P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA, 19081-- brandywine@juno.com (610) 544-1818

The "Phila. DECLARE PEACE  14" are:

                                            
Karen Wisniewski, 54 years old, registered nurse,  mother, Buddhist practitioner, Haiti health and human rights organizer, peace and justice
activist and organizer for 30 years, arrested many times for nonviolent civil disobedience.

Beth Friedlan 45 yrs old, from Philadelphia (originally Chicago) Christian-activist/ poet, with Brandywine Peace Community. 

Mary Jo McArthur  is a resident of West Philadelphia and  is employed as a therapist at a community mental health center.  She also volunteers at a women's center and teaches ESL classes in her neighborhood twice a week.  Mary Jo has been arrested repeatedly at GE and Lockheed Martin for nonviolent resistance.  She plans to take a very long vacation as soon as peace and justice are accomplished. 

Bernadette Cronin-Geller, 71, a native of Brooklyn NY was missioned to Philadelphia in 1965 as a member of the Missionary Servants of the Blessed Trinity, a Catholic order of religious women, after serving in missions in the segregated south, rural western Pa and metro NJ. While attending University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, she was fully awakened to the social sin of institutional racism with the murder of
Martin Luther King Jr; participated in the Poor Peoples' March on Washington and joined her first acts of Civil Disobedience to the Vietnam
War at draft boards in North Phila. and Center City. in 1970.  She left the convent in 1971, but remained in Social Work (retired 2000, now
teaches Adult Ed classes) and, together with her spouse Lawrence Geller, has, in the ensuing 35 years, continued resisting the government's
imperialist incursions and nuclear build- up through Brandywine Peace Community and St Vincent's, Germantown  Peace and Justice Ministry with continued acts of CD. 

Melissa Elliott is a freelance editor, writer, graphic designer, and photographer. She formerly worked in the Iraq Peacebuilding Program of
the American Friends Service Committee, as associate and acting editor of Friends Journal, and as a reporter and editor of a daily newspaper in
Corvallis, Oregon. She is a Quaker who lives and worships in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

Silvia A. Brandon Prez is a bilingual writer/poet, retired attorney and teacher of languages, and co-founder of the Pocono Progressives,
www.poconoprogressives.org.

Tim Chadwick, who after working as a Project Manager in Capitalist Society for 28 years, has become a full time peace and social justice
activist in the Lehigh Valley Area and Philadelphia.  He is active in LEPOCO, the Lehigh Valley Peace Coalition, & the Brandywine Peace
Community. Recently completed his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Lehigh University in 2003 and is working on a Masters in Sociology there.  His activism in the past five years has included Gay Rights work as Vice President of Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley which puts on the largest gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender event in Eastern PA outside of Philadelphia.  His activism has included work in solidarity with Latin American movements, including a delegation to Venezuela during the most recent elections, and Anti War civil disobedient actions and marches from New York to Washington, DC over the past five years.

Ronald Coburn is one of  three members of the Delaware County Pledge of Resistance who joined the Declaration of Peace action on September 25, 2006.  He has in the past been active in many anti-war and economic and social justice groups including Sane and Physicians for Social Responsibility. At present he is working with Amnesty International, Democracy Now Advocates and the Ethical Society of Philadelphia. He is Clerk of the Haiti Working Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

Tom Mullian (www.tommullian.com) is a singer/songwriter living in Media, PA. He was born and raised in Lansdowne and graduated Upper Darby High School in 1970. He studied music and art history at Delaware County Community College and went on to study English literature and writing at West Chester University. For the past several years, he has been an active member of the Brandywine Peace Community and has played music for most of the rallies, protests, and demonstrations in the Delaware Valley since 9/11. His original music offers an ecclectic blend of country, rock, blues, folk, traditional, and music of social conscience. He is currently touring to promote his two CDs, HARVEST DANCE & SIX STRINGS AGAINST THE WAR.

Robert Daniels II, 34, currently resides in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.  He repairs and delivers grandfather clocks "for a living", but volunteers as a member of the steering committee of the LEPOCO (Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern) Peace Center to stay 'alive'. Voted "Rookie of the Year" (2003) in Nonviolent Resister Magazine (Lehigh Valley edition).  In March he will be joining a Fellowship of Reconciliation "fact-finding friendship" delegation to Iran.

Robin Lasersohn came to this area in 1984 to attend Swarthmore College, where she became active in the local peace and justice movement.  Over the years she has been active with various organizations, including Jobs With Peace, Pledge of Resistance, Brandywine Peace Community, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.  Currently she serves as the Co-Coordinator of the Peace Center of Delaware County and on the Steering Committee of Delaware County Wage Peace & Justice, which she helped to found after 9/11.  She and her partner in marriage and activism, Terry Rumsey, have two daughters--Meg, 13 and Hallie, 11.

Marge Van Cleef is a teacher, musician, and a grandmother of three children. She has been active in WILPF [Women's International League for Peace & Freedom] for many years,  five years on the national board, and was an active member of the national pledge of resistance during the 1980's.  She has been actively opposing the war in Iraq since 1990.

Robert M. Smith is a life-long peace organizer and nonviolent resister. During the Vietnam War, he was an imprisoned draft resister and on the staff of various anti-war organizations.  In 1977, along with other Vietnam era war resisters, Smith co-founded the Brandywine Peace
Community where he continues as the staff organizer.  He has organized and continues to organize and engage in nonviolent resistance for which he has been arrested and jailed repeatedly. He lectures frequently on the war economy and the discipline and dynamics of nonviolent direct action. Smith is a father of three children and one grandchild.

Sylvia Metzler, when not agitating locally and globally for justice and equality, is engaged in being a nurse practitioner, a grandmother, or a
gardener.  She serves as president of the board of the Norris Square Neighborhood Project, and co-chairs both the Philadelphia Area Committee
to Defend Health Care and Medicines for Nicaragua.  Sylvia travels every year to Nicaragua where she lived for two years working as a nurse
practitioner.  Much as she wants the troops home and peace in Iraq,  she needs to spend more time combating global warming.