Archive for March, 2006

05 Mar

Wednesday, March 8: Maine People’s Alliance Annual Lobby Day, 8:30 a.m. The State of Maine Capitol Building, Augusta.

Wednesday, March 8: Maine People’s Alliance Annual Lobby Day, 8:30 a.m. The State of Maine Capitol Building: (back room of the Cross Cafe at the Capitol), Augusta.
Do you want: Affordable Health Care for All Maine Residents? A Citizen Run Democracy? A Safe and Clean Environment? Then don’t miss this opportunity to learn effective lobbying skills [...]

05 Mar

Mediation: Its Premises, Practices, and Policies

March 6-10: “Mediation: Its Premises, Practices, and Policies� course offered, Hutchinson Center, Belfast. U/Maine Peace Studies, 581-2609 or ellen.woodhead@umit.maine.edu.

05 Mar

HOWARD ZINN: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Author of the pivotal A People’s History of the United States, historian and activist Howard Zinn has been at the forefront of progressive thought in America for decades. Through archival materials, interviews with Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker, and commentary from Zinn himself, this documentary chronicles the influential [...]

05 Mar

Wanted: Cove Brook Watershed Council Part-Time Coordinator

Provide administrative and practical support to meet the Mission of the Cove Brook Watershed Council. Compile and implement the Council’s Strategic Plan. Secure continued funding for coordinator’s position. Identify funding sources related to our Watershed Management Plan and write grants. Identify watershed and conservation groups in the Lower Penobscot Region interested in [...]

05 Mar

The Case for Impeachment

Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush
By Lewis H. Lapham
http://harpers.org/TheCaseForImpeachment.html

On December 18 of last year, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D., Mich.) introduced into the House of Representatives a resolution inviting it to form “a select committee to investigate the Administration’s intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging [...]