Youth Philadelphia Area War Resistance

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Upcoming Peace Events

Youth March Against the War: Join Youth PAWR and Not in Our Name youth and students in a feeder march for the March 30 Philadelphia anti-war mobilization.

Sunday, Mar. 30, depart at 1:30 pm from the Liberty Bell (Market Street between 5th and 6th Streets). Information: youthpawr@riseup.net.

Junior ROTC in Philly Schools — Opportunity or Liability? A public forum on the questions, costs and implications of Philadelphia School District CEO Paul Vallas' plan to expand JROTC in public high schools. Featuring Oskar Castro of the American Friends Service Committee, Pat Albright of Every Mother is a Working Mother Network, Darren Parker of Spiral Q, and Shannon McManimon of Pax Christi.

Saturday, Mar. 29, 1:00 pm at the Friends Center, 15th & Cherry Streets. Information: youthpawr@riseup.net.

Rush Hour Rally at the Liberty Bell: Use your First Amendment rights while they still last!

Friday, Mar. 28, 5:30 pm at Independence Mall, 5th and Market Streets. Information: lpearthree@comcast.net or 215.238.1860.

Phila. Regional Anti-War Network: Meet to help plan the March 30th mobilization against the war.

Thursday, Mar. 27, 9:00 pm at the Minority eXperience Network, 2200 North Broad Street. Information: info@phillyprawn.net or www.phillyprawn.net

Join students and youth from around the Philadelphia area for a day of networking, learning from experienced activists, and developing new ideas for the student movement. Activation 2003 will bring together young activists from a variety of progressive movements organizing for social change. Please join us! [register below]

Saturday, April 5, 2003

11:00 am to 6:30 pm
$5 suggested donation (includes lunch)
University of Pennsylvania
Newman Center, 38th & Chestnut Streets [map]
University City, West Philadelphia
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Planned workshops

Thinking past the media, high school student activism, poverty and student activism, sustainable peace and the environment, solidarity with the labor movement, nonviolent resistance in Palestine, legal training for direct actions, the effects of sanctions on Iraq, ideas for effective direct actions and civil disobedience, and more!

Participating groups

Philadelphia Student Union
International Solidarity Movement
Minority eXperience Network
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
United Students Against Sweatshops
Up Against the Law Legal Collective
End the Sanctions
Center for Campus Organizing
Voices in the Wilderness

Sponsoring organizations

Not In Our Name Philadelphia, One World, Penn for Peace, Radical Education Collective, Student Environmental Action Coalition, Young Communist Leage, why-war.com, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

The war on Iraq will cost three times what the federal government spends on K-12 education and will devastate the children and people of Iraq. Youth and students must speak out against this war!

Register by e-mailing activation2003@riseup.net or calling 215.222.4711 with your name, e-mail address, phone number and school (if any). Advance registration is requested so that we may have an idea of attendance, but no one will be turned away.

About Youth PAWR

We're a coalition of youth from the Philadelphia area organizing against war in Iraq. Our planning meetings are every Tuesday at 6:30 at the Friends Center (15th and Cherry Streets [map] in Center City Philadelphia, just a few blocks north of 15th Street/Suburban Station). All youth activists are invited to attend. More information: youthpawr@riseup.net or 215.222.4711. Join our discussion list or weekly peace events newsletter if you wish. See our previous events: Day X (March 20), March 5 and February 15.