Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list! 

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, then the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil, and TODAY is Thursday Weekly Vigil at the Bangor City Hall.

Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? 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!

Seats are filling up fast! Join U.S. Senate Candidate Jordan Wood for a community conversation in Bangor. Bring questions and engage directly with Jordan! Event will be on August 14th in Bangor.  Click here for more info and to sign up!

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

Lastly, our friends at the Bold Coast Civic Alliance have drawn up a new (7/31) 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 a Thursday for the Heart!

Taking art and action to the Streets. Indivisible Cumberland County has created posters which can be put up on telephone poles – “Healthcare Shouldn’t Bankrupt Us” “Child Care Must be Affordable” “We Need Homes Not Palaces”. You can create your own – such as a favorite sign spotted recently: “Fight Truth Decay”, and “All Are Welcome Here”  If we can put lost cats and dogs on telephone polls we can also put up messages – everywhere.

Consult with your favorite artist to design something.  Let’s plaster our towns and neighborhoods with messages that make us think, and then act! One local community resistance group is going to work on putting “All Are Welcome Here” posters in businesses throughout Waterville. What can you do along the same lines?

From Yesterday:

Call our Congressional Delegation and demand the release of the Epstein files. Indivisible has an “Epstein Tool Kit” to help fan the flames of this “crisis” for our corrupt administration. (Details Below)

Consider joining Indivisible’s One Million Rising Effort by taking their trainings (3) about an hour each, and inviting a group of like-minded friends to discuss what can be done in this moment to build a mass movement.

Trump is pulling out all the stops and we need to match and exceed his momentum.

Pressure our Congressional Delegation to end the humanitarian crisis and war in Gaza. A joint resolution of disapproval to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel has been introduced in the house. 

For the HeartFor Your Heart this Seventh Week of Summer: 

We are happier and have less suffering when we can stand centered in the middle of life,  with either the pleasant or unpleasant. Feel and not push away. Then respond. 

                       –Nancy Hathaway  Center for Studying Mindfulness 

LOST

Stand still. 

The trees ahead and bushes beside you 

Are not lost. 

Wherever you are is called 

Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, 

Must ask permission to know it and be known. 

The forest breathes. Listen. 

It answers, 

I have made this place around you.

If you leave it, you may come back again, saying 

Here. No trees are the same to Raven.

No two branches are the same to Wren.

If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, 

You are surely lost. Stand still. 

The forest knows 

Where you are. 

You must let it find you. 

–David Wagoner

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Get a poster campaign going in your neighborhood – there are telephone polls everywhere:  Indivisible Cumberland County has some great ones you can use – click here – this will lead you to an email you can send to Jennifer Morris. Design your own signs and/or get an artist to design some for you.
• From Yesterday and this Past Week
• Call Governor Mills to ask her to publicly denounce the Gerrymandering in Texas:  Call her at 207-287-3531 or contact her by email through her website; ask her to publicly call out this radical and unethical, and norm-destroying process. More details at 5calls.org.
• Call our delegation and demand the release of the Epstein files: Check out Indivisible’s Epstein Toolkit to help you with your calls and rallying friends.  More details also at 5calls.org .
• Join the One Million Rising Effort: The final training will be on August 13th, but between now and then you can watch the first two. Go here to get connected.
• Call the Maine Delegation to request an individual meeting or take part in a Town Hall:  Congress is on recess during August.  This is a good time to meet with our representatives, or their staff to push for the issues we are most concerned about.  Gather 5-6 friends and make a date to talk to Collins, King, Golden, or Pingree.  More details at 5calls.org.
• Call our delegation to demand the end of the war in Gaza:  The progressive caucus in the house has put in a bill calling for the end of the US supplying specific offensive weapons to the Israeli army. Support this bill and for more general information on this effort go to 5calls.org. Indivisible has suggestions on this as well.
• Start planning on mass actions for this coming Labor Day: Groups around Maine and the nation are calling for Mass Action on Labor Day – Monday, September 1st. Set this date aside in your calendar and connect with an action going on near you.

Statewide Actions This Week:

• Start a Poster Campaign in Your Neighborhood! Go here for ideas. Check out the full Cumberland Indivisible newsletter below – lots of events to connect with.
• 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.
• 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. Watch the second session here.  Consider hosting a Community Resistance meeting using Indivisible outline and guidelines.
• Keep your calendar open for Labor Day Mass Action September 1st!

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. 

Help Support the Winslow Community Cubbard Food Bank at the Winslow Blueberry Festival, Friday and Saturday:  Friday 3 – 6, free live music, BBQ ($15) ; Saturday 8 – 1 – live music, rummage sale, auction, all at the Winslow Congregational Church, 12 Lithgow Street, 

Are you interested in helping New Mainers learn/improve their English? CANMP has a volunteer update you can join here on Tuesday August 12th, 6 – 7 pm at Bricks Coworking in Waterville.  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.

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 September 6th, 2:30

Sunday, August 10th: 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.

Wednesday, August 13th: (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. 

Tuesday, August 12th: 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. 

Thursday, August 14th: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge,  Stop the Coup + Save Democracy. 

Monday, September 1st: 10 to 12:00 noon:  Indivisible Mid Maine is planning a short march and rallywith speakers, music and snacks. Pay attention to this space for more info.

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