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

Stop the Violence: End Poverty; Stop the War:
November 4, 10AM, March Under the EL & Justice Tour
Begins at Frankford Transportation Center at 10 AM. Concluding Rally
(3PM) at Independence Visitors Center, 5th & Market

see video

This year, Philadelphia taxpayers will pay $330,744,960 for the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, one in three children in Philadelphia live in poverty.

Commemorating the anniversaries of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4, 1968) and his historic Riverside Church speech - "A Time to Break Silence" - exactly one year earlier (April 4, 1967), Brandywine Peace Community and Kensington Welfare Rights Union last April 2nd co-sponsored a gathering of anti-war and anti-poverty activists to inspire a closer connection between the two movements.

In 1967, as the U.S. war in  Vietnam raged, Dr. King called the U.S. government "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" and
decried "the giant triplets of American society: racism, materialism, and militarism.".  He saw that the bombs falling in Vietnam were exploding
the hopes and economic possibilities of poor and working people in our country.

We know that the war of occupation in Iraq must end if there is going to be any realization of  economic human rights. The war in Iraq has not
only cost hundreds of thousands of  lives - U.S., Iraqi, and foreign nationals - , but has also resulted in the most basic denial of rights to
housing, health care, safety in our homes and neighborhoods, and other pressing domestic needs.

Just days before the elections,  it's time again to break the silence about the war and the economic assault on people here at home.

Join the  "March Under the El" Saturday, November 4th, beginning at 10 AM at the Frankford Transportation Center at Bridge and Pratt Sts. in Philadelphia, and ending  at 3 PM at the Independence Park Visitors Center lawn, 5th & Market Sts. We will both march and periodically ride the El through Frankford, Kensington, Fishtown, and other neighborhoods to reach out to residents on these issues, immediately before the elections. We will make local stops at Frankford Group Ministries, the simple way, and the Lutheran Settlement House along our "Justice Tour" for lunch and to hear speakers, share testimony about all the human costs of the war, and issue calls for justice and peace..

The "March Under the El" will begin at 10AM from Bridge and Pratt Sts. in Frankford, with an expected arrival at 5th and Market Sts. by 3 PM for a short rally. We hope you will join us on November 4th in this united effort to end the war and demand economic human rights here at home. With the elections upon us, now's the time to get the message out: STOP THE VIOLENCE!  END POVERTY!  STOP THE WAR!

For more information contact:
Brandywine Peace Community, 610-544-1818, brandywine@juno.com
Kensington Welfare Rights Union, 215-203-1945 or 609-387-7551.   

Co-Sponsors: PRAWN, Phildadelphia Buddhist Peace Fellowship, New Jerusalem Laura, Delco Pledge of Resistance, Atonement Lutheran Church, Frankford Group Ministries, the simple way, and Lutheran Settlement House.  If your group wishes to be listed as a co-sponsor (and publicize and participate in the November 4th "March Under the El"), contact either the Brandywine Peace Community or the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.