Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list! 

Here is today’s Call to Action from Mid Maine Indivisible. But first, Indivisible Bangor announcements:

Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area! Tomorrow, there is 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! This is a new vigil and they need more participants.

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!

We’re having a Postcard Party! THIS Thursday, August 21, at Food AND Medicine• 20 Ivers Street, Brewer, ME 04412, from 5:30 – 7:30. Details and sign up here!

Save Maine Absentee Voting Canvass, Bangor/Brewer, Sunday August 24, 2025! We need to educate Maine voters that Question 1 on November’s ballot is about a whole lot more than just “Voter I.D.,” but also includes many voter suppression provisions. Click here for more details and to sign up.

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. Click here for more information and to sign up! Bring signs and American flags! (Reny’s has a boatload of flags!)

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. Or just RSVP HERE!

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 super handy list of items we can address (8/15). Check it out here!

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

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Hi Folks, it’s Monday and, as Sonny and Cher might say: “The Beat Goes On”.

Avelo Airlines, flying now out of PORTLAND, Maine,  has a contract with ICE to deport folks who ICE has abducted. There is no due process for these people. They are flown to unknown countries and detention centers. Avelo is making big money off this unethical and fundamentally unconstitutional agreement. We need to make this a money-loser for Avelo. Take the “I Won’t Fly Avelo” pledge.  Call their leadership and tell them to drop the Deportation Contract with ICE. Deportations are happening now.  People are getting flown out of  Portland, Maine.  Let’s stop this. (This is a major campaign of National Indivisible)

Note: I will be camping the rest of this week until Friday, so no Action Emails until then.

From last week:

Consider putting up posters in your neck of the woods.  If you don’t want to use paper, consider the Chalking Project proposed by Audacity. Chalk “Truth Matters” on public roads and sidewalks. 

Oppose the nomination of EJ Antoni for Commissioner of Labor Statistics. This nomination is still up in the air.

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Contact Avelo Airlines and ask them to “Drop the Deportation Contract” they currently have with ICE: Ground Avelo has all the information you need to call, email Avelo, and/or participate in an action at the Portland Airport – check with Cumberland Indivisible on this – they are planning actions on this issue. No airlines should be making money off deporting our neighbors and friends. Let’s stop this.
• Call Senators King and Collins and ask them to oppose the nomination of EJ Antoni for Commissioner of Labor Statistics:  Why? This position is supposed to be non-partisan so economists can base their plans for the economy on it. EJ has made it clear he is a Trump loyalist, and will slant the figures he uses to show that Trump and Co. are doing a great job. Go here for a statement from the friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics which lays out in non-partisan language how Senators should assess Antoni’s nomination.
• 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. 
• Get a poster/chalking campaign going in your neighborhood – there are telephone poles 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. We have attached their poster ideas at the bottom of this email. Contact Karen for the Mid Maine Poster Campaign.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. Audacity in the Midcoast has called for Chalking “Truth Matters” on every public surface – roads and sidewalks!

• Start a Poster/Chalking Campaign in Your Neighborhood! Go here for ideas and check in with Karen about a postering campaign in Mid Maine on this Tuesday at the Waterville UU Church.  Poster ideas also attached below.
• Go to Activate Maine for statewide actions.
• If you are in the Mid Coast area consider joining Audacity – learn more 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.  Watch the Third 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?  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

Snday, August 17th: 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 19th: 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. 

Tuesday, August 19th: 1:30 – 3:00 at the Waterville, UU Church, 69 Silver Street: Take part in the statewide non-partisan postering campaign sponsored by Indivisible Mid Maine. Questions? Email Karen. 

Wednesday, August 20th: (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 21st: 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 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). We are hoping to help CANMP with donations from folks at the rally who can afford to give.

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

Deportee (Plane Crash at Los Gatos) – Woody Guthrie (click this to hear the original version of this song)

Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita
Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria
You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane
All they will call you will be “deportees”   – Woody Guthrie from his song “Deportee”