Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck Supper/Program: Immigration & Deportation in the U.S.: The New Sanctuary Movement
Sunday, November 9th, 2008 4:30p.m.
Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck Supper & Program: Immigration & Deportation in the U.S.: The New Sanctuary Movement                                        University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA (corner of 37th & Chestnut Streets). Bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share.

Sunday, November 9 - Immigration & Deportation in the US: The New Sanctuary Movement. Immigrants in our communities are the targets of anger,frustration, and fear, especially in the current economic turmoil. The program, with the Philadelphia area directors of the New Sanctuary Movement, will separate the reality of immigration and the rising tide of arrests and deportations from the anti-immigrant rhetoric of fear and hatred. How can we respond with justice and love in such a climate? Join the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia for a night of dialogue and education.

Peter Pedemonti, co-director of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadlephia, is a community member of the House of Grace Catholic Worker. The House of Grace operates a free medical clinic and house of hospitality in Kensington, and works on issues of peace and justice. Before coming to Philadelphia, Peter was the director of public education and outreach for Citizens Campaign for the Environment, an environmental organization in New York, and Neighbors of Onondaga Nation, a Native American rights organization.

Margaret Sawyer is co-director of the New Sanctuary Movement of Philadelphia, and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. Margaret lived and worked for two years at Annunciation House in El Paso, Texas, a house of hospitality for people arriving in the US from across the border.During seminary, she interned with a Lutheran congregation of recent immigrants in New York City, and helped the congregation establish an immigrant resource center. Margaret currently serves a UCC congregation as associate pastor,in West Philadelphia.

Join Us at the area's longest enduring, progressive gathering, the Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Supper/Program, 4:30PM, 2nd Sunday of the month (except August), University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut Street, Phila., PA (bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share). Programs begin at 5:30PM.

Brandywine Peace Community, P.O. Box 81, Swarthmore, PA 19081                         (610) 544-1818  brandywine@juno.com   www.brandywinepeace.com