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children’s activities as well as artisans and community resource groups sharing their goods. Garden Court Community Association is especially grateful to the following local business and organizations who have pledged support or par- ticipation: Best House Pizza, Four Worlds Bakery, Local 44, PB&JAMS, Penn Mu- seum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Garden Court Community Association has proudly supported the Garden Court


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towards promoting peace, should come as no surprise. “The Circle of Hope Church recognizes that people are human and they make mis- takes,” Michaux explained. “If a member of the church makes a mistake, we don’t throw you out, we love you, we work with you and try to help you get to a safer space.” After all, Circle of Hope, “is community-based,” said Mi- chaux of the Church, which has four locations at Broad and Washington, Broad and Dolphin, Frankford and Nor- ris as well as Marlton and Crescent streets in South Jersey. “Many churches have only one day of Sunday Ser- vice and perhaps Wednesday Service, but that’s it.” How- ever, with cells, comprised of 7-12 members throughout the city, the Circle of Hope takes the concept of worship one step farther. The individual cells meet once a week for a more informal version of worship or public meetings. “During the cells, members are encouraged to get to know one another,” Michaux relayed.


In many respects, the work


Kalphonse Morris, own- er of the Urban Art Gal- lery, 262 S. 52nd St., joined Bob Christian and Nicole Contosta for the 6/27/13 edition of the UC Review Community News Hour, 88.1 FM. Morris, took an hour off his day job as a US Postal worker, to tell West Philly residents about his gallery and what it adds to the 52nd Street business corridor. Photo: B.C.


Philadelphia by appealing to the gun lobby in Har- risburg. While the Shalom House hasn’t abandoned its commitment towards reducing gun violence, it has temporarily re-adjusted its focus. Over the next few weeks, the Shalom House will organize protests to the National Guard’s construc- tion of a drone ground- control station at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station in Horsham, Pa.


at the Shalom House mir- rors the work of the larger church. Its current residents: Michaux, Candice McKinley and Nathan Swanson, also host events aimed at pro- moting peace. They include more infor- mal affairs like the Potluck Suppers held every Monday. Swanson, who came home from his job as a family therapist towards the end of the interview, explained that people do not need to be members of the Circle of Hope Church to attend. “Sometimes, only five or six people attend,” Swan- son, explained, “and we sit around the dining room table for a family-style din- ner. When a lot of people attend, the potluck is more like a buffet and people sit with plates around the liv- ing room,” Swanson added. The Shalom House’s other resident, McKinley, who works as a legal advocate for low-income populations, was not present at Friday’s interview.


Discussions about how to


promote peace follow the potluck suppers, Michaux explained. In the past, those discussions have focused on reducing gun violence in


“Everyone keeps saying that the drone station will create a lot of jobs,” Mich- aux said. And while that might be true, members of the Shalom House think the cost outweighs the benefits, Michaux argued. There’s the financial cost of $11.8 bil- lion to develop the Reaper Drone and $16.9 million to build each one. Then there’s the human cost. An estimat- ed 4,700 people have been killed by US drone attacks. The majority of those killed were civilians. Two hundred were children. Furthermore, there’s the potential cost to justice. Members of the Shalom House have posed the question, “Should the US government be able to assassinate its own citizens? And without trial or jury? It did on September 30, 2011. A missile, fired from an American drone killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an Ameri- can citizen and an Al Qaeda leader in Yemen.” It’s a subject that peace- keepers take to heart, relayed Swanson, citing members’ recent screen- ing of “Dirty Wars.” As a documentary on covert wars, Swanson reeled from the pictures the film dis- played of civilians killed by US combat. For Swanson, becoming more aware of war’s casualties remains a key component to the peace- keeping movement. For more information about the peacekeeping movement or becoming a resident of the Shalom House: 267-289-2535, http://shalomhouse.us.


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