Good morning!! Here is today’s (shorter!) newsletter from Indivisible Bangor.
Following this newsletter is the “Top Action to Take Today” from Emanuel’s Daily Action Email, with a link to his great list of important actions and information (12/4).
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. And it is worth noting that these real professions attract a high number of women to them-this is not a coincidence.
NEW- check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (12/4) with information about impeaching Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, extending the ACA tax credits, and adverse effect that the redefining of professional programs by Trump’s Department of Education will have.
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!
First up is the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor at 11:00 am, followed by the 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 brigade 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
Home Depot Saturdays
For the next three Saturdays of holiday shopping, we will be out on Stillwater Ave at noon for one hour, across from the entrance to the Home Depot shopping center. Contact George for more info!
Upcoming Events:
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Shopping Boycott
We (still) Ain’t Buying It
The shopping boycott weekend is over, but if you can, continue to focus on local businesses and others that are not collaborating with the Trump administration. Effective boycotts take time and sacrifice and we CAN do it!
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. (Amazon owns Audible.com, Whole Foods Market, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios, Ring doorbell cameras, and other companies, so keep those in mind, too-Georg
Tonight
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap
December 4, 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.
Thursday, December 4
6:30 – 7:30pm EST
Bangor Public Library
145 Harlow St
Bangor, ME 04401
Home Depot Picketing
Saturday, 12/6
We will be out there every Saturday at noon for the next three Saturdays with our signs for an hour to inform people about Home Depot’s complicity with and support of the Trump administration.
UMaine Grad Workers Union Forum – The State of Affordability in Maine
12/9 -UMaine
Join Grad Workers, ME Legislators, and the community for an important public forum discussion on affordability for workers at the Universities of Maine!
One of the major issues that we as Graduate Workers have been working to address in our first union contract is the crisis of affordability for GWs. Cost of living has risen dramatically over the last five years, and yet GW pay has not gone up since 2022, healthcare expenses have skyrocketed, and the economic pressures on GWs are worse than ever. The University of Maine System as a public institution that should be lifting up Maine families, not perpetuating low wage, low benefit working conditions.
When: 12/9 6pm
Where: UMaine Orono Campus, building and room TBD
RSVP HERE
Other News:
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Ask Governor Mills to NOT VETO LD 1971
From the Maine People’s Alliance:
“Governor Mills refused to sign this bill into law in the last legislative session and will have just 3 days in the new legislative session starting January 7, 2026, to either veto the bill or allow it to become law without her signature.
“The immoral and illegal actions of ICE throughout the United States and in Maine including arresting parents outside of schools, terrorizing immigrant communities, and attempting to intimidate and assault lawful protestors and those who would document their actions must be resisted. Maine law enforcement should be free to focus on their jobs in keeping the people of Maine safe from crime and not compelled to support immigration enforcement outside of criminal investigations.”
President Trump has singled out our Somali friends and neighbors, targeting them in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, for the next ICE terror campaign:
Trump ‘garbage’ rhetoric about Somalis draws cheers from administration, silence from Republicans and alarm from critics, Reuters, 12/4/2025
ICE agents to descend on Twin Cities as soon as this week, sources tell ABC News, KSTP, 12/4/2025
Maine has a vibrant Somali community and we need to stand with them, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but also because we know that the ICE terror campaign will not stop with immigrants. Please call Governor Janet Mills and ask her to allow LD 1971 to become law and please contact your senators and congressional representatives and let them know you object to Donald Trump’s use of DHS agencies to terrorize people in our cities. There is a handy list of links at the bottom of this email, tap the link below.
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? Sign up to volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! Your 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, which will resume after the holidays!
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!
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. |
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 Indivisible Bangor. 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!
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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 Daily Call to Action:
Action Thursday December 3d: For the Heart – Portland Students Walkout + Ask Governor Mills to let LD 1971 Become Law
Good Morning Folks, it’s a Thursday for The Heart. And, with some heartening news – in our Portland, (Maine), 500 high school students walked out of their public and private schools to protest the abduction of two of their classmates by ICE. Go here for the full story!!! (thanks Diane for this info.!!)
Top Action to Take Today:
In Solidarity with Portland High School students, here are a few related actions you can take in response to ICE abductions in Maine. 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. 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. For more NO-ICE Home Depot actions go to the “More Actions” section of this email.
For the Heart
For Your Heart this Eleventh Week of Fall:
We build up our strength to stand with dignity, centered in the middle of life no matter what is happening. Then we respond. We respond from this place instead of reacting from the place of automatic pilot.
~~~Nancy Hathaway Center for Studying Mindfulness
A Note
Life is the only way
to get covered in leaves,
catch your breath on the sand,
rise on wings;
to be a dog,
or stroke its warm fur;
to tell pain
from everything it’s not;
to squeeze inside events,
dawdle in views,
to seek the least of all possible mistakes.
An extraordinary chance
to remember for a moment
a conversation held
with the lamp switched off;
and if only once
to stumble upon a stone,
end up soaked in one downpour or another,
mislay your keys in the grass;
and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes;
and to keep on not knowing
something important.
Szymborska, Wislawa. Monologue of a Dog. United States, HMH Books, 2015.
For “More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth” from Emanuel’s Daily Call to Action (12/1), click here.
With great appreciation for all the engagement everywhere!
As always, throw a little sand in their gears!
~~Emanuel
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!
