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Call us: (207) 942-9343
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96 Harlow Street
Suite 100
Bangor Maine 04401
(across the street from Peirce Park, next to the Bangor Public Library)
"What has the Center been doing lately?"
Bill McKibben of 350.org spoke at the HOPE Festival this April. Listen to his speech here. (Thanks WERU)
Jo Comerford, Executive Director of the National Priorities Project, gave the keynote talk at the Active Community Teach-In on Saturday, October 9th 2010. You can download her presentation as pdf & mp3 files below:
Thanks to Amy Browne of WERU for editing the audio file.
Appearance by author and activist David Swanson at the Center on Nov. 5, 2009:
Video clips from our Walk for Real Security on Sept. 12, 2009:
Local media coverage and full program from our Hiroshima/Nagasaki commemoration:
Local media coverage from the 2009 HOPE Festival in April:
Joseph Gerson keynote (AUDIO) from March 21, 2009 Teach-In:
March 19, 2009 press event on 6-years of war and the Obama era, full program and local coverage:
Local media coverage of our September 13, 2008 peace rally:
Click below for local coverage of our Sept. 10, 2008 news event:
Click below to see Ch. 7 coverage from our May 21, 2008 press conference on war funding:
Click HERE for our March 19, 2008 press conference with Veterans for Peace.
Click HERE to view extensive local teevee coverage of the 5-yr anniversary of the Iraq war on March 19, 2008.
Delivering Peace Voter Pledges, on 5th anniversary of war, March 19, 2008:
Recent podcastsSaturday, May 12th from 4:00 – 5:30 pm
Come join a conversation about U.S. policy toward Iran and how the peace & justice movement in our region can respond. Let’s share information, analysis, ideas for action and identify possible next steps. Then stay for the potluck and sing-along afterwards. Please let us know if you plan to [...]
You are invited to join us for our annual General Assembly potluck supper on Saturday, May 12th from 6 – 8 pm at the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine.
The delicious and varied food we share is always a delightful reflection of the diversity of people and issues the Center brings together.
Let’s celebrate our [...]
WERU and the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine present satirical folk singer extraordinaire Roy Zimmerman, in concert on Thursday, April 19th, 6:30 p.m. at the Peace & Justice Center, 96 Harlow Street in Bangor.
Roy pens and performs “funny songs about ignorance, war and greed” and can be accurately described as a descendant of Tom Lehrer, or [...]
Steve Brouwer is author of the new book Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World’s Conception of Health Care
“Practicing Revolution, Practicing Medicine in Cuba & Venezuela “
Thursday April 12th 12:30 p.m.
Totman Room, Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono
“Revolutionary Doctors in Venezuela and Cuba”
Thursday April 12th 7:30 p.m.
Peace & [...]
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 [...]
Featuring Bill McKibben, 350.org, Keynote Speaker, at noon,
Timbered Lake
Timbered Lake, (music for Mother Earth) performing at 2 PM
Innana, Sisters in Rhythm
Innana, Sisters in Rhythm, performing at 3 PM
plus Children’s activities, local food, 70 Social Change Groups, and more!
Saturday, April 21st, 11 AM – 4 PM
Student Recreation & Fitness Center, University of Maine, Orono
Directions Here
Full Schedule Here [...]
Download this Flyer
Marching Against Fiscal
Madness in Augusta:
fund human needs rally March 20
Where? Hall of Flags, Augusta
When? Tuesday March 20th, 2012, 2 – 4 PM
Fund Human Needs Rally – March 20
Please help us spread the word about this rally by clicking here to download the flyer, printing copies and posting them.
Tell folks to get there early, [...]
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 [...]
Two great trainings are coming up at the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 96 Harlow St. Suite 100 in Bangor. Space is limited. Email info@peacectr.org or call 942-9343 to register today!
Sustainability Teams*: Does Your Organization Want More Volunteer Leaders? Saturday, November 12 and 19, 9 am – 12 noon
Experienced and skilled educator Joyce Schelling will [...]
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 [...]
Terry Rockefeller, Keynote Speaker
Saturday, September 17, 3 – 6 pm at First Congregational Church of Brewer, 45 Church Street, with keynote by Terry Rockefeller of Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.
Planned by area religious and social justice organizations in conjunction with the International Day of Peace (on September 21st), the event is free and open to the [...]
Join members of the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine and the Orono Peace group, who are inviting members of the community to share their federal budget priorities. Contact the Center if you would like to help.
11 am at Peirce Park, Bangor
“Die-in” and Readings
Followed by showing of the film
Hiroshima No Pika
At the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine
96 Harlow Street, Suite 100, Bangor
“Hiroshima No Pika” is the title of a story about the bombing of Hiroshima written and illustrated for children elementary age + by Toshi Maruki.
Susan Sarandon narrates this [...]
The Greater Bangor Area NAACP &
the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine
Present a 3-Session Course on
THE PHILOSOPHY OF
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Directed by Professor Doug Allen
Monday evenings on May 9, 16, & 23, at 7:00 pm
at the Peace & Justice Center,
96 Harlow St., Suite 100, Bangor
(across the street from the Bangor Public Library)
Martin Luther King, [...]
11 AM to 4 PM
(click the image on the right to download the Program Book)
on the University of Maine Orono Campus
at the Student Recreation & Fitness Center
HOPE Festival Schedule:
Opening Ceremony – Welcome to the 17th Annual HOPE (Help Organize Peace Earthwide) Festival to celebrate Earth Day and our connections to each other.
11:00 Native American blessing [...]
to Bring our War Dollar$$ Home
In support of National End the Wars at Home and Abroad Demonstrations in New York and San Francisco
Saturday, April 9th 1:00 p.m.
Paul Bunyan Park, Bangor
Music and Talks
Speakers:
Douglas Allen, Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine
William Murphy, Bureau of Labor Education University of Maine
Maryalice Horrigan, Gold Star Mother
Dud Hendrick, Veterans for [...]
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 [...]
