Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine

May 20: “Entre Nos,” inspired by a true story, focuses on the experiences of a courageous and adoring mother, Mariana, and her two remarkable children from Colombia. It raises the need for comprehensive immigration reform to keep families together, protect workers, and provide a path to citizenship. Michael Moore selected it as one of the 20 [...]

 
Our Earth Week celebration film The Age of Stupid tells the story of a man living in the devastated world of 2055, looking at old footage from our time and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance? 
Seven real stories are interwoven to tell the story:

an entrepreneur struggling to start a new low-cost [...]

Sunday, March 18, 7 PM
We are showing Poto Mitan as part of Women’s History Month.
Told through the lives of five compelling Haitian women, Poto Mitan gives the global economy a human face. Each woman’s personal story explains neoliberal globalization, how it is gendered, and how it impacts Haiti: inhumane working/living conditions, violence, poverty, lack of [...]

February 19: “Mother: Caring for the 7 Billion” breaks a 40-year taboo by bringing to light an issue that silently fuels our largest environmental, humanitarian and social crises — population growth. Since the 1960s the world population has nearly doubled, adding more than 3 billion people. At the same time, talking about population has become [...]

Films are shown at 7 p.m. Sundays at the Center, 96 Harlow Street, Bangor, and are followed by discussion.
April 29: “The Age of Stupid” (part of Earth Week). This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: “Why didn’t we stop climate change when [...]

Join us to Commemorate
the Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday, January 15th
at the Peace & Justice Center, 96 Harlow Street, Bangor Maine
3:00 – 5:00 PM  Regional Gathering of Peace & Justice Groups in Eastern Maine
5:00 PM     Vegetarian Potluck Supper
6:00 PM    Excerpts from the documentary film: “Freedom Riders“
Free and Open to the Public
Call 942-9343 or email [...]

FREEDOM RIDERS
SUNDAY, JANUARY 15
at 6 PM (Note the new time)
FREEDOM RIDERS is the powerful harrowing and ultimately inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and [...]

Sunday, December 11, 7pm

My Name is Khan is the 2010 Bollywood hit, with Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who plays Rizvaan Khan, a Muslim who suffers from Aspergers, migrates to America, falls in love and marries Kajol, a single mother. Life takes a tragic turn after 9/11. Rizvaan embarks on a journey to bring back [...]

Sunday, October 30, 7 pm
Budrus is an award-winning documentary film that shows how a Palestinian village in the West Bank defeated Israeli occupation through unarmed resistance. Budrus shines a light on people who choose nonviolence to confront a threat.  With today’s pessimism about the plight of Palestinians, conflict in the Middle East, and Israel’s future, [...]

Sunday, September 25th, 7 PM
The film “Scarred Lands, Wounded Lives”  recognizes our deep dependence on the natural world and our humanly caused threates to the future of the planet. It also focuses on what is often ignored by environmentalsits: the extreme threat of the envriornmental impact of war and massive preparations for war.
7 PM at [...]

Film Sunday April 17th, 7 PM at the P&J Center
As part of the Earth Week celebration, the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine is showing the film Flow: How Did a Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water?.
FLOW builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply, with an unflinching [...]

AFFLUENZA: Overwork, personal stress, erosion of family and community, skyrocketing debt, and the growing gap between rich and poor — it’s easy to understand why some people say that the American Dream is no bargain. Through revealing personal stories, expert commentary, hilarious old film clips, dramatized vignettes, and “anti-commercial” breaks, this lively film examines the [...]

All films are shown at the Center, 7pm, Sunday evenings:
MARCH 20:  TAKING ROOT
As part of Women’s History Month, we are showing Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai. Taking Root tells the dramatic story of courageous Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose act of planting trees grew into a nationwide [...]

All films are shown at the Center, 7pm, Sunday evenings:

February 20 — War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death
March 20 — Taking Root: the Vision of Wangari Maathai
April 17 — Flow: How Did a Handful of Corporations Steal Our Water
May 15 — Affluenza

More details available in the links below:
FEBRUARY 20       [...]

This 2006 movie has all of the comedy and lively music one finds in big Bollywood films, and was a smash hit in India. .
The big surprise, which has led to a national movement of “Gandhigiri,” is the film’s dramatic and moving emphasis on the appearance of the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi. In a [...]

Sunday, November 21st, 2010, 7 PM
Peace & Justice Center, 170 Park Street, Bangor
Filmed in the slums of Africa and the barrios of Latin America, “The End of Poverty?” features expert insights from economists, authors, government ministers and the leaders of social movements in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya and Tanzania.
Global poverty did not just happen. It began [...]

Sunday, September 26, 7 PM at the Peace & Justice Center, 170 Park Street, Bangor.
Rethink Afghanistan
Rethink Afghanistan is a 2009 documentary about the ongoing war in Afghanistan. This full-length documentary features experts from Afghanistan, the U.S., and Russia discussing military escalation, how escalation will affect Pakistan and the surrounding region, the cost of war, [...]

All films are shown on Sundays at 7 PM at the Peace & Justice Center, 170 Park Street, Bangor.
Free admission, and discussion after each film.
Call ahead if you need childcare.
September 26    Rethink Afghanistan
Rethink Afghanistan is a 2009 documentary about the ongoing war in Afghanistan. This full-length documentary features experts from Afghanistan, the U.S., and Russia [...]

Film tribute to Howard Zinn
Sunday, June 6th, 7 PM
Peace & Justice Center, 170 Park St, Bangor.
As a tribute to Howard Zinn, renowned historian, activist and author who died last January, the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine will be showing the documentary about his life, on Sunday, June 6th at 7:00 p.m. at 170 [...]