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.

Andrea Licata (Italy) is both a scholar and an activist. He received his Doctorate in international relations with a specialty in environmental sociology from the University of Trieste. He is the editor of an anthology creating plans for converting the long-standing mammoth U.S. airbase in Aviano to peaceful civilian purposes. Andrea is one of the leading organizers of the community-based campaign against the expansion of the U.S. air base in the Dal Molin suburb of Vicenza – the airbase in which the U.S. is putting state-of-the-art weaponry from which to launch rapid response attacks in the region. Andrea was an organizer of the demonstrations that occurred in December of 2006, in which hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Vicenza in protest against the U.S. base expansion.