Aug 6 2006 - 7:30pm
Aug 6 2006 - 9:33pm
Brandywine Peace Community
brandywine@juno.com
610-544-1818

"Down by the Riverside" in Phila.& at Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, PA:

August 6 - 9, Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Resisting Militarism, the War, and Lockheed Martin

August 6, 7:30PM - Hiroshima Day Anti-War Candlelight Memorial (w/Declaration of Peace pledge signing), 30th Street Bridge, Schuylkill Ave. & Market St.,near 30th St. Train Station, Phila., PA. The memorial will include: music, speakers, poetry, account of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, signing of the Declaration of Peace pledge, and ceremony involving candles and wreath floating on the Schuylkill River.

August 9, Noon - Nagasaki day of Remembrance & Resistance at Lockheed Martin, Mall & Goddard Boulevards, Valley Forge, PA (behind the King of Prussia Mall) - Service of Remembrance will include recollections of an "Hibakusha" (atomic bomb survivor)and will be followed by nonviolent civil disobedience at the Lockheed Martin weapons complex.

Those wishing to participate in the civil disobedience and face arrest need to call the Brandywine Peace Community, 610-544-1818, by July 31 to find out the date, time, and place of the required preparation and planning meeting

Location

30th St. Bridge, Phila., PA and Lockheed Martin, Valley Forge, P
Phila., PA and Valley Forge, PA, PA
United States
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