Tag: costs of war

Weekend Voices 9/18/10

Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe

Audio from the August 26th, 2010 public meeting, organized by Veterans for Peace, as part of its National Convention in Portland, Maine. The speakers spoke about the costs of war, lifting the fog of war.

Speakers:

Terry Tempest Williams, Author and environmental activist
Mike Brennan, Social Worker and former State Senate Majority Leader
Matt Moonen, Political Director of Equality Maine
Geoff Millard, Board Chairman of Iraq Veterans Against the War

FMI: www.veteransforpeace.org , www.ivaw.org

Weekend Voices 4/3/10

Producer: Carolyn Coe

Host: Amy Browne

Topic:  Speakers from the Active Community Teach-In “Bring Our War $$ Home”, held in Bangor on 3/20/10, sponsored by the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine.

Keynote: Mariam Atifa Raqib, President of Samsortya, a nonprofit with the goal of reforesting part of eastern Afghanistan.  Raqib worked from 1996-2007 with the Afghan Health and Social Assistance Organization in Peshwar, Pakistan.  She was born in Afghanistan.  In her keynote she provides a timeline of Afghanistan’s recent history, since the abolition of the Afghan monarchy.  FMI: www.afghanistansamsortya.org

Gold Star Mother Mary Alice Horrigan speaks about the human costs (among other costs) of war.