This audio-only podcast is the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine event commemorating the 64th anniversary of the two nuclear bombings of civilian populations. This program including readings and prayer took place outside the Bangor Public Library in Peirce Park at noon Thursday August 6th, 2009. A full description of the event may be found HERE.
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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 the Active Community Teach-in on New Strategies for Organizing in the Obama Era held Saturday March 21, 2009 in Bangor, Maine.
This post includes the full-length talk by Joseph Gerson, about 65 minutes.
The event was sponsored by many active Maine peace, health care, labor, and environmental groups. The Peace & Justice Center of Eastern Maine was the lead planning organization.
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 peacectr.org for more information about the event.
Bangor, Maine; August 6, 2007
This is a broadcast-quality version (320 kbits, stereo) of the 1/2-hour WERU Voices special for Tuesday, August 14. It contains excerpts of the No More Hiroshimas programs held in Bangor on August 6.
A lower-bitrate version is archived HERE at WERU. If speed or space are a concern, the WERU file is much smaller.
The Bush–Putin agenda in Kennebunkport, Maine this weekend should include critical unfinished business of the post-Cold-War era: immediate steps to outlaw nuclear weapons. However, the US is pursuing a different path.
“… [The United States] [b]ehaving as a superpower that seeks perpetual dominance, … that considers itself and its allies as exempt from international law, will not make us more secure. It will only provoke proliferation, just as our invasion of Iraq has not reduced terrorism but has instead created new grievances and new bands of terrorists. By trying to reap maximum benefit from our temporary role as sole superpower, our government is acting like the terrorist we fear, and in the process is making more likely the very things we fear the most: nuclear terror and a new arms race.”
The excerpt above is from an op-ed published in the Saturday/Sunday June 30–July 1, 2007 edition of the Bangor Daily News. My friend Mike Howard and I co-wrote the piece. The full text (as submitted) of the op-ed is below the fold. The piece does not yet appear on line at the newspaper’s site. If it does, I will post an update.
Update: Posted at Bangor Daily News, HERE.
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