The Atom: A Love Affair Streaming with Peace Action Maine

Peace Action Statement on Executive Order Sanctioning the ICC

Peace Action Statement on Trump Executive Order Sanctioning the International Criminal Courthttps://www.peaceaction.org/2025/02/07/sanctioning-the-icc/Sanctioning the ICC - Peace ActionWe urge Congress to overturn this executive order with…

Stop HR 23, a bill sanctioning the International Criminal Court

ICC_HR23.pdf HR 23 description, and you can also find your Rep. HERE.

Peace Action Alert on proposed US weapons transfer to Israel

Expect a Joint Resolution of Disapproval (likely during the lame duck session) to oppose the proposed massive weapons transfers to Israel, see the policy memo on the JRD process and the specific weapons systems from our colleagues at the Institute…

Senator Bernie Sanders Resolution: ACT NOW-ceasefire and accountability

National Peace Action: Act Now ! On the day after Christmas, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced S. Res. 504, a resolution that would investigate Israel’s indiscriminate bombing campaign in Gaza. Since then, it's been reported that about one in every…

2023 PeaceWorker Award to Peter Morgan Peace Action Maine

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Peter Morgan receives PAM's 2023 PeaceWorker Award from past Peace Action Maine President (right) Stan Scott at November Portland Media Center event. The award, a polished walnut plaque with etched brass, reads: This award recognizes and celebrates…

Peace Action Call for de-escalation and a ceasefire

So many of us in the Peace Action family have been touched by the harrowing violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. From all of us at Peace Action, we are thinking of you. We work toward a peaceful world where all are free from…

Yemen War Powers Resolution: Ask your Senators to vote YES Today!

Urge our Senators to vote YES!!The United States continues to support the Saudi-led war on Yemen. Senators Leahy, Warren, and Sanders introduced a new War Powers Resolution in the Senate to force an end to US support for the war. Tell your Senators…

No Famine On Yemen

US is complicit in the Humanitarian Crisis that is Yemen. Time to end this war and negotiate for peace! We picketed this Thanksgiving weekend to highlight the tragedy of the US feasting as Yemen faces famine and continue to call for more co-sponsors…

Vote FOR Nuclear Abolition and AGAINST more $$ for the Pentagon

Update: WASHINGTON, July 14 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), on Thursday introduced a joint resolution in the Senate to direct the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from unauthorized…

24 Hour Peacewave!

24 Hour Peace Wave: No to Militarization – Yes to Cooperation Start: Saturday, June 25, 2022 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00) End: Sunday, June 26, 2022 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00) This is a virtual…

Emergency Action For Yemen

Thursday June 23, 2022 06:30 PM EDTRegister HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kde6prz4pEtBmBflheDnDxYwH25HERaGs Peace Action is excited to co-host a Yemen Week of Action which will takes place this week. Grassroots activists across…

DIPLOMACY AND DE-ESCALATION, NOT FURTHER MILITARIZATION for Ukraine

Urgent: New Release! The Peace Action statement on the crisis in Ukraine Here is the Link to the Emergency Call this Saturday Feb. 26 at NOON ET: Peace Action condemns the deployment of Russian troops into the Donbas and calls for all parties to…

Immediate Action Needed for Afghanistan Today: Write Pres. Biden

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Write President Biden:https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/"I support the Member of Congress letters Reps Jayapal and Malinowski spearheaded urging you, President Biden, to unfreeze Afghanistan's $9.5 billion in U.S. banks and to use your influence to…

Starving Afghanistan? call Rep. Pingree and Golden

The danger of mass starvation in Afghanistan this winter--including one million children under the age of 5--gets worse by the day. In fact, it is likely that far more Afghans will die of starvation this winter than died in the entire 20-year war.…

Cynthia Howard: 2021 PeaceWorker Award!

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Peace Action Maine awards two PeaceWorkers each year in recognition of persons or organizations that are forces for peace in Maine and inspirations to us all. Covid19 might limit in-person acknowledgment and appreciation, but share congratulations…

Bring No First Use to the Floor!

Sign this No First Use Letter to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer HERE. November 15, 2021 Speaker Nancy PelosiUnited States House of Representatives1236 Longworth House Office BuildingWashington, DC 20515 Majority Leader Charles E.…

Suzanne Hedrick: 2021 PeaceWorker Award!

Peace Action Maine awards two PeaceWorkers each year in recognition of persons or organizations that are forces for peace in Maine and inspirations to us all. Covid19 might limit in-person acknowledgment and appreciation, but share congratulations…

Maine Climate Activists Protest Polluters: Navy Blue Angels

https://www.peaceactionme.org/images/pdf/ClimateActivistsProtestBlueAngels.pdfPRESS CONTACT: Sam Pfeifle 207-749-0298, sam@westgraycreative.comClimate Activists To Protest Blue Angels Performance, Sept. 4“The climate crisis means we must reckon with…

Sept. 3 Professor Douglas Allen Dialogue on Nonviolence

Please find attached the zoom link along with the posters of the International Conference on Revisiting Gandhian Perspectives on Development: Reflections on Culture, Society and Politics, scheduled on the 3rd and 4th of September, 2021. Kindly refer…

Petition_Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements

Stop Excluding Military Pollution from Climate Agreements We encourage groups and individuals to organize events to advance this message on or about the International Day of Peace during Climate Week, September 21, 2021, as well as on or about the…

August enews: Mainers commemorating Hiroshima_Nagasaki

https://mailchi.mp/feaa13faf9c4/mainers-commemorating-hiroshima_nagasaki-2021

The Atom: A Love Affair Streaming with Peace Action Maine

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Register for the screening HERE

German Chancellor Merkel: Mainers: #TRIPSwaiver !

Protest Timed with German Chancellor Merkel’s Visit to the United States; Germany Is Blocking Global Policy Change Needed to Increase Vaccine ProductionGermany is one of the last holdouts against a global agreement to temporarily waive intellectual…

Biden Requests Billions for Nukes

https://armscontrolcenter.org/fiscal-year-2022-defense-budget-request-briefing-book/“Last Friday, the Biden administration released its Fiscal Year 2022 budget request, totaling $753 billion for national defense spending, including $43.2 billion for…

Rally Friday May 21 NOON downtown Portland Maine

TIME TO STAND UP BY SHOWING UP Friends, Rallies have been happening all over the planet in support of Palestinians and in protest against Israel's brutal attack which has killed over 200, 40% of whom are women and children! Our Rally: This Friday,…

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We are a voice of education and a center for people committed to disarmament and creative responses to conflict.

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We are a voice of education and a center for people committed to disarmament and creative responses to conflict.

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