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,...
Peace Action Maine – Stephen Oliver – The Power of Unity – Sept 25 2024
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.
Peace Action Maine – Americans Who Tell the Truth Unveils Rawlings Portrait – Sept 22 2024
Rob Shetterly unveils his portrait of Maine Veteran’s For Peace Doug Rawlings and Doug Rawlings presents a poem to Rob Shetterly.
Peace Action Maine – Americans Who Tell the Truth Honors Dr. Lown – June 2024
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.
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 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.
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 – 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.
Peace Action Maine – Rally Against Toxic Fumes Near Schools
Rally Against Toxic Fumes Near Schools 946ToxicTank
Peace Action Maine- Gun Safety Legislative review for Maine Spring 2021
Moms Demand Action_ Maine's Lynne Ellis, Legislative Lead and Maura Pillsburty, Legislative Team Member. Legislative update, where you can join and what you can do. #942? License Creative Commons Attribution license (reuse allowed)
Peace Action Maine – Colonel Wilkerson – May 2019
Pat Taub of Peace Action Maine interview Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson Distinguished Visiting Professor of Government and Public Policy at The College of William & Mary. Positions he has held outside teaching include—in the military—special assistant to General Colin L. Powell when the General was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and—in civilian life—chief of staff to Powell when he served as U.S. Secretary of State.