Archive for March, 2006

05 Mar

Buses to United for Peace and Justice demonstration in NYC on April 29 ?

Midcoast Peace and Justice has decided to consider mobilizing buses to take Mainers to the United for Peace and Justice demonstration in NYC on April 29, if there is enough support.
Please email Steve stevbee@midcoast.com if you’re interested, if they hear back from 20 or 30 people they’ll start to look for buses. Those of […]

04 Mar

Book Review - Avoiding Politics: How Americans produce apathy in everyday life

This is a book of particular value for activists. First, it holds up an illuminating mirror, enabling us to see ourselves as others see us, and it clarifies contexts we appear in but usually take for granted. Second, it illuminates those we hope to reach, who are not “in the choir,â€? and explains why […]

03 Mar

FALLUJAH: April 2004 and CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE: The Untold Story of Falluja

Two remarkable films on Iraq War show what mass media fails to report. Caught in the Crossfire, joint production of Iraqi and Amercan filmmakers, captures unreported perspectives of Iraqi civilians and was made to aid innocent civilian victims. Fallujah: April 2004, a film by Japanese independent journalist Toshikuni Doi, documents the U.S. invasion and the […]

03 Mar

LAST BEST CHANCE

Produced by former Senator Sam Nunn’s Nuclear Threat Initiative, this film, intended especially for pollicymakers, focuses on real, ignored threat of nuclear terrorist attack. This international suspense thriller, taking us from former Soviet Union to White House, lays out frightening narrative of how terrorists could easily buy or make a nuclear bomb, smuggle it […]

03 Mar

Peace & Justice Hour TV

Public Access Cable TV (Ch 2) Peace & Justice Programs on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays

The Peace & Justice Hour is shown Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7-8 p.m. Current programs (which rotate) include:

“Gold in the Streets of Baghdad” on the rally/press conference at the University of Maine […]