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"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 podcastsFriday, March l8th, 12 noon
at the P&J Center, 96 Harlow St, STE 100, Bangor
Join us at the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine to mark the anniversary of the “shock and awe” bombing of Iraq in 2003, the on-going occupation of Iraq and the endless war in Afghanistan.
in support of the March/Rally
“One Nation Working Together for Jobs, Justice and Education for All”
in Washington D.C., Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 at the Lincoln Memorial
Press Conference is Friday, October 1st, 2010
in Bangor at the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 170 Park Street,
from noon to 12:30 PM.
An interfaith group of clergy [...]
Come to a press conference
in support of the March/Rally
“One Nation Working Together for Jobs, Justice and Education for All”
in Washington D.C., Saturday, October 2nd, 2010 at the Lincoln Memorial
Press Conference is Friday, October 1st, 2010
in Bangor at the Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 170 Park Street,
from noon to 12:30 PM.
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published in the Bangor Daily News on September 11, 2010
Peace group gathering to end America’s longest war
9/10/10 08:46 pm Updated: 9/10/10 09:48 pm
Ilze Petersons
On the ninth anniversary of 9-11, I recall the disbelief, shock, anger, fear and sadness I felt when I heard of the 3,000 people killed as terrorists used [...]
This is video from our September action. Complete information about it is found HERE. The Bangor Daily News ran a story HERE.
Why a Walk for Real Security?
Has the endless war on terrorism made us safer than we were after the 9/11 attacks? We are told we cannot afford the cost of providing basic health insurance [...]
Sixth anniversary of Iraq War
“Shock and Awe” bombing began March 19, 2003
ACT VIII: New Strategies for Organizing in the Obama Era at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 120 Park Street, Bangor 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Saturday March 21
(THIS SATURDAY!!)
The video above is our full Thursday March 19 press event at the Center.
Here is local teevee [...]
Excellent stories on Bangor Ch. 2 at 6pm and 11pm showing reading of names, Dave Mallett, and good interviews. The total running time for the 6pm story was over two minutes, an eternity on television news!
6 pm Ch. 2 coverage
Below is the 11pm news coverage on Ch. 5 and Ch. 2 in Bangor.
Mike Howard is [...]
Excellent television news coverage for From Every Village Green on both Ch. 5 and Ch. 7 in Bangor this evening. Notice that Ch. 7 used some footage from previous protests shot by yours truly. Click to play:
Great coverage on Ch. 5 and the Bangor Daily News!
Bangor Ch. 5 11pm Saturday 9/13 coverage
I think it’s pretty good when you can get the teevee to give 1 minute, 10 seconds for peace late on a Saturday night. Thank you very much, Channel 5.
BDN coverage In Section B this time
Read the full story HERE.
As [...]
Channels 5 and 7 carried reports on our Sept. 10 pre-rally news conference. You may click the player below to watch.
On Tuesday June 3, 2008 at the annual Bar Harbor Town Meeting, a resolution was passed which put Bar Harbor on record as opposing a war with Iran unless expressly authorized by Congress.
Concerned by the research of Seymour Hersh and other investigative journalists that the Bush administration was preparing to launch an invasion of Iran, [...]
UPDATED w/Ch. 7 Coverage:
Original post:
On Wednesday, May 21st we will deliver copies of the signatories to to the petition below to the Bangor offices of Senators Collins and Snowe after a brief press conference at the Center at 11:00 a.m. (not noon as announced earlier). Let us know if [...]
Front-page, above-the-fold story on five-year Iraq Anti-War Actions
Click above for the full BDN story
Please visit the Media Coverage page at everyvillage-me.us for an extensive archive of newspaper and teevee stories.
Mainers rally for peace
By Eric Russell
Monday, March 17, 2008 – Bangor Daily News
Shayla Goss and Karen Ellis were still in high school when the Iraq war [...]
All three Bangor television stations had extensive and quite good coverage of the Iraq war 5th anniversary. Our March 19 press conference was reported by all three stations. The video below contains a 10-minute collection:
The Bangor Daily News on October 1 featured incredible coverage of our September 29 rally in Bangor. Also, an audio podcast of the speeches and most of the music from the rally may be found at peacecast.us.
Demonstrators rally in Bangor to remember soldiers, civilians killed in the war in Iraq
By Meg Haskell
Monday, October 1, 2007 [...]
