Location:
Near Senator Arlen Specter's home

Street:
West Schoolhouse Lane (at Vaux Street) in East Falls

City State Zip:
Philadelphia, PA 19129

Phone:
215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com

Notes:

Twenty-three peace groups (including Northwest Greens) will hold an Afghanistan Withdrawal Peace Event from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 15, near Senator Arlen Specter's home on West Schoolhouse Lane (at Vaux Street) in East Falls. They want Specter to cut off funding for the U.S. occupation of Iraq and to bring the troops home, now.

On February 15, 1989, the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan after a 10-year occupation with 100,000 soldiers. During their occupation, more than 14,000 Soviet soldiers were killed by the Afghan mujahideen resistance.

The participating organizations will be Brandywine Peace Community, Bucks for Progress, Catholic Peace Fellowship, Chester County Peace Movement, Code Pink Philadelphia, Communist Party of Eastern PA and DE, Delaware Valley Veterans for America, Granny Peace Brigade, Green Party of Montgomery County, Green Party of Philadelphia, Military Families Speak Out, Northeast Philly for Peace and Justice, Northwest Greens, Peace Action of Delaware Valley, Philadelphia Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network (PRAWN), Philadelphia War Resisters League, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Saint Vincent's Peace and Justice Ministry, Suburban Philadelphia Greens, Turn Around America, Veterans for Peace Chapter 31 and Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (Philadelphia Branch).