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PRAWN Gathering Draws Peace & Justice-Seekers
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Rich Gardner | 08.20.2009
We had a nice, healthy crowd for our party. About 65, we think. The idea of the party was to relax and "let our hair down," but it was also to get updates from each other about what we had planned for the near future.  The party took place in the lower floor of the Calvary Church at 48th & Baltimore.  Our first speaker, Berta Joubert, talked of Latino issues. That's our moderator Rich Gardner right behind her. He maintains the PRAWN website.
 These two, Mary Kay O'Donnell was one, were from Philly4Health. Health care is a really hot issue at the moment with President Obama "going all wobbly" on the Public Option.
Javier Hernandez spoke on Immigration Rights.
Bill Perry fills us in on what the Iraq Veterans Against the War and Delaware Valley Veterans of America will be doing.
That's Galen Tyler of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union speaking. Larry Petkov and Jeff Seaman, two of the party organizers, are in the background. One of the items Larry composed is a history of PRAWN.
Bob Smith of the Brandywine Peace Community.
Nathaniel Miller, A speaker from SUSTAIN on the Palestinian issue.
These two, Ian Ramsey & Kim-Thao Nguyen from the Project for Nuclear Awareness spoke on nuclear proliferation.
This person from Philly Against War told us about upcoming events in which PAW hopes to round up people from around the Philadelphia region to participate in.
We had several groups bring their signs and flyers and books to distribute.
Some of the partygoers taking advantage of the food that our organizers brought along.
Our own Moniqe Frugier was another one of our organizers. She doesn't appear because she was the photographer. She made the film that is now posted as a YouTube.
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