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Island Peace and Justice (Deer Isle)

Contact Hank Whitsett ; phone: 348-6005

Mission:

* Global peace through international cooperation

* Social and economic justice

* Care and repair of the environment

* Active discussion of all matters of public policy

WEEKLY VIGIL at the town green

Actions and events which the group has taken or sponsored

SPEAKERS
1. Tom Jackson with his film, "GREETINGS FROM MISSILE STREET" a close up
look at the effects of political sanctions in Iraq with an informative
profile of Kathy Kelly and the Voices in the Wilderness, filmed in Iraq
before the second Gulf War...held at the Reach Performing Arts Center, Deer
Isle
2. Kathy Kelly: Witness from Iraq, from Voices in the Wilderness:  Summer
2003, at  Deb Marshalls home on Deer Isle...... Co sponsored with Peninsula
Peace & Justice
3. 3 speaker panel at the Deer Isle/Stonington High School to inform
students of issues of US foreign policy and Iraq war from three different
perspectives
4. Peter Davis & Alicia Anstead: report on their recent trip to Iraq
CO SPONSORED : with Peninsula Peace & Justice

INFORMATION HANDOUTS, BULLETINS AND RECRUITER INFORMATION
1. our information committee produced one page bulletins and a folding
phamphlet, we distributed them in the July 4th parade, weekly at the
farmer's market, at the post office and the galley (local market), left them
at several local restaurants and at the Fishermen's wives Fair at the
Stonington pier. (CONTACT DUD HENDRICK FOR INFO...348-2511)

2. Nancy Hill received permission from the Superintendent of Schools to put
MILITARY RECRUITMENT MYTHS pamphlets in the High School right alongside the
recruiter's info and college choices.  a flyer and pamphlet debunk military
myths used to snare our sons and daughters. (CONTACT NANCY HILL
python@midmaine.com)

MOVIES AND VIDEOS
1. Greetings From MISSILE STREET
2. UNCOVERED (MOVEON.ORG)
3. Zapatista (Nancy Hill)
4. CIA covert operations since WW2
5. the Road To Clean Elections www.publiccampaign.org
6. WASH. D.C. RALLY first hand (Pat Wheeler)

THEATER
WINTER HARBOR THEATER presented a scene from Tony Kushner's "Only We Who
Guard The Mystery Shall Be Unhappy" (Caitlin Shetterly & Tessy LeBlanc,
Portland, ME)

ART
Portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth by Rob Shetterly at the g. Watson
Gallery in Stonington, ME

COMMUNITY DIALOGUE:
Community discussion on America's foreign policy and the War in
Iraq....first of a continuing series to engage all members of the community:
Deer Isle Congregation Church Hall (contact: TONY AND ANNE FERRERA)
CO SPONSORED: Peninsula Peace & Justice

July 4th parade: won most peaceful award

Various  members traveled to: Washington, D.C., Boston, MA, New York City,
Bangor, Augusta to participate in anti-war rallies , the ANSWER conference
and the HOPE conference as well as state conferences and regional meetings
as well as participating in civil disobedience