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We Will Shut Down the Army Experience Center
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Pat Elder | 09.06.2009
Military and civil authorities will have their hands full at Franklin Mills Mall on Saturday, September 12, 2009. Plans call for activists to begin gathering as early as 11:00 am. Throughout the day, we will keep a vigil at the intersection of Knights Road and Woodhaven Road, located between the church and the AEC. We simply ask demonstrators to engage in nonviolent means of expressing their outrage. 13 year-olds are being taught to kill by the U.S. Army at mall. PHOTO: Killing "ragheads" at the mall. RELATED: The Army Experience Center and the Development of a Warrior Caste  Join activists on Saturday, September 12, 2009 to converge on the Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall in Philadelphia. Plans call for activists to begin gathering as early as 11:00 am on the parking lot of St. Luke's United Church of Christ located at 11080 Knights Road Philadelphia, PA 19154.
Participants will be instructed on the plans for the day and will be given cell phone numbers to keep in constant contact with demonstration organizers. There is no lead organizer or committee designated to work with civil and military authorities. We will have trained legal observers with us throughout the day. We simply ask demonstrators to engage in nonviolent means of expressing their outrage. 13 year-olds are being taught to kill by the U.S. Army at mall.
Throughout the day, we will keep a vigil at the intersection of Knights Road and Woodhaven Road, located between the church and the AEC. Chris Hedges, author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle will address the gathered crowd at the vigil site at 1:00 pm.
Affinity groups are encouraged to drift into the mall from different entrances before the 2 PM convergence at the AEC. Participants are advised to enter the mall without drawing attention from authorities. The Rev. Robert Moore, Exec. Director of the Coalition for Peace Action will address the crowd in front of the Army Experience Center at 2:00 pm.
Several mainstream media outlets have contacted us for stories.
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Submitted by jon peppers (not verified) on Tue, 09/08/2009 - 6:33pm13 year olds are learning to kill from the drug corners in Phila. Shouldn't your direction be to combat this wholesale loss of life in the inner City for... what...DRUGS. At least, the Center gives insight as to Military battle where the enemy is known...so what as to descriptive.
Just my opinion...and y'all will NOT shut it down from what I heard from the parents in N.E. Phila.
jon pisano
Press Release: Shut Down the AEC
Submitted by Rich Gardner on Wed, 09/09/2009 - 11:11amhttp://www.thearmyexperience.com/community/events/details/940
ADVISORY
CONTACT:
2009
Pat Elder 202-210-3467
patrickelder@verizon.net
Elaine Brower 917-520-0767
Peace Groups Vow to Shut Down
Army Experience Center in Philadelphia
author of "Empire of Illusion:
Spectacle" to address crowd
This is the shopping center where the U.S. Army is teaching 13
year-olds to kill using simulated M-16 automatic rifles and M-240B
light machine guns. It's enough to cause several hundred
activists in
the Philadelphia area to take matters into their own hands.
calling on protesters to begin congregating at 11:00 am at the parking
lot of St. Luke's United Church of Christ, 11080 Knights Rd in
Philadelphia, less than a mile from the mall. Throughout the day,
demonstrators in small groups will course in and out of the mall.
They're being encouraged to vent their anger in creative, nonviolent
ways. A large rally is planned for 2:00 pm at the Army Experience
Center, (AEC)
Experience Centers in malls across the country. The $13 Million, 14,500
squa re foot facility at Franklin Mills Mall boasts dozens of PC's and
X-Boxes with various interactive, military-style shooting games as well
as Apache helicopter and Humvee simulators that allow teens to simulate
the killing of "Haji's" and "Ragheads" as local youth refer to "the
enemy."
vigil at the intersection of Knights Road and Woodhaven Road, located
between the church and the military arcade. At 1:00 pm, Chris
Hedges,
Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute, will address the crowd.
The
renowned war correspondent released this statement, "War is not a
game. Weapons are not toys. The essence of war is
death. The purpose
of war is to extinguish all opposing living systems from
the economic to the political, social, cultural and
finally, familial.
Those who entice children to play with mock weapons of war will never
allow these children to see what these weapons do to human
bodies.
They hide from them the fundamental truth about violence and in this
way socialize them to kill."
demonstration. Protesters are expected from Virginia to
Connecticut.
In May, about 300 descended on the northeast Philadelphia shopping
mall, creating havoc, resulting in seven arrests. The event went
largely unreported.
political reasons in describing their opposition to the AEC. Bill
Deckhart, Coordinator of BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, said he
would be attending because he feels The AEC is "a monument to
dishonesty." He continued, "The AEC teaches children killing without
consequence. Real warfare does not have reset buttons or multiple
lives. To give this impression to our youth is immoral and must be
stopped."
better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around
his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin." Luke
17:2
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