From the Friends Committee
on National Legislation, see
where your 2009 tax dollars
will go (download PDF here)

From the War Resisters
League, 2010 pie chart of
where your income tax
money really goes
(download PDF here)

"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sunday May 2 - All Aboard the Peace Train!

Board the Peace Train to participate in a major International Rally, March and Festival in New York City on Sunday afternoon, May 2, the day before a major Review Conference for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Begins at UN Headquarters. Join people from throughout the Region and the World to call for real progress toward the Global Nuclear Disarmament through negotiating verifiable agreement(s), as called for in the NPT. The Nuclear Age is nearly 65 years old, and it's time to globally retire nuclear weapons, so they can't be used by terrorists, nations or anyone else!
 
The schedule for boarding at stations in the Delaware Valley is below. Once you board, go to the car furthest forward to join other Peace Train riders. Signs on wooden posts are not allowed on trains or in the Rally and March.
Philadelphia (boarding Septa Train to Trenton)

10:47 AM Market East
10:52 AM Suburban Station
10:56 AM 30th Street Station
11:45 AM Arrive Trenton, change to NJ Transit
Trenton 11:45-12:20 Pre-Boarding Rally in front of Trenton Train Station
(all welcome, whether or not you are boarding the Peace Train)
12:31 PM Trenton Boarding of NJ Transit Train to NYC
12:27 PM Princeton (Shuttle to Princeton Junction)
12:44 PM Princeton Junction
12:59 PM New Brunswick
1:55 PM Arrive Penn Station New York and walk together to 2:00 PM Rally nearby

New York

2:00 PM – Rally near Times Square (exact location to be announced)

3:30 PM – March across 42nd Street to the United Nations

4:00 – 5:30 PM – International Peace & Music Festival, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (47th St. between First and Second Aves.)

Co-sponsored by Coalition for Peace Action
& Coordinated through United for Peace and Justice, Delaware Valley Network

Rep. Steven Santarsiero calls for federal amendment to set campaign finance limits

Campaign Finance Reform
Wednesday, May 19, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Pennswood Village, 1382 Newtown-Langhorne Road. Langhorne, PA 19047
 
On Wednesday, May, 19, 2010, BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action will host State Representative Steve Santarsiero (D.-Bucks) for a speaking engagement at Pennswood Village. Rep. Santarsiero will be speaking on legislation he has introduced calling for a federal convention to amend the U.S. Constitution in order to limit campaign contributions and expenditures.

Rep. Santarsiero explains:
"The Supreme Court's ruling that government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections is essentially a victory for corporations and special interest groups that have the wealth and power to overpower the voices of ordinary citizens like you and me," Santarsiero said. "The influence of these powerful entities on politics is a growing concern and threatens political participation and our democracy."

April Meetings and Events

Sunday, April 11, 6:00 p.m.
Lower Bucks Monthly Coalition For Peace Action Meeting
Pennswood Village, Game Room
1382 Newtown-Langhorne Road
Newtown, PA 18940
 
Featured speaker: 
Nuclear weapons scholar Ward Wilson will be updating us on the START treaty
 
Desserts will be served.  We will have cookies, punch, brownies, etc. to share.  If you would like to bring a simple dessert to share please feel free to do so.

Next Vigil at the Army Experience Center

Join us for a vigil to Shut Down the Army Experience Center at the Franklin Mills Mall. Our next vigil date to be announced.
We will meet outside the Franklin Mills Mall at Knights and Woodhaven Roads in Northeast Philadelphia.

Vigil information:

Next vigil: April 17, 2010.

Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  

Place:  Meet at the corner of Knights and Woodhaven Road.

Let’s keep the pressure on to Close the Army Experience Center. Please join us at our monthly vigil to keep this movement going. We have extra signs and banners that you can use.

Tee shirts available in bright orange with the decal: "War is Not a Game - Shut down the Army Experience Center."

For more information contact: Bill Deckhart, 215-380-6804 or use the email form on the Contact page.

Please bring signs appropriate to closing the Army Experience Center.

The Army Experience Center is a one-of-a-kind, 14,500-square-foot "virtual educational facility" that seduces vulnerable teens into military service by dazzling them with electronic killing games. Teens as young as 13 years old are taught to use weapons and encouraged to simulate killing. The Army may have plans to open a center like this in a mall near you. We must stop this abomination before it takes hold across the country.

Sponsored by BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, House of Grace Catholic Workers, and Brandywine Peace Community

War is Not a Game, but that is how the Army Experience Center at the Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia portrays it to teens as young as 13 years of age. We have an ongoing campaign to close the Army Experience Center.

We Won't Shop at the Franklin Mills Mall until the Army Experience Center is Out of There!

“This is so cool! This is so cool!” a thirteen-year-old boy repeated as he squeezed rounds from a real M-16, picking off “enemy combatants” in a video game while perched atop a real Army Humvee. “I just came to the mall to skateboard but everyone said this was pretty cool. …" This is how the U.S. Army recruits at its large Army Experience Center, located in the Franklin Mills Mall in Northeast Philadelphia. The Army Experience Center at the Franklin Mills Mall teaches children war and violence, luring them into the ways of militarism, through a computer or simulation game.

Vigil in Morrisville, PA by the "Trenton Makes" bridge on the 8th Anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan, October 7, 2009. Photo from the Bucks County Courier Times.

The Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) is a grassroots citizens organization which brings together people of all ages, backgrounds, professions, and political persuasions in support of three goals: global abolition of nuclear weapons, a peace economy, and a halt to weapons trafficking at home and abroad

Vigils and Protests

The Lower Bucks Chapter of BuxMont CFPA has decided that we will no longer do the Saturday morning vigils at Fuddrucker's this winter. This position will be reevaluated in the spring, after daylight savings time, to see if anyone is interested in doing an evening vigil again.

The Central Bucks Chapter joins the Doylestown Friends Meeting for a weekly vigil on Tuesday evenings from 6 to 7 p.m. at the corner of State and Main Streets in Doylestown.

The Upper Bucks Chapter holds a weekly vigil in Sellersville from 10 to 11 a.m. every Saturday at Main St. and Temple Ave.

Meetings

The Lower Bucks Chapter usually meets on the first Sunday of every month at Pennswood Village in Newtown, PA. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. and includes discussion and featured speakers. More information on the Meetings page.

Northeast Philly for Peace and Justice meets at Holy Spirit Evangelical Lutheran Church, Robbins Avenue & Loretto Avenue, Philadelphia, PA at 6:00 p.m. on third Sundays. The meeting starts with a potluck supper.

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