Airborne Laser System and a host of
other Star Wars missile defense weapons for the
continued militarization of space.
Among the numerous Pentagon weapons contracts here
in Valley Forge, PA, at the Management & Data Systems
division, Lockheed Martin builds Weapons Control
Systems for U.S. Navy Tomahawk Cruise Missiles and
battlefield computer systems used in Iraq.
Every weapon produced by Lockheed Martin means
billions of dollars transferred from the public treasury to
private wealth, from public need to corporate greed.
Every weapon produced by Lockheed Martin means
another bombing run, another cruise missile attack,
another war.
Jesus carried a cross of wood. We too carry a cross. We
carry the weight of empirethe weapons it builds, the
wars it wages, the lives it destroys.
3rd Station - Jesus Falls the First Time Reading #3
The revulsion against war not too long hence will be an
insuperable obstacle for us to overcome and for that reason I am
convinced that we must set in motion the machinery of a permanent
war economy...It must be an ongoing program and not the creature
of some emergency.
So spoke the president of General Electric, Charles E. Wilson, in
July 1944, one year before the first atomic bomb was tested. Today,
we stand before the social order which Wilson called for - a culture
of weaponry and militarism, a permanent industry of war.
Months before George W. Bush assumed office in January 2001, a
report was drawn up by a group called the Project for the New
American Century (PNAC). The driving force behind the report
was Richard Perle, at the time head of the Defense Policy Board, an
advisory group to the Pentagon whose members are appointed by
the Secretary of Defense and chosen from the weapons industry.
Lockheed Martin is a key player in the Defense Policy Board.
Other founders of the Project for the New American Century
include: Vice-President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz, fomer deputy defense
secretary and now head of the World Bank. Among its outline for
the New American Century is the following: The United States
has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in the Gulf
region. While the conflict with Iraq provides the immediate
justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in
the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The New American Century Project blueprint has been a kind of
Orwellian period of unending war.
Weeks after the start of the U.S. bombardment of Afghanistan in
October 2001, the Pentagon announced that Lockheed Martin
would receive the contract to build the Joint Strike Fighter over the
next several decades. At $200 billion, it is the largest military
contract in human history.
On March 19, 2003, the U.S. with a policy of shock & awe
began bombing and missile attacks throughout Iraq. Shock &
awe was followed by a ground invasion leading to what has been a
daily war of U.S. occupation for the past five years. Any day now
we will receive news of the 4,000th U.S. death. We never, of
course, hear the names and numbers of Iraqi dead, which a number
of medical studies place at near one million. Another four million
Iraqis have according to the UN been made refugees.
We speak of this week as the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq.
Thats really not true though, is it? Remember Bush #1's
Operation: Desert Storm Gulf War of 1991, followed by 12 years
of economic sanctions, no fly zones, and repeated bombing
campaigns during the Clinton Administration. Remember UN
reports of a million Iraqi deaths as result of the economic sanctions
that embargoed the most basic human needs to live. More than
5,000 Iraqi children died each month according to these same
reports. The U.S. war that began five years ago this week is but a
continuing trail of death and the miseries of empire that lie deep in
the American soul of manifest destiny.
In words of Thomas Merton: Few are guilty, all are responsible.
4th Station: Jesus meets his most afflicted mother 4th
Reading
Lockheed Martins former vice-president in charge of strategic
affairs, Bruce Jackson, chaired the Coalition for the Liberation
of Iraq, a bipartisan group formed in 2002 to lobby for Bushs
war plan in Iraq
Lockheed-Martin's F-117 stealth attack fighters were used to
shock and awe the population of Iraq at the start of the US
invasion The F-117 had been reconfigured to carry a 2,000-
pound bunker buster bomb, accurately guided by new
technology to hit its target at a vertical impact angle with a
warhead called the BLU-109.
Lockheed-Martin's Keyhole and Lacrosse satellites beamed
images from the war back to the military, employing its
Theater Battle Management Core Systems, specialized
software used to coordinate communications between
intelligence systems and ground forces to assist the air
campaign.
Lockheed-Martins U-2 and the SR-71 Blackbird spy planes
joined with its F-16 and the F/A 22 jet fighters in support of
the F-117s. Army and Marine ground troops unleashed
Lockheed-Martin Hellfire laser-guided anti-armor missiles to
demolish helicopters and land attack vehicles, and PAC-3
missiles, a highly agile, "hit-to-kill" interceptor, to provide air
defense for ground combat forces. First used in the assault on
Fallujah, Lockheed-Martins Javelin portable missiles
continue to be used to deadly effect.
The daily facts of a U.S. Air War in Iraq is something never
heard about in the U.S., even before the war as a whole
slipped from the front page.
For the last fiscal reporting period, Lockheed Martin
announced that its revenues rose by 41%, with an astounding
$8.4 billion in profits for the quarterly period alone. It is
Lockheed Martin, not Haliburton or the Carlyle Group -
names commonly associated with profiting from war in Iraq -
that is by far the wars chief profiteer.
Meanwhile, the weight of empire is making our society
dysfunctional. The New York Times conservatively reports
that more than 34 million people in the U.S. live in poverty,
what Gandhi called the greatest form of violence:
One in five children under the age of five in the U.S. are poor;
Health care delivery in the U.S. ranks 34th among
industrialized nations;
mass transit; housing (an estimated 3.5 million Americans
experienced homelessness this winter),
disaster relief and Gulf Coast re-building from Hurricane
Katrina,
How long are we going to take it? Our society, a receding
economy, the needs of people right here are every bit the
casualties of war.
5th Station: Simon of Cyrene is forced to help
Jesus carry his cross. Reading #5
Oil and weapons, we all know it, whoever has one
gets the other, has been the anything-but-secret
policy of the U.S. in Iraq.
In March 2001, the National Energy Policy
Development Group (chaired by Vice President
Dick Cheney's energy task force), which included
executives of America's largest energy companies,
recommended that the United States government
support initiatives by Middle Eastern countries "to
open up areas of their energy sectors to foreign
investment." One invasion and a great deal of
political engineering by the Bush administration
later, this is exactly what has happened in Iraq.
There was an adage of the British empire that said,
Great powers have no permanent friends or
permanent enemies, only permanent interests. U.S.
policy makers prefer the words of democracy, but
they are still about empire and markets, and access
especially to oil. Part of what the Bush
Administration has successfully pushed for as part of
its benchmarks for a stable Iraqi government are
oil laws and agreements in which Iraqi oil reserves,
thought to be the second largest in the world, are
fully at the disposal of U.S. oil companies. The
currently pending agreements for the indefinite
basing of thousands and thousands of U.S. troops in
Iraq simply follows as Bushs Iraq legacy.
And then there are the so-called U.S. contractors,
mercenaries, that actually outnumber U.S. troop
levels in Iraq which now stand at 150,000.
War is nothing but a market for Lockheed Martin
and its weapons. And the Prize is Oil!
6th Station: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus.
Reading #6
Lest we ever (ever) forget, it was the United States that
created and unleashed the very definition and reference
for global terror: Nuclear weapons.
One Trident submarine (there are 18) carrying 24
missiles, with eight nuclear warheads per missile, is
capable of 1,000 Hiroshima. Lockheed Martin manages
much the US nuclear bomb complex, including the
Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico , which at an
annual cost of $2.3 billion, is the nations chief nuclear
weapons engineering lab. Lockheed Martin
manufactures Trident missiles. Ninety-nine percent of all
high-level radioactive material in the US has been
generated by nuclear weapons production. Plutonium,
which fuels nuclear bombs, has a toxic life of 240,000
years 10,000 human generations.
Bushs Nuclear Posture Review, affirms the centrality of
nuclear weapons in US war planning, urges resumption of
nuclear testing and production of new lower-yield (i.e.,
useable) earth penetrating nuclear warheads to destroy
underground bunkers, and removes the taboo of using
nuclear weapons against non-nuclear nations.
Most alarming in the long run, the Bush Administration is
now going ahead with a regeneration of the U.S.s
nuclear bomb building complex - Complex 2030.
Complex 2030 is a multi-year plan that would build new
or upgraded facilities at each of the National Nuclear
Security Administrations eight nuclear weapons-related
sites, including Sandia. The plan calls for the building of
the first new nuclear warhead in nearly 20 years - the
Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) at a cost of
$645.1 million.. The RRW will be retro-fitted on Trident
missiles. The cost, between now and 2030, for Complex
2030 is expected to exceed $175 billion.
The threat posed by the 10,000 nuclear weapons in the
U.S. stockpile didnt cease with the end of the Soviet
Union and the Cold War. And now, Complex 2030.
Nuclear weapons have poisoned our earth, our spirits, our
imagination, and our judgment with the threat of
unimaginable death and destruction.
Oh, how The Christ cries out for our forsaken humanity.
7th Station: Jesus falls the 2nd time. Reading #7
The U.S. military budget for the current fiscal year
will exceed $625 billion, that is more than a half
trillion dollars and doesnt even include the cost of
the Department of Energys nuclear weapons
program, nor the military aspect of NASA, nor the
various military spy agencies. It also doesnt include
the cost of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which have
been funded exclusively by supplemental spending
bills, billions and billions in supplemental spending.
The cost of war in Iraq has exceeded $500 billion,
with economists predicting that the war tab will
exceed $2 Trillion.
.
Just imagine what the world would be if the billions
and billions of dollars spent to make war, to produce
the weapons, were used instead for programs of
social uplift and environmental restoration. For just a
fraction of the military budget: Hunger could be
eliminated, there could be universal health care for
every American and an end to homelessness. For
just a fraction of the cost of the war in Iraq, costing
us now $12 billion a month, the Gulf Coast region
ravaged by Katrina could be re-built.
The billions and billions of dollars spent for war in
Iraq, making Lockheed Martin the wars chief
weapons profiteer, is nothing less than a massive
theft of resources from those who need. Here and
around the word, it is nothing less than a daily
crucifixion.
In the face of every homeless person, of every person
that hungers for community and justice, in New
Orleans or Biloxi, Chester or Brazil, is the face of the
Jesus ignored in this time of war, the time of
Lockheed Martin. In the knowledge and presence of
the poor, the tortured and imprisoned - all those on
whom, and at whose expense, war is made, whether
that be in Afghanistan or Iraq, Colombia, or North
Philadelphia, is also, paradoxically, the presence of
the child born without dwelling, who would die the
tortured death of a political prisoner.
8th Station: Jesus consoles the women of
Jerusalem Reading #8
Were going to fight in space, said General Joseph
Ashy, former commander-in-chief of the US Space
Command. Were going to fight from space, and
were going to fight into space.. Space has long
been militarized. The shock & awe bombardment
was actually the U.S. first war from space in that
more than 80% of all bomber communications,
direction, and missile guidance came from satellites
in deep space
Plans for Star Wars missile defense are but the
next big step in a much larger plan for the full
militarization of space. Lockheed Martin knows full
well what Star Wars means because it is working
on the extremities of the scheme, everything in
between, and beyond.
The Navys Theater Missile Defense plan is to use
Aegis cruisers, like the ones which three years ago
were firing cruise missiles into Iraq as part of the
shock and awe terrorizing strategy. With specially
designed missiles adapted to shoot down missiles in
their boost-phase, Aegis cruisers, produced by
Lockheed Martin in Moorestown, New Jersey and
now being sold to Taiwan and Japan, would be
deployed off the coast of North Korea and China.
This first step in Star Wars missiles is now being
called Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense.
The shooting down a few weeks go of the errant
satellite out of orbit was done from an Aegis cruiser
firing a specially adapted space reaching missile and
served as both an anti-satellite war test and as a test
for Aegis Ballistic Missile system.
Russia now threatens another arms race with the
United States as the U.S. finalizes plans to deploy
missile interceptor batteries in the Czech Republic
and related radar systems in Poland as part of the
U.Ss plans for Star Wars missile defense.
Further down the road but no less underway for
Lockheed Martin is the development of the Airborne
Space-Based Laser that harkens back to Reagans
Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative plan of
March 1983 to knock out satellites and missiles in
space with laser beam technology.
Look up into the heavens. There is a manifest
destiny space policy that begins with the
assumption of denying any regional power access to
space. and can be summarized as : Behold, Space -
Ours
9th Station: Jesus falls the 3rd time Reading #9
1968 - 40 years ago, another war was defining another
generation. Another president was clinging to his policy
of war in another region of the world - Southeast Asia.
And more and more young men were dying. And more
and more young men were being drafted to go and fight
in Vietnam.
In 1968, it all began to boil. President Lyndon Johnson
announced on March ____ that he would not seek re-
election. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the prophetic voice
for justice and nonviolence, was shot down in Memphis
on April 4, one year to the day after calling for a coming
together of the anti-war and civil rights movement to
challenge the intertwining realities of racism, militarism,
and poverty. Minus the impact of the draft, there are
continuing parallels between 1968 and today.
Something else happened in 1968 that would begin a
new nonviolent ethic of resistance that instructs and
inspires us today.
On May 17, 1968, Nine Catholic peace activists -
including Catholic priests, Daniel and Philip Berrigan -
entered the draft board in Catonsville, MD, removed
hundreds of draft files to a nearby parking lot and
publicly burned the files with homemade napalm . Each
of the Catonsville 9" was arrested, tried, and sentenced
to prison sentences.
The following is a meditation that Daniel Berrigan read
in court explaining their dramatic act of civil
disobedience and is taken from Berrigans play The
Trial of the Catonsville 9".
...Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of
good order:
the burning of paper, instead of children,
the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of
the charnel house...
All of us who against the law turn to the poor of the
world, to the victims, to the soldiers who kill and die
for the wrong reasons, for no reason at all, because
they were so ordered by the authorities of that
public order which is in effect a massive
institutionalized disorder. We say: Killing is
disorder, life and gentleness and community and
unselfishness is the only order we recognize...
How many indeed must die before our voices are
heard, how many must be
tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened?
How long must the worlds resources be raped
in the service of legalized murder?...
We have chosen to say: the violence stops
here, the death stops here,
the suppression of the truth stops here, THIS
WAR STOPS HERE!...
10th Station: Jesus is stripped of his garments.
Reading #10
Like the child who was able to see that the
Emperor was without clothes, can we see whats
before us today?
Can we see the greed, the lies, the violence that
lay before us? Can we see the illusions of security
that come from making war?
September 11, 2001, all of our imperial illusions
of security based on nuclear weapons, or Star
Wars shields, or corporations, shattered in a wink.
We were vulnerable, just like everybody else on
this fragile planet. If there be such a thing as real
security then it must rest on something more than
what we can do for ourselves with muscle or
weapons, something that has to do with
relationship with others and the earth, with
fairness, with honoring the commonweal and the
commonwealth, with being neighbor not the
overlord. And that means justice.
How can we restore our suffering society, our
war-weary world, our slaughtered environment?
Can we really face (not live in an hopeless
illusion of reality, but really face) the earth
altering nature of global warming with weapons
and militarism?
Bombs may win wars and bring the false peace of
victory, but justice will never be achieved with
bombs and cruise missiles nor with Star Wars and
out of this world plans (however profitable) for
the militarization of space. The only victor in war
is war itself.
If you want real peace not dominion or wealth
or empire then work for justice: justice for one
another, for the community, for the earth.
11th Station: Jesus is nailed to the Cross
Reading #11
Non-cooperation with evil, Gandhi preached, is
as essential as cooperation with good.
There is an uncompromising difference between the
privileged wealth secured through every weapon
built by Lockheed Martin and the faithful demands
for justice and peace. It is nothing less than the
difference between crucifixion and resurrection,
cooperation and resistance.
40 years ago early next month on April 4, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. was shot down in Memphis, Tenn.
Exactly one year to the day before his death on April
4, 1967, Dr. King spoke out against the war in
Vietnam from the pulpit of Riverside Church in New
York City. In that speech, he described the
relationship between US global policies and the
domestic violence of poverty. Calling the US
government the greatest purveyor of violence in
the world, he called for resistance to the giant
triplets of American society: racism, materialism,
and militarism.
The crosses before us today announce the fact of
Lockheed Martin - weapons and war. These crosses
express our mourning for the toll of this war, of
human neglect and environmental indifference, of
the greed and violence summarized daily and made
corporate in Lockheed Martin. These crosses
represent the suffering and crucifixion of Jesus
Christ today. Lockheed Martin, War and Weapons,
Christ Crucified!
We stand in resistance to Lockheed Martin. We
embrace the nonviolent cross of our time: resistance
to war and militarism, the works of peacemaking and
service to the victims of war, resistance to the
injustice that is Lockheed Martin, the face of war-
making today.
Today, in mourning and resistance, we remember
Jesus words: Peace, I leave with you; my peace I
give to you...(John 14:27)