April 30 is the anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the official end of the U.S. war in Vietnam. Massive amounts of deadly cluster munitions remain in SE Asia indiscriminately killing and maiming civilians 33 years later. Take 5 minutes from your day and call Senator Collins and ask her to cosponsor the Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act (S. 594). read more »
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Give it up for Homeland Security.
Your personal information, your medical history, your financial transactions. Firearms and voting records.
Give it up for Homeland Security.
Your biometric data, your image, your fingerprints.
Give it up for Homeland Security. read more »
PAM Peace Supper, April 26, 2008
Join us for food, presentations on our 2008 programs, speakers and our Annual Peacemaker Awards
Keynote Speaker: Frida Berrigan
Frida Berrigan is Senior Program Associate of the Arms and Security Initiative at the New America Foundation. Previously, she served for eight years as Deputy Director and Senior Research Associate at the Arms Trade Resource Center at the World Policy Institute at the New School in New York City. She has also worked as a researcher at The Nation magazine. read more »
Our Voter Guide is Here!
Follow the links below to read what Maine’s CD-1 candidates had to say about the most pertinent peace and justice issues of this election season! Our voter guide for the senatorial race is coming soon…
Human Rights & International Relations read more »
TEN COMMANDMENTS TO SAVE THE PLANET
In order to save the planet, the capitalist model must be eradicated and the North pay its ecological debt, rather than the countries of the South and throughout the world continuing to pay their external debts.
Denounce and PUT AN END to war, which only brings profits for empires, transnationals, and a few families, but not for peoples. The million and millions of dollars destined to warfare should be invested in the Earth, which has been hurt as a result of misuse and overexploitation. read more »
America AWOL on Cluster Bombs
Published by Foreign Policy in Focus
More than 100 governments, including all major NATO allies, met on May 19 to begin two weeks of negotiations in Dublin, Ireland to finalize a global treaty banning cluster munitions that cause unacceptable harm to civilians. The U.S. government will not be there, and is exerting pressure on allies to weaken the treaty. Washington claims that future joint military operations will be undermined if allied governments prohibit the use of these weapons. read more »
School Recruiting Could Violate Int'l Protocol
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, DC, May 13 (IPS) - Pressed by the demands of the “global war on terrorism”, the United States is violating an international protocol that forbids the recruitment of children under the age of 18 for military service, according to a new report released Tuesday by a major civil rights group that charged that recruitment practices target children as young as 11 years old. read more »
PAM Annual Membership Meeting!
May 17 2008 - 12:00pm
May 17 2008 - 5:00pm
Join us for our membership meeting at our home, at The Meg Perry Center, 644 Congress St in Portland.
OPEN HOUSE: 12 :00 PM- 3:00 PM
STAFF REPORT: 3:00-4:00 PM
BOARD NOMINATION & SELECTION: 4:00 PM-5:00 PM
Statement from 17 Mainers Occupying Sen. Collins Office
This letter is composed by a group of 17 Mainers from throughout the state.
We are joined tonight in a united purpose: to remain in Sen. Collins office on the 14th and the 15th of May to represent the vast majority of Mainers who want the Iraq Occupation to end, and who want the troops to return home now. read more »
"How Far Left Has Latin America Moved?"
Commentary 233, May 15, 2008
Everyone seems to agree that Latin America has moved leftward in the period after 2000. But what does this mean? read more »
