Formed in the Fall/Winter months of 1977 by a group of Vietnam war resisters, 2007 marks the 30th Anniversary of the Brandywine Peace Community.

Brandywine was formed amidst the social exhaustion of the post Vietnam war period, as the U.S. reeled from its defeat in Vietnam by announcing a new nuclear weapons build-up and a policy of nuclear first-strike. We knew that militarism would continue to be the underlying driving force of U.S. culture and economy. We knew in our experiential bones from the Vietnam war resistance that our continuing commitment to nonviolent resistance needed to be on-going, focused, and rooted in faith, spirituality, risk, and community…

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