Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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Note: The Iraq War forum will be held on April 21, not April 14 as originally posted. |
A forum on the Iraq War appears not to be on the to-do list for all of the elected officials invited, but it will go on as planned anyway.
A coalition of more than 40 Maine peace and social justice groups are hosting a two hour town meeting on the Iraq War on Friday, April 21 at 6:30 pm, at the University of Southern Maine. The meeting was organized by Brunswick's Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space , Peace Action Maine, and Maine Veterans for Peace. All of the state's Washington DC delegates and the governor were invited. According to organizer Bruce Gagnon, none have said they will attend. But the meeting will happen, with empty seats with placards where the senators, congressmen, and governor should be.
"It's unlikely any of them are going to show up, " says Gagnon. Gagnon says he invited all of the state's DC reps "two or three weeks" ago, although Governor Baldacci received his last minute invite on Monday of this week. In 2005, Allen and Michaud did participate in town hall meetings on the war which were sponsored by Maine Veterans for Peace, and Allen will participate in another meeting on domestic surveillance here in Portland on April 18 sponsored by the Maine Civil Liberties Union.
Gagnon's town hall meeting format will allow people from the audience to speak at a microphone about the war for up to three minutes.
Here is a list of the organizations sponsoring the meeting, for those of you who enjoy lists:
- Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- NAACP Portland Branch
- Maine Veterans for Peace
- Peace Action Maine
- Forest Ecology Network
- Maine Women's International League for Peace & Freedom
- Greater Brunswick PeaceWorks
- Midcoast Peace & Justice Group
- People Organizing to Win Economic Rights - POWER
- Witness for Peace
- Portland Women in Black
- Pax Christi Maine
- Sociology Student Association-USM
- Asian American Association-USM
- Philosophy Symposium-USM
- Maine Council of Churches
- AFSC Maine Program on Youth & Militarism
- Resources for Organizing & Social Change
- Maine People's Alliance
- USM College Democrats
- Bridges for Peace
- Citizens Offering New Alternatives
- York County Progressives
- Biddeford City Democratic Committee
- Social Action Committee of the Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church
- Maine Campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace & Nonviolence
- League of Pissed off Voters
- Kennebunkport Democratic Committee
- Kennebunk Democratic Committee
- York County Green Independent Party Committee
- Waldo County Peace & Justice Group
- Maine Coalition for Peace & Justice
- The Eleuthero Community
- Clean Maine Coalition
- Maine Progressive Caucus
- Radio Free Maine
- Let Cuba Live
- Green Horizon Foundation
- Southern Maine Labor Council
- Social Justice Committee First Parish UUC of Kennebunk
- Faith in Action Committee of the NE District Unitarian Universalist Association
- Cumberland County Democratic Committee
- Social Justice Committee of the UUC of Belfast
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