Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list! If these frequent emails (there is always a lot to address!) are overwhelming you, it’s easy to unsubscribe (click the unsubscribe link at the bottom), and when you feel like coming back, just sign up again on our website.

Here is today’s Call to Action from Mid Maine Indivisible. Also, remember our weekly vigils here in the Bangor area! We have the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor and the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil. 

Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! We have had a huge influx of new members these past few months and to keep up, YOUR skills, connections, and input are needed! Weekly meetings on Zoom and monthly in-person.  Click here to sign up to join us!

Yesterday was Part 2 of Indivisible Project’s virtual event One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism. Part 3 will happen on August 13. Click here to sign up! And click here for the recording of Part 1. They will be posting Part 2 soon.

And please check out the latest Action from Hancock County Democrats, Action 155:  “Stop the genocide.” Past actions are listed here.

About yesterday’s Action #154: Please note: the Hancock County Democratic Committee informs us that it does not formally endorse any particular Democrat in any election where more than one Democrat may be running in competition with each other. The Action Item should not be construed as an official endorsement. May the best candidate of whatever party win the ranked choice primary and go on to win the election in 2026!

Lastly, our friends at the Bold Coast Civic Alliance have drawn up another super handy list of items we can address. Check it out here!

Thank you for all you do! – Dave from Indivisible Bangor

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Hi Folks,

Good morning everyone it’s our last Thursday in July. Half the summer to go!  Get out and pick those blueberries!

Get involved with Stand Ups for Palestinian rights! There are actions around the State tracked at Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights.

Call our Senators and thank them for voting against Emil Bove’s appointment to the Federal Appeals Court, as well as asking them to support continuing the ACA tax credits (details below) and passing laws that support clean energy (details below).

From earlier this week – support clean energy as below and also ask our delegation to vote to extend the ACA tax credits.

For the Heart

For Your Heart this sixth Week of Summer: 

And so, you can view this fleeting world,  a star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lighting in a summer cloud, a flickering lamp, a phantom and a dream.  12th c Dogen. We can make this a practice and smell the roses of this great gift, this magical gift of life.
-Nancy Hathaway  Center for Studying Mindfulness 

Sleeping in the Forest

I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts, her pockets
full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars
but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms
breathing around me, the insects,
and the birds who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom. By morning
I had vanished at least a dozen times
into something better.

 By: Mary Oliver

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Join Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights: Palestinians deserve human rights they are being deprived of now. Make it clear that Mainers do not support this – go here for actions around Maine that protest the actions of the Israeli Government in Gaza.
• Call our Congress people to support clean energy:  The Citizens’ Climate Lobby is 800 strong in DC lobbying for funding clean energy and passing reform legislation for energy projects. To learn more and call in through their website go here.Use these handouts for additional talking points if you like, or just use the link.  
• Protect the Affordable Care Act: Ask our Congressional Delegation to maintain the ACA’s tax credits. Tax credits that help support the ACA are slated to be ended at the end of this year. This will make the ACA premiums 75% more expensive and force 4 million people off insurance over the next 10 years. Go here for more information.
• Join Indivisible for their One Million Rising Trainings: Go here to register for this training that will be happening July 30th and August 13th. You can watch the first and second trainings here.
• Start making a list of friends who are like-minded but have not yet taken action: To get to 3.5% (11.6 million folks) of the US population we need everyone to get involved in the resistance. Use this list to invite folks to actions, events, and contact campaigns that will help activate them. For more on the 3.5% rule go here.

Statewide Actions This Week:

• Stand Up for Palestinan Rights:  For events going on around the state in support of the Palestinian people go to Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights here.
• August 2nd Rage Against the Regime Actions in Maine. 12 – 2 in Augusta, and in several other locations in Maine. Go here for more details.
• If you know your Maine Representative or Senator is supportive of making ICE accountable in Maine,  ask them to join with Representative Cassie Julia to put in a bill to ensure proper identification of ICE agents acting in Maine. Lawmakers in California have introduced legislation requiring the identity and affiliation of ICE agents to be displayed while interacting with the public. 
• Indivisible Actions – Register Here, For the One Million Rising action – register here  and watch the first session here.
• Help Activate Maine out – go here to submit events!
• Buy some American Flags for your next Demo; there are lots around from July 4th – Reny’s (“the Maine Shopping Experience”) has bunches.

Angus King             
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292 

Susan Collins         
DC: (202) 224-2523 
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417

Chellie Pingree      
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019  
Waterville: (207) 873-5713  

Jared Golden         
DC: (202) 225-6306 
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009 
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767

Find Your State Senator: Here

Find your State Representative: 
By name: Here
By district: Here

LOCAL ACTIONS: Join Mid Maine Indivisible(Kennebec and Somerset Counties) Please join us if you are in the Mid Maine area.  To sign up: go here. 

Are you interested in helping New Mainers learn/improve their English? To sign up for English tutoring or any of our other volunteer opportunities, please visit: Capital Area New Mainers Project (CANMP) to fill out a volunteer interest survey. An English Learning option at the Waterville library at 1:00 on Mondays is also an option for volunteers. Contact CANMP for the details.

Thursday, July 31st: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge,  Stop the Coup + Save Democracy. 

First Saturday of each Month at 2:30: Somerset Stands Up Rallies-Margaret Chase Smith Bridge, downtown Skowhegan. Bring your signs, American flags, your voice, your friends, families and neighbors for this peaceful gathering of concerned residents of Somerset County. Next one is August 2nd, 2:30.

Sunday, August 3d: at 1:00 (and every Sunday): Stand with us against Trump/Stephen Miller; For Peace in the Middle East, For Ukraine, Stop the War in Iran, etc. on the Bridge by CVS in Waterville.

Tuesday, August 5th: 12:00-1:00 (and every Tuesday)  Stand against Tesla/Musk and the rising authoritarian state: around the Tesla Charging Station Elm Plaza on Main Street, Waterville. 

Wednesday, August 6th: (and every Wednesday) 12:00-1:00 Waterville, Maine. Corner of Main and Chaplin St. Grandmothers for Reproductive Rights, GRR! demonstrates every Wednesday across from Resolve, the local anti-abortion center. Please join us in assuring all Mainers have access to safe, legal, shame-free reproductive health care including abortions and contraceptive care. For more info please contact Elayne Richard  at recordconnection@gmail.com. 

MORE ACTIONS

*If you haven’t yet, write your letter to Governor Mills thanking her for her stand against Trump, and asking her to run against Collins. SHE HAS NOT YET RULED THIS OUT! Hand written if possible.  Mail to: State House Station 1, Augusta, Maine, 04333. 

*If you would like to join Maine People’s Alliance Federal Lobby Group, please contact Jim Parakilas at jamesparakilas@gmail.com. We meet Mondays at 2 pm. Consider joining the MPA for trainings in June and July on resistance strategy, lobbying, and other areas. Contact Jim on this.

With great appreciation for all the engagement everywhere! 

As always, throw a little sand in their gears! 

-MId Maine Indivisible 

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.  Albert Einstein