Welcome to Maine Peace Action Committee
“Nonviolence seeks to defeat injustice, not people. Nonviolence recognizes that people who choose actions that create injustices are also victims, and not evil people. The nonviolent resister seeks to defeat injustices, not people.”
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Welcome to the Maine Peace Action Committee Website!
The Maine Peace Action Committee is dedicated to understanding, practicing and promoting awareness of values of peace and nonviolence here at the University of Maine and at the local, state, national, and global level. We are an alliance of students and community members who wish to actively oppose, through nonviolent means, both militarism (the efforts to use weapons and other military means to solve human problems) and imperialism (the efforts by powerful nations to use economic and military means to impose their will upon less powerful peoples).
To effectively do this, we understand the necessity of becoming more peaceful and nonviolent in our daily lives. We know that we cannot just promote peace, but that we must be peace. Thus, we are continuously working together in order to better understand the many ways in which this can be done.
Meetings are held every Tuesday at 3:30PM during the academic year, in the Virtue Room of the Maples building.
If you would like more information please contact Eric Collins, Daniel K. White or Doug Allen on FirstClass (i.e. eric.collins@umit.maine.edu).
Every semester, the Maine Peace Action Committee publishes a newsletter with articles, drawings, poetry, recipes, and more in order to educate and create awareness of myriad topics relating to peace and justice. Over four hundred copies are sent nationwide to professors, former members and to other peace and justice organizations. Locally, we disperse thousands of copies to the student body and to the greater Orono community. In case you cannot find access to a hard copy, below is a link to download an electronic version in pdf format. We hope you enjoy!
(updated 1/25/2012)