Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list!  Here is today’s call to action from us at Indivisible Bangor, followed by the great list of important actions from our friends at Mid Maine Indivisible.

Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area! If you can’t make it to Searsport this morning, you can go to the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor, and then tomorrow is the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil, followed by the Thursday Weekly Vigil at the Bangor City Hall.

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TODAY!! SENATOR SUSAN COLLINS WILL BE IN SEARSPORT!

Head on down to that lovely midcoast town and give her a welcome at the Maine DOT ribbon-cutting ceremony!

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If you’re in the Portland area on Labor Day, check out this event at the Merrill Auditorium:

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Portland, with Special Guests Troy Jackson and Graham Platner on Monday, September 1.

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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TODAY!!! 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!

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Also TODAY, 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.

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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!)

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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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Hi Folks, it’s the last Tuesday in August. Still no real rain. No outside fires, but some chances however to fan the flames of resistance.

Susan Collins is coming to Searsport at 10 am TODAY.  Let’s show up in big numbers to protest her actions in the Senate. We are all invited to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of downtown roadwork.  10 am with Susan and town council members in front of Edwards and by the new Searsport Planters. Indivisible Waldo County is organizing the protest. (Do not be surprised if she no-shows once she gets wind of this – it doesn’t matter – the public anger shown at the protest will get coverage.)

If you can’t get to Searsport this morning do one thing today.  Watch Robert Reich’s “Five Ways to Fight Facism”,

it’s 4.5 minutes long and gives you a great outline of ways to be active and effective. 

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Get on over to Searsport and show your anger at Collin’s response to Trump’s Budget Bill: So, we’re cutting ribbons at a road project that Susan helped fund, what about cuts to SNAP, Medicare, Green Energy, Healthcare for Vets, School lunch programs, food banks, purchases from farmers, rental assistance for seniors, weather forecasting, national parks, cancer care and cancer research, prescription drug benefits, Maine Care and the affordable care act that will result in 13.7 million people losing health insurance by 2034 including nearly 51,000 Mainers, leading to higher costs and rural hospitals closing!
• Watch Robert Reich’s Five Ways to Fight Facism on Youtube: This is a great summation of what we can do in the face of the destruction we are witnessing. Go here to watch, take notes, and invite your friends to watch it as well!
• From Yesterday
• 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!

• Keep your calendar open for Labor Day Mass Action September 1st! Actions in Bangor, Waterville, Portland and many other locations; 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. 

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

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. 

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

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

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.

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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!

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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. 

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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!

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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!

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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.

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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!)

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.”

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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

“Seven habits that help produce the anything-but-efficient markets that rule the world. 

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

Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list!  Our friends at Mid Maine Invisible are back, so scroll down for the great list of actions they’re announcing.

Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area! There 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.

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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. 

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The Postcard Party was a great success!!! 20 people showed up to fill out 200 postcards that will be mailed to voters in red states. Stay tuned for more postcard and letter parties!

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We need more volunteers for the Save Maine Absentee Voting Canvass, Bangor/Brewer, that is happening on THIS Sunday August 24, 2025! Join Save Maine Absentee Voting, who will provide training to get you comfortable with the information and then star knocking on doors. It’s a great way to connect with each other and with your neighbors!  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.  And check out the latest Hancock County Action Alert on this!

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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!

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Also on 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.

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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!)

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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!

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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.

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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

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From Mid Maine Indivisible-

Action Friday August 22nd: Support Cumberland Indivisible Actions Regarding Deportation Flights + Keep the Pressure on Antoni Nomination

Hi Folks, it’s Friday, and I’ve been unplugged all week.  I highly recommend this if you haven’t tried it – even for smaller amounts of time.

Following up on the Avelo Airlines, Portland City Council has just accepted a Federal Grant of 21 Million Dollars which has a stipulation that the airport needs to cooperate with ICE. This is happening in airports around the country out of which kidnapped immigrants are getting flown to “detention centers”.  Check in with Cumberland Indivisible to see what actions they are planning around this. More on this news here.

From Monday

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)

From last week:

Consider putting up posters in your neck of the woods.  I have attached ideas for them from Jennifer, Cumberland Indivisible below.  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 and a date for the Senate Vote on this has not been set yet!

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Contact Cumberland Indivisible to join actions around Portland Airport Deportation Situation: Indivisible has made stopping Avelo’s deportation flights a priority. Cumberland Indivisible should have a plan as well for working with the airport to stop cooperation with ICE.
• 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

Sunday, August 24th: 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 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. 

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. 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

For a great show this weekend (I do not do this regularly) check out our son Eben and his wife Molly at the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield, Maine, and their band – Goodnight Moonshine! This Saturday, August 23’d.

“Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.” ~ Pema Chodron

Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list!  Our friends at Mid Maine Invisible have the day off, so it’s just Bangor today.

Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area! There is the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor, then the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil. There will NOT be a Thursday Weekly Vigil at the Bangor City Hall today.

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. 

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

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We need more volunteers for the 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.  And check out the latest Hancock County Action Alert on this!

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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!

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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!)

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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!

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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.

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Graham Platner is coming to us here 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.”

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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

~~A message of hope from The Democracy Docket that’s been passed along by a friend here at Indivisible Bangor:

What Gives Me Hope

It usually comes as a question: What gives you hope? Sometimes it is more of a demand: Tell me something hopeful!

Everywhere I turn — in person and online, from lawyers to retirees, activists to students — people are searching for hopeful words about the future of democracy. I know what they want. They want me to say that I have special knowledge, a hidden plan, some inside information that will assure them that this nightmare will end. They want to hear that democracy will survive Trump, that our institutions will hold, that it will all turn out okay in the end.

The assumption seems to be that I would only be fighting for democracy in court — speaking out in the media, angering Trump and his enablers, doing everything I can to defend our elections — if I were sure we would prevail.

If only that were the case.

Here is the truth: there is no secret plan to defend American democracy. There is no hidden set of tactics that those of us in the pro-democracy movement are waiting to unveil at the right moment. Despite the paranoid fantasies of the right wing, I do not possess any magic power to bend courts to my will. I am not playing a clever game of chess where victory is guaranteed if we just wait for the right move.

For some, hope is an emotion of optimism, a bright faith that things will inevitably improve. As a candidate, President Barack Obama defined hope as “that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.” It was a stirring definition, one that inspired millions. But I didn’t buy it then, and I don’t buy it now.

For me, hope is not a feeling of certainty about the future. It is born of the knowledge that we may do everything we can without the assurance that it will be enough. Hope is accepting that the arc of the moral universe may not bend toward justice — even if all of us push with everything we have. Hope is recognizing that evil and injustice can prevail even if we, as Obama suggested, “reach for it, and work for it, and fight for it.”

In other words, hope is not a naïve emotion. It is a sober responsibility. Hope is what we do when the odds are long and the options limited. It is the stubborn act of trying when despair feels easier. Rather than a passive optimism, hope is the commitment of those who believe they can make a difference, however small.

What gives me hope are the lawyers who walk into courtrooms every day, fighting for justice in the face of governments with unlimited resources that want to deny it. These lawyers do not know if they will win; often, they know they will lose. But they keep showing up because the rule of law depends on it.

I am hopeful when I see everyday Americans stand on street corners, in the heat of summer or the cold of winter, holding signs to protest Trump’s cruel treatment of migrants. They cannot reverse policy alone, but their visible witness matters. It reminds all of us that cruelty is not normal, that silence only benefits the oppressor.

I feel hope every time an opposition leader — elected or not — stands up to Trump and the GOP, making their efforts to subvert our elections just a little more difficult. Each obstruction slows the march toward authoritarianism. Each act of courage buys time for others to organize, resist, and fight back.

Most importantly, I have hope when people refuse the cool cynicism of despair. Despair is peddled by the right to convince us that resistance is futile, and it is echoed by too many on the left who would rather sit back and say all is lost. Cynicism asks nothing of us; hope demands everything. When people choose to act rather than surrender, that is what keeps democracy alive.

Will these efforts be enough? Will the cynics be proven right in the end? I don’t know. None of us does. But our job — all of our jobs — is to ignore the temptation of despair and to keep fighting authoritarianism every single day, in every way we can.

For me, that fight takes many forms. It means helping elect Democrats who will stand up to Trump and defend our institutions. It means litigating to protect free and fair elections for all Americans. It means speaking out — on social media, on television, on YouTube – to educate people about the risks we face and the steps we can take together.

It also means growing Democracy Docket, the pro-democracy media company I started in 2020. I created Democracy Docket to provide accurate information, analysis and opinion at a time when misinformation was spreading faster than truth. Every article we publish, every lawsuit we explain, every policy we break down for readers is part of the work of hope: giving people the tools to understand the fight for democracy and the confidence to join it.

So, when people ask me what gives me hope, my answer is simple: you do. Every person who refuses to look away. Every lawyer who files a brief. Every protester who shows up. Every voter who refuses to quietly surrender their rights. Each of you gives me hope — not because victory is certain, but precisely because it is not.

Hope is not a promise. It is not a guarantee of success. It is the courage to act in the face of uncertainty. And right now, in this fragile moment for our democracy, it is the most important responsibility we share.

Welcome to all the new members on our mailing list!  Our friends at Mid Maine Invisible have the day off, so it’s just Bangor today.

Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area! There is the Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor, then TODAY is the Wednesday Weekly Orono Vigil. There will not be a Thursday Weekly Vigil at the Bangor City Hall this week.

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. 

TOMORROW EVENING!!! We’re having a Postcard Party! Thursday, August 21, at Food AND Medicine• 20 Ivers Street, Brewer, ME 04412, from 5:30 – 7:30. 

We need more volunteers for the 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. 

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!

Graham Platner is coming to us here 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 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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