Hello-this is Dave with some addition info for you!

First, Deb is setting up the Indivisible Bangor Social Support Group and needs input so she can schedule a day and time for the meetings. Please fill out her questionnaire here. Thank you!

Also, we have found a great resource from Red Wine & Blue. They recently released a very handy resource, 160 Ways to Change the World (Without Losing Your Sh*t!). From their email, “This is such a game-changing guide that our good friend Heather Cox Richardson told her readers to check it out!“

This guide lists a variety of ways that everyone can be involved, to any degree, to make a difference this summer. There is also useful information and lessons from history. Check it out! Click the photo or click here!

Here is today’s Call to Action from Mid Maine Indivisible. Also, remember our weekly actions here in the Bangor area! The Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor and the Wednesday Weekly Orono Protest. And volunteer with Indivisible Bangor!!!– Dave

Hi Folks,

Good morning everyone, Friday is here! 

Yes, you probably have heard more than you wish about the Epstein Files and the horrors within. This is a moment in time when it is worth calling our Congressional Delegation to demand the release of these files. We don’t know what they contain but Trump appears to be on his back foot on this one and the public deserves to know more. Go to 5calls.org for more details on this issue.

Reprise issues from this week:

Call our Senators and ask them to oppose the nomination of Emil Bove, (Nosferatu 2) for the Federal Appeals Court (3d circuit). Once there, Trump, can advance him to the Supreme Court. He is really bad news. Details and links below. (Vote likely on Monday)

Support clean energy as below and also ask our delegation to vote to extend the ACA tax credits.

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Call our Congressional Delegation to demand the release of the Epstein Files: Donald Trump promised the release of the client list throughout his 2024 presidential campaign. Pam Bondi, his Attorney General, publicly claimed the list was sitting on her desk. However, on July 6th, Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo concluding that Epstein did not have a client list and declining to publicly release evidence.(from 5calls.org)
• Call Senators King and Collins to oppose the nomination of Emile Bove to be a judge on the Federal Appeals court:  Bove was Trump’s lawyer in the hush money case, He ordered the firings of Jan. 6 prosecutors, threatened to purge the FBI and prosecute local and state officials who pushed back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and dropped the corruption charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams. Go to 5calls.org to get more talking points on this.
• Call our Congress people to support clean energy:  The Citizens’ Climate Lobby is 800 strong in DC lobbying for funding clean energy and passing reform legislation for energy projects. To learn more and call in through their website go here.Use these handouts for additional talking points if you like, or just use the link.  
• Join Indivisible for their One Million Rising Trainings: Go here to register for this training that will be happening July 30th and August 13th. You can watch the first training here.
• Start making a list of friends who are like-minded but have not yet taken action: To get to 3.5% (11.6 million folks) of the US population we need everyone to get involved in the resistance. Use this list to invite folks to actions, events, and contact campaigns that will help activate them. For more on the 3.5% rule go here.
• Contribute to Megan Scribner’s substack Building Bridges Word by Word:  Building Bridges has created a safe space where we can share our stories and begin to build bridges across divides. Here is an example of something I wrote for Megan in 2021: If You’re Ready, Come Go With Me.

Statewide Actions This Week:

• 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.
• Buy some American Flags for your next Demo; there are lots around from July 4th – Reny’s (“the Maine Shopping Experience”) has bunches.

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: Here – (by name), 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.

Saturday, July 26th, The Art of Resistance:  4 – 8 pm, at the Winslow Congregational Church, 12 Lithgow, Winslow The Art of Resistance is meant to bring us together and remind us of what enlivens us and keeps us moving forward day after day: reaffirming our connections with one another; sharing our creative inspiration; expressing joy and laughter. Schedule: 4pm: Art Exhibit opens 4 to 6pm: Art-making for kids and grownups! Make origami butterflies, paint mini-canvases, and create protest signs.5pm: Community Sandwich Share: Bring a sandwich cut in two, half for you, half for the sharing table. Extras will be on hand for those who cannot provide sandwiches.Bring non-alcoholic beverage. Water provided. 6-8pm, Variety Show: Short performances related to the day’s theme.

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 August 1st, 2:30

Sunday, July 27th: 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, July 29th: 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, July 30th: (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, July 31st: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge,  Stop the Coup + Save Democracy. 

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. 

*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

Love is the only transportation

To where there’s total communication

Mavis Staples from her song If You’re Ready,Come Go with Me

Here is today’s Call to Action from Mid Maine Indivisible. Also, remember our weekly actions here in the Bangor area! The Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor and the Wednesday Weekly Orono Protest. – Dave

Hi Folks,

Good morning everyone, it’s Thursday and time to recharge before the week ends. Actually we can take three calming breaths, any time, any day, throughout the day.  Our unchecked franticness and despair does not help us run the marathon we are in.

Call our Senators and ask them to oppose the nomination of Emil Bove, (Nosferatu 2) for the Federal Appeals Court (3d circuit). Once there, Trump, can advance him to the Supreme Court. He is really bad news. Details and links below.

From earlier this week – support clean energy as below and also ask our delegation to vote to extend the ACA tax credits.

For the Heart
For Your Heart this Fifth Week of Summer: 
Life is made up of Pleasant, Unpleasant, and Neither Pleasant or Unpleasant sensations in the body. This is the Second Foundation of Mindfulness. Usually human beings crave the pleasant and push away the unpleasant. If we do this too strongly, we get thrown off center.

                                                                           Nancy Hathaway  Center for Studying Mindfulness 

Psalm

~~~Wisława Szymborska

How leaky are the borders of man-made states!

How many clouds float over them scot-free,

how much desert sand sifts from  country to country,

how many mountain pebbles roll onto foreign turf

in provocative leaps!

Need I cite each and every bird as it flies,

or alights, as now, on the lowered gate?

Even if it be a sparrow—its tail is abroad,

thought its beak is still home. As if that weren’t enough—it keeps fidgeting!

Out of countless insects I will single out the ant,

who, between the guard’s left and right boots,

feels unobliged to answer questions of origin and destination.

If only this whole mess could be seen at once in detail

on ever continent!

Isn’t that a privet on the opposite bank

smuggling its hundred-thousandth leaf across the river?

Who else but the squid, brazenly long-armed,

would violate the sacred territorial waters.?

How can we speak of any semblance of order

when we can’t rearrange the stars

to know which one  shines for whom?

Not to mention the reprehensible spreading of fog!

Or the dusting of the steppe over its entire range

as though it weren’t split in two!

Or voices carried over accommodating air waves:

summoning squeals and suggestive gurgles!

Only what’s human can be truly alien.

The rest is mixed forest, undermining moles, and wind.

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Call Senators King and Collins to oppose the nomination of Emile Bove to be a judge on the Federal Appeals court:  Bove was Trump’s lawyer in the hush money case, He ordered the firings of Jan. 6 prosecutors, threatened to purge the FBI and prosecute local and state officials who pushed back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and dropped the corruption charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams. Go to 5calls.org to get more talking points on this.
• Call our Congress people to support clean energy:  The Citizens’ Climate Lobby is 800 strong in DC lobbying for funding clean energy and passing reform legislation for energy projects. To learn more and call in through their website go here.Use these handouts for additional talking points if you like, or just use the link.  
• Protect the Affordable Care Act: Ask our Congressional Delegation to maintain the ACA’s tax credits. Tax credits that help support the ACA are slated to be ended at the end of this year. This will make the ACA premiums 75% more expensive and force 4 million people off insurance over the next 10 years.
• Join Indivisible for their One Million Rising Trainings: Go here to register for this training that will be happening July 30th and August 13th. You can watch the first training here.
• Start making a list of friends who are like-minded but have not yet taken action: To get to 3.5% (11.6 million folks) of the US population we need everyone to get involved in the resistance. Use this list to invite folks to actions, events, and contact campaigns that will help activate them. For more on the 3.5% rule go here.

Statewide Actions This Week:

• 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.
• Buy some American Flags for your next Demo; there are lots around from July 4th – Reny’s (“the Maine Shopping Experience”) has bunches.

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: Here – (by name), 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.

Thursday, July 24th: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge,  Stop the Coup + Save Democracy. 

Saturday, July 26th, The Art of Resistance:  4 – 8 pm, at the Winslow Congregational Church, 12 Lithgow, Winslow The Art of Resistance is meant to bring us together and remind us of what enlivens us and keeps us moving forward day after day: reaffirming our connections with one another; sharing our creative inspiration; expressing joy and laughter. Schedule: 4pm: Art Exhibit opens 4 to 6pm: Art-making for kids and grownups! Make origami butterflies, paint mini-canvases, and create protest signs.5pm: Community Sandwich Share: Bring a sandwich cut in two, half for you, half for the sharing table. Extras will be on hand for those who cannot provide sandwiches.Bring non-alcoholic beverage. Water provided. 6-8pm, Variety Show: Short performances related to the day’s theme.

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 August 1st, 2:30

Sunday, July 27th: 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, July 29th: 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, July 30th: (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. 

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. 

*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

Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn’t mean getting rid of anything.  It means we can still be crazy after all these years.  We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be timid or jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness.  The point is not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better.  It’s about befriending who we are already.   Pema Chodron

Here is today’s Call to Action from Mid Maine Indivisible. Also, remember our weekly actions here in the Bangor area! The Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor and the Wednesday Weekly Orono Protest. – Dave

Hi Folks,

Good morning everyone, things do not seem to quiet down these days, even in the midst of the summer.

If you have the time, watch the program put together by Bill McKibben and Third Act on Climate Solutions,

register here for this. It’s a hopeful presentation.

In the same vein, call our Congressional Delegation to fund clean energy programs and permitting reform legislation for energy projects in upcoming appropriations. The Citizens’ Climate Lobby has 800 people in DC lobbying now on these issues. Details and links below.

If you are feeling like you haven’t called our Congressional Delegation enough this week, call them to oppose the nomination of Emil Bove, (Nosferatu 2) for the Federal Appeals Court (3d circuit). Once there, Trump, can advance him to the Supreme Court. Details and links below.

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

• Call our Congress people to support clean energy:  The Citizens’ Climate Lobby is 800 strong in DC lobbying for funding clean energy and passing reform legislation for energy projects. To learn more and call in through their website go here.Use these handouts for additional talking points if you like, or just use the link.  
• Call Senators King and Collins to oppose the nomination of Emile Bove to be a judge on the Federal Appeals court:  Bove was Trump’s lawyer in the hush money case, He ordered the firings of Jan. 6 prosecutors, threatened to purge the FBI and prosecute local and state officials who pushed back against Trump’s mass deportation agenda, and dropped the corruption charges against NYC mayor Eric Adams. Go to 5calls.org to get more talking points on this.
• Join the Bill McKibben/Third Act Webinar 6 pm Tonight:  Discussing climate solutions with experts in the field, register here for the event.
• Join Indivisible for their One Million Rising Trainings: Go here to register for this training that will be happening July 30th and August 13th. You can watch the first training here.
• Start making a list of friends who are like-minded but have not yet taken action: To get to 3.5% (11.6 million folks) of the US population we need everyone to get involved in the resistance. Use this list to invite folks to actions, events, and contact campaigns that will help activate them. For more on the 3.5% rule go here.

Statewide Actions This Week:

• Get in touch with your Maine Representative and Senator and ask them 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. Good news – we are making some progress on this!
• Indivisible Actions – Register Here, For the One Million Rising action – register here  and watch the first session here.
• Buy some American Flags for your next Demo; there are lots around from July 4th – Reny’s (“the Maine Shopping Experience”) has bunches.

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) 241-6767Find Your State Senator: Here

Find your State Representative: Here – (by name), 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.

Wednesday, July 23d: (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, July 24th: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge,  Stop the Coup + Save Democracy. 

Saturday, July 26th, The Art of Resistance:  4 – 8 pm, at the Winslow Congregational Church, 12 Lithgow, Winslow The Art of Resistance is meant to bring us together and remind us of what enlivens us and keeps us moving forward day after day: reaffirming our connections with one another; sharing our creative inspiration; expressing joy and laughter. Schedule: 4pm: Art Exhibit opens 4 to 6pm: Art-making for kids and grownups! Make origami butterflies, paint mini-canvases, and create protest signs.5pm: Community Sandwich Share: Bring a sandwich cut in two, half for you, half for the sharing table. Extras will be on hand for those who cannot provide sandwiches.Bring non-alcoholic beverage. Water provided. 6-8pm, Variety Show: Short performances related to the day’s theme.

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 August 1st, 2:30

Sunday, July 27th: 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, July 22nd: 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. 

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. 

*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

Listen to Jim discussing what is happening to our weather system and why: here.

Here is today’s Call to Action from Mid Maine Indivisible. Also, remember our weekly actions here in the Bangor area! The Tuesday Weekly Vigil at the Federal Building in Bangor and the Wednesday Weekly Orono Protest. – Dave

Hi Folks,

Good morning everyone, beginning of a new week with lots of opportunities to push back and build our community of resistance. 

Please ask our Congressional Delegation to protect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extending the ACA tax credits. If these are not extended Insurance Premiums through the ACA are expected to increase by 75%, and over the next decade 4 million people will lose their insurance from cutting the tax credits. More details at 5calls.org.

Calendar these dates for participating in the One Million Rising trainings hosted by Indivisible, July 30th, August 13th, and start thinking about folks you could invite to a community resistance meeting. Mored details below and here.

TODAY’S ACTION (s)

•  Protect the Affordable Care Act: Ask our Congressional Delegation to maintain the ACA’s tax credits. Tax credits that help support the ACA are slated to be ended at the end of this year. This will make the ACA premiums 75% more expensive and force 4 million people off insurance over the next 10 years. 
• Join Indivisible for their One Million Rising Trainings: Go here to register for this training that will be happening July 30th and August 13th. You can watch the first training here  

Statewide Actions This Week:

• Get in touch with your Maine Representative and Senator and ask them 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.
• Buy some American Flags for your next Demo; there are lots around from July 4th – Reny’s (“the Maine Shopping Experience”) has bunches.

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: Here – (by name), 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. 

First Saturday of each Month: 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 August 1st.

Sunday, July 20th: 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, July 22nd: 12:00-1:00 (and every Tuesday)  Stand against Tesla/Musk and the Federal Budget Bill in Waterville    around the Tesla Charging Station Elm Plaza on Main Street, Waterville. 

Wednesday, July 23d: (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, July 24th: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge,  Stop the Coup + Save Democracy. 

Saturday, July 26th, The Art of Resistance:  4 – 8 pm, at the Winslow Congregational Church, 12 Lithgow, Winslow The Art of Resistance is meant to bring us together and remind us of what enlivens us and keeps us moving forward day after day: reaffirming our connections with one another; sharing our creative inspiration; expressing joy and laughter. Schedule: 4pm: Art Exhibit opens 4 to 6pm: Art-making for kids and grownups! Make origami butterflies, paint mini-canvases, and create protest signs.5pm: Community Sandwich Share: Bring a sandwich cut in two, half for you, half for the sharing table. Extras will be on hand for those who cannot provide sandwiches.Bring non-alcoholic beverage. Water provided. 6-8pm, Variety Show: Short performances related to the day’s theme.

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 IS STILL THINKING ABOUT THIS! Hand written if possible.  Mail to: State House Station 1, Augusta, Maine, 04333. 

*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

I’ll leave you with this thought from Willie Nelson. who once said to me, “Hightower, the early bird might get the worm, but it’s the second mouse that gets the cheese.” Think about that and let’s stick together, move together and win together.  Jim Hightower Watch Jim give a 2 minute talk on running for office here.