<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1a00df" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman; color: #1a00df">Dear Newsletter editors,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1a00df" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman; color: #1a00df"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Here are some calendar items for March and later. FEEL FREE TO PICK AND CHOOSE AND NOT USE EVERY ITEM.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 0, 223); "></span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" color="#1a00df" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman; color: #1a00df"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(26, 0, 223); ">Larry Dansinger</span></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1A00DF" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">February 26: Filmmaker Tom Jackson speaks about his experience in and film about Gaza, 7 PM, Public Library, Blue Hill. Call Peninsula Peace and Justice, 326-4405, for details.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">February 27: Sacred Heart/St. Dominic’s Haiti Project Empty Bowl supper to benefit Haiti relief, 6 PM, Sacred Heart Church, corner Sherman and Mellen Sts., Portland. Wells Staley-Mays, 409-0778 or <font color="#1c00f0" style="color: #1c00f0"><u><a href="mailto:guide.freedomtrail1850@yahoo.com">guide.freedomtrail1850@yahoo.com.</a></u></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px; text-decoration: underline;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; ">February 27: Robert Shetterly with "Americans Who Tell the Truth" ands Voices for Peace concert to benefit the Open Door Recovery Center, 7 PM, Grand Theater, Ellsworth. Call 667-9500.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">February 27 (+ next 5 Saturdays): Annual Lenten Vigil at Bath Iron Works, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM, BIW entry gate, Washington St., Bath. jack Bussell, 772-1442 or <a href="mailto:jafabussell@gwi.net">jafabussell@gwi.net</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">February 28: "Who's Got the Power?" film shown (causes of global climate change), 7 PM, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 170 Park St., Bangor. P&J Center, 942-9343 or info@peacectr.org or <a href="http://www.peacectr.org">www.peacectr.org</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">February 28: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and Fisheries (CSF) Fairs in twelve towns/cities in Maine (Bangor to Farmington to Sanford), 1-4 PM. For specific locations: MOFGA, 568-4142 or mofga@mofga.org or <a href="http://www.mofga.org">www.mofga.org</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 3: "The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty" talk by Arnie Alpert, New Hampshire AFSC staff, 7 PM, Dover Friends Meeting, 141 Central Ave., Dover, NH. Phyllis, 603-580-1934 or <a href="mailto:pkillamabell@comcast.net">pkillamabell@comcast.net</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 19px; ">March 6: "Feast for the Children" annual ASERELA dinner to benefit school programs in southern Sudan, 6 PM (tent.), Guild Hall, Immaculate Conception church, 307 Congress St., Portland. Wells Staley-Mays, 774-3314 <a href="mailto:orochira12@yahoo.com">orochira12@yahoo.com</a> or <a href="http://www.aserelamaine.org">www.aserelamaine.org</a>.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 7: PICA's "Rice and Beans" potluck and report on popular education in El Salvador, 20 Spencer St., Orono. PICA, 947-4203 or <a href="mailto:info@pica.ws">info@pica.ws</a> for directions.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">March 13 (snow date, March 14): “Practicing Nonviolence in Our Daily Lives and in the World,” annual Changing Maine gathering, 8:30 AM-4 PM, Pine Tree State Arboretum, 153 Hospital St., Augusta. For a brochure and more info: 525-7776 or <a href="mailto:rosc@psouth.net">rosc@psouth.net</a>.</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman"> </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 13: Annual Spring Growth conference on "From the Ground up: Soil Improvement," all day, Common Ground Education Center, Crosby Brook Rd., Unity. MOFGA (Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association), 568-4142 or mofga@mofga.org or <a href="http://www.mofga.org">www.mofga.org</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 15-16: Training for adults working with girls on images of women and the media (and what to do about them), School of Pharmacy building, Univ. of New England, 716 Stevens Ave., Portland. Jackie Dupont, Hardy Girls, Healthy Women, 861-8131 or info@hghw.org or <a href="http://www.hghw.org">www.hghw.org</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 17: "Why Are We in Afghanistan?" film shown plus discussion to follow, 6 PM, Free Library, Belfast. Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County, 338-5089. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 20: Active Community Teach-In on "Bring Our War Dollars Home" w/speaker Mariam Raqib on Afghanistan, 1-5 PM, Unitarian-Universalist Church, 120 Park St., Bangor. Peace and Justice Center, 942-9343 or info@peacectr.org or <a href="http://www.peacectr.org">www.peacectr.org</a>. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 20: National March on Washington (US out of Afghanistan, Iraq NOW! and money for human needs. Buses from Boston and maybe Maine and NH. Contact 857-334-5084 or boston@answercoalition.org or <a href="http://www.March20.org">www.March20.org</a>. There may also be buses going from Maine and/or NH.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 20-25: Maine Jewish Film Festival, various times, Nickelodeon theaters, Temple St., Portland. MJFF, 831-7495 or filmfest@mjff.org or <a href="http://www.mjff.org">www.mjff.org</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 21: Doris (Granny D) Haddock speaks on clean elections and money out of politics, 3-5 PM, Public Library, Portsmouth, NH. Nancy Brown, <a href="mailto:nrgbrown3@comcast.net">nrgbrown3@comcast.net</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 24: Eat Local Celebration and Variety Show, 5-8 PM, location TBA, Belfast. Belfast Co-op, 338-2532.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 24-April 1: Walk for a Nuclear Free Future (going to the UN to ask for elimination of nuclear weapons and power) walks thru western and southern Maine, from Bethel (leaving from there on the 24th), Norway (25), Lewiston-Auburn (26), Bath (27), Brunswick (28), Freeport (29), Portland (31), Saco (April 1). For details on helping out, how to join the walk, overnight stays, evening programs, etc., contact Bruce Gagnon, 443-9502 or <a href="mailto:globalnet@mindspring.com">globalnet@mindspring.com</a>. </span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 27: 26th annual EqualityMaine awards dinner, 5:30-9:30, Holiday Inn by the Bay, 88 Spring St., Portland. Call 761-3732 or <a href="http://www.equalitymaine.org">www.equalitymaine.org</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 27: Annual Seed Swap and Scion Exchange, Common Ground Education Center, Unity. MOFGA, 568-4142 or mofga@mofga.org or <a href="http://www.mofga.org">www.mofga.org</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">March 28: "Union Maids" film shown (union organizing from the '30's to the present), 7 PM, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine, 170 Park St., Bangor. P&J Center, 942-9343 or info@peacectr.org or <a href="http://www.peacectr.org">www.peacectr.org</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">April 1: "Grow Your Own Organic Garden" evening courses in many parts of Maine. MOFGA, 568-4142 or mofga@mofga.org or <a href="http://www.mofga.org">www.mofga.org</a>.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">NOTICES:</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times New Roman" size="5" style="font: 19.0px Times New Roman">Thanks to the campaign for legislation to reduce solitarity confinement in Maine prisons, I have a packet of information on what the legislation means, how solitary can be a form of torture, and how to help pass the bill, LD 1611. Contact me (Larry Dansinger, 525-7776 or <a href="mailto:rosc@psouth.net">rosc@psouth.net</a>) for a copy of the information (which is not electronic, altho the Maine Civil Liberties Union, 774-5444, should have at least some of it in that form). </font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">Against Equality wants "your sassiest, snarkiest, silliest, and most sarcastic designs" for a new lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer/questioning postcard project. The cards will question whether "equality" is really what it's cracked up to be, especially when it comes to gay marriage, hate crimes legislation, and military inclusion. Designs will be put on the <a href="http://www.againstequality.org">www.againstequality.org</a> web site if they address one or more of the above themes. All entries must be received by March 31. For more details on how to create and send images, see the website or email <a href="mailto:againstequality@gmail.com">againstequality@gmail.com</a>.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">The 16th annual HOPE (Help Organize Peace Earthwide) Festival will take place on April 24 in Orono, sponsored by the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. This Earth Day + gathering always features scores of nonprofit groups, and the Center is encouraging more nonprofits (justice, peace, environment, whatever) to have information tables at the event. (They are also seeking local food vendors and ads for the program.) For an organizational table application: <a href="http://peacectr.org">http://peacectr.org</a> or call 942-9343 for an application.</span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">"Your Tax Money: Schools or Tanks? Health Care or Bombs? You Have a Choice" is a small (1/3 page) flyer that will be passed out in many communities in Maine between now and Tax Day (April 15). It will highlight how much of every individual's income tax dollar is going for past, present, and future wars (just under 50%) and what we can do to pay much less for war and more for human needs. If you can pass out flyers in your own community (any public location or event is fine), contact Larry Dansinger, Maine War Tax Resistance Resource Center, 525-7776 or rosc@psouth.net. A similar campaign, "Bring Our War $$ Home" continues thru April 15 as well. It is urging people to push congress and Maine legislators to support actions to bring tax money back to Maine, since an estimated $320 million went from Maine to pay for US wars elsewhere. For more on that campaign: <a href="http://www.bringourwardollarshome.org">www.bringourwardollarshome.org</a>.</span></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;"><br></span></font></p>
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