Title: Bay of Pigs Peace Event

Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009

Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Near the home of Senator Arlen Specter

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

City State Zip: Philadelphia, PA 19129

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

Twenty-three peace groups (including Northwest Greens) will hold a Bay of Pigs Peace Event from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. 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 Afghanistan and to bring the troops home now.

On this date in 1961, the Cuban people defeated 1,400 private U.S. security contractors who had invaded Cuba's southern coast four days earlier at the Bay of Pigs.

The 23 peace organizations marking this first defeat of Yanqui imperialism, 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 Philadelphia
• Green Party of Montgomery County
• Green Party of Philadelphia
• Military Families Speak Out
• Northeast Philly for Peace and Justice
• Northwest Greens
• Peace Action of Philadelphia
• 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,
• Women's International League for Peace & Freedom (Philadelphia Branch)

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For more information, please contact nwgreens@yahoo.com and 215-843-4256.