05/19/2008
from the Kennebec Journal
FAIRPOINT PLAN TARGETS DEBT
Wind project off Mass. meets strong resistance
Three bills seek tougher rules for petitioners
New rules for special education debated
Happy apples
AUGUSTA: Cuts to French curriculum run into opposition
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Hall-Dale drops MVC title game to Mountain Valley
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY NOTEBOOK: Different stakes in Gardiner-Winslow rivalry
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from the Morning Sentinel
'At the time ... he was psychotic'
Man answers door, is attacked with Mace and then robbed
FairPoint reorganization plan aims to slash company's debt
Concerns over special-education changes aired
FAIRFIELD: Clinton man, 21, arrested on rape, assault charges
Stun gun, arrest of suspect end high-speed, 2-town chase
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY NOTEBOOK: Gardiner, Winslow take to ice again
GIRLS BASKETBALL: Skowhegan wins KVAC A title game
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Rabbi Michael Lerner of the Network of Spiritual Progressives has outlined a Global Marshall Plan, which embraces a policy of generosity that promotes peace.
It is a detailed plan that can be studied online. Just type Global Marshall Plan in your browser. Anyone who remembers the Marshall Plan from World War II will realize that it stabilized Europe after the war. That peace continues today.
Another plan calls for the creation of a Department of Peace. This would be a cabinet-level department with all the status of the departments of Agriculture, Defense and the others.
Through this Peace Department, peaceful resolutions would be explored at the international, national and even local levels. Not only would the lack of war be a goal, but a total culture of peace would be studied to improve the daily lives of all Americans, through the elimination of all violence.
You can learn more about this by contacting Lynn Ellis at www.mained op.org.
Waterville Area Bridges for Peace and Justice supports the above plans and more. Space doesn't allow all of them.
A University of Maine at Farmington sophomore told me the other day, "If we sweat for peace, we won't have to bleed for war."
Peter P. Sirois
Madison




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