Come join us for our weekly protest on the corner of Main Street and Bennoch in Orono. Drop in anytime between 12 pm and 1 pm. Bring signs! Bring flags!
THEME OF THE WEEK:
“THREE YEARS SINCE AMERICAN WOMEN LOST THEIR RIGHTS
TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH”
OR
WHICHEVER ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY OUTRAGES YOU MOST THIS WEEK!
DONATIONS OF NONPERISHABLES OR CASH FOR LOCAL FOOD CUPBOARD GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED EACH WEEK
HOSTED BY M.D.F. KNITTERS AND ORONO DEMOCRATS
Action Tuesday July 1st – Call Collins to Ask Her to Vote NO on the Budget Bill + Email Pingree + Golden to vote No When it Returns to the House
From our friend, Emanuel Pariser in the Mid- Maine region:
Hi Folks,
Good morning everyone. This truly is an all hands on deck moment. If you have 5 minutes free today, do one thing. Call Senator Collins’ office to tell her you want her to vote NO on this Budget Bill. The Senate has been up all night and apparently the Republicans don’t have the votes locked in yet. Collins is Key to the passage of this bill, if she votes no the chances of it going down go up dramatically.
The Bill if passed in the Senate goes back to the House, where it has to be reconciled. Ask Pingree and Golden to vote against it. They did last time. If a couple of Republicans defect in the house on the basis of a 3.3 – 5 trillion debt increase price tag, the bill won’t pass in the House if all Dems stick together.
From Last Week and Still Relevant
Trump is nominating Emile Bove for a life-time appointment to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. As is almost a pre-requisite these days, the man is corrupt to the core. Read Abbie Mcmillen’s attachment below for details. Call or email Collins and King to vote NO on Bove’s appointment.
There is talk that Janet Mills will be vetoing LD 1971. Please contact her office to oppose her vetoing this bill. She could just not sign the bill and it would become law, 90 days after the session ends. LD 1971 protects our Law Enforcement from doing ICE work, not getting paid for it, and running the risk of their towns getting sued for incorrect actions on the part of police acting as immigration agents.
***(There is an update to this as of July 2, 2025 from WGME: Gov. Mills will delay decision on limiting Maine police cooperation with ICE. “Mills will hold the measure from Rep. Deqa Dhalac, D-South Portland, until the next legislative session, spokesperson Ben Goodman said Tuesday. Under the Maine Constitution, the governor will have three days at the start of the next session expected to start in January to either veto the bill or let it become law without her signature.”)
TODAY’S ACTION (s)
Statewide Actions This Week:
Angus King DC (202) 224-5344 Augusta (207) 622-8292
Susan Collins DC(202) 2242523 Augusta(207) 622-8414 (207) 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. We are celebrating Juneteenth today at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville.
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.
Tuesday, July 1st: 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 2nd: (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, 3d: 4 – 5 pm, Fairfield/Benton Bridge, Stop the Coup + Save Democracy.
Thursday, July 3d: (and every Thursday) Small demonstration at Waterville Farmer’s Market – contact Elizabeth Leonard if you wish to participate (edleonar@colby.edu)
Thursday, July 3d: One time only! 12-1:30, UU Church Waterville, 69 Silver Street, When in the Course of Human Events…Resisting Tyranny is as American as Apple Pie, a non political (leave your signs home) gathering to celebrate the writings that inspired our revolution and our resistance in the years that followed. Short readings, apples and apple pie and some singing too. Sponsored by Mid Maine Indivisible. (Questions? check with edleonar@colby.edu)
Register by July 5th for The Art of Resistance Saturday, July 26, from 4-8pm, at the Winslow Congregational Church;
This event 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. Send an email to
Lyn Rowden, singhawk26@gmail.com
Include the following information in your email: Name, phone number, title of work, brief description,
number of performers or artworks. Call Lyn at (207) 314-4730 with questions.
Saturday, July 5th: at 2:30 pm (and every Saturday)-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.
Sunday, July 6th: 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.
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!
Emanuel
ps. Please let me know if you don’t wish to get these Action Alerts, and please feel free to pass all or parts of these alerts on to others you know.
“We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.” ~ John Lewis
Friday, July 4th, 2025, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, at the Eastern Maine Labor Council Solidarity Center located at 20 Ivers St., Brewer, Maine, 04412.
Independence Day is about the fight for freedom. The American Revolution was a stand against tyranny and kings. That same spirit has lived on—from the Boston Tea Party to the Underground Railroad, from Stonewall to the Civil Rights Movement.
America is in crisis. Real democracy feels out of reach. Freedom is in trouble.
This July 4th, while the U.S. marks Independence Day, we’ll gather at the Eastern Maine Labor Council Solidarity Center to talk, listen, and learn from one other. Join Food AND Medicine, the Eastern Maine Labor Council and Indivisible Bangor in a community building event designed to bring us together to meet, eat, unite, and strategize to protect the freedoms that the American colonists fought hard for to free us from a tyrannical government.
We’ll have hotdogs and hamburgers, speakers, and an opportunity for anyone who wants to share on uniting together to continue the work protecting our democracy; time limit is 3 minutes each.
The event starts at 6pm and will end at 8pm. Everyone is welcome to stay afterwards to watch the Bangor fireworks from atop the hill, one of the best viewing spots in the City of Brewer.
They want us scared, divided, and alone. They don’t want us to dream about freedom, but that’s exactly what we must do.
This Fourth of July, we will come together with words of freedom and joy. The dream of American freedom belongs to all of us, and we will not stop in our pursuit of its promise, now or ever.
Food & Medicine is a grassroots member-based organization in Brewer, ME that aims to address the root causes of poverty by empowering and involving those directly affected. They prioritize people’s ability to form a union, have access to affordable healthy food, utilize public transportation, and earn a living wage through a combination of direct service and grassroots organizing.
With over 500 annual members, Food & Medicine is a diverse coalition of union members, workers, farmers, low-income community members, and individuals from various faith and political beliefs. Their mission is to build a multiracial, multiethnic movement that transcends class lines and works towards creating a community where no one has to choose between food, medicine, and other basic necessities.
The EASTERN MAINE LABOR COUNCIL, AFL-CIO is one of nearly 500 state and local labor councils of the AFL-CIO and are the heart of the labor movement. We are democratically elected bodies dedicated to represent the interests of working people at the state and local level. We mobilize our members and community partners to advocate for social and economic justice and we strive daily to vanquish oppression and make our communities better for all people—regardless of race, color, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, or ethnic or national origin.
Indivisible Bangor informs, encourages, and organizes our members and community to take regular actions to resist the GOP’s extremist agenda, elect Democrats, and fight for progressive policies and voting rights.
Our actions include legislative advocacy, electoral politics and voter outreach and advocacy. We always strive to educate our members and voters on critical issues.
Join us by signing up to volunteer and to join our mailing list for more info. You’ll be first to know when we announce meetings and put out calls to action!
Maine MAGA activists are working hard to suppress voting in our state.
Fair, secure, and accessible elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But a referendum question coming to Maine voters in November 2025 takes aim at Maine’s safe and secure voting system, including absentee voting. This referendum would make it harder for people across the state to vote – especially seniors, Mainers with a disability, and Mainers without reliable transportation.
Your vote matters. Help us to protect Maine’s strong voting tradition and Save Maine Absentee Voting.
| Become an Ambassador to Protect Absentee Voting |
| This November, a ballot question will ask voters if they want to make big changes to Maine’s elections that attack our voting rights and absentee voting. The Save Maine Absentee Voting campaign, of which the League is a member, is working hard to inform our fellow Mainers about this bad legislation and encourage them to vote no. Want to learn more about the campaign and become an ambassador? There are several upcoming training sessions. Register below: |
Urgent message from our friends at Food and Medicine and the AFL-CIO:
Below is an important message from our friends at the Maine AFL-CIO, and we need to spread the word. If you can make one call this today, please call Senator Collins – there is a lot at stake and the vote is today! Passage of this bill could be devastating for Mainers in many ways, and we have a chance to impact Senator Collins’ vote.
Will you give her office a call? The information and phone numbers are below.
-Food AND Medicine
The U.S. Senate will soon vote on its Big Budget Bill that slashes funding to our rural hospitals, kicks people off health insurance and cuts workers’ pensions to deliver tax cuts to the very rich. We need you to call Senator Susan Collins.
Call Senator Susan Collins right now at 202-224-2523 & ask her to oppose the Senate Budget Bill! Or call Senator Collins locally
Augusta (207) 622-8414 Bangor (207) 945-0417
Biddeford (207) 283-1101 Caribou (207) 493-7873
Lewiston (207) 784-6969 Portland (207) 618-5560
This Big Budget Bill will harm working classer Mainers by:
Please tell Senator Collins to VOTE NO on the Senate budget reconciliation bill: 202-224-2523!
Augusta (207) 622-8414 Bangor (207) 945-0417
Biddeford (207) 283-1101 Caribou (207) 493-7873
Lewiston (207) 784-6969 Portland (207) 618-5560
We need a budget that puts workers first, not billionaires.
In Solidarity,
Matt Schlobohm, Executive Director of the Maine AFL-CIO
PS: Can you get five other people to call Senator Collins? We need as many Mainers as possible to tell our Senator to VOTE NO on the Budget bill
An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities
This bill is on Janet Mills’ desk now!
Call her and urge her to sign it!
Among other related things, this bill “enacts provisions to clarify the relationship of state and local law enforcement agencies, including correctional facilities, and state employees with federal immigration authorities. The bill: 1. Prohibits a law enforcement agency from stopping, investigating, interrogating, arresting or detaining a person for immigration enforcement purposes, including in response to a hold request, immigration detainer or administrative warrant issued by the United States Department of Homeland Security, or allowing the United States Department of Homeland Security access to inmates or inmate information or providing law enforcement agency resources or personnel to assist immigration enforcement activities.”
LD 1971 includes common-sense guardrails to protect the rights and safety of Maine’s immigrants, and all of us. It ensures that state and local law enforcement aren’t stepping outside of their official duties to assist the federal government with mass deportation.
TONIGHT!!
FREE
HEALTH CARE FORUM
Are you concerned about:
This nonpartisan forum will address these topics and more. Bring your questions!
Speakers:
Ample parking with Entrance in rear of the building
In person: Orono Performing Arts Center Orono High School
Virtual: https://www.youtube.com/live/jmDZP8mJTd0
Organized by the Orono Democratic Committee ©2025
Date: June 26, 2025
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Cost: free
Orono High School Performing Arts Center
Orono, ME 04473
Phone 2079746388
📍 Downtown Bangor
🗓️ Saturday, June 28th
🕙 Vendors & Resources: 10AM–4PM
🎉 Parade: 11AM | Festival Kickoff: 12PM
Join us in celebrating the strength, joy, and history of our LGBTQ+ community at Bangor Pride 2025! This year’s theme, Generations of Pride, honors the legacy and future of queer liberation. The day will feature a vibrant downtown parade, local performers, interactive exhibits, community art, and resource booths.
📢 Indivisible Bangor will be in attendance registering voters all day long.
Stop by our booth to learn how you can take action to protect democracy and equality in Maine and beyond.
Let’s celebrate pride, build power, and make our voices heard—together. ✊🏽🏳️🌈
For More Information Visit Bangor Pride’s Facebook page
Tuesdays, 11:00am – 1:00pm at the Federal Building, where Senator Susan M Collins has her Bangor office – 202 Harlow St, Bangor, ME 04401, USA
Come join us for our weekly peaceful protest outside the Margaret Chase Smith Federal Building on Harlow Street in Bangor. Drop in anytime between 11 am and 1 pm. Bring signs! Bring flags! Bring your voices for chants and songs!
Thursday, July 17
Visit the Good Trouble Lives On site here.
Coined by civil rights leader Congressman John Lewis, “Good Trouble” is the action of coming together to take peaceful, non-violent action to challenge injustice and create meaningful change.
The civil rights leaders of the past have shown us the power of collective action. That’s why on July 17, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities across the country will take to the streets, courthouses, and community spaces to carry forward his fight for justice, voting rights, and dignity for all.
A core principle behind all Good Trouble Lives On events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
(There is not a Good Trouble event scheduled for Bangor as of yet, but there is one scheduled in Lewiston on the Longley Bridge. Please stay tuned for word on a Bangor event!)
For general inquiries, please email us at info@goodtroubleliveson.org. Members of the media, please email us at media@goodtroubleliveson.org with inquiries.
