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Peace Action Maine – Focus on Palestine – February 2024

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.

Peace Action – Close Guantanamo – Jan 2023

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.

Peace Action – Artificial Intelligence – April 2023

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...

Peace Action – The Guantánamo Bay Prison – Dec 21 2022

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...

Peace Action – Climate Action as Patriotism – Oct 20 2022

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.)

Maine Veterans for Peace – Zooms with Ann Jones

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...

Peace Action Maine – How the Pentagon Fuels Climate Chaos

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...

Peace Action Maine – Blue Angels Air Show Protest in Maine

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...

Peace Action Maine – Tax Day 2021

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...