Peace Action Maine's Mission:
We are a voice of education and a center for people committed to disarmament and creative responses to conflict.

Peace Action Maine's Mission:
We are a voice of education and a center for people committed to disarmament and creative responses to conflict.

Advocate 2 website UNRWA USA Showing Palestine refugees that Americans care copyPeace Action Maine, as an affiliate of national Peace Action,  supports the UNRWA Funding Emergency Restoration Act.  With the new legislative session, any reintroduced bills will receive a new number in both the Senate and in the House. The Senate recently re-introduced a 2025 bill and the House is in process of doing so. Mainers can contact Senator King and Representative Pingree asking for their  support again for humanitarian aid for this session and invite Senator Collins and Representative Golden to do so. Here is the link to the unrwa-us legislative campaign that you can use, taking time to personalize the body of the message and make it your own:  https://www.unrwausa.org/contact-congress. 03.15 FMI: FCNL's legislative "Ask" FCNL's legislative "Ask"

 

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Commemorating Feb. 24, 2022, A conversation with Brian

Feb 20, 2025
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We first visited with Brian Milakovsky in 2022, when he and his family were still overseas. Thank those of you who could join us.Here is our recording and edit of that program on our You Tube Channel.His recent LTE of Musk's audit of USaid is available.

TPNW- A living document from July 7, 2017

Jan 24, 2025
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January 22 marks the fourth "banniversary" of the TPNW, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, entering into force in 2021. It means we have a legally binding international treaty and a structure for the world to rid itself of nuclear weapons. There are currently 94 countries that have signed and…

#CloseGuantanamo 2025 Maine Rally

Dec 29, 2024
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Thank you for joining us!Download Final full-sized Flier HERE. Rally Comments by Human Rights Attorney Panopoulos. Raw footage of entire program. Press Release. Media reports here(BangorNews) and here(WABI).

UNRWA: Emergency UNRWA Restoration Act needs Mainer's help!

Oct 18, 2024
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In January of this year, the Biden administration halted US funding to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), a decision that has had catastrophic humanitarian effects on the suffering people of Gaza. This was based on unsubstantiated Israeli claims that a small number (12) of UNRWA employees(13,000) were…

Join Actionar Today with Peace Action

Oct 16, 2024
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Good Folks,Peace Action Education Fund and the CeaseFire Now Grassroots Network invite you to an “actionar” (action-oriented webinar), TODAY, Wednesday, October 16 at 7 pm eastern time, 6 pm central, 5 pm mountain, 4 pm pacific. Please plan to attend, and help spread the word. Challenging US Weapons Transfers to Israel,…