We have much more to do!
The Brandywine Peace Community needs your continued support!
As difficult as it is, we need to ask for your support. Frankly, contributions are down, way down. We know that money is tight for everyone, you and us, and therefore it is difficult to ask but we must because as difficult as it is, the unique organizing work of the Brandywine Peace Community must continue.
For more than sixty years, our country has been in the grip of a "permanent war economy", as foretold by Charles E. Wilson, President of General Electric, in his speech in January, 1944. War and militarism are THE business of Lockheed Martin, from Iraq and Afghanistan to other war-torn areas around the world. Nearly 90% of the company's income is from the production of weapons capable of unimaginable death and destruction - nuclear bombs, Aegis warships, Trident and cruise missiles, F-35 Joint Strike Stealth Fighters, produced at Lockheed Martin facilities right here in the Delaware Valley in Moorestown, NJ; Newtown, Bucks County and, of course, Valley Forge, PA.; and in many other communities across the United States, and around the world,
Freeing ourselves of the grip of war economics and the weapons makers, like Lockheed Martin, which sits at the very top of all war profiteering, is not only a matter of peace, and of justice, but of a future.
For peace, the wars and killing must end, so too must the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Brandywine Peace Community now in its fourth decade, has been the leading organizer of regional peace demonstrations and nonviolent resistance to war-making.
For Peace and for Justice, the Brandywine Peace Community has challenged the power of the war economy in our action campaign against Lockheed Martin. We insist that Lockheed Martin can and must be stopped. For justice, we must save our communities and war-ravaged economy by redirecting our society's resources toward policies and programs that benefit people, produce jobs, provide health care for everyone, and restore our dying planet.
In that belief and commitment, no less than our belief in our friends and supporters, the Brandywine Peace Community continues. Please share whatever you can. It makes all the difference.
Make checks payable to the Brandywine Peace Community. Tax deductible contributions of $25.00 or more can be made out to: New Society Education Foundation and memo the check "for Brandywine" . Please mail your contribution to: Brandywine Peace Community, P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081 , and do it as soon as you can.
Thank-you
Summer 2009:
Friday, July 3, Noontime "And Now, DECLARE PEACE!" Demonstration, Independence Mall, Phila., PA (more)
Anniversaries of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki:
Thursday, August 6, 8am , Hiroshima Day Vigil for Peace and Noontime Nonviolent Action at Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, PA; (more)
Sunday, August 9, 7:30p.m . Nagasaki Day Candlelight Vigil at SS Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral. (more)
Next Potluck/Program: (more)
Close the Army Experience Center - War is No Game, www.shutdowntheaec.net
Just-Reel First Friday Movie Series at Peace Center of Delaware County, co-sponsored by Brandywine Peace Community. Movie listings and directions: www.delcopeacecenter.org
LINKS
United for Peace and Justice
Phila IndyMedia Event Calendar
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Walk for A New Spring & Events Commemorating the 6th Anniversary of the U.S. War and Occupation of Iraq (REPORT)
April 3 - Beyond War: A New Economy is Possible Memorial to Dr. King and to Justice (REPORT)
Good Friday Report
April 23 Demonstration at Lockheed Martin Shareholders Meeting in Philadelphia. (REPORT)
May 20 Demonstration at Phila. Inquirer Protests Hiring of Bush Legal Counsel and "Torture Scribe".
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2008 Highlights
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