Good morning!! Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor. Following this newsletter is Emanuel’s Daily Action Email from Augusta -a great list of important actions and information.
Please read this as it discusses the extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific and the boycott of Spotify, which is running recruitment ads for ICE. So, be sure to read!
Also, actions from Hancock County Democrat: Action 183 – We Need Nurses (11/24), that discusses the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to reclassify a number of professions, such as nursing, physician assistants, and social workers, as “not professional” (Newsweek, 11/21), which will adversely affect the way students can borrow money for their education. This is part of the Big Beautiful Bill that was passed this past summer and the MAGA attack on higher education.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/24) that asks to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and to pressure Apple to take back its donation to Trump’s ballroom.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
And “thank you” to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
TODAY is the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor at 11:00 am, followed by tomorrow’s Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil from noon to 1:00 pm.
Bangor Visibility Brigade
Fridays
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade 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
Upcoming Events:
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Shopping Boycott
THIS Black Friday Weekend
November 27 – December 1
We Ain’t Buying It
From Ezra at Indivisible National:
What we’re experiencing in America now is strikingly similar to what other democracies that have collapsed into authoritarianism have experienced.
Yes, it’s a right-wing government passing right-wing laws that cut healthcare to give tax cuts to right-wing donors. But the fight is over more than just the national legislature or with the executive branch. In an authoritarian breakthrough moment, the regime attacks or co-opts other sources of power in a society as well — media, law firms, universities, businesses, political critics, and even comedians.
We’ve seen this story play out again and again — in Serbia under Milošević, Hungary under Orbán, Turkey under Erdoğan, Russia under Putin. The regime guts the judiciary, shutters newsrooms, attacks universities, brands NGOs as foreign agents, undermines the political opposition, bullies businesses into submission, and even drives satirical shows off the air.
And now we’re seeing it in America.
Businesses are caving to regime pressure or simply obeying in advance. Since Trump took office, we’ve seen corporations and billionaires rush to bend the knee. The list is so long it can feel like cowardice is just part of the culture now:
- Companies like Target preemptively ended their DEI and trans-inclusive policies.
- Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft forked over millions to Trump’s inauguration slush fund.
- Companies like Spotify are running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police.
- Companies like Facebook/Meta, Comcast, and T-Mobile helped fund the destruction of the East Wing of the White House.
- Media companies like ABC and CBS have embarrassed themselves with a pro-Trump lurch away from real journalism.
I could go on, but you get the gist: A huge number of companies have decided that their interests are best advanced by throwing their lot in with the regime. For those collaborators and capitulators, it’s simply a business calculation. And that’s why it’s time for us to change the math.
This Black Friday weekend, we’re joining with a super-team of organizers — the Target Three, Black Voters Matter Fund, Until Freedom, Working Families Party, 50501, and more — to issue a shared collective call: We Ain’t Buying It.
We Ain’t Buying It is a movement action to flex our power by zeroing in on three targets — companies who have, each in their own way, enabled Trump’s agenda:
Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump’s campaigns.
Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEI goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.
Amazon didn’t just shower Trump’s inauguration with cash — Jeff Bezos’ company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime’s deportation machine.
We want to concentrate our focus on three notable consumer-facing enablers because we’ve seen that organizing is far more effective when it is concentrated and easy to join in on.
That doesn’t mean our three targets are the only problem. But if we can get their attention and provide impetus for them to shape up, we’ll send every other consumer-facing company the message that even a quiet decision to enable this administration might trigger widespread consumer outrage.
And that message, if we land it, will be heard all across the corporate world. Then, rinse and repeat!
BOYCOTT ACTION
BANGOR
Saturday, November 29th!
Home Depot
Saturday, November 29th, 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.!
ACTION IN BANGOR 11/29
TELL A FRIEND-
homedepot.indivisiblebangor.org
Home Depot continues to allow ICE to terrorize, intimidate, and abduct people, non-citizens and citizens alike, from their property.
We will be on Stillwater Avenue, across from the Home Depot in Bangor on Saturday, November 29th, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.!
Bring signs that tell the shoppers driving on Stillwater exactly what Home Depot is doing!
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap
NEXT Tuesday
December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
Sign up here.
Tuesday, December 2
6:30 – 7:30pm EST
Bangor Public Library
145 Harlow St
Bangor, ME 04401
Other News:
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Listed are two great actions from Indivisible Chicago Northwest:
1.Help elect another fighter to Congress
We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: Aftyn Behn in Tennessee 7.
She’s a state representative and former Indivisible organizer who can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits if we turn out enough voters.
Join a phone bank on Nov 25 and/or Dec 1 to flip this critical seat!
2: Hang flyers at your Thanksgiving destination!
Just in time for Thanksgiving travel, we released a new batch of anti-Republican flyers, posters, and stickers on republicanpriorities.org!
If you’re headed to an area that isn’t a big blue bubble like Chicago, you can maximize your impact by hanging a few flyers around your destination, whether in coffee shops, churches, or even just in car windshields.
This program is designed to target low-info and no-info voters who likely have no idea of the harm that Republican governance is bringing to their lives.
Head to republicanpriorities.org to download print materials or order stickers directly!
Join Indivisible Bangor!
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? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings!
Donate to a Food Bank or Pantry
The shutdown is over, but the need is not. There are still cuts to programs that help people with food and other needs.
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!
Also, this just in from Newsweek: “SNAP Benefits Update: USDA To ‘Completely Deconstruct’ Program”. The battle continues.
The Maine ICE Watch Hotline
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.
| Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County: Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities. Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future! Donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund: Fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise. NO I.C.E. for Maine: Learn more about this effort to reign in ICE. |
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities!
Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops, New Orleans is next on their list
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!
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.
We are on Blue Sky, Instagram, and Facebook!
Follow us! Invite your friends! Comment! You’ll be glad you did!
We have an 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!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
Thank you for all you do! – Indivisible Bangor
And now to the Emanuel’s morning Call to Action:
Action Tuesday November 25th: Contact Governor Mills to Let LD 1971 Become Law + Demonstrate at Your Local Home Depot This Weekend
Good Morning Folks, it’s the last Tuesday in November and we are closing in on Thanksgiving, a day for most of us where there is plenty of food. But for an increasing number of us that is no longer the case. If you can, donate to your local food bank for all those folks who will be looking for more food for their families. Go here to find a food bank near you and go here to find out how to help.
Top Action to Take Today:
Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to let LD 1971 , an act which forbids Maine Law Enforcement and other public offices from doing the work of ICE, go into law. (She can no longer sign it, but she can veto it.)Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. Anti -Ice Actions will be taking place at Home Depots, this coming Saturday the 29th (see the poster below) as well as a boycott of Home Depot. Join in the effort. Remember in Nazi Germany, and in many other fascist government take overs, action starts with scapegoating a perceived “outside” group of people such as Immigrants, Jews, Roma, Buddhists, etc.
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
Last week Trump posted execution threats towards Democratic lawmakers who are all former military/CIA who posted a video asking troops not to obey illegal orders: Ask Pingree and Golden to join the effort begun yesterday by Representative Al Greene to begin impeachment hearings. There is no walking this threat of violence back.
Trump and his gang have started an illegal war through 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? The Senate voted down S.J. Res 90 which directs the “cessation of US military involvement in any non-congressionally authorized hostilities with Venezuela.” Both of Maine’s Senators voting against the resolution. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW, as well as a say in stopping a war with Venezuela!! For more information go here.
Consider boycotting Spotify and canceling your subscription to them: To participate in the boycott of Spotify for their running of ads recruiting for ICE, visit this Indivisible page for more information, and for ready-made materials you can post online and use in other ways to encourage others to cancel their subscriptions, visit this page. According to Indivisible Bangor, Pandora is running the same ICE recruiting adds. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Spotify’s stock has dropped 13% in the past month.
As always, throw a little sand in their gears!
~~Emanuel
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, ‘although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,’ wrote Orwell, tends to be ‘uninterested in what happens in the real world.’ Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”
~~Timothy Snyder “Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century”.
Script for comment to DHS on misuse of Social Security information:
“The Privacy Act protects U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents from improper government use of their data. We share private citizenship information with the Social Security Administration with the guarantee that it will only be used for purposes related to benefits, retirement, disability, and death. We did NOT consent to our sensitive SSA data being repurposed by federal or state governments for use in a massive voter verification system. The government has no right to do this without our consent. “This misuse of private data could wrongfully purge lawfully registered voters from voter rolls and prevent eligible voters from voting. In fact, some states have already started purging voter rolls and opening criminal cases using this system–even though this data is especially unreliable for naturalized citizens and states are doing little to confirm the data is accurate.”
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 George!
