Brian Clement
This is a special podcast featuring Brian Clement, Iraq war veteran and student at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine. Mr. Clement spoke on October 24, 2006 as part of an Iraq war teach-in sponsored by the History Department at the University of Maine.
Mr. Clement spoke in terms of stark reality about the war in Iraq. Please listen to Brian Clement tell of his experiences in Iraq and his conclusions about the war in his own words. I think you’ll agree that Mr. Clement in the beginning sells himself short as a powerful public speaker.
See also, keynote address at the March 25, 2006 Real Security Hearing by Richard & Rita Clement, Brian’s parents, posted HERE.
On Saturday October 14, 2006, the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine held its annual Harvest Supper. Bob St. Peter, Resident Steward of the Good Life Center in Harborside, Maine gave the keynote address on the legacy of Helen and Scott Nearing.
The primary purpose of the Good Life Center is to preserve Forest Farm, the Nearing’s last hand-built homestead of. Its mission is to “perpetuate the philosophies and lifeways promoted and exemplified by Helen and Scott Nearing, two of America’s most inspirational practitioners of simple, frugal and purposeful living.”
Bob St. Peter and his family are now charged with the care of Forest Farm. Bob’s talk follows the one given at the Peace and Justice Center’s first Harvest Supper seventeen years ago by Helen Nearing herself.
Bob discusses the incredible journey through life recorded by Helen and Scott in their writings. While many people are familiar with the Good Life and Maple Sugar books, Bob focuses for a bit on Scott’s voluminous but nowadays less-read political work–still vibrant and applicable to today’s world. Bob also raises issues of food consciousness and food justice that are integral to the Nearing legacy.
This program was broadcast on WERU Community Radio on Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 2006.
“Wendell Berry has said that ‘eating is an agricultural act.’ I would agree, and add that it can also be an act of resistance…” -–Bob St. Peter
24 min; 8 MB; 48 kbps mp3; download link here ->
This podcast features human rights activist Lisa Sullivan speaking about Military Force and Empire: Latin America and THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS. The event took place at the Memorial Union, University of Maine, Orono, ME on October 12, 2006 as part of the Fall 2006 Thursday series.
Lisa Sullivan works with the School of the America’s Watch and for Venezuela Information Center in Washington. With the Maryknoll sisters, she lived and worked for 25 years in Venezuela, and has been active in Mexico, Bolivia and other parts of Latin America.
In this program, Lisa Sullivan describes the efforts to close the US torture school now known officially as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC). She discusses remarkable meetings with defense officials from various Latin American countries.
The talk preceded the November 17-19, 2006 rally across hemisphere to demand closure of the WHINSEC. This big event is an annual mass vigil at the gate of the WHINSEC compound in Fort Benning, GA.
Please visit soaw.org for more information.
63 min; 21 MB; 48 kbps mp3; download link here ->
This podcast features Imad Durra and Wassim Mazraany on Lebanon and Middle East politics.
Both speakers are Lebanese and are medical doctors practicing in the Bangor, Maine area. The observations and commentary they give in this program are uniquely personal. They have relatives in Lebanon, and had loved ones visiting the country from the States who were trapped by the summertime Israeli bombing.
The program was part of the Fall 2006 Thursday series at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine.
69 min; 24 MB; 48 kbps mp3; download link here ->
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