How Maine Elections Work: A Community Conversation
The scuttlebutt on How Maine Elections Work. The hosting groups welcome us all! Register via the QR code,or https://bit.ly/Maine-electionsor just show up!
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We are a voice of education and a center for people committed to disarmament and creative responses to conflict.
Peace With Iran NOW: National Day of Action with four Demands
JOIN THE MOVEMENT TO STOP IRAN WAR
Oct. 20 was the National Day #PeaceWithIranNOW
Peace Action Maine is part of the coalition and makes four demands:
(of each of our Members of Congress MOC)
1:Block the Funds. (STOP FUNDS)
2.Enforce the War Powers Resolution. (END IRAN WAR)
3.Investigate War Crimes.
4.Support a peace deal to end the war.
Our Flier HERE.
Why this is so important HERE!
Following the election, we focus on these demands.
Upcoming or Recent Events:
Creating Possibilities in Perilous Times
Thank you who joined Peace Action Maine's 2026 Fall Gathering! (Flier HERE.)Program recording HERE: https://youtu.be/iqbnMd1EXb4Congratulations! Joseph will join the Nobel Peace Laureates at the end of Novemberand report back upon his return. Donate to his 501c3 group HERE.
Mainers: Militarism Fuels Climate
Very impactful event VFP!! No Military Airshows (NO MAS) Tour 2! (The flier is archived HERE.)Mainers In solidarity! ME Veterans For Peace, Third Act and Peace Action Maine co-sponsored very successful screenings of Earth's Greatest Enemy helping raise awareness of the largest institutional consumer of fossil fuels in the…
Rally in solidarity today: protest deadly shooting
There is a vigil somewhere in Maine today for another life taken by ICE The Portland Press Herald has been publishing live updates here.Activatemaine.com posts vigils and protest locations HERE.
No Military Air shows in Maine, in solidarity.
When: 9:00 a.m. Saturday, July 11th and Sunday, July 12th Where: Brunswick Executive Airport entrance Admiral Fitch Avenue What: Rally and also MOBILE DISPLAY OF VETERANS FOR PEACE CLIMATE CRISIS and MILITARISM PROJECT https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/climatecrisis Why: As the climate crisis worsens and the…
Earth's Greatest Enemy Screening in Maine
You are invited to a free screening of Earth's Greatest Enemy.Seating is limited, reserve your ticket(s) HERE.July 7 1:30-5 pm.Following the 2 hour film, a Q & A (3:40 pm) will include the producer.Abby Martin- joining virtually.Another showing in Brunswick July 10 @ 3:30. Free tickets FMI info(or-just click on the 3:30…
House passes Iran War Powers Resolution H Con Res 86
House Iran War Powers Resolution H Con Res 86 just passed with a vote of 215-208! June 2026The resolution directs the President to win approval from Congress to continue the war on Iran or withdraw US forces.Next week we should see the next procedural vote, a motion to proceed, on Senator Kane's Iran War Powers Resolution…
Block the $72 Billion ICE Bill
Let's talk about the $72 BILLION BUDGET RECONCILIATION BILL.(to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement through 2029!)Read Peace Action's Common Dreams new opinion piece and call to action!"Call the Congressional switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your senators and your representative. Tell them to vote no and to…
Recent Issues
- Peace Action Statement on Executive Order Sanctioning the ICC
- Stop HR 23, a bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court
- Peace Action Alert on proposed US weapons transfer to Israel
- Senator Bernie Sanders Resolution: ACT NOW-ceasefire and accountability
- 2023 PeaceWorker Award to Peter Morgan Peace Action Maine
- Peace Action Call for de-escalation and a ceasefire
- Yemen War Powers Resolution: Ask your Senators to vote YES Today!
- No Famine On Yemen
- Vote FOR Nuclear Abolition and AGAINST more $$ for the Pentagon
- 24 Hour Peacewave!
- Emergency Action For Yemen
- DIPLOMACY AND DE-ESCALATION, NOT FURTHER MILITARIZATION for Ukraine
- Immediate Action Needed for Afghanistan Today: Write Pres. Biden
- Starving Afghanistan? call Rep. Pingree and Golden
- Cynthia Howard: 2021 PeaceWorker Award!
- Bring No First Use to the Floor!
- Suzanne Hedrick: 2021 PeaceWorker Award!
- Maine Climate Activists Protest Polluters: Navy Blue Angels
- Sept. 3 Professor Douglas Allen Dialogue on Nonviolence
- Petition_Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements
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