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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Click below for exciting information about the upcoming HOPE Festival in poster form, including download links for the flyer and poster in pdf format! This will open in a new window:

Saturday, April 25th11 A.M.-4 P.M.
Student Recreation and Fitness Center, University of Maine, Orono

Please print and distribute the posters and flyers as you see fit.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Active Community Teach-in was held March 21 in Bangor



Audio only from March 21 Teach-in


This program features Joseph Gerson, Director of Programs and Director of the Peace and Economic Security Program for the American Friends Service Committee in New England. Joseph Gerson was the keynote speaker for our Active Community Teach-in on "New Strategies for Organizing in the Obama Era" held this past Saturday, March 21, 2009, in Bangor at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Park Street.

This post includes the full-length talk by Joseph Gerson, about 68 minutes. Joseph Gerson is introduced first by Ilze Pertersons of the Peace and Justice Center, then by Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. (See also Bruce Gagnon's blog)

Please visit peacecast.us for download, RSS, and itunes links.

A version of this program will air on WERU Community Radio (89.9 FM Blue Hill) on Saturday April 4, 3-4 pm.

Here are some highlights of important upcoming Actions and Events discussed by workshop participants.

LABOR

SATURDAY MARCH 28, 8:00 am to 11:00 am (THIS MORNING)
Breakfast and release of "Where are They Now?", a report containing the testimonials of laid-off workers, at the Labor Center, 20 Ivers Street, Brewer. Information HERE.

MONDAY APRIL 6, 2009, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Activist author Barbara Ehrenreich to Speak at FAM's Symposium on the Employee Free Choice Act and worker rights, at the University of Maine, Orono, in the Donal P. Corbett Building; organized by Food AND
Medicine in conjunction with the Wildcat Student Labor Action, the Eastern Maine Labor Council, the Bureau of Labor Education, and the Maine Christian Association. Information HERE.

Continues below the fold, along with some notes from the Active Community Teach-in panels...