Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck Supper & Program

Sunday, March 8 – Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck Supper & Program, 2nd Sunday of the month,  at University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (corner of 37th & Chestnut St, in the University City section of the city) 4:30p.m. Potluck Supper (bring main dish, salad, or dessert). Program begins at 5:30p.m

Program: Peter Lems speaking on “Another AUMF (Authorization to Use Military Forge), Another Declaration of ‘Endless War’ “.

President Obama recently requested the largest Pentagon budget in history. He also asked Congress to retroactively approve and support ongoing U.S. military action in Syria by approving a new Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF). Intended to fight ISIS, the new AUMF is modeled on the 2001 AUMF that was intended to fight Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Thirteen years later, that AUMF has been used to justify military action in 13 countries.

Where will this new AUMF take us?  What are the limits? What will be the cost here at home and around the world.  Find out what you can do to stop it.

Peter Lems is a program officer for the American Friends Service Committee. He helps coordinate the Wage Peace and Presidential Campaign Projects.  Since 1988, he has travelled widely and worked for a variety of organizations focused on the Arab world.  Including the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, the Palestine Human Rights Information Center – International, and the Association of Arab-American University Graduates.

The program will also include a showing of the short film “IN THE SIGHTS OF THE FBI: COINTELPRO to Today’s Assaults on Civil Liberties” (12mins., Brandywine Peace Community) marking the anniversary of the Media FBI break-in (International Women’s Day, March 8, 1971) and its resulting revelations of widespread surveillance and harassment of the social change movements in the later 60’s and early 70’s, and today.

Parking at rear of church in small lot and on-street in front of church.  SEPTA bus #21 stop immediately across the street from church, see www.septa.org