The state's largest peace organization has worked for more than 20 years to promote peace through grassroots organizing, citizen education, and issue advocacy. Peace Action Maine is an affiliate of the national Peace Action organization. www.peace-action.org

Our Mission Statement: Peace Action Maine is a voice of education and a center for all people committed to disarmament and creative responses to conflict.

Principles:

• We strive to involve community members in our decision-making processes and the day-to-day work of the organization.
  
  
• We work to promote the skills and abilities of all concerned people to more effectively work on our issues and other issues of concern to them.
  
  
• We seek to be a source of information and inspiration for all who would stand for peace.

We bring to our work a deep and lasting commitment to nonviolence, justice, and the empowerment of all people. Out of this commitment grows a necessity to educate in a manner that both promotes and models our values.

Board of Directors (as of March 2005)
Doug Bowen, Porter
Sally Breen (Treasurer), Windham
Diana Cowperthwaite, Waterboro Ctr
Monique Crochet, Portland
Joie Grandbois-Gallup, Portland
Ursula Slavick, Portland
Wells Staley-Mays, Portland
Karen Wainberg (President), Portland
Phil Weyenberg, Old Orchard Beach

Staff
Greg Field, Executive Director
Debbie Atwood, Associate Director
Jessica Eller, Program Coordinator
Eva D'Andrea
Donna Jones, Web Site Manager

Advisory Board Members

Tom Andrews - New Economy Communications/former US Rep. from Maine; Washington DC

Henry Bird - retired from a career on Indian Reservations; Harpswell

Jeanne Davis - UCC Peace Fellowship/former board member; Augusta

Tom Ewell - Maine Council of Churches; Portland

Bruce Gagnon - Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space; Brunswick

Janet Johnson - NAACP, Portland Branch; Scarborough

Margy Burns Knight - Author of children's literature; Winthrop

Frederick Lancaster - Peace Network; South Portland

Deborah Leighton - Feminist Sprirtual Community/ Raging Grannies/ Witness for Peace; Bath

John Rensenbrink - National & Intl Greens and former candidate for US Senate; Topsham

Rachel Talbot Ross - NAACP & City Manager's office; Portland

Tom Sturtevant - Veterans for Peace/former PAM Board member; Winthrop

Ellen Wells - Witness for Peace/Pax Christi/Maine Women's Fund; Falmouth

Peter Wilk - Physicians for Social Responsibility; Sebago

Kitsy Winthrop - Unitarian Minister; Portland

Anne B. Zill - University of New England; So. Freeport