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, the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil, followed by the Thursday Weekly Vigil at the Bangor City Hall with a NEW TIME at 5:00 pm!

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!

The Mi’kmaq Nation’s Annual Mawiomi of Tribes is happening this coming weekend!!  August 15-17 in Caribou!  Click here for more information!

The AFL-CIO Bus Tour Stops in Brewer! Tuesday, August 26, 2025•11:00 AM at the Eastern Maine Labor Council• 20 Ivers Street, Brewer, ME 04412. Click here for more details!

Indivisible Bangor “Workers Over Billionaires Rally”
Labor Day, September 1, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in downtown Bangor! Final details coming! Later on Labor Day, the Eastern Maine Labor Council AFL-CIO & Food AND Medicine’s 22nd Annual Labor Day Celebration at 4:00 pm. Click here for more details.

We have another easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangor and tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here! Thank you!

And please check out the latest Action from Hancock County Democrats, Action 157. “Do something Sept. 1.” 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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Good Monday Morning to everyone, 

Some actions to be aware of this week – in Bangor a meet and greet with Senate Candidate Jordan Wood, gathering your group and meeting with a member of our Congressional Delegation while they are on recess, and taking part in Friends Across the Border Rallies this Saturday August 16th. (Maine has a 611 mile border with Canada!)

Linda suggests we all take action to let the Maine Turnpike Authority (877) 682-9433–dial 0 or stay on the line) that Mainers do not want a Chick-Fil-A vendor on the Maine Turnpike. This outfit is openly anti LGBQT+ and rooted in white, right wing, evangelical philosophy. They are early in the process at this point so this is a great time to voice your opinion.

  From Last Week:

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.

Note:  I have been alerted that overtly political messages could be deemed illegal as the poles belong to CMP, so think carefully about the message before you plaster!

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Call the Maine Turnpike Authority: (877) 682-9433–dial 0 or stay on the line) Let Them Know We Don’t Want Chick-Fil-A As A Vendor. More on this company from Gay Thrive here.
• Set up a meeting with one member of our Congressional Delegation: I know it feels like it’s futile with some of them, but you never know where the tipping point is on any of these issues.Here are some of the guidelines that Indivisible Mid Maine uses for our meetings, and here is a list of some meetings we have organized and topics covered. Please contact Bonnie if you are interested in hearing more. 
• Call three friends to see if they would like to get more involved in the resistance: We need to build this movement, and that can only happen through using our friend and family networks to get people more involved. Invite interested folks to join the actions you are already involved in!
• 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. Remember poles belong to CMP and overtly political statements may be subject to legal action, however they seem to be ok with lost cats and dogs.
  • Statewide Actions This Week:

• Consider joining a  special Friends Across Borders rally for U.S. rallies to celebrate friendships with Canada and Mexico. Saturday, August 16th  is a good time to have signs celebrating our Canadian/Mexican connections.
• Meet Senate Candidate Jordan Wood in Bangor, Thursday August 14th,  sign up here.
• Call the Maine Turnpike Authority to say NO to Chick-Fil-A as a vendor.
• 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.
• Indivisible Cumberland is ramping up their activities – they want ideas for action – take their survey here.
• 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. 

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.

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. 

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. 

Thursday, August 14th: 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 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.

Monday, September 1st: 10 to 12:00 noon:  Indivisible Mid Maine is planning a short march and rally in Watervillewith speakers, music and snacks. We have several speakers lined up, including Jon Godbout (CANMP), Jesse Hargrove (Maine Ed Assoc), and Andy O’Brien (Maine AFL-CIO). The event will be a fundraiser for the CANMP rapid response fund. 

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

“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?” ~ Tony Kushner

“Keep on Trucking” – R. Crumb