Sunday Oct 28th
1:00pm The People’s Protest Against the Fraternal Order of Police! – 1336 Spring Garden St
2:00pm PHARE/Wells Fargo working group – 1706 Race St.
2:00pm SAVE YOUR POST OFFICE & YOUR JOB – SOLIDARITY RALLY & MARCH – Baltimore Main Post Office 900 E. Fayette Street Baltimore, MD
2:00pm Strike Debt Planning Meeting – Wooden Shoe Books – 704 South St
5:00pm Long Term Organizing MDU working group – Ethical Humanist Society, Rittenhouse Square
7:00pm Loving This Planet: An Evening with Dr. Helen Caldicott – Ethical Socety – 1906 S Rittenhouse Square
Arch Street United Methodist Church is starting their overnight mission in November. There is a microwave, and lots of clothes and other things in Room C downstairs. They need to empty that room to store cots, etc. for the mission. These items are left over from eviction night! If these are your belongings please go to Arch Street UMC to collect these items between 10 & 3, Monday through Friday or call 215-568-6250 to make other arrangements. They will begin disposing of things the first week of November and take things to Purple Heart or a thrift store.
Saturday October 27th, 11am – 2901 Germantown Ave – Historic Fair Hill Orchard Day Workparty & Potluck – Help to put the 3 gardens around 9th & Indiana Streets to bed for the winter, bring food & share in our first attempt at a community-wide potluck, & join us for the 2nd annual Philadelphia Orchard Project Orchard Day within Historic Fair Hill Burial Ground where we’ll be eating apples, drinking cider, roasting marshmallows, painting pumpkins, & enjoying the beautiful fall weather with the neighborhood. – https://www.facebook.com/events/160584604086112/
Sunday October 28th 1:00pm – The Fraternal Order of Police is organizing a fund-raiser party in honor of Jonathan D. Josey, the cop who bashed Aida Guzman in the face at the recent Puerto Rican Day parade. There is a rally and speak-out in front of the FOP office during the duration of the party inside. We want to make it uncompromisingly clear that it is unacceptable that the FOP is celebrating this policeman’s actions. Not that we expected anything different. The fact that this was a black cop does not change the fact that he was engaging in racist violence and acting in the interests of white supremacy. Mayor Nutter’s apology is not justice. The firing of Josey is not justice. Any ordinary person caught doing this on tape would be receiving criminal charges. But because Josey is a cop, he is above the law. We can’t rely on the police for justice. We can’t rely on the politicians either. We can only rely on ourselves and our capacity for collective action. Philly FOP office number: (215) 629-3600 – https://www.facebook.com/events/188074867994875/
Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:00pm ALL UNIONS – ALL ORGANIZATIONS – ALL CITIZENS The Postal Service is moving forward with closings way ahead of schedule, literally destroying itself and causing a severe delay of mail. SOLIDARITY RALLY Baltimore Main Post Office 900 E. Fayette Street Baltimore, Maryland 2:45PM – MARCH from MPO thru the Baltimore Inner Harbor & back to MPO PLENTY OF FREE PARKING at the Baltimore Main Post Office – For more information go to
http://cpwunited.com/home or https://www.facebook.com/events/292951954142007/. For those from Philadelphia wishing to attend the Baltimore event: please contact Joe Piette at 610-931-2615 or jpiette660@hotmail.com
Women Activist Artists in Conversation: Please join us for a series of dinner party conversation during fall 2012. Our dinners are intended to engage young women in the Philadelphia area making activist art in public spaces. Whether you are a performance artist, DIY zine maker, muralist, or dancer, you’re encouraged to attend and speak about your
practice. Aspiring as well as established activist artists are welcome. Please contact Phoebe Bachman for more information at activistart@phoebebachman.com, or check out http://wmaaps.blogspot.com/p/dinner-parties.html The first dinner will be held this Sunday the 28th of October, with the subsequent dinners on the 12th and 23rd of November.
Strike Debt Philly Planning Meeting Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:00pm Wooden Shoe Books and Records 704 South Street. Join us on Sunday to meet, greet, and brainstorm how to launch a Philly chapter of Strike Debt! Debt assemblies, debt burnings, and debt workshops are just a few of our ideas, but we need yours as well. Strike Debt is a new movement for the refusal of payment of debts to Wall St., whether student debt, credit card debt, medical debt, municipal debt, or whatever you got! Strike Debt (NYC) recently released the Debt
Resistors’ Operations Manual, which provides strategies for how to avoid and resist debts, a s well as historical and political context for why it is that so many of us are trapped in this unfair system to begin with. The Manual is free for download! Hope to see you on Sunday to launch the next phase of the movement against Wall St. http://strikedebt.org/ Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual: http://strikedebt.org/initiatives/the-debt-resistors-operations-manual/
Monday October 29th, 6:30pm – UPenn 3620 Locust Walk – Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Room 109 – “Living Under Drones! Report from Pakistan” A first-hand report by the U.S. anti-war/anti-drone delegation to Pakistan. The speakers will be: Joe Lombardo, National Co-coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition, www.nationalpeaceconference.org,
and a participant in the delegation to Pakistan; Peter Lems, American Friends Service Committee, www.afsc.org, providing information on the geo-political situation of southern Asia and the use of drone warfare; and Marjorie Van Cleef, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, www.wilpfus.org, speaking about war research and development at Penn an Drexel universities. Other speakers, including student members of the Penn Pakistan Society, will be announced. Sponsored by Philly Against War, www.phillyagainstwar.org,
and the Penn Pakistan Society, www.dolphin.upenn.edu/paksoc/. Endorsers: Penn for Palestine; Brandywine Peace Community, www.brandywinepeace.com; Temple Students for Justice in Palestine; Philadelphia International Action Center, www.iacenter.org/philly-iac; Socialist Action; Green Party of Philadelphia, www.gpop.org,
and Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, www.wilpfus.org. For more information, please contact 215-243-7103 and gpop@gpop.org
Events listed here include Occupy Philly related events as well as other social justice events. For more updates be sure to check the Occupy Philadelphia Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/OccupyPhiladelphia. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Mike is the owner of Underwater World, having taken over the business in 1978. Mike started diving in 1965 and became certified in 1966. As a YMCA Instructor, Mike taught scuba at Penn State in 1968 and in the military from 1969 – 1972. After leaving the military, Mike became a NAUI instructor, as well as, retaining his YMCA Instructor certification. With over 43 years teaching experience, Mike is the senior instructor at Underwater World. Mike is a NAUI Course Director and is the President of the Delaware Valley Scuba Retailers Association. Mike is also an avid pilot with a commercial, multi-engine, instrument and flight instructor rating. Mike is also into bike riding (as you can see from his photo) and along with Bob Miracle did a bike (bicycle) ride from Valley Forge to Orlando in 2007 and from Pittsburgh to Washington, DC a year later. Mike has one son, Jeff, who is also a Divemaster and a pilot, as well as a sergeant in the Pennsylvania National Guard and after a tour in Iraq is now working as a first officer for Continental Connection..
Nancy came to Underwater World in 1989 to work as a bookkeeper and secretary. Today Nancy’s job has evolved into the huge task of keeping all of us in line. As well as handling all the bookkeeping duties, Nancy now handles the processing of all c-cards, maintaining the instructor files, setting course schedules, co-ordinating with our facility partners, handling travel details, and keeping us from spending too much money. As a sounding board, Nancy gives us the female prospective on things. (That means that she makes us keep the bathroom clean.) No, really. As a women and an occassional diver she is a valuable asset to offset those of us who can sometimes be a little too enthusiastic. With her ever-cheery disposition, Nancy also keeps the morale up and profanity down. Nancy is also the Treasurer for our Scuba Club, the Aqua-Nuts. And her organizational skills have been put to the test organizing the Fall Festivals that we had run at the Adventure Aquarium, the dive club picnic, and the Aquanuts annual Holiday party. Nancy has two sons, Ryan & John.
Tim has been diving since 1999. Since his first dive he has been hooked. If he isn’t working at Underwater World, you can find him at a SCUBA repair seminar, a SCUBA show, or at Dutch Springs diving. Tim has become a real expert and a great source of information about dive equipment, even equipment that we do not sell. He is an Aqualung Master Technician, and there aren’t very many of them around. His technical knowledge of equipment is unsurpassed by anyone in this region. Tim has just recently completed his NAUI Instructor Training Course and is now one of our staff instructors. Tim has led two trips to 
Being the son of Mike, Jeff has been around diving all his life. He has grown up surrounded by some of the most experienced divers around. He has been to Bonaire nineteen times, twelve as a diver, but will unfortunately be oversees with the National Guard during our August 2009 trip. Jeff also was on the 2004 Australia and Papua New Guinea trip where he got to experience diving with the Minke Whales and sharks. Jeff has chosen to begin the leadership courses required to become an NAUI instructor and will be teaching SCUBA courses in the not-too-distant future. Being around the business for so long, Jeff knows how it works and where he can find the answers to help a customer. He will try his hardest to fulfill a customer’s needs and make diving an enjoyable experience for all who are willing to take the plunge. Jeff graduated from Marywood University in Scranton. He was deployed to Iraq during most of 2009 Jeff also holds a commercial pilot license as well as an flight instructor, multi-engine flight instructor, and an instrument flight instructor rating. He is now a First Officer for Continental Connection flying Dash-8s around the Northeast Corridor..
Jeff started diving in 1972 when he took one of Mike’s Scuba courses at Hatboro YMCA. Jeff later became one of Mike’s assistants and is presently the second most senior instructor at Underwater World. Jeff has been an instructor for about 30 years. (Between Mike, Jeff and Bob, they probably have more teaching experience than the entire staff of any, and possibly all, the other dive stores in the area. Jeff has his own heating and air conditioning business, (J.A Smith Heating and Air Conditioning) and is probably the most organized instructor I have ever worked with. Jeff is a NAUI Course Director and was the regional representative for the YMCA Scuba program. Jeff is also a DAN Instructor and teaches most of our First Aid, CPR, and Oxygen Courses. Jeff is also one of our trip leaders and has done a number of trips to the Pacific. Jeff has two sons and is married to Ada Staal, who, herself, is a Scuba Instructor. 
Bob is also one of our long-time instructors. Bob learned to dive in 1977 and became an instructor in 1983. Bob started his “real” career as a profusionist, someone who runs a heart/lung bypass machine. After spending years in the operating room during heart procedures, Bob moved up the chain to become a clinical consultant dealing with pacemakers and implanted cardiac defibrillators. In his diving career, Bob became the most technical diver on our staff. He has made over 50 dives on the Andrea Doria, which lies at 245 feet. He has also dove the USS Norness, the German sub, the U-869, and the wreckage of the Texas Tower, which was a U.S. Air Force early-warning radar platform out in the Atlantic. His deepest dive is 350 feet, on tri-mix, of course. Bob has also been a U.S. Coast Guard approved boat captain since 1987 and still captains some trips on the Dina Dee off new Jersey. Bob has long taught our classes at the Abington High School. He has two daughters, Jamie (a diver), and Lauren. 
Barb was a SCUBA diver for about five years before she became an instructor. Now she is one of the best there is. Her students always have great things to say about her as she turns students in to competent divers. Barb also teaches an excellent 
Ed, Mike’s brother, has been an Instructor for about three years but has been diving since 1974. He teaches the