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End: 4:00 pm
Start: Jan 25 2008 - 7:00pm
End: Jan 27 2008 - 4:00pm
“Speaking Peace in a World of Conflict”
NVC Trainer Peggy Smith
Friday, January 25th-Sunday January 27th
at Old South Congregational Church, Farmington
Tuition requested: $100 adults; $35 college students (scholarships
available for all)
Sponsored by Maine Department of Peace Campaign and Justice & Witness
Ministry of Old South Church
For registration information contact Lynn Ellis at 491-5064or email her
at lellis [at] mainedop [dot] org
Friday, 7-9PM (free introduction with option to enroll for the
weekend). Saturday 9-5; Sunday 11-4PM. $100 Tuition requested. College
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
The Addams-Melman House in Bath is going to begin holding a community
pot luck on the last Sunday of every month* from 3-5 pm.
The first one will be January 27 at our house at 212 Centre St in Bath.
You are all invited to attend.
The pot lucks will sometimes have a video, a musician, a guest speaker,
or just a community discussion.
Best wishes for a better year in 2008.
Mary Beth, Karen and Bruce
443-9502
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Start: 9:00 am
Start: Jan 30 2008 - 9:00am
End: Jan 31 2008 - 9:00pm
The show, “Human Iraq,” consists of portraits painted by Phil Weyenberg of Iraqis and other people involved in or affected by the war. Some were done from photographs taken by P.A.M. director Danny Muller on his many trips to Iraq.
Also included in the exhibit are collage works by Nancy Bell Scott. These mostly abstract pieces touch on impressions of the war as well as other experiences common to most human beings in our world.
Start: 5:00 pm
Come to the Community Development Committee Meeting on January 30th at 5pm at City Hall Rm 209
Share with the City Councilors your input. They will be accepting comments on the draft Request for Proposal
We are asking people to emphasize three points:
1. The Request for Proposal for the Adams School should make community space as a threshold requirement for development.
2. Keeping the Adams School as a Community Center
3. Supporting A Company of Girls and other organizations using the building for community programs.
For more info:
www.communitybuildingcollaborative.org
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01 / 31
End: 9:00 pm
Start: Jan 30 2008 - 9:00am
End: Jan 31 2008 - 9:00pm
The show, “Human Iraq,” consists of portraits painted by Phil Weyenberg of Iraqis and other people involved in or affected by the war. Some were done from photographs taken by P.A.M. director Danny Muller on his many trips to Iraq.
Also included in the exhibit are collage works by Nancy Bell Scott. These mostly abstract pieces touch on impressions of the war as well as other experiences common to most human beings in our world.
Start: 7:00 pm
The Community Building Collaborative will have a meeting this Thursday at 92 Congress St. at 7pm. We would love to see you there!
On the draft agenda for Thursday:
Planning for our 2/13 Community Meeting at the Adams School 6-8pm (this
is confirmed) choosing a topic for the meeting, assigning tasks
Strategic Planning—Noel Bonam has offered to help us develop a
strategic plan and is coming to this meeting to discuss with us a time
frame and what that process will look like
Funding—developing funding plans and assigning tasks
Start: 7:30 pm
Peace Action Maine will host a screening of the documentary film “Winter Soldier” at the Meg Perry Center on 644 Congress St.
The event is a fundraiser for the Maine members of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) who will be participating in the “Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan” investigation this upcoming March.
The suggested donation for the event is $10.
For more information, contact 772-0680.
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02 / 4
Start: 5:30 pm
PAM’s Action Committee consists of Peace Action Maine members who hope to put PAM’s mission into practice by organizing educational events and actions.
Meetings are held at the Meg Perry Center (644 Congress Street, Portland) on the first Monday of the month beginning with a potluck dinner at 5:30pm - so don’t forget to bring food to share! If you have items that you’d like to add to the agenda, e-mail stephanie [at] peaceactioneme [dot] org
Start: 7:30 pm
Monday February 4th, 7:30pm
At the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St. Portland, ME
with One Nation—Native Drumming Group Opening
February 4th, 11am on Eagle Quetzal Condor Radio on WMPG 90.9/104.1
February 5th, 11am at the Boiler Room at USM Woodbury Campus Center
Bedford St.
Local Co-Sponsors: Foglight Collective, Eagle Quetzal Condor Media
Project, USM Multicultural Student Affairs, Blackbird Legal Collective,
Peace Action Maine and One Nation
With the 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to occur on unceded Coast
Salish, St’at’imc and Squamish territory in two years in
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02 / 6
Start: 8:30 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
American Hornet
Bad Bus
at The Meg Perry Center
8:30-11:00 PM
Admission by donation
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02 / 7
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02 / 9
Start: 9:30 am
End: 3:30 pm
“Talking Openly About Diversity, Oppression & Racism in Maine” one day workshop
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Pine Tree State Arboretum
153 Hospital St.
Augusta, ME
9:30 AM-3:30 PM
(In case of hazardous driving weather on February 9, the event will be re-scheduled to a later date, same time and location)
*$25 suggested (but any donation is welcome, consider sponsoring a slot for another to attend)
Presented by Cultivating Multicultural Alliances (CMA) of Maine and New England
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
At Sacred
Heart/St. Dominic Church, Mellen and Sherman, Portland, is Saturday,
February 9th, 5 to 7 p.m. Haitian crafts will be for sale. The Project
supports teachers’ salaries and a childrens’ education and nutrition
program in the Cap Haitien area.
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
WHO: Featuring Om Rasa with sitarist David Pontbriand, Micah Blue Smaldone,
and Edward Gibbs
WHERE: The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Street, Portland Maine
WHEN: Saturday, February 9, 2008 from 8-11:00 PM
WHAT: A benefit to raise money for humanitarian aid to Somalia
WHO: Featuring Om Rasa with sitarist David Pontbriand, Micah Blue Smaldone, and Edward Gibbs
WHERE: The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Street, Portland Maine
WHEN: Saturday, February 9, 2008 from 8-11:00 PM
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02 / 10
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02 / 11
Start: 7:30 pm
2008 has just begun and chances are you’re already fed up with the 2008
Presidential Election Campaign. Is there any way to shorten the
political campaign season? Many people think it’s ridiculously long!
And the costs are going up and up and up! Whatever happened to Campaign
Finance Reform?
Former Green Party Presidential hopeful David Cobb has some answers for
those questions.
When David Cobb ran for President, he chose Maine’s Pat LaMarche as his
running mate. LaMarche would often introduce Cobb on the stump, and
will do so again on February 11th at UMaine.
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02 / 12
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02 / 13
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
ANNUAL SOUTHERN MAINE WORKSHOP FOR WAR TAX RESISTANCE
RESCHEDULED TO SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1-3 PM, MEG PERRY CENTER, 644 CONGRESS ST., PORTLAND (from Wednesday, February 13, because of forecast for bad travel conditions)
Maine War Tax Resisters and WTR Supporters
Meg Perry Center (Peace Action/Foglight office), 644 Congress St., Portland
Workshop : “Whats, Whys, Hows of WTR” for those new to resistance or interested in starting. Lots of information available for those interested, curious, and experienced
More info: Larry Dansinger, Maine WTR Resource Center
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02 / 14
Start: 7:30 pm
This documentary follows the grassroots impact of the V-Day movement—whose goal is to end violence against women—in five international communities while exposing the pervasive and cultural forms of violence that women experience all over the world. It’s an
alternately devastating and hopeful film that features Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler, Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda, Salma Hayek, Rosie Perez and Isabella Rosellini.
Proceeds to benefit Family Crisis Services which works to end domestic abuse in Maine’s Cumberland and Sagadahoc counties.
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02 / 15
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Tom Manning’s politically inspired artwork returned to Portland, Maine this February in “Art from Inside: Paintings by Political Prisoner Tom Manning”. This exhibit includes works featured in Manning’s previous show, Can’t Jail the Spirit, as well as a number of additional pieces which have never before been publicly displayed.
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02 / 16
Start: 10:00 am
End: 4:00 pm
What comprises a political essay? How can you write an essay that everyone, even those on the opposite side will read? This workshop will explain how to bring out the political side of your writing without becoming polemic or strident.
Empower your pen.
Saturday, February 16th
10AM-4PM
The Meg Perry Center
Participation Fee: $30
FREE for Peace Action Maine Members
Space is Limited!
To sign up, please call 772-0680
Length of workshop may vary, depending on the number of participants.
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02 / 19
Start: 12:00 pm
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH
HIGH NOON IN PORTLAND
Calling All Concerned Citizens and Activists:
Please join us for a day of action in response to
S.1959 The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown
Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.
This bill, introduced on the Senate floor by Susan
Collins, uses intentionally ambiguous language and
vague definitions to allow the government to label
people exercising their First Amendment rights as
“violent radicals” as well as empowering the state to
target those they feel have an “extremist belief
system” as a “homegrown terrorists”.
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02 / 20
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02 / 21
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
South Portland Community Center, 6-9 pm
The Citizen Trade Policy Commission (CTPC) of the Maine Legislature will
be hearing public testimony on the impact of free trade agreements and
we need YOU to be there!
Not only do citizens need to speak to all the different ways free trade
agreements impact our state, our country, the world, and our democracy
and environment, but we also want as many people to be there to support
those who are speaking out.
Can you come and testify or support those who do?
What is the commission?
Start: 7:30 pm
A comedic documentary which follows “The Yes Men”, a small group of prankster activists, as they gain world-wide notoriety for impersonating the World Trade Organization on television and at business conferences around the world. The film begins when two members of The Yes Men, Andy and Mike, set up a website that mimics the World Trade Organization’s—and it’s mistaken for the real thing. They play along with the ruse and soon find themselves invited to important functions as WTO representatives.
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02 / 22
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Addams-Melman House, 212 Centre Street in Bath
Pot Luck BYOB
Dear Fellow Maine Activists,
Maine Veterans For Peace invites you to a fund raising party to benefit Winter Soldier, the public war crimes investigation being organized by Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) in Washington, D.C. from March 13-16, 2008 .
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02 / 23
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm
The A2U2 Social Justice Institute presents:
“Great Meetings! Facilitation & Meeting Management” Workshop
Saturday, Feb 23rd, 2008
Social change organizations, nonprofit groups and churches often rely on their members to govern and lead. We learn consensus and the democratic process through practicing it in our meetings and gatherings, but seldom
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 3:00 pm
Saturday, February 23, 2008, 1-3 PM
(NOTE THE NEW DATE AND TIME!)
Meg Perry Center (Peace Action/Foglight office), 644 Congress St., Portland
Agenda:
Workshop : “Whats, Whys, Hows of WTR” for those new to resistance or
interested in starting
More info: Larry Dansinger, Maine WTR Resource Center
(207) 525-7776 rosc [at] psouth [dot] net
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02 / 24
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 3:00 pm
A FORCE MORE POWERFUL
Are there alternatives to war? Come to the Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church to see a film, “A Force More Powerful, ” to learn of successful tactics used by others in the past that averted wars. A discussion will follow the film.
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2008
Time: 12:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Place: Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church, 524 Allen Avenue, Portland, ME
FMI: Contact Sally Breen at 892-8391
Start: 4:00 pm
4 PM. Sunday, February 24, 2008
Fare Share Commons
443 Main Street
Norway, Maine
Jim Harney is returning to the Oxford Hills for the fourth time. He tells stories in words and pictures of people in our Western Hemisphere surviving on stamina, nerve, and hope—and also of people who may not make it, or didn’t.
Through their stories, he examines distant forces with life and death effects on the here and now—power relationships, economic concentration, and divisions among people.
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02 / 25
Start: 7:00 pm
7 PM. Monday, February 25, 2008
Morrell Meeting Room, Curtis Memorial Library
23 Pleasant Street
Brunswick, Maine
Jim Harney is returning to Brunswick. He tells stories in words and pictures of people in our Western Hemisphere surviving on stamina, nerve, and hope—and also of people who may not make it, or didn’t.
Through their stories, he examines distant forces with life and death effects on the here and now—power relationships, economic concentration, and divisions among people.
Start: 7:30 pm
Monday February 25th, 7:30pm at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St.
Free—donations accepted
A decade ago the active anarchist movement in Ireland consisted of little more than a dozen people in two small organizations. Today hundreds of people are active and one banned libertarian demonstration in 2004 saw 5,000 people take part. Anarchists are increasingly
replacing Irish republicans as the bogeyman of the mainstream media.
This talk explains how this breakthrough happened and details the various struggles anarchists have been involved in.
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02 / 26
Start: 11:00 am
In honor of African heritage month, Mwalim will be coming to USM to speak at the Woodbury Campus Center in Portland during the USM Culture Share: performances and market place. Mwalim is a Wampanoag descendant and identifies as an African American, and will be speaking about Native American and African American Heritage in New England, and his preliminary research regarding Native American collaboration in the abolitionist movement.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
On February 26, Maine First District Congressional candidates will
discuss with the public their views on whether Congress and the American
people have let the U.S. Constitution become impotent and functionally
obsolete as Presidential power over our lives and our government has
expanded following 9-11 and the Iraq invasion.
Tuesday evening, February 26, 2008, 7 to 9 PM
First Parish of Portland Unitarian Universalist Church 425 Congress Street
Downtown Portland, Maine
- Has Congress allowed the people’s rights to be subsumed by a
Start: 7:00 pm
7 PM. Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Peace Action Maine
644 Congress Street,
Portland, Maine
Jim Harney is returning to Portland. He tells stories in words and pictures of people in our Western Hemisphere surviving on stamina, nerve, and hope—and also of people who may not make it, or didn’t.
Through their stories, he examines distant forces with life and death effects on the here and now—power relationships, economic concentration, and divisions among people.
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