Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list! Happy Monday!! Are we going to be getting some good rain today? I sure hope so! Our friends at Mid Maine Invisible are back, so scroll down for the great list of important actions they’re announcing.
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area! Tomorrow is the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor, then the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil, followed by the Thursday Weekly Vigil at the Bangor City Hall.
There is a LOT of misinformation out there concerning Question 1, the voter suppression question that will be on the ballot THIS November. Help spread the word about how this is written to make voting more difficult for voters by restricting access to absentee ballots, a method of voting that thousands of Mainers use every election.
Visit the Save Maine Absentee Voting site to learn more. Then speak to your friends, your family, your neighbors, and even strangers! And write a letter to the editor-there are letters weekly playing this down! This is part of the MAGA playbook and we can stop it!
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.
THIS THURSDAY, August 28th, is the FOX TAKE DOWN here in Bangor at FOX 22 WFVX. From 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, join others and push back against the most destructive immigrant to ever hit our shores – Rupert Murdoch!
Tomorrow! 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!
Also TOMORROW, August 26th, Showing Up for Racial Justice is beginning their 5-week training series on organizing our communities to resist ICE. On Tuesday nights for five weeks, this solidarity organizing training program is focused on getting you the information, skills, and support you need to take action in your community right now to do something about the Trump regime’s terror campaign of brutality.
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!)
Maine Rising Up – Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 in Gorham!
Making Good Trouble with Ezra Levin – A Maine Indivisible Fall Kickoff event!! Join Indivisible groups from across Maine to launch a bold new campaign this fall centered around the principle of non-cooperation / non-compliance—a form of lawful, nonviolent resistance that refuses to enable or normalize authoritarian rule.
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!
The League of Women Voters’ Ann Luther explains voter suppression nationwide and Save Maine Absentee Voting’ Beth Allen tells us why to Vote No on 1 on November 4 during a talk at the Blue Hill Library on Sunday, September 7, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Graham Platner is coming to us in the Bangor/Brewer area. “We’ll be at the Eastern Maine Labor Council Hall from 6:00pm-7:00pm on Thursday, October 9th. I hope you’ll come and check out this movement we’re building to defeat Susan Collins and her multi-billionaire backers. Come out, ask questions, and bring a friend or three. I’ll see you there.”
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 you can donate on our site, too-donations help pay for supplies and the website!
And please check out the latest Action from Hancock County Democrats, Action 158. “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
And now to the Mid Maine Indivisible morning Call to Action!
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From Mid Maine Indivisible-
Hi Folks, the last week in August begins! Next week the Senate goes back into session at 3 pm on Tuesday the second.
This means you can still voice your opposition to the nomination of EJ Antoni for Commissioner of Labor Statistics. If you haven’t already please call Collins and King to say no to Antoni.
Take the Signs of Solidarity pledge. Talk to local businesses about posting welcoming signs in their windows. After you sign the pledge, you can get images to download and print. We also have a sign you can duplicate for businesses attached below.
TODAY’S ACTION (s)
- 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. Antoni 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. You can also Donate to the Capitol Area New Mainers Project’s rapid response fund. CANMP is actively helping those affected by ICE abductions, both with legal funding and other financial support for family members
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
Tuesday, August 26th: 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 27th: (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 28th: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge, Stop the Coup + Save Democracy.
Sunday, August 31st: 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). We are hoping to help CANMP with donations from folks at the rally who can afford to give. To help with this action contact Elizabeth.
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. She was listed as a Democratic hopeful to run against Collins by the Democratic National Committee.
*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
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1. Think short term.
2. Be greedy.
3. Believe in the greater fool
4. Run with the herd.
5. Overgeneralize
6. Be trendy
7. Play with other people’s money” ~ Paul Krugman
