Which side are you on?
You pick - 43,000 kids in Maine living in poverty or more corporate welfare for a mega-rich General Dynamics - which had $3 billion in profit last year?
Who needs help the most?
Video by Regis Tremblay
Bruce Gagnon is coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space. He offers his own reflections on organizing and the state of America's declining empire....
The collapsing US military & economic empire is making Washington & NATO even more dangerous. US could not beat the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran...a sign of psychopathology for sure. @BruceKGagnon
Inside of the packed Taxation Committee hearing room yesterday. |
I had another one [letter printed] in the Free Press this week. And I had a chance encounter with Sen. John Martin [conservative State Senator] and some lobbyists for BIW. I told them my thoughts about the DESTROYERS and that they kill children and told them I would be arrested at the next "christening". Take care.Suzanne is a long-time peace activist in Maine and still drives across the state for protests and various other events. She is an associate member of Veterans For Peace as well. She's one of a kind. We all respect her so much.
There has came an initiative from Norway to make a common Nordic peace statement against the militarization of the Northern Europe. The Peace Committee of Finland has joined it, which I am glad for. At the same time our government and parliament are discussing new surveillance laws which make it more easy to read people's emails and letters. So they try to create totalitarianism, I guess. (We must talk, write and think as StratCom tells us.)
Here’s my story about Bill Haggett: About 40 years ago, [now US Senator] Angus King had a program on TV in which he interviewed people. One night, when I was watching, he interviewed Bill Haggett. Angus asked him to predict the future of BIW. Haggett responded something like this: "In the worst possible scenario, peace.…" I wrote a letter to the editor of the Times Record quoting him. He called me to say, "Mrs. Sternlieb, I am not a warmonger." I’d like to know what else you could call him.
I took Sally Alice Thompson (94) to the ER again today with pneumonia. She was also there for it last month. She is tireless, at this age and opening her house to political asylum seekers and doing demos. The VFP chapter is named for her here. She is like our mother. I told her of your hunger strike and why and she said 'well I might as well join Bruce' — but she was in the ER bed trying to breathe. I told her to get well first and then she could do a sympathy strike with you. I think knowing what you are doing made her a little more determined to get well soon...