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.
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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 Maine – Back to Vietnam – November 2023
Doug Rawlings gives a talk in Blue Hill with slides about his journey back to Vietnam.
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 Society, and the Natural World." Please share this with interested individuals, students, classes, community groups, calendars, and other networks.
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 terrorist list maintained by the U.S. government; and refugees and stateless persons held in detention camps in the Northeast Autonomous area of Syria.
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.)
Peace Action Maine – Medea Benjamin Book Launch
Peace Action Maine sponsored book launch by Medea Benjamin about the war in Ukraine.
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 home missing body parts, held together.
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 impacts and more, World Beyond War
Climate Activists To Protest USS Carl Levin Christening
Climate Activists To Protest USS Carl Levin Christening Press Release: https://www.peaceactionme.org/images/...
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 contributor to Climate.
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 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 Spring Renewal Gathering Part 2
Peace Action Maine annual meeting part 2
Peace Action Maine Spring Renewal Gathering Part 1
Peace Action Maine annual meeting 2021.
Martha Spiess Presents – River History with Scot McFarlane
Speaker Series, River History & the New Environmental Movement, features Scot McFarlane, River Historian. Wednesday May 12th at 7 pm.
Peace Action Maine – Rally Against Toxic Fumes Near Schools
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Seabrook Nuclear Plant- Winds of Change
Panel Discussion on Zoom about the future of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant changing to Wind/Clean Energy.
Resistance and Dissent in the Military. (Afghanistan & Iraq, Vietnam) Part 2
Resistance and Dissent in the Military. (Afghanistan & Iraq, Vietnam) Part 1
The Science of Coronavirus Explained
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.
2020 Vision – an Evening with Bill McKibben
Keynote speaker McKibben summarizes past climate activism, today's activism, and what is to come.
US Activist Travels in Central America – Suzanne Hedricks
Witness to U.S. foreign policy in Central America, Suzanne Hedricks maps out her personal "herstory" and how Mainers can understand how this violence leads to today's inevitable civilian displacement. Seeking refuge.
Poor People’s Campaign in Portland Maine
The Poor People's Mass Meeting and March in Portland Maine Oct 10. Includes opening of the March and the portion of the Mass rally that included the Rev. Dr. William Barber's portion of the talk.
Global Climate Strike Portland – September 2019
Coverage of the entire program of the Global Climate Student Strike in Portland from on Friday, September 20, 2019.