The state’s largest peace organization has worked for 25 years to promote peace through grassroots organizing, citizen education, and issue advocacy. Peace Action Maine is an affiliate of National Peace Action.

Our Mission Statement:

Peace Action Maine is a voice of education and a center for all people committed to disarmament and creative responses to conflict. Principles:

• We strive to involve community members in our decision-making processes and the day-to-day work of the organization.
• We work to promote the skills and abilities of all concerned people to more effectively work on our issues and other issues of concern to them.
• We seek to be a source of information and inspiration for all who would stand for peace.

We bring to our work a deep and lasting commitment to nonviolence, justice, and the empowerment of all people. Out of this commitment grows a necessity to educate in a manner that both promotes and models our values.

Partnering Organizations

Peace Action Maine is proud to work closely with the following organizations:

• Maine Peace Fund
• Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine Chapter
• Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
• Veterans for Peace/Maine Chapter
• Maine Share
• Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine
• Maine Civil Liberties Union
• Maine Fair Trade Coalition
• The Good Life Center
• From Every Village Green
• Women in Black
• Military Families Speak Out
• Maine campaign for a US Department of Peace
• Pax Christi Maine
• Emergency USA

PAM Board of Directors

Chris Miller
Susan Pastore, Membership Coordinator
Cassie Sears
Don Sibley
Terry Siegel, Treasurer
Ursula Slavick
Wells Staley-Mays, Secretary
Mary Jo Steckevicz
Phil Weyenberg,Vice President
Ronnie Wilson, Volunteer Coordinator

Staff

• Daniel Muller
• Betty Webster
• Brad Cummings
• Stephanie Gharakhanian
• Alan Kinney

PAM Advisory Board Members

• Tom Andrews - New Economy Communications/former US Rep. from Maine; Washington DC
• Henry Bird - retired from a career on Indian Reservations; Harpswell
• Jeanne Davis - UCC Peace Fellowship/former board member; Augusta
• Tom Ewell - Maine Council of Churches; Portland
• Bruce Gagnon - Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space; Brunswick
• Janet Johnson - NAACP, Portland Branch; Scarborough
• Margy Burns Knight - Author of children’s literature; Winthrop
• Frederick Lancaster - Peace Network; South Portland
• Deborah Leighton - Feminist Sprirtual Community/ Raging Grannies/ Witness for Peace; Bath
• John Rensenbrink - National & Intl Greens and former candidate for US Senate; Topsham
• Rachel Talbot Ross - NAACP & City Manager’s office; Portland
• Tom Sturtevant - Veterans for Peace/former PAM Board member; Winthrop
• Ellen Wells - Witness for Peace/Pax Christi/Maine Women’s Fund; Falmouth
• Peter Wilk - Physicians for Social Responsibility; Sebago
• Katharine Winthrop - Unitarian Minister; Portland
• Anne B. Zill - University of New England; So. Freeport

PAM Bylaws

Non Discrimination Policy

The policy of Peace Action Maine is to provide equal opportunity in its programs, activities, and employment practices; to prohibit discrimination in education and employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, handicap or disability, or sexual orientation; and to prohibit sexual harassment.