Wednesday, April 12, 2006

ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER FORUM - Talk about the War, but not to the people in charge

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

4/12/2006 3:46:16 PM by Sara Donnelly | Comments [1] |
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:45:39 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

Im a 26 year old student wondering what or if there are any groups reaching out to the youth of this state who cn really make a change?

All parties above are 90% plu unknown to the comman 20-30year old Maine student or other.

If these Non-violent anti war groups want to make a change than start with reaching out to us the MTV pop culture, hip-hop, rap love'n,cluess, brian washed, youth that hold the true future of this country, oh and we all together are a bigger force than all the above parties combined asone.
Please learn from those know.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Otpor

Thanks for your time,asone

nahod bjelic

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