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End the Wars, Abolish Nuclear Weapons

Resist Lockheed Martin

Beyond War: a New Economy is Possible

“…The revulsion against war not too long hence will be an almost insuperable obstacle for us to overcome.  For that reason, I am convinced that we must begin now to set the machinery in motion for a permanent war economy…”  Charles E. Wilson, President of General Electric, January, 1944

For more than sixty years, our country has been held in the grip of a “permanent war economy”, producing devastating social consequences here at home and enabling war and misery around the world.

Lockheed Martin: world’s largest war profiteer ($42.7 billion annually in weapons and war related contracting), manufactures F-35 Joint Strike Stealth Fighters (at $300 billion, the most expensive weapons program in human history), U.S.’s #1 international arms dealer as well as nuclear and space weapons contractor. Lockheed Martin builds unmanned remote-controlled drones directed through space from the continental U.S. by satellites also produced by Lockheed Martin.  The death toll in Afghanistan grows daily as people here and around the world pay the price of U.S. war and militarism.  90% of Lockheed Martin’s income comes from war.
Please join and support the campaign of nonviolent resistance to Lockheed Martin at upcoming peace vigils, protests, and nonviolent resistance at Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards in Valley Forge, PA (behind the King of Prussia Mall), in front of the main entrance to Lockheed Martin, just off the corner of Mall & Goddard, across from the entrance to the UA movieplex. MAP

Very Special Event!! Please plan to attend:

The Plowshares 8, left to right: Father Carl Kabat, Elmer Maas (deceased), Philip Berrigan (deceased),
Molly Rush, Father Daniel Berrigan, Sister Anne Montgomery, John Schuchardt, and Dean Hammer.

And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks…  – Isaiah 2:4.  Celebrate the 30^th Anniversary of the Plowshares 8!

On September 9, 1980, eight religious peace and anti-nuclear weapons activists entered a General Electric (now: Lockheed Martin) plant in King of Prussia and with hammers “disarmed” Mark 12A warhead casings. Participants in the first “swords into plowshares” action were called the Plowshares 8. They were tried the following spring in the Montgomery County Court in Norristown, PA. and found guilty of  burglary, conspiracy, and criminal mischief. The Brandywine Peace Community was the organizing and support base for the Plowshares 8 as well as the similar GE 5 action in October, 1981. Nearly seventy-five plowshares actions have occurred over the past thirty years across the country and in Europe, many involving long prison sentences for the participants. For more on the Plowshares 8 and other plowshares actions, visit http://www.craftech.com/~dcpledge/brandywine/plow/Chronology.html  and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plowshares_Movement.

The Brandywine Peace Community invites you to join with the Atlantic Life Community, and other peacemakers, in King of Prussia, PA on Sunday, September 5 to publicly celebrate the 30^th Anniversary of the Plowshares 8 and to re-dedicate ourselves to the works of justice and peace, stopping Lockheed Martin (the world’s largest war profiteer and U.S’s chief nuclear weapons contractor), abolishing nuclear weapons, and ending war.

Sunday, September 5, 2p.m.
Celebrate the 30^th Anniversary of the Plowshares 8
Demonstration – Re-Dedication to Nonviolent Action for Peace
Lockheed Martin
230 Mall Boulevard, Valley Forge/King of Prussia, PA 
(behind the King of Prussia Mall)
Bell-Tolling Vigil at corner of Mall & Goddard Boulevards
Followed by short walk to Lockheed Martin main driveway entrance, where an actual Mark 12A warhead casing (like the ones the Plowshares 8 “disarmed” thirty years ago) will, emblematic of Lockheed Martin, stand in front of corporate logo. 
Music - Speakers - Statement of the Plowshares 8 …
Ceremony of Re-dedication to Justice and Peace.

Site MAP Recommended parking in lot for UA King of Prussia 16 movieplex just across from Lockheed Martin main driveway entrance. Public transit from Philadelphia: SEPTA, www.septa.com, routes #124 or #125 which stops immediately across the street from Lockheed Martin main driveway entrance.

Demonstration will be followed by a short car caravan through King of Prussia, with a stop at the nearby former GE plant (now: Lockheed Martin) where the Plowshares 8 action occurred on September 9, 1980.

*The Atlantic Life Community will be holding its next retreat over the Labor Day weekend in Camden, NJ.  Please email brandywine@juno.com if you would like more info

Supporters of Plowshares 8, during their trial at Montgomery County Courthouse, Norristown, PA

Sunday, September  12, 4:30p.m., Brandywine Peace Community Potluck Supper & Program.

In celebration of the 30^th Anniversary of the Plowshares 8 action (who on September 9, 1980, in resistance to the production of nuclear weapons, hammered on nuclear warhead casings at a General Electric plant (now: Lockheed Martin) in King of Prussia, PA…Special large screen showing of IN THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1982, 92 mins., NR, directed by Emile de Antonio, starring Martin Sheen, and members of the Plowshares 8, including Daniel and Philip Berrigan), documentary portrait of the landmark Plowshares 8 action and trial that intersperses news footage with re-enactments of portions of the trial thirty years ago.
The program will also include a film short 30 YEARS OF NUCLEAR RESISTANCE, produced by the Nuclear Resister, and special guest participants from “Swords into Plowshares” actions.
Plan to attend the area's longest running on-going program for peace and justice, the Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Supper/Program, now in its 3rd decade.....2nd Sunday of the month (except August), 4:30PM, at the University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA (bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share). Programs begin at 5:30 p.m.  Easily accessible by public transportation, SEPTA bus #21 www.septa.com

Fri., October 1, 7p.m. – First-Friday Movie at Peace Center of Delaware County –The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg & The Pentagon Papers, www.delcopeacecenter.org

9^th Anniversary of the War in Afghanistan
War Wasn’t the Answer. And Still Isn’t! 

Stop the War(s) and the War Makers! Jobs not Wars!

October 2010, the ninth anniversary of U.S. war in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001, will be marked with anti-war demonstrations and protests around the world.  The week of October 2 – 9 is also the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space’s KEEP SPACE FOR PEACE WEEK,  http://www.space4peace.org/

Central to the escalating war is the use of UAVs, unmanned remote-controlled bombing and surveillance drones, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.  Lockheed Martin produces drone aircraft that are directed from the continental U.S. through space based satellites also built by Lockheed Martin.    

Ground the Drones – Stop Lockheed Martin

Saturday, October 9, Noon (Rain or Shine)
Protest demonstration at Lockheed Martin,
Mall & Goddard Boulevards, King of Prussia/Valley Forge, PA
(located directly behind the King of Prussia Mall).  MAP
  Easily accessible by public transportation (www.septa.com). From Philadelphia, routes #124 and  #125 (which will leave you off right across the street from Lockheed Martin’s main driveway entrance)

Sunday, October  10, 4:30p.m., Brandywine Peace Community Potluck Supper & Program. Tom Paine Cronin speaks on Organizing for Jobs not  Wars . Tom Cronin is a Philadelphia labor leader, former President of AFSCME DC 47, International Labor and Human Rights Solidarity worker, and director of the Comey Labor Studies Program at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia.
Plan to attend the area's longest running on-going program for peace and justice, the Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Supper/Program, now in its 3rd decade.....2nd Sunday of the month (except August), 4:30PM, at the University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA (bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share). Programs begin at 5:30 p.m.  Easily accessible by public transportation, SEPTA bus #21 www.septa.com

Save the Date: Saturday, October 16 
United Anti-War Committee of Phila
Protest and March in Center City Philadelphia. 
Plans – Details: TBA

Fri., November 5, 7p.m. – First-Friday Movie at Peace Center of Delaware County – A Day Without A Mexican, www.delcopeacecenter.org

Sunday, November 14, 4:30p.m., Brandywine Peace Community Potluck Supper & Program. TBA

LOCKHEEDVILLE:
where the business of war matters, and human needs don’t!

Thanksgiving Weekend, Saturday, November 27, 12 Noon Demonstration at Lockheed Martin
Mall & Goddard Boulevards, Valley Forge/King of Prussia, PA MAP
(behind the King of Prussia Mall)

Area Programs and On-going Vigils for Peace