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Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor, followed by the great list of important actions and information from our friends at Mid Maine Indivisible, including updated information about the Senate Democrats’ vote to end the shutdown.
Also, actions from Hancock Country Democrat. Click here for a list of more actions from the HCD, including those concerning ICE and more.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/10) that discusses the privatization of the USPS and the Trump ballroom.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
Tomorrow is the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor at 11:00 am and for this week, we are holding our Veteran’s Day rally at this location and time. The next day is the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil from noon to 1:00 pm.
Bangor Visibility Brigade
We finish the week with our Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join us on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here!
New Action Planned at Home Depot
Home Depot continues to allow ICE to terrorize, intimidate, and abduct people, non-citizens and citizens alike, from their property.
Home Depot keeps quiet on immigration raids outside its doors (8/19)
As ICE Targets Home Depot Stores, Advocates Say Company Is Failing To Protect Day Laborers (10/31)
US: ICE Abuses in Los Angeles Set Stage for Other Cities (11/4)
We need more volunteers!
We are planning a regular vigil action on Stillwater Avenue in Bangor across from the entrance to Home Depot on Saturdays and we need more volunteers for planning and participating! Please contact George for more information!
Join Indivisible Bangor!
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New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings!
Upcoming Events:
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TOMORROW
Veterans’ Day Rally
Tuesday, 11/11
Join us Tuesday, 11/11, to stand with Vets Say No as we collectively refuse to allow growing fascism to be normalized.
We will be at the usual Tuesday vigil location, the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building & Courthouse, 202 Harlow Street, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm. We will have a speaker and please bring signs thanking our veterans as well as donations for food pantries! This will be after the Bangor Veteran’s Day march.
Food AND Medicine Annual Solidarity Harvest
November 13-24
Food and Medicine will be holding its annual Solidarity Harvest next month. Please consider volunteering to help them assemble and distribute locally-sourced meal baskets, each with nearly 30 pounds of produce, which is enough food for 8-10 people. The dates for this year are November 13-24. More information, donation, and sign up is here!
Jordan Wood Is Returning to Bangor!
November 13
Democratic Senate Candidate Jordan Wood is coming to meet you. We’ll be at the Bangor Public Library. Come out to meet Jordan, learn why he’s the strongest candidate to defeat Susan Collins, and hear about what his plans as your next Senator: sweeping campaign finance reform, passing the Ultra-Millionaire Wealth Tax, enact universal childcare and addressing the affordability crisis head on.
Thursday, November 13, 6:00pm-7:30 pm. at the Bangor Public Library.
UMaine Fall 2025 Series:
DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, INCLUSION, AND RELATED DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND POLICIES UNDER ATTACK AT UMAINE AND BEYOND
November 20
In 2025, DEI policies at UMaine and beyond are under attack; students, researchers, and others are threatened and live with great fear and uncertainty. This program will explore these current threats and how we can respond, resist, uphold freedom of speech, and create democratic alternatives. Elliot Benjamin has a Ph.D. from the University of Maine and has been deeply committed to Indivisible Maine and Indivisible nationally, especially in 2025. Doug Allen retired after 46 years as a professor of philosophy at UMaine and has served as Coordinator of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series since its inception in the mid-1980s.
Please email Elliot Benjamin (ben496@prexar.com) for more information on this discussion and for the Zoom link.
Thursday, 11/20/2025
12:30-1:45 P.M.
Bangor Room, Memorial Union
The University of Maine, Orono
Other News:
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Donate to a Food Bank or Pantry
It is important that we continue the good work we did on No Kings Day on 10/18 in other ways!
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
If you get the paper edition of the Bangor Daily News, the first section of the paper on Friday, October 31, has a list of 260 food pantries.
HEATING ASSISTANCE CUTS
Read about how the shutdown is affecting LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) in this NPR article and how it affecting Maine in this Maine Public Radio article from 10/30. This is in addition to the cuts that are already part of H.R. 1, the “Big Beautiful Bill,” that President Trump and the Republicans passed this summer. Read about that in an article from News Center Maine. Also, in this article from Snap Navigator, dated 7/15/2025.
LEAVING MAGA
Are you someone or do you know someone who wants to leave MAGA? Please visit this site created by a man who was once in MAGA and has since left. Leavingmaga.org
Boycott Spotify
From Ezra and Leah-
Earlier this month, Spotify began running ads to recruit for ICE, making them an active enabler of the hiring spree to build an American secret police force. That’s bad, and if we want there to be consequences for capitulation, we have to be the consequence!
If you’ve joined a weekly “What’s the Plan?” call, you’ve probably heard me and Leah reflect on the lessons from the successful Disney/ABC/Kimmel campaign. The regime bullied, the institution capitulated, the people rebelled, the institution reversed course, and democracy sat up a little straighter the next day.
What worked to influence Disney can work with Spotify! Like Disney, Spotify is a multi-billion dollar corporation that relies on subscriptions. That means we, the paying customers, have real influence.
So on Thursday, Leah and I sent a formal letter to Spotify, pointing out their problematic ads and requesting a meeting. If they do not respond by tomorrow, we’re going to launch a campaign to push them from capitulation to active resistance. Stay tuned for more soon, and come to “What’s the Plan?” on Thursday to discuss next steps.
PANDORA & SIRIUSXM
Note, according to the Huffington Post (10/31) and Rolling Stone (10/15), Pandora is also running ICE recruitment ads. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM satellite radio. SiriusXM acquired Pandora in 2019 “to form the world’s largest audio entertainment company.”
The Maine ICE Watch Hotline Is LIVE!
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition ICE Watch Resource Hub.
Read more about it here in this Newscenter Maine article.
Verifying ICE and Border Patrol activity in real time.
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities!
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
OBAMACARE Price Hike Info Now Available
Information on premium increases for ACA healthcare plans for a dozen states has been made available, according to a New York Times article “Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen State – Consumers are facing greater costs for their 2026 A.C.A. health coverage as Congress continues to debate whether to extend subsidies that help people afford their premiums.”
From the article, “Based on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year.” Such an increase will result in many Mainers simply not having healthcare insurance any longer.
This is what the Democrats in the Senate WERE fighting against. Please contact your Maine senators and let them know you would like them to vote with the Democrats on the Continuing Resolution to extend the ACA tax credits!
Angus King
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292
Susan Collins
DC: (202) 224-2523
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417
Make Some Calls!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
Write Some Emails!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
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Thank you for all you do! – Indivisible Bangor
And now to the Mid Maine Indivisible morning Call to Action:
Action Monday November 10th: Call King + Collins to Reverse Their Vote on the 2nd Senate Budget Vote Today + Ask Pingree and Golden to Vote to Release the Epstein Files
Good Morning Folks, yesterday “moderate” Democrats including our Angus King voted to re-open the Government with no deal on Extending Tax Credits. These folks know how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Oh, “moderate” (not) Senator Collins of course voted with the majority. (Take a breath, this was not in our control and we did everything we could to ask our Senators to hold the line. For the full story go here.)
Top Action to Take Today:
The Senate has to vote today again on the Budget Continuing Resolution Bill. Then the Bill goes to the House which has to reopen in order to approve the vote. Let’s keep the pressure on King not to cave on the ACA tax credits, ask him to vote NO this time. We can also ask Pingree and Golden to vote no on the CR when it comes to the House. I know this feels futile but it’s a matter of following through to the final vote and defending democracy against authoritarian overreach by the Executive Branch. For more info go here If you don’t have the stomach for this try an action from below!
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
One bright side of the capitulation of moderate Democrats on the CR is that the House will have to reopen. This means that the Speaker will have to swear in Adelita Grijalva who is a recently elected Representative from Arizona. She will be the last vote needed to bring a discharge petition to release the Epstein Files to the floor of the House. Ask your Representative, Pingree or Golden, to vote in favor of the Discharge Petition and then to vote in favor of H.R. 4405 the
Epstein Files Transparency Act. For more on this go here.
Although the deal put forward by the Senate includes full funding for SNAP benefits, it may not go through. In the meantime, the food emergency will be gathering force. One approach is to get involved with or start a mutual aid effort if there are no food banks in your area. Here is a resource for starting a mutual aid campaign put together by the No Kings Alliance. If you have a food bank/soup kitchen in your area send them some money.
If you want to find out the food assistance programs nearest you, here is a listing by town. Donating to Good Shepherd or your local food bank is one of the most effective things you could do at this moment. The Winslow Food Cupboard goes all over Kennebec County, If you are able to help, please click here (WCCPantry.com) and then click on the white “Donate Now” button.
To follow up politically on the SNAP issue, Mills has released 1.25 million for SNAP food benefits, which is about enough to fund a day and a half of the need in Maine. This is not sufficient. Ask Governor Mills to declare a STATE OF EMERGENCY in relation to the Republican refusal to fund SNAP, or call the Legislature into special session. Either option would result in more funding being released to keep kids and their families from going hungry this November. Call her at 207-287-3531, or go to her website and make a comment. (SNAP = Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program serving almost 170,000 families in Maine) California, Virginia, Louisiana, and Minnesota have all declared states of emergency to keep this program going. Mills may agree that this is a good way to alleviate immediate suffering in Maine.
People are ramping up mutual aid efforts. Here is a valuable resource in these hunger times. The Maine USDA has The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP); this gives out food to organizations which are getting food to hungry people. Could your school, non-profit, church, synagogue qualify for food? Go here to find out.
ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.”
Calls to Our Representatives:Calls to Our Representatives:
Release the Epstein Files – Golden and Pingree have been supportive of this – they need to continue to hear from us.
Trump and his gang have started a series of extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. A dozen civilian vessels have been blown up and dozens of people killed, with no hearings, no due process. . Trump wants to distract from his problems at home by creating a “war” on drug traffickers in which he can order anyone he wants killed by claiming they are drug dealers. What could go wrong? Congress has done nothing about this. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW. For more information go here.
Call King and Collins to voice your disappointment that they supported a deal which will result in Mainer’s health insurance going up catastrophically. Ask them to reverse their vote today. Call one friend and ask them to do the same. If everyone on this email did so, it would generate close to 200 calls today!) A family of four in Maine making $130k, is estimated to have a $16,100 ANNUAL increase in costs to their healthcare if these insurance tax credits are not extended. More on this from a NY Times article (gifted) here. (Thanks to Indivisible Bangor for the article!)
March on DC November 20 – 22 – Remove the Regime! Consider joining this National Event which will combine a march, rally, and congressional lobbying. Go here for more information. This event may involve encounters with Trump’s shock troopers, so please be prepared.
As always, throw a little sand in their gears!
~~Mid Maine Indivisible
“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there’s shouting after you, keep going. Don’t ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.” ~~Harriet Tubman
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Senator Angus King
DC: (202) 224-5344
Augusta: (207) 622-8292
Senator Susan Collins
DC: (202) 224-2523
Augusta: (207) 622-8414
Bangor: (207) 945-0417
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
DC: (202) 225-6116
Portland: (207) 774-5019
Waterville: (207) 873-5713
Congressman Jared Golden
DC: (202) 225-6306
Bangor: (207) 249-7400
Caribou: (207) 492-6009
Lewiston: (207) 241-6767
Find your State Representative:
By name: Here
By district: Here
Find your State Senator:
By name: Here
By district: Here
Our government in Augusta:
Governor Janet Mills
Email Governor Mills
Call (207) 287-3531
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows
Contact Secretary Bellows
Call (207)626-8400
Attorney General Aaron M. Frey
Contact Mr. Frey
Call (207) 626-8800
Questions or comments? Contact Dave!
