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Don’t Shop the Franklin Mills Mall til the Army Experience Center is Gone!
“Black Friday” – November 27, Noon
Join the Vigil to Close the Army Experience Center & Launch the Don’t-Shop-the-Mall Campaign Knights & Woodhaven Roads, in Northeast Philadelphia
“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.
War is Not a Game, and neither is the Army Experience Center at the Franklin Mills Mall. In this season of peace, join the campaign to close the Army Experience Center. And publicly sign the Don’t-Shop-the-Mall Pledge.
At noon on Friday, November 27, the busiest shopping day of the year, known as “BLACK FRIDAY”, join the noon vigil at the corner of Knights and Woodhaven Roads, to let thousands of shoppers on the busiest shopping day of the year know that we’re not shopping the Mall, and are encouraging others to do the same, as long as it is home to the Army Experience Center. Walk with us to the Franklin Mills Mall to the let store owners and Mall management know that they have the power to Close the Army Experience.
Public transportation, visit www.septa.com. From Philadelphia’s Frankford Terminal take the #67 or #84 bus. The #84 bus which runs hourly on saturdays to the Franklin Mills Mall passes right in front of the corner of Knights & Woodhaven Roads.
Organized by the United for Peace & Justice – Delaware Valley Network
Contacts: Brandywine Peace Community, 610-544-1818; BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action, 215-380-6804 Coalition for Peace Action (Regional Office), 609-924-5022 www.peacecoalition.org www.cfpabuxmont.org |