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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 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 / 9
Start: 9:30 am
End: 3:30 pm
“Talking Openly About Diversity, Oppression & Racism in Maine” one day workshop Saturday, February 9, 2008 (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 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 / 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 / 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 | ||
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. | ||
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. | ||
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 Participation Fee: $30 Space is Limited! 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”. | ||
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. | ||
02 / 22
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Addams-Melman House, 212 Centre Street in Bath 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 . | ||
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 | ||
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. Start: 4:00 pm
4 PM. Sunday, February 24, 2008 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. | ||
02 / 25
Start: 7:00 pm
7 PM. Monday, February 25, 2008 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. 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. | ||
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
Start: 7:00 pm
7 PM. Tuesday, February 26, 2008 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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02 / 28
Start: 7:00 am
Movie at Meg Perry Center for those of you who are in the area. Suggested donation $5. Thursday: February 28, “Shawshank Recemption” to begin RECLAIM MAINE PRISONS series presented by Peace Action Maine. For more info: Sue Pastore @ rodepast [at] msn [dot] com | ||
02 / 29
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 8:00 pm
You are invited to an evening of poetry, fun, and live Iranian music at the University of Southern Maine on Friday February 29, 2008. Please see/print/distribute the attached flayer. This event is organized as part of the International Women ‘s Day by the University of Southern Maine’s Women & Gender Studies, Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing, Academic Council for Christian, Jewish & Islamic Studies, Office of Campus Diversity and Equity, and Multicultural Student Affairs. What: Breaking the Silence: Feminism in Modern Iranian Poetry | ||
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