For the second time ever the entire collection of Americans Who Tell the Truth portraits will be on display from November 15 to December 15. This special exhibition at the Bates Mill features over 270 portraits of American figures—ranging from historical icons to contemporary activists—who have acted to confront injustice and advocate for change. Exhibit opening event will be on Friday, November 15, 5:00-7:00 p.m., at the Bates Mill, 35 Canal Street, Lewiston, ME. All are welcome. Program,...
Stephen Oliver reads The Power of ‘UNITY’, a triptych of poems revealing Maine’s centrality to healing environmental, social, and historical injustice at the Common Ground Fair in September of 2024.
Rob Shetterly unveils his portrait of Maine Veteran’s For Peace Doug Rawlings and Doug Rawlings presents a poem to Rob Shetterly.
This episode of Peace Action Maine was recorded on June 7th, 2024. It is a new portrait unveiling of Lewiston’s Dr. Bernard Lown. The event was hosted by Americans Who Tell The Truth and was held at the Bates Mill Atrium in Lewiston, Maine on what would have been Dr. Lown's 103rd Birthday. The Peace Bridge between Auburn and Lewiston is named after Dr. Lown, amongst other honors.
Recorded Sunday, February 18, 2024 Unitarian Universalist Church of Brunswick, includes Musicians, Palestinians and (non) Citizenship, Fateh Azzam, Maine Poet Gary Lawless reads 4 Palestinian Poems and Excerpts from The Gaza Monologues.
ME Pax Christi's: Close Guantanamo 2024 (recording of entire program) Vigil and Rally was well attended again this year. A lawyer who represents a prisoner has returned this year to teach at Colby, and he’s organized an event like this every year for three years.
Doug Rawlings gives a talk in Blue Hill with slides about his journey back to Vietnam.
March 23, at 12:30 p.m., Professor Gray Cox will present a Zoom program that promises to be lively, engaging, significant, and entertaining. His program is entitled "From Smarter Planet to Wiser Earth: Re-envisioning Relationships Between AI Technologies, Human Society, and the Natural World." Please share this with interested individuals, students, classes, community groups, calendars, and other networks.
Introduction by Mary Kate Small of Pax Christi Maine Frank Panopoulos is a human rights attorney. His work includes representing prisoners held at the Guantánamo Bay Prison, and in Florida state prisons; foreign individuals in proceedings to delist them from the terrorist list maintained by the U.S. government; and refugees and stateless persons held in detention camps in the Northeast Autonomous area of Syria.
Erik Edstrom is a West Point graduate who deployed to Afghanistan and has a lot to say about US policy and impact on Afghans. (His focus is on climate now, became a whistle blower featured in the book When McKinsey Comes to Town.)
Peace Action Maine sponsored book launch by Medea Benjamin about the war in Ukraine.
This program is a Maine Veterans for Peace Chapter 1 recent zoominar. It’s a discussion between Ann Jones (writer/photographer) and some Maine Veterans-mostly about Afghanistan, the “global war on terror.” Ann Jones wrote this book. It’s her photo. Wounded returning home missing body parts, held together.
With Devon Grayson-Wallace facilitating, Lisa Savage, land acknowledgement, and on "What is COP26?". Maine Natural Guard, Janet Weil on How the Military Fuels Climate Crisis, Veterans for Peace, Climate Crisis and Militarism Project David Swanson on Military-Climate impacts and more, World Beyond War
Climate Activists To Protest USS Carl Levin Christening Press Release: https://www.peaceactionme.org/images/...
The Blue Angels Protest and rally was held by several organizations last Saturday at the main gate of former Brunswick Naval Air Station. Time to stop going to airshows for entertainment when the Pentagon is the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels and major contributor to Climate.
It was organized by a few groups: Maine Poor People’s Campaign, Maine Veterans For Peace, Peace Action Maine, PeaceWorks of Greater Brunswick, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom_US_ME. It focuses on US discretionary tax dollars, how over 53% of these funds are spent on the military. What does it mean when a primary security threat to us in Maine this past year has been the Covid-19 virus.
Peace Action Maine annual meeting part 2
Peace Action Maine annual meeting 2021.
Speaker Series, River History & the New Environmental Movement, features Scot McFarlane, River Historian. Wednesday May 12th at 7 pm.
Rally Against Toxic Fumes Near Schools 946ToxicTank
Panel Discussion on Zoom about the future of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant changing to Wind/Clean Energy.
A recorded zoom meeting about the coronavirus from Massachusetts Peace Action featuring Jonathan King, who is Professor of Molecular Biology at MIT where he has long taught biochemistry and directed biomedical research on bacterial viruses, protein misfolding and human disease.