Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck Supper & Program
2nd Sunday of the month - 4:30P.M (except for August),
University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St. (corner of 37th & Chestnut Sts. – next to Int’l House), Phila., PA
(bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share).

Sunday, June 14 - Meet...Greet...Hear: Jailed Peace Activist, Advocate for the Poor, International Traveler for Peace, Just Back from Iran - Father Louie Vitale.

Sunday, July 12 - Special showing of "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb (1980)," the acclaimed and Oscar-nominated film documentary about Oppenheimer, the scientific head of the Manhattan Project and the first steps into the nuclear age. (more)

For Justice:  Stop the Wars; End the Violence, handgun - H-Bomb and Memory, Hope, Nonviolent Action at Lockheed Martin (#1 war profiteer, nuclear weapons contractor)...August 6 - 9, 2009, 64th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Friday, July 3, Noon - Independence Day Eve "And now, DECLARE PEACE!" demonstration with speakers and music at Independence Mall, Market Street, between 5th & 6th Streets, followed by bell-tolling vigil in front of Independence Hall (Chestnut Street, between 5th & 6th) to stop the wars and end the violence, handgun to H-Bomb.  (more)

Thursday, August 6, Hiroshima Day - Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards, Valley Forge, PA (behind the King of Prussia Mall).
8a.m. - Noon, Vigil for Peace; Noon - Hiroshima Day Ceremony and Nonviolent Action, including civil disobedience.  Those interested in participating in the civil disobedience, call the Brandywine Peace Community by July 25 for preparation and planning information. (more)

Sunday, August 9 - Nagasaki Day, 7:30p.m.  Candlelight Peace Dedication in front of SS Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Cathedral, 18th & Benjamin Franklin Parkway, in memory of the Urakami Cathedral, ground zero of Nagasaki bombing.  Co-sponsored by Phila. Catholic Peace Fellowship.(more)

 

*****************************************************Other Summer Events of Interest*********************************************

Peace Center of Delaware County First-Friday Just-Reel Free Film Series, co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, PA.  For more information, film listings and descriptions, or directions to the Peace Center of Delaware County, visit www.delcopeacecenter.org or call (610) 544-1818.

Friday, June 5, 7p.m., - Screening of the new documentary film I CANNOT BE SILENT: Testimonies of Peacemaking, with opening short, and special guest: Josh Stieber, Iraq War veteran, released from the Army after applying for and receiving Conscientious Objector status, and now on a national bike/walk tour for peace. 

Friday, July 3 - The Visitor (2008, 103 min., PG-13 for brief profanity). 
(You are invited on July 3rd to a pre-screening cook-out at the Peace Center, beginning at 5p.m.  Peace Center will provide food for the grill and beverages. You are asked to bring salad, fruit, or dessert.  Please RSVP by calling 610-544-1818.  Can't make it to the cook-out? Still come for the showing of The Visitor.)

Friday, August 7 - Fat Man and Little Boy (1989, 127 min., PG-13). 
(Beginning at 6p.m., large pictorial exhibit from Japan will be on display at the Peace Center of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, their continuing after-effects, and the continuing reality of nuclear weapons.  Come early to the Peace Center before the showing of Fat Man and Little Boy.)

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Saturday, June 20 - WAR, PEACE AND YOUR MONEY: A Workshop for Change featuring Cindy Sheehan, author, peace activist,
11:30A.M. - 2P.M., Penn Wynne Presbyterian Church, 130 Haverford Road, Wynnewood, 19096

11:30P.M. - HealthCare Rally at intersection of Haverford Rd. & City Line Avenue; 12 noon - lunch at church (six short blocks north of rally site); 12:30 - 2P.M. - discussion with Cindy Sheehan.

Use Manoa Road entrance to church.  Free parking in church lot. Public transport: SEPTA bus 105 along City Avenue, 106 along Haverford Rd.; ½ mile from Rt. 100 trolley/Penfield Rd trolley stop.  Sponsored by Main Line Peace Action, Delmont Progressive Democrats of America, Brandywine Peace Community, Delco Wage Peace & Justice.  For more information call Main Line Peace Action at 610 527 4170 or email tjdugdale@verizon.net .

 

Brandywine Peace Community, P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081 - (610) 544-1818 brandywine@juno.com   www.brandywinepeace.com

 

 

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