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June e-news update  2022
June 18. It's happening! This Saturday! #MeetUsInDC at 9:30am ET on June 18  or tune in online www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/livestream. Find Schedule for entire weekend HERE. (Photo op after assembly ends-gather at the peace tank!)
YEMEN. June 23 6:30 30 min.Register for an Emergency Rapid Action Event for Mainers. Peace Action Maine asks you to act today for Yemen! Sign FCNL's petition HERE -War Powers Resolution HJ Res. 87: Stop supporting Saudi Arabia’s brutal campaign in Yemen. Phone/tweet contacts are HERE. Be sure to thank Rep. Pingree, who signed on as co-sponsor June 9. #YemenCantWait
June 13. Brian Milakovsky & our Somerville Maine family friends helped in the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation  of over 70 people from Seversk, Soledar, Bakhmut, Slavyansk, & from Kramatorsk Ukraine. Donations welcomed HERE
Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: We met with Rep. Pingree's office June 9, to ask her support for the Norton Bill, to sign the ICAN pledge  and to join the Press Conference in DC - help draw attention to the First Meeting of States Parties to the TPNW (Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons) taking place in Vienna from June 21-23. It was our honor that Dr. Timmon Wallis joined us. Guatemala has just ratified the treaty, making Central America  the first entire region to support the TPNW . #NuclearBan #TPNW1MSP (Screenshot)
These Times Through the Eyes of a Veteran for Peace https://fb.watch/dEReIEXfMY/ via @FacebookWatch. Check out New Hampshire PA's Will Hopkins talk on Tuesday!
UKRAINE. June 25 is the next global day of action & call for Peace. Read John Raby's new rousing columns on Ukraine, "Hobbling toward oblivion", "Tsunamies in the Black Sea", "Mad, Sad, and Nuts"
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ON IRAN. PAM entreats Biden to restore the JCPOA (the Iran Nuclear Deal) and continues to actively tweet our MOC to #ResealTheDeal.
End Gun Violence. So many gathered together in Lincoln Park on June 11 and across Maine. Press Conference raw video HERE. Check out the many photos on Face Book.
July 8-10 #NoWar2022 World Beyond War's Virtual Global Conference, Peace Action Maine will pay for a limited number of tickets. If you are interested, contact info@peaceactionme.org using "#NoWar2022" in the title.
Peace Action Maine is a proud state affiliate of Peace Action for many reasons. This is one of them: Meet candidate Kina Collins(IL-07) June 16.
Common Ground Country Fair 2022!  Mark it on your calendars, Sept. 23, 24, 25.
Heidi Peltier:(Sr. Researcher) New: What the Pentagon Doesn't Need
Lest we forget the COSTS OF WAR:
-8 TRILLION Dollars
-1.2 BILLION Metric Tons of GHGases,
 -37 MILLION Displaced,
 -801,000  Dead.
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