Media for the peace movement in Maine and the world
Scary Middle Class crises
Shot at the Labor Temple in Brewer, Maine, this video is a trip through the Underworld featuring job stress, pension loss, health care failure, & crushing debt. Worker solidarity is the only way to slay these monsters. Created by William Rice for the Eastern Maine Labor Council & Food AND Medicine, October 2007.
This special podcast features Maine attorney and civil liberties champion Phil Worden. Phil Worden, along with his colleague, attorney Lynne Williams, received the 2007 Hands of Peace award from the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine. This program is Phil Worden’s short but powerful acceptance speech given at the Center’s annual Harvest Supper event at the Unitarian Universalist church on Park Street in Bangor, Maine on Saturday October 13, 2007.
Update 12/28/2007: The shameless reactionary Jonah Goldberg has published a book called “Liberal Fascism.” Sheesh, what passes for conservative intellectualism these days! The blog Sadly, No! explains the folly here. Phil Worden would find the musings of Goldberg and the insufferable Glenn Reynolds beyond the pale in ignorance about the nature of real fascism. Orcinus explains that Goldberg merely repeats propaganda the Nazis created about themselves beginning eight decades ago.
“It is because of us that the Euphrates River runs thick with red blood” –Mary Alice Horrigan
Incredible coverage in the October 1, 2007 edition of The Bangor Daily News, please click image for newspaper’s website
Re-raising Lady Liberty
Below is the order of events at the rally with the beginning time of each segment in the 53-minute-long mp3 file. Audio of the eight-minute speech by Gold Star mother Mary Alice Horrigan (discussed in the incredible Bangor Daily News article linked to above) begins at 23:12 with her introduction by Doug Allen.
Rally & demonstration, Saturday September 29, 2007 at the “Paul Bunyan” park on Main Street in Bangor
Drumming — Peter Baldwin and Friends Tolling of Bells by area churches (audio not included here)
0:00 Introduction—Doug Allen, Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine, Maine Peace Action Committee (MPAC)
10:12 The Economic Costs of War—U Maine Students of Maine Peace Action Committee
17:46 “The Circle is Broken”—David McLean, singer, song-writer with Maria Irrera
23:12 Mourning the Iraq War Dead—Mary Alice Horrigan, Gold Star Mother
31:02 Reading of Names of Iraq War Dead—Members of Military Families Speak Out and Veterans for Peace (participants lie down to represent war dead or stand silently as mourners).
Bagpipe tribute—Peter Beckford, Simon Beckford and Ursa Beckford (audio not included here)
37:23 Mourning the loss of civil liberties—Lady Liberty in State—Peter Baldwin Responsive reading of parts of the Declaration of Independence
42:05 Rise up with signs and symbols of alternatives to war and sing along “Women’s Peace Prayer,” “We are One” “Peace, Salaam, Shalom” Voices for Peace and Women with Wings (end of audio file)
Chain of Concern—line up along Main Street with signs and symbols
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