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| Tom Whitney holding the 'Bring Our War $$$ Home' banner |
Twenty of us from around the state gathered in Norway, Maine yesterday for another of our monthly anti-war vigils that we've been holding since early 2022.
Norway is in the southwest part of Maine, close to the New Hampshire border. Retired doctor Tom Whitney, a long-time major supporter of Cuba, was the host organizer and turned out some locals to join us. (I once heard that Tom had delivered half the babies in the area years ago.)
As usual we spread out in a very busy intersection. There was a tiny a bit of occasional misty rain but the steadier flow held off until we headed home. (MB and I chanted "Rain, rain go away. Come back at 3 o'clock" on our lovely countryside drive to Norway from our home in Brunswick.)
Norway (just next to South Paris and near West Paris) is fairly conservative and rural. But in spite of that we received warm greetings from many vehicles passing us by. More and more people are reacting to the current insanity.
After our closing circle a dozen of us went to a nearby local home style restaurant to continue talking about life in a growing fascist nation - now formally united, with congressional approval, in endless war$ with our 'partner in crime' Israel.
Having just made the long drive from Maine to our Pentagon civil resistance court hearing in Virginia and back, the four of us (Mark, Lisa, MB and me) still got our road-weary bones to Norway and we were glad we did!
Here is our busy upcoming summer schedule:
- Protest the Blue Angels airshow at former navy base in Brunswick on July 11 at 9:00 am
- Our next monthly rotating protest will be in Bangor on July 25 at West Market Square in downtown at 11:00 am (Please note the change from our usual time)
- Monthly protest on August 1 in Lubec (at the Canadian border) at 1:30 pm
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