[HCCN] Fwd:BRING OUR WAR $$ HOME Teach-in, Bangor, Saturday
Judith Robbins
JUDY at ROBBINSandROBBINS.com
Mon Mar 15 19:40:36 EDT 2010
If anyone is looking for a ride to Bangor on Saturday for the event,
I would be happy to post your request to our email lists. Please
reply to judy at robbinsandrobbins.com
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine <info at peacectr.org>
> Date: March 15, 2010 1:02:02 PM EDT
> To: peacectr_list at lists.peacectr.org
> Subject: [Peacectr_list] Program for March 20th Teach-in in Bangor
>
> We look forward to seeing you at the Active Community Teach-in
> (ACT) to Bring Our War $$ Home this Saturday in Bangor. See the
> program and speakers below. The teach-in is being held in
> solidarity with the national demonstration in Washington, D.C. on
> March 20th calling for an end to the war in Afghanistan and as part
> of the Maine statewide campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home
> (www.BringOurWarDollarsHome.org) and is co-sponsored by 15
> organizations*. The teach-in is free, but we encourage pre-
> registration so that we can plan for seating and refreshments. Let
> us know if you plan to come. And let us know if you have any
> questions or can bring finger food to share during the afternoon
> break.
>
> Active Community Teach-in
> Bring Our War $$ Home
> Saturday, March 20th 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
> Unitarian Universalist Church
> 120 Park Street, Bangor
>
> 1:00 Judd Esty-Kendall folksongs
> Introduction and Welcome
> 1:15 Keynote Speaker: Mariam Atifa Raqib
>
> 2:00 Panelists, MaryAlice Horrigan, Gold Star Mother
> Peter Kelmman, US Labor Against the War
> Mary Beth Sullivan, "Bring our War $$ Home" Coalition
>
> 3:00 Break with refreshments
>
> 3:15 Songs and Poetry Introduction to Workshops
>
> 3:30 Workshops
> Bring the war $$ Home - Bruce Gagnon, director of Global
> Network Against Nuclear Weapons and Power in Space +
>
> Creating People to People connections with Afghanistan-
> Mariam Atifa Raqib, President of Afghanistan Samsortya, Boston +
>
> Making Connection with Labor -- Bill Murphy, Director of
> Bureau of Labor Education at the University of Maine and Peter
> Kellman. member of UAW Local 1981 (the Writers Union) and past-
> president of the Southern Maine Labor Council, AFL-CIO.
>
> Promoting Alternatives to Military Service -- Dan Avener,
> President of Veterans for Peace, Jim Harney Chapter and Will
> Whitham, Bangor High School Senior
>
> 4:30 Report back and next steps summary
>
>
> Keynote Speaker: Mariam Atifa Raqib
>
> Mariam Atifa Raqib, who was a member of the Afghanistan Women's
> Council in Afghanistan from 2006 - 2007 is now the President of
> the Afghanistan Samsortya, a non-profit Afghistan Reforestation
> Project based in Boston, Massachusetts operating in Surkrhud
> Distric near Jalalabad City in Eastern Afghanistan. Raqib, is
> currently a Ph.D. candidate in Law, Policy and Society at
> Northeastern University. From l996-2007 she worked with the Afghan
> Health and Social Assistance Organization in Peshawar, Pakistan.
> In 2004 she toured three Afghan provinces to interview individuals
> about key social development and education related topics. She has
> taught courses on Politics and Religion in the Muslim World and
> War: A World Perspective at Simmons College and a seminar in World
> Politics at Wells College.
>
> Panelists:
>
> MaryAlice Horrigan
> MaryAlice Horrigan, was born in Belfast Maine. She is a member of
> Pax Christi and Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine in Bangor
> and the Peace & Justice Group Ellsworth. She graduated with
> an RN degree from the Univ. of Maine at Augusta in 1975. In l990
> she ws certified in Psychiatric Nursing in and worked as a Nursing
> Supervisor in a Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital in Austin, Texas for 15
> years. Where she says, "We had begun to receive the overflow of
> patients from the Iraq war before I left to return home to Maine".
> She was married to her first husband, a Korea and Vietnam veteran,
> who suffered from PTSD, and who died in 1995 . She is the mother
> of 4 children, 3 of those sons were born at Loring AFB.
> MaryAlice is the mother of Master Sgt. Robert M. Horrigan, Delta
> Force, who was killed in AL Quaim Iraq, June 2005, on his 5th tour
> of Iraq, and with less than 10 days to go on that tour. He was
> slated for retirement that summer, after serving 20 years.
>
> Peter Kellman
> Peter lives in North Berwick, Maine. H is a member of UAW Local
> 1981 (the Writers Union) and past-president of the Southern Maine
> Labor Council, AFL-CIO. He writes about and has taught labor
> history at the University of Southern Maine and the Heartwood
> College of Art.He is presently working for the Maine AFL-CIO as the
> Rapid Response coordinator of the Dislocated Workers Program and is
> the shop steward for Local 1445 United Food and Commercial Workers
> Union which represents the staff at the State AFL-CIO.He is past
> president of ACTWU Shoe Workers Local 82, Sanford, Maine was the
> director of the New Hampshire Committee on Occupational Safety and
> Health and is a past president of the Maine Labor Group on Health.
> He has been involved in a number of strikes most notably the
> 1987-88 strike against the International Paper Company in Jay,
> Maine. He has authored three books including Pain On Their Faces.
> NY: Apex Press, 1999;Building Unions: Past, Present and Future. NY:
> Apex Press, 2001;Divided We Fall - The Story of the Paperworkers
> Union and the Future of Labor. NY: Apex Press, 2004.
>
> Mary Beth Sullivan
> Mary Beth Sullivan currently works as a social worker at Preble
> Street in Portland, Maine, seeking housing for homeless people. She
> and others have created an "intentional community," in Bath Maine
> which they call the Addams-Melman House - invoking the spirit of
> Jane Addams, a founder of Social Work and the Women's International
> League for Peace and Freedom; and Seymour Melman, the grandfather
> of the movement to convert from a permanent war economy to an
> economy of peace. She spent five years in Massachusetts doing
> social policy research on programs serving low-income people; she
> subsequently lived in Florida and Maine in jobs working with low-
> income women and children; and children with disabilities and their
> families. She walked much of the state of Florida with the Florida
> Coalition for Peace and Justice's 1996 "Walk for the Earth. In June
> 2008 she participated in an extended hunger strike to support the
> people of the Czech Republic who oppose the establishment in their
> country of a U.S. radar facility to support Star Wars systems.
>
> *Co-sponsoring Organizations:
> Co-sponsors include Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine;
> Veterans for Peace, Jim Harney, Chapter; Social Justice Committee
> of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bangor; Pax Christi,
> Maine; Peace & Justice of Northern Maine (Aroostook County); Work
> for Peace (Washington County), Peace & Justice Group of Waldo
> County; Waterville Area Bridges for Peace and Justice; Global
> Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space; Maine Peace &
> Justice in Israel/Palestine; The Progressive Agenda; Peninsula
> Peace & justice, Maine People's Alliance and Food AND Medicine,
> Peace & Social Action Committee Unitarian Universalist Church,
> Ellworth.
>
>
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