There’s a plot afoot in Philly by 32 Leftist organizations to assault the Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall near Philadelphia. One of my countless moles forwarded this notice to me;<\/p>\n
Activists affiliated with several dozen groups on the east coast will again descend on the Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia at 2:00 pm on Saturday, September 12, 2009.<\/p>\n
A protest on May 2, 2009 at the Army’s interactive video recruiting center was attended by 250 people and saw 7 arrests, but failed to generate mainstream print media coverage.
\nThis time, demonstrators are being encouraged to form small affinity groups and enter the mall through one of several locations. Protesters are encouraged to express their outrage in creative, nonviolent ways.
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\nAt 2:00 pm people will come out of the woodwork and converge on the Army Experience Center. Organizers feel it may not be wise for participants to congregate into large groups before the demonstration or wear clothing that would suggest participation in the protest. Is it possible for hundreds to arrive at the mall without being detected? It probably doesn’t matter because police don’t have the right to bar entrance to the mall based on a person’s appearance.<\/p>\nPrivately owned spaces like shopping malls are not generally considered to be public property like streets, sidewalks and public parks. It\u2019s a problem for folks not particularly enthralled with the status quo, with so many of today\u2019s public spaces masquerading under private ownership.<\/p>\n
In case military and civilian officials decide to close the Army Experience Center or the entire red section of the mall, demonstrators are encouraged to congregate at the intersection of Knight’s Road and Mechanicsville Road, directly in front of the red entrance.
\nFranklin Mills Mall is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its street address is 1455 Franklin Mills Circle Philadelphia, PA. Getting to Franklin Mills Mall is simple. Take Exit 35 off of Rt. 95 and merge onto Woodhaven Rd, (PA 63 West). Go a mile and take a right on Millbrook Rd which leads into Franklin Mills Mall.<\/p>\nFor more information, contact Elaine Brower – mermaid423@aol.com or
\nPat Elder – patrickelder@verizon.net
\nWe encourage you to join our Yahoo List Serve:
\nhttp:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/franklinmillsmall\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI wrote about their last attempt to shut down the AEC here last May<\/a>. And I wrote about Elaine Brower<\/a> at about the same time. <\/p>\n
My mole tells me that Matthis Chiroux will also be there. There’s some kind of tie between Matthis Chiroux and Elaine Brower – a quick check on the internet told me that she’s paying for his website out of her pocket, so who knows what else is going on there. <\/p>\n
There are “32 organizations”, if you count them a couple of times like the hippies have done;<\/p>\n
1. World Can\u2019t Wait
\n2. CODEPINK
\n3. Student Peace Action Network (SPAN)
\n4. Peace Action Montgomery (MD)
\n5. Next Left Notes
\n6. American Friends Service Committee \u2014 Youth & Militarism Program
\n7. Movement for a Democratic Society, Staten Island Chapter (MDS\/SI)
\n8. Gray Panthers, NYC Network
\n9. The Granny Peace Brigade, New York City Chapter
\n10. The Granny Peace Brigade, Philadelphia Chapter
\n11. Pacem in Terris, Delaware
\n12. Brandywine Peace Community
\n13. War Resisters League, Delaware Chapter
\n14. War Resisters League, Philadelphia Chapter
\n15. The National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance (NCNR)
\n16. Long Island Military Counter-Recruiting Committee of the Suffolk Peace Network
\n17. Citizens for Legitimate Government
\n18. After Downing Street.org
\n19. Buxmont Coalition for Peace Action
\n20. Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom, Bloomington, IN
\n21. Women\u2019s International League for Peace and Freedom, Philadelphia Branch
\n22. Delaware Valley Veterans for America
\n23. Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern
\n24. Suffolk Peace Network
\n25. Woodstock Veterans for Peace
\n26. Veterans for Peace \u2014 Thomas Paine Chapter #152
\n27. Chester County Peace Movement
\n28. Veterans for Peace \u2014 Long Island Chapter
\n29. Pax Christi, Long Island
\n30. Veterans for Peace \u2014 Chapter 31
\n31. Veterans for Peace \u2014 Chapter 96, South Jersey
\n32. North Country Peace Group (Long Island)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIn May they claimed to have 30 orgs at the protest and eye witnesses said there were less than 200 people there. <\/p>\n
I’m guessing that they scheduled it for September 12th because most of the counter protesters that would be there any other day will be in DC. And since they’re passing this around in private rather than the way they used to on the internet, they must be pretty scared of looking weak like they did last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"