03 / 12
End: 9:00 pm
Start: Mar 10 2008 - 9:00am
End: Mar 12 2008 - 9:00pm
JOIN US IN DC ON CAPITOL HILL MARCH 10TH TO 12TH
WWW.STOP-LOSSCONGRESS.ORG
free housing and food by donation
THIS MARCH WHILE THE SUFFERING, DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
GOES ON IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN, CONGRESS WILL BE ON
A SPRING BREAK, IGNORING THE KILLING AND SUFFERING THEY HAVE ENABLED, SUPPORTED AND FINANCED.
TO INTENSIFY THIS IRONY, CONGRESS HAS CONDONED A WIDESPREAD STOP-LOSS POLICY IN THE MILITARY WHICH REQUIRES SOLDIERS TO INVOLUNTARILY EXTEND THEIR TOURS OF DUTY.
IT IS TIME TO STOP-LOSS CONGRESS!
ON MONDAY, MARCH 10TH AND TUESDAY THE 11TH, IRAQ
Start: 9:00 am
Resist AFRICOM is a campaign comprised of concerned U.S. and Africa-based organizations and individuals opposed to the new U.S. military command for Africa (AFRICOM).
AFRICOM expands of the role of the U.S. military in Africa—potentially shifting humanitarian resources from civilians to military personnel. We reject this militarization of foreign aid. Instead, our vision is a comprehensive U.S. foreign policy grounded in true partnership with the African Union, African governments, and civil society on peace, justice, security, and development.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Wednesday, March 12 7-8:30 UER, Glickman Library, USM
Women’s History Month Keynote Speaker: Dorothy Sue Cobble
“LABOR FEMINISM AND THE FUTURE OF WOMEN’S RIGHTS”
Dorothy Sue Cobble is the author, most recently, of The Other Women’s
Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
(Princeton, 2004) and The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American
Labor (Cornell, 2007). Her books challenge the conventional story of US
women’s history and reveal an alternative and vibrant tradition of
American feminism led by working women and their allies. Labor feminists
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03 / 13
Start: 7:30 pm
March 13 at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress, Portland Me 04101
7:30 Film Showing of “War Made Easy”
9:00 “Ghost Mice” Show—Ghost Mice, Gainesville, Fl.—Underground Acoustic Punk!
Wingnut Dishwashers Union,Brattleboro, VT.—Acoustic Explosion!
The Rattlesnakes, Portland, Me—Usually Electric (but on this night) Acoustic Blood-Pumping Portland Faves!
Over A Card Board Sea, Portland, Me—Charismatic Songs Your Grandparent’s Parents Would Appreciate, Sweet!
The show starts at 9pm, and is in conjunction with the Winter Soldier Project, and movie “War Made Easy.”
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03 / 14
Start: 8:30 am
End: 4:00 pm
Making the Connection III: Toxics and Tomorrows? Children coference to be held
March 14, 2008, 8:30am-4:00pm
Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine, Portland Maine
Young children and developing babies in the womb are uniquely vulnerable
to toxic chemicals which also threaten wildlife development. Our federal
safety system for industrial chemicals is badly broken requiring state
leadership in chemical policy reform. Emerging science links chronic
disease trends to preventable chemical exposures. The concerns around
Start: 7:00 pm
March 14th at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress, Portland Me 04101
7:00 Freedom Space Performances and Open Mic
www.freedomspaces.org
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03 / 15
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm
March 15th, Monument Square
Noon-1 PM Silent Vigil at Monument Square
2:00-5:00 Iraq Teach in, SPACE Gallery, 538 Congress
Winter Soldier Hearings shown LIVE all day at the Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress, 207 772 0680.
Start: 12:00 pm
SATURDAY, MARCH 15th
12:00 NOON
FIRST PARISH CHURCH, MAINE STREET, BRUNSWICK, MAINE
This memorial service, lead by area ministers and laypeople, will
remember soldiers and civilians who have died in the five years of the
Iraq War.
All are welcome. FMI: 833-5125
Start: 1:00 pm
Bangor—Internationally acclaimed Maine Singer-songwriter David Mallett will perform at a rally to commemorate the Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War on Saturday, March l5th (snow date March l6th) at 1:00 p.m.
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03 / 16
Start: 3:00 pm
Lecture at the Meg Perry Center, 3:00PM at 644 Congress, Portland Maine.
Mother of four and grandmother of six, Mary Anne Muller is a member of the
Kairos Peace Community in New York and a past president of Pax Christi
Metro New York. She is the Assistant Pastor at St. Vincent Ferrer
Church in Brooklyn. St. Vincent’s is a Peace Church, known for its
strong stand for non-violence and as a place of hospitality for
peacemakers from all over the country. Mary Anne is also an adjunct
professor at St. John’s University in Queens, New York.
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03 / 17
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03 / 18
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03 / 19
Start: 6:00 pm
Since mostly rain is expected on Wednesday, we will go ahead with this
film.
(If the forecast should change a lot and the travel will be hazardous,
the film will be rescheduled and you will be notified about that).
“War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” is
the March feature in the monthly third Wednesday film series sponsored
by the Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County. It will begin at 6 PM in
the Abbott Room of the Belfast Free Library.
Scheduled on the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq on March
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03 / 20
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm
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03 / 21
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 2:00 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Please join us next Friday the 21st at the Meg Perry Center in Portland
for the latest in our 9/11 film series.
The film is entitled 911 Mysteries: Demolitions, and explores a range
of evidence suggesting that the Twin Towers were destroyed by
explosives—and not by the fires and plane impacts. The film also
covers the little-known collapse of 47-story World Trade Center
Building 7. The picture that emerges from a closer look at the
destruction in New York on 9/11/01 bears little resemblance to our
government’s account and includes the strongest arguments for a new
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03 / 22
Start: 9:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
TAKING HEART DURING HARD TIMES—“The Work to Reconnect”
based on the teachings of Joanna Macy
Saturday, March 22nd
9:00AM to 5:00PM
Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church
of Portland
Discover the unique roles we all play in the “Great Turning” and the shift to a more sustainable way of life. Our Industrial Growth Society distorts our world view, but we can learn new ways of visioning, assessing our gifts and clarifying our respective roles in healing a troubled world.
Start: 11:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Our Lenten Disarmament Vigil begins on Ash Wednesday, February 6 and continues on all of the Saturdays in Lent (February 9, 16 and 23, March 1, 8, 15 and 22).
Time: 11:30 to 12:30 across from the Administration Building at Bath Iron Works, Washington Street in Bath.
Bath Iron Works builds the Aegis Cruise Missile Destroyer, a nuclear capable weapon of mass destruction. Lent gives us an opportunity to move from our culture of excess and militarism towards a saner and compassionate peace through disarmament.
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
Saturday, March 22, 2008 6-11:00 PM, Show at 8:00, All ages
RENT PARTY at The Meg Perry Center
Donation $5-10 at the door
The Flatbread Company and Peace Action Maine present a rent party benefit with Chriss Sutherland, Cursillistas, and Tempera at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Street, Portland, Maine from 8:00 to 11:00 PM. This is an all ages event. There is a suggested donation of $5 to $10 at the door.
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03 / 23
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
Award-winning Independent Journalist Dahr Jamail
Sunday, March 23rd from 4-6pm
UU Church of Belfast(please note - new venue)
37 Miller Street (near High Street), downtown Belfast
Dahr Jamail has courageously provided an independent view from inside
occupied Iraq for Pacifica Radio, Democracy Now!, the BBC, Air America
and Radio Hong Kong and in print has appeared in The Nation, Asia Times
and The Guardian as well as many other outlets. In June 2005, Dahr
testified at the World Tribunal on Iraq about his experiences and
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03 / 24
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03 / 25
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03 / 26
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03 / 27
Start: 10:00 am
End: 3:00 pm
The University of Maine has produced one Nobel Prize winner (so far). Dr. Bernard Lown graduated from the University in 1942 with a degree in zoology. His Honors thesis was titled Multiple Alleles in Sex Determination of the Parasitic Wasp,
Harborbracon. He then went on to receive his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University.
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03 / 28
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Friday, March 28th from 5-9 PM
at The Portland Company, 58 Fore Street in Portland.
Featuring:
DELICIOUS INTERNATIONAL FOOD from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Greece donated by Portland’s best restaurants
A silent auction you won’t want to miss with outstanding JEWELRY, PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTINGS, SILK SCARVES and so much more
Plus LIVE WORLD MUSIC including AFRICAN DRUMMING by Jordan Benissan and Sankofa!
Start: 6:00 pm
Start: Mar 28 2008 - 6:00pm
End: Mar 29 2008 - 9:00pm
If you don’t know about The Lewin Center, it’s a new non-profit in Bethel, Maine, “committed to social change, action and research.” I hope you’ll learn about us at www.lewincenter.org.
As Program Director, I’m writing you now about the upcoming Lewin Forum, a series of programs that we feel will have substantial meaning and appeal to a northern New England-based audience. It’s a real bargain, at $50 for each partial weekend (or $125 for the entire series).
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03 / 29
End: 9:00 pm
Start: Mar 28 2008 - 6:00pm
End: Mar 29 2008 - 9:00pm
If you don’t know about The Lewin Center, it’s a new non-profit in Bethel, Maine, “committed to social change, action and research.” I hope you’ll learn about us at www.lewincenter.org.
As Program Director, I’m writing you now about the upcoming Lewin Forum, a series of programs that we feel will have substantial meaning and appeal to a northern New England-based audience. It’s a real bargain, at $50 for each partial weekend (or $125 for the entire series).
Start: 9:30 am
End: 4:30 pm
Defending Water For Life Campaign is sponsoring
the 2008 Maine Water Symposium
“Who Owns Maine’s Water?”
Bates College
Lewiston, Maine
Muskie Room 201
Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians and author of Blue Covenant
and co-author of Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop Corporate Theft of the
World’s Water will be a keynote speaker. She will draw on her
experience as a leader of the international movement for a right to
water in speaking about water as a commons in Maine. She will be
joined by award-winning journalist Colin Woodard, author of The
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
Get Involved http://tinyurl.com/2c2oey
Spread the word http://tinyurl.com/yut25k
Join us Saturday March 29th for an Earth Hour Celebration at Monument
Square in downtown Portland! *
We’ll have live music and a countdown to lights out.
It starts at 7:30! We’ll also supply the candles. Come celebrate Earth
Hour and watch all of the lights go down in Portland from 7:30-9pm.
From 8-9pm on March 29, 2008, cities across the world will turn off
their lights for just one hour—Earth Hour?—to show that it’s
possible to take action on global warming. Switching off is a simple
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03 / 30
Start: 4:00 pm
Sunday, March 30, 2008
State Street Congregational Church
159 State Street, Portland
Free and open to the public
Cesar Estrada Chávez
March 31, 1927-1993
Please join us to celebrate the birthday of Cesar Chávez and to recognize the work of Isela Palma, and Sister Patricia Pora, recipients of this year’s Si Se Puede! Cesar Chavez/Dolores Huerta Awards. Come and show your appreciation to the awardees for their commitment to social and economic justice, and promoting cultural tradition.
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03 / 31
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04 / 1
Start: 9:00 am
Start: Apr 1 2008 - 9:00am
End: Apr 4 2008 - 7:30pm
Monday, March 31:
Maine Issues & Political Prisoners with the Prison System
EXILED: The story of Deane Brown
Start: 6:30 pm
Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County meeting is on Tuesday, April 1 at 6:30 PM at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 37 Miller St. (behind
the Library) in Belfast. Please join us! All are welcome at our meetings. If you can’t make it to a meeting you can still participate. We encourage you to initiate projects and bring them to our attention for discussion. We may be able to help you to work on these and/or
co-sponsor them.
Some agenda items for the meeting (add to this list before or at the meeting):
Start: 8:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm
What: A Rent Party for Peace Action Maine at The Meg Perry Center
Who: Tradition, Feel, and Chris Rieling
When: Tuesday, April 1, 2008 from 8:00 to 11:00 PM
Where: The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Street, Portland Maine
Peace Action Maine and The Flatbread Company present a Rent Party benefit at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress Street, Portland, Maine featuring Tradition, Feel, and Chris Rieling on Tuesday, April 1 from 8:00 to 11:00 PM. This show is an all ages event. Donations are $5 to $10.
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(all day)
Start: Apr 1 2008 - 9:00am
End: Apr 4 2008 - 7:30pm
Monday, March 31:
Maine Issues & Political Prisoners with the Prison System
EXILED: The story of Deane Brown
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(all day)
Start: Apr 1 2008 - 9:00am
End: Apr 4 2008 - 7:30pm
Monday, March 31:
Maine Issues & Political Prisoners with the Prison System
EXILED: The story of Deane Brown
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04 / 4
End: 7:30 pm
Start: Apr 1 2008 - 9:00am
End: Apr 4 2008 - 7:30pm
Monday, March 31:
Maine Issues & Political Prisoners with the Prison System
EXILED: The story of Deane Brown
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04 / 5
Start: 5:30 pm
End: 9:00 pm
More than a decade ago, refugees from Southern Sudan came together in
Portland to form ASERELA, which means Action for Self Reliance. With
your help and that of many others, they held fund raising events, such
as the Feast for the Children, and sent money to their family and
friends who were in the Kiryondongo refugee camp in Uganda. Through hard
labor, the bricks became a school, the first permanent structure in the
camp.
Originally the school provided class rooms and a hot meal for the
kindergartners, but soon the school had to be expanded as the parents
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04 / 6
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04 / 7
Start: 5:30 pm
On April 7th, PAM’s Action Committe will be joined by Andrea Licata, an Italian activist and scholar who has been organizing against the expansion of the US military base in the Dal Molin suburb of Vicenza.
All are invited to join us for a potluck and conversation, beginning at 5:30pm, about international solidarity, economic conversion and this exciting movement to curb U.S. militarism abroad! Andrea will be offering a formal presentation about his work at 7pm.
For more information, please call Peace Action Maine at 772-0680.
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04 / 8
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04 / 9
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04 / 10
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04 / 11
Start: 7:00 pm
BLUE HILL—A five-week series of films will be presented as a celebration of Cuba and in support of the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan.
Sonata for the Left Hand and Cuba Today: Sustainable
Development, both on April 11 at 7:00 pm at the Blue Hill Public Library.
Refreshments, art and literature will be available.
For more information, call 326-4405.
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