Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to let LD 1971 , an act which forbids Maine Law Enforcement and other public offices from doing the work of ICE, go into law. (She can no longer sign it, but she can veto it.) Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. Remember in Nazi Germany, and in many other fascist government take-overs, action starts with scapegoating a perceived “outside” group of people such as Immigrants, Jews, Roma, Buddhists, etc.
For more Anti-Ice activities go to: Ice Out of Home Depot to sign a petition sent to Home Depot headquarters, personalize this letter to Home Depot Execs and send it to them, and publicly comment on Home Depot’s social media posts with these demands: Publicly condemn ICE raids, Stop cooperating with ICE – close stores and parking lots to agents, Protect workers and customers from attacks, Help detained victims and support their families, Release security video and other footage of enforcement actions at Home Depot stores. (Thanks to Mid Maine Indivisible for this info.)
Last week Trump posted execution threats towards Democratic lawmakers who are all former military/CIA who posted a video asking troops not to obey illegal orders: Ask Pingree and Golden to join the effort begun yesterday by Representative Al Greene to begin impeachment hearings. There is no walking this threat of violence back.
Trump and his gang have started an illegal war through extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. A dozen civilian vessels have been blown up and dozens of people killed, with no hearings, no due process. . Trump wants to distract from his problems at home by creating a “war” on drug traffickers in which he can order anyone he wants killed by claiming they are drug dealers. What could go wrong? The Senate voted down S.J. Res 90 which directs the “cessation of US military involvement in any non-congressionally authorized hostilities with Venezuela.” Collins voted against the resolution despite her protestations of concern, King voted for. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW, as well as a say in stopping a war with Venezuela!! For more information go here.
ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” Even though the Government is “open” now, hunger issues continue for people around the country.
Arts and Politics!
Consider boycotting Spotify and canceling your subscription to them: To participate in the boycott of Spotify for their running of ads recruiting for ICE, visit this Indivisible page for more information, and for ready-made materials you can post online and use in other ways to encourage others to cancel their subscriptions, visit this page. According to Indivisible Bangor, Pandora is running the same ICE recruiting adds. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Spotify’s stock has dropped 13% in the past month.
GOT MORE TIME? HERE ARE SOME MORE ACTIONS (just pick one!)
Ask our Maine Law Makers to Ring the Alarm on Trump’s murder of civilians in the Caribbean: Trump’s orders to blow up boats in the Caribbean because they are carrying drugs is illegal, unconstitutional, and a trial run for what he would like to start doing at home. These killings must be investigated and Trump must be held accountable. Call Pingree, Golden, King and Collins to raise a storm about these killings. Go to 5calls.org for a script. Ask Collins why SHE IS NOT OPPOSING Trump’s military maneuvers against Venezuela.
Join the Maine People’s Alliance in bringing your story to our Congresspeople: Are your insurance rates going up? Did you lose SNAP benefits – the MPA wants to hear your story and use it to fight for Mainers in the ongoing shutdown budget battle. Fill out this form and tell your story here.
Call or email our Congressional Representatives to publicly condemn the administration’s use of our Military to create havoc in Blue Cities: It is time to publicly denounce these unconstitutional, king-like actions of our Executive branch. Where is the outrage? Go to 5calls.org for a script on this request.
Call or write Governor Mills and ask her to let LD 1971 become law, by not signing and not vetoing it: Go here to make a comment on this on her website. (She can’t sign the bill anymore, but can veto it.)
Call Governor Mills and our Congressional Representatives: Ask Mills to deny any request from the Trump administration to deploy National Guard Troops for local law enforcement; Ask our representatives to sound the alarm about the use of US Military to intimidate and harass peaceful, public protests. Go here for wording on this.
More ICE resistance: Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities. NO I.C.E. for Maine (noice4me): Learn more about this effort to reign in ICE. Here is the number for the ICE Watch hotline in Maine: 207 544 9989
Mid Maine Indivisible has a great weekly newsletter – To sign up: go here. Indivisible Bangor has a great daily newsletter and actions go here to sign up. If you are in the Mid Coast area consider joining Audacity – learn more here. The Bold Coast Civic Alliance has a newsletter as well as the Hancock County Democrat. Cumberland County Indivisible newsletter go here. Greater Portland Indivisible, go here. We are developing a great ecosystem for resistance communications in Maine.
Check out the No Kings Alliance page for weekly updates about actions that you can take to continue building the pro-democracy movement, building and protecting our communities. (Thank you to Indivisible Mid Maine for this suggestion)
Check out Graham Platner’s Online Town Hall Mon, Dec 8 @ 5pm Online Town Hall with U.S. Senate Candidate Graham Platnerto sign up for any of these go here or go to Grahamforsenate.com
The Maine Library Commission has delayed a vote taken recently to require small public libraries throughout rural Maine to hire a lead librarian, and stay open a specific number of hours weekly. Libraries that do not conform to the rule would not be eligible for inter-library loans or the digital lending services the state provides. No funds were offered to small libraries to meet this new rule. This ruling, if enacted would affect libraries all over the state, and force closings and restrict services. Please email Brian Cundick, Chair of the Commission, at bryce.cundick@maine.edu, to let him know you oppose this ruling and why. For more details on this situation and what libraries would be affected go to the Maine Monitor’s article on this issue. We should not be making it harder for small, rural, all volunteer libraries to operate in Maine. Knowledge is power. (Thanks to Elisabeth for this lead.) (The Library Commission, a 17-member board appointed by the Governor, is broadly representative of the state’s library community. The Commission establishes the policies and operations of the State Library, gives advice and makes recommendations on the expenditure of state and federal funds, and establishes guidelines and policies for statewide library programs.)
With great appreciation for all the engagement everywhere!
As always, throw a little sand in their gears!
Emanuel
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning on this first day of December!! Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor.
Following this newsletter is Emanuel’s Daily Action Email from Augusta -a great list of important actions and information.
Also, actions from Hancock County Democrat: Action 183 – We Need Nurses (11/24), that discusses the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to reclassify a number of professions, such as nursing, physician assistants, and social workers, as “not professional” (Newsweek, 11/21), which will adversely affect the way students can borrow money for their education. This is part of the Big Beautiful Bill that was passed this past summer and the MAGA attack on higher education. And it is worth noting that these real professions attract a high number of women to them-this is not a coincidence.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/24)that asks to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and to pressure Apple to take back its donation to Trump’s ballroom.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
And “thank you” to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
Home Depot Saturdays
For the next three Saturdays of holiday shopping, we will be out on Stillwater Ave at noon for one hour, across from the entrance to the Home Depot shopping center. Contact George for more info!
Upcoming Events:
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Shopping Boycott Still Happening Today– THIS Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1
What we’re experiencing in America now is strikingly similar to what other democracies that have collapsed into authoritarianism have experienced.
Yes, it’s a right-wing government passing right-wing laws that cut healthcare to give tax cuts to right-wing donors. But the fight is over more than just the national legislature or with the executive branch. In an authoritarian breakthrough moment, the regime attacks or co-opts other sources of power in a society as well — media, law firms, universities, businesses, political critics, and even comedians.
We’ve seen this story play out again and again — in Serbia under Milošević, Hungary under Orbán, Turkey under Erdoğan, Russia under Putin. Theregime guts the judiciary, shutters newsrooms, attacks universities, brands NGOs as foreign agents, undermines the political opposition, bullies businesses into submission, and even drives satirical shows off the air.
And now we’re seeing it in America.
Businesses are caving to regime pressure or simply obeying in advance. Since Trump took office, we’ve seen corporations and billionaires rush to bend the knee. The list is so long it can feel like cowardice is just part of the culture now:
Companies like Target preemptively ended their DEI and trans-inclusive policies.
Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft forked over millions to Trump’s inauguration slush fund.
Companies like Spotify are running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police.
Companies like Facebook/Meta, Comcast, and T-Mobile helped fund the destruction of the East Wing of the White House.
Media companies like ABC and CBS have embarrassed themselves with a pro-Trump lurch away from real journalism.
I could go on, but you get the gist: A huge number of companies have decided that their interests are best advanced by throwing their lot in with the regime. For those collaborators and capitulators, it’s simply a business calculation. And that’s why it’s time for us to change the math.
This Black Friday weekend, we’re joining with a super-team of organizers — the Target Three, Black Voters Matter Fund, Until Freedom, Working Families Party, 50501, and more — to issue a shared collective call: We Ain’t Buying It.
We Ain’t Buying It is a movement action to flex our power by zeroing in on three targets — companies who have, each in their own way, enabled Trump’s agenda:
Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump’s campaigns.
Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEI goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.
Amazon didn’t just shower Trump’s inauguration with cash — Jeff Bezos’ company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime’s deportation machine.
(Amazon owns Audible.com, Whole Foods Market, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios, Ring doorbell cameras, and other companies, so keep those in mind, too-George).
We want to concentrate our focus on three notable consumer-facing enablers because we’ve seen that organizing is far more effective when it is concentrated and easy to join in on.
That doesn’t mean our three targets are the only problem. But if we can get their attention and provide impetus for them to shape up, we’ll send every other consumer-facing company the message that even a quiet decision to enable this administration might trigger widespread consumer outrage.
And that message, if we land it, will be heard all across the corporate world. Then, rinse and repeat!
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap Tomorrow Night December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
We had a nice turnout on Saturday, 11/29, that sunny, but windy day. Our signs were clear and visible to the drivers on Stillwater Ave in Bangor, both passing by and going in and coming out of the Home Depot shopping center. While we got a few “fingers,” a few thumbs down, and a few drivers hollering at us, the overwhelming response was supportive honks, thumbs up, and waves & smiles!
We will be out there every Saturday at noon for the next three Saturdays with our signs for an hour to inform people about Home Depot’s complicity with and support of the Trump administration.
Help elect another fighter to Congress- Phone Bank Today
We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: Aftyn Behn in Tennessee 7.
She’s a state representative and former Indivisible organizer who can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits if we turn out enough voters.
Join a phone bank on Dec 1 to flip this critical seat!
Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings!
The shutdown is over, but the need is not. There are still cuts to programs that help people with food and other needs.
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County:
Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities.
Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future!
Donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund: Fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise.
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities! Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops, New Orleans is next on their list
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
We have an easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangorand tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
Action Monday December 1st: Keep Maine’s Rural Libraries Open – Submit Comments to The Maine Library Commission
Good Morning Folks, December here, now. Cold weather coming in. If you still have stuff growing outside cover it for the next few days! I know the list below is long and daunting – pick one thing to do this week, or a couple, whatever you can do adds to the power of our resistance. Thanks for engaging.
Top Action to Take Today:
The Maine Library Commission has delayed a vote taken recently to require small public libraries throughout rural Maine to hire a lead librarian, and stay open a specific number of hours weekly. Libraries that do not conform to the rule would not be eligible for inter-library loans or the digital lending services the state provides. No funds were offered to small libraries to meet this new rule. This ruling, if enacted would affect libraries all over the state, and force closings and restrict services. Please email Brian Cundick, Chair of the Commission, at bryce.cundick@maine.edu, to let him know you oppose this ruling and why. For more details on this situation and what libraries would be affected go to the Maine Monitor’s article on this issue. We should not be making it harder for small, rural, all volunteer libraries to operate in Maine. Knowledge is power. (Thanks to Elisabeth for this lead.) (The Library Commission, a 17-member board appointed by the Governor, is broadly representative of the state’s library community. The Commission establishes the policies and operations of the State Library, gives advice and makes recommendations on the expenditure of state and federal funds, and establishes guidelines and policies for statewide library programs.)
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
The Department of Homeland Security is trying to purge new Mainers—and naturalized citizens everywhere– from voter rolls by creating a “citizenship” check system that could wrongfully keep eligible citizens from voting. They are doing this by using (abusing) private voter data that the Trump administration culled from Social Security files—in flagrant violation of the Privacy Act. DHS is taking public comments on this effort until Dec. 1. Go here to submit your comment. For a Sample Script go to the end of this email. (You can submit anonymously)
Ask Representatives Pingree and Golden to support the No Unauthorized Force in Venezuela Act bill presented by Seth Moulton and others.
On Tuesday, Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06), along with Reps. Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), and Eugene Vindman (VA-07), announced the introduction of new legislation, called the No Unauthorized Force in Venezuela Act, at a press conference by the House steps. The No Unauthorized Force in Venezuela Act prohibits the executive branch from spending any federal funds on the use of military inside Venezuela or against Venezuelan forces, including remote or intermittent strikes, unless Congress passes a specific Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).
Congressman Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran who served four tours in Iraq, emphasized that the legislation is urgently needed in light of recent developments. For a live stream broadcast of his press conference go here.
Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to let LD 1971 , an act which forbids Maine Law Enforcement and other public offices from doing the work of ICE, go into law. (She can no longer sign it, but she can veto it.)Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. Remember in Nazi Germany, and in many other fascist government take overs, action starts with scapegoating a perceived “outside” group of people such as Immigrants, Jews, Roma, Buddhists, etc.
Last week Trump posted execution threats towards Democratic lawmakers who are all former military/CIA who posted a video asking troops not to obey illegal orders: Ask Pingree and Golden to join the effort begun yesterday by Representative Al Greene to begin impeachment hearings. There is no walking this threat of violence back.
Trump and his gang have started an illegal war through extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. A dozen civilian vessels have been blown up and dozens of people killed, with no hearings, no due process. . Trump wants to distract from his problems at home by creating a “war” on drug traffickers in which he can order anyone he wants killed by claiming they are drug dealers. What could go wrong? The Senate voted down S.J. Res 90 which directs the “cessation of US military involvement in any non-congressionally authorized hostilities with Venezuela.” Both of Maine’s Senators voting against the resolution. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW, as well as a say in stopping a war with Venezuela!! For more information go here.
ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” Even though the Government is “open” now, hunger issues continue for people around the country.
Arts and Politics!
Consider boycotting Spotify and canceling your subscription to them: To participate in the boycott of Spotify for their running of ads recruiting for ICE, visit this Indivisible page for more information, and for ready-made materials you can post online and use in other ways to encourage others to cancel their subscriptions, visit this page. According to Indivisible Bangor, Pandora is running the same ICE recruiting adds. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Spotify’s stock has dropped 13% in the past month.
GOT MORE TIME? HERE ARE SOME MORE ACTIONS (just pick one!)
Ask our Maine Law Makers to Ring the Alarm on Trump’s murder of civilians in the Caribbean: Trump’s orders to blow up boats in the Caribbean because they are carrying drugs is illegal, unconstitutional, and a trial run for what he would like to start doing at home. These killings must be investigated and Trump must be held accountable. Call Pingree, Golden, King and Collins to raise a storm about these killings. Go to 5calls.org for a script. Ask King and Collins why they are not opposing Trump’s military maneuvers against Venezuela.
Join the Maine People’s Alliance in bringing your story to our Congresspeople: Are your insurance rates going up? Did you lose SNAP benefits – the MPA wants to hear your story and use it to fight for Mainers in the ongoing shutdown budget battle. Fill out this form and tell your story here.
Call or email our Congressional Representatives to publicly condemn the administration’s use of our Military to create havoc in Blue Cities: It is time to publicly denounce these unconstitutional, king-like actions of our Executive branch. Where is the outrage? Go to 5calls.org for a script on this request.
Call or write Governor Mills and ask her to Sign LD 1971: Go here to make a comment on this on her website.
Call Governor Mills and our Congressional Representatives: Ask Mills to deny any request from the Trump administration to deploy National Guard Troops for local law enforcement; Ask our representatives to sound the alarm about the use of US Military to intimidate and harass peaceful, public protests. Go here for wording on this.
More ICE resistance: Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities. NO I.C.E. for Maine (noice4me): Learn more about this effort to reign in ICE.
Mid Maine Indivisible has a great weekly newsletter – To sign up: go here. Indivisible Bangor has a great daily newsletter and actions go here to sign up. If you are in the Mid Coast area consider joining Audacity – learn more here. The Bold Coast Civic Alliance has a newsletter as well as the Hancock County Democrat. Cumberland County Indivisible newsletter go here. Greater Portland Indivisible, go here. We are developing a great ecosystem for resistance communications in Maine.
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.
Check out the No Kings Alliance page for weekly updates about actions that you can take to continue building the pro-democracy movement, building and protecting our communities. (Thank you to Indivisible Mid Maine for this suggestion)
Check out Graham Platner’s “Un-Shuck The System Tour” Tomorrow! Windham Veterans Center, 2 -3 pm, Mon, Dec 8 @ 5pm Online Town Hall with U.S. Senate Candidate Graham Platnerto sign up for any of these go here or go to Grahamforsenate.com
With great appreciation for all the engagement everywhere!
As always, throw a little sand in their gears!
~~Emanuel
Libraries are the mainstays of democracy. The first thing dictators do when taking over a country is close all the libraries, because libraries are full of ideas and differences of opinion, all the things we say we want in a free and open society. So keep ’em, fund ’em, embrace and cherish ’em. — David Baldacci
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
Upcoming Events:
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TODAY IN DOWNTOWN BANGOR Give Big Box Stores a Pass!
“Plaid Friday is the fun and enjoyable alternative to the big box store “Black Friday” and is designed to promote both local and independently owned businesses during the holidays. Downtown Bangor retailers have special offerings ranging from discounts for those wearing plaid to free gift wrapping and other surprises!”
This annual Plaid Friday and tomorrow’s Small Business Saturday go well with the shopping boycott against Home Depot, Target, and Amazon this weekend. And remember, some small business have web-only storefronts, so keep them in mind, too!
THIS Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1 “No cash for Trump collaborators”
What we’re experiencing in America now is strikingly similar to what other democracies that have collapsed into authoritarianism have experienced.
Yes, it’s a right-wing government passing right-wing laws that cut healthcare to give tax cuts to right-wing donors. But the fight is over more than just the national legislature or with the executive branch. In an authoritarian breakthrough moment, the regime attacks or co-opts other sources of power in a society as well — media, law firms, universities, businesses, political critics, and even comedians.
We’ve seen this story play out again and again — in Serbia under Milošević, Hungary under Orbán, Turkey under Erdoğan, Russia under Putin. Theregime guts the judiciary, shutters newsrooms, attacks universities, brands NGOs as foreign agents, undermines the political opposition, bullies businesses into submission, and even drives satirical shows off the air.
And now we’re seeing it in America.
Businesses are caving to regime pressure or simply obeying in advance. Since Trump took office, we’ve seen corporations and billionaires rush to bend the knee. The list is so long it can feel like cowardice is just part of the culture now:
Companies like Target preemptively ended their DEI and trans-inclusive policies.
Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft forked over millions to Trump’s inauguration slush fund.
Companies like Spotify are running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police.
Companies like Facebook/Meta, Comcast, and T-Mobile helped fund the destruction of the East Wing of the White House.
Media companies like ABC and CBS have embarrassed themselves with a pro-Trump lurch away from real journalism.
I could go on, but you get the gist: A huge number of companies have decided that their interests are best advanced by throwing their lot in with the regime. For those collaborators and capitulators, it’s simply a business calculation. And that’s why it’s time for us to change the math.
This Black Friday weekend, we’re joining with a super-team of organizers — the Target Three, Black Voters Matter Fund, Until Freedom, Working Families Party, 50501, and more — to issue a shared collective call: We Ain’t Buying It.
We Ain’t Buying It is a movement action to flex our power by zeroing in on three targets — companies who have, each in their own way, enabled Trump’s agenda:
Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump’s campaigns.
Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEI goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.
Amazon didn’t just shower Trump’s inauguration with cash — Jeff Bezos’ company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime’s deportation machine.
We want to concentrate our focus on three notable consumer-facing enablers because we’ve seen that organizing is far more effective when it is concentrated and easy to join in on.
That doesn’t mean our three targets are the only problem. But if we can get their attention and provide impetus for them to shape up, we’ll send every other consumer-facing company the message that even a quiet decision to enable this administration might trigger widespread consumer outrage.
And that message, if we land it, will be heard all across the corporate world. Then, rinse and repeat!
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap NEXT Tuesday December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning!! Here is today’s short, but sweet, newsletter from Indivisible Bangor.
Sending good wishes to you this Thanksgiving! Good food that fills your table, good health as you work hard, and good times with family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving!
~~~Indivisible Bangor
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning!! Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor.
Today is basically a reminder of the boycott picketing action at Home Depot this Saturday as well as reminders of other information in yesterday’s newsletter.
Following this newsletter is Emanuel’s Daily Action Email from Augusta -a great list of important actions and information. Please read this as it discusses the extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific and the boycott of Spotify, which is running recruitment ads for ICE. So, be sure to read!
Also, actions from Hancock County Democrat: Action 183 – We Need Nurses (11/24), that discusses the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to reclassify a number of professions, such as nursing, physician assistants, and social workers, as “not professional” (Newsweek, 11/21), which will adversely affect the way students can borrow money for their education. This is part of the Big Beautiful Bill that was passed this past summer and the MAGA attack on higher education. And it is worth noting that these real professions attract a high number of women to them-this is not a coincidence.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/24)that asks to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and to pressure Apple to take back its donation to Trump’s ballroom.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
And “thank you” to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
Upcoming Events:
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Shopping Boycott THIS Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1
What we’re experiencing in America now is strikingly similar to what other democracies that have collapsed into authoritarianism have experienced.
Yes, it’s a right-wing government passing right-wing laws that cut healthcare to give tax cuts to right-wing donors. But the fight is over more than just the national legislature or with the executive branch. In an authoritarian breakthrough moment, the regime attacks or co-opts other sources of power in a society as well — media, law firms, universities, businesses, political critics, and even comedians.
We’ve seen this story play out again and again — in Serbia under Milošević, Hungary under Orbán, Turkey under Erdoğan, Russia under Putin. Theregime guts the judiciary, shutters newsrooms, attacks universities, brands NGOs as foreign agents, undermines the political opposition, bullies businesses into submission, and even drives satirical shows off the air.
And now we’re seeing it in America.
Businesses are caving to regime pressure or simply obeying in advance. Since Trump took office, we’ve seen corporations and billionaires rush to bend the knee. The list is so long it can feel like cowardice is just part of the culture now:
Companies like Target preemptively ended their DEI and trans-inclusive policies.
Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft forked over millions to Trump’s inauguration slush fund.
Companies like Spotify are running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police.
Companies like Facebook/Meta, Comcast, and T-Mobile helped fund the destruction of the East Wing of the White House.
Media companies like ABC and CBS have embarrassed themselves with a pro-Trump lurch away from real journalism.
I could go on, but you get the gist: A huge number of companies have decided that their interests are best advanced by throwing their lot in with the regime. For those collaborators and capitulators, it’s simply a business calculation. And that’s why it’s time for us to change the math.
This Black Friday weekend, we’re joining with a super-team of organizers — the Target Three, Black Voters Matter Fund, Until Freedom, Working Families Party, 50501, and more — to issue a shared collective call: We Ain’t Buying It.
We Ain’t Buying It is a movement action to flex our power by zeroing in on three targets — companies who have, each in their own way, enabled Trump’s agenda:
Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump’s campaigns.
Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEI goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.
Amazon didn’t just shower Trump’s inauguration with cash — Jeff Bezos’ company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime’s deportation machine.
We want to concentrate our focus on three notable consumer-facing enablers because we’ve seen that organizing is far more effective when it is concentrated and easy to join in on.
That doesn’t mean our three targets are the only problem. But if we can get their attention and provide impetus for them to shape up, we’ll send every other consumer-facing company the message that even a quiet decision to enable this administration might trigger widespread consumer outrage.
And that message, if we land it, will be heard all across the corporate world. Then, rinse and repeat!
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap NEXT Tuesday December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: Aftyn Behn in Tennessee 7.
She’s a state representative and former Indivisible organizer who can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits if we turn out enough voters.
Join a phone bank on Nov 25 and/or Dec 1 to flip this critical seat!
Just in time for Thanksgiving travel, we released a new batch of anti-Republican flyers, posters, and stickers on republicanpriorities.org!
If you’re headed to an area that isn’t a big blue bubble like Chicago, you can maximize your impact by hanging a few flyers around your destination, whether in coffee shops, churches, or even just in car windshields.
This program is designed to target low-info and no-info voters who likely have no idea of the harm that Republican governance is bringing to their lives.
Head to republicanpriorities.org to download print materials or order stickers directly!
Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings!
The shutdown is over, but the need is not. There are still cuts to programs that help people with food and other needs.
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County:
Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities.
Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future!
Donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund: Fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise.
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities! Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops, New Orleans is next on their list
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
We have an easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangorand tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
Action Wednesday November 26th: Ask Representatives Golden and Pingree to Support the No Unauthorized Force in Venezuela Act + Donate Food or $ to Food Banks
Good Morning Folks, this is my last email for this week. If you can, donate to your local food bank for all those folks who will be looking for more food for their families. Go here to find a food bank near you and go here to find out how to help.
Top Action to Take Today: Ask Representatives Pingree and Golden to support the No Unauthorized Force in Venezuela Act bill presented by Seth Moulton and others.
On Tuesday, Congressman Seth Moulton (MA-06), along with Reps. Jake Auchincloss (MA-04), Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), and Eugene Vindman (VA-07), announced the introduction of new legislation, called the No Unauthorized Force in Venezuela Act, at a press conference by the House steps. The No Unauthorized Force in Venezuela Act prohibits the executive branch from spending any federal funds on the use of military inside Venezuela or against Venezuelan forces, including remote or intermittent strikes, unless Congress passes a specific Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).
Congressman Moulton, a Marine Corps veteran who served four tours in Iraq, emphasized that the legislation is urgently needed in light of recent developments. For a live stream broadcast of his press conference go here.
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to let LD 1971 , an act which forbids Maine Law Enforcement and other public offices from doing the work of ICE, go into law. (She can no longer sign it, but she can veto it.)Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. Anti -Ice Actions will be taking place at Home Depots, this coming Saturday the 29th (see the poster below) as well as a boycott of Home Depot. Join in the effort. Remember in Nazi Germany, and in many other fascist government take overs, action starts with scapegoating a perceived “outside” group of people such as Immigrants, Jews, Roma, Buddhists, etc.
Last week Trump posted execution threats towards Democratic lawmakers who are all former military/CIA who posted a video asking troops not to obey illegal orders: Ask Pingree and Golden to join the effort begun yesterday by Representative Al Greene to begin impeachment hearings. There is no walking this threat of violence back.
Trump and his gang have started an illegal war through extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. A dozen civilian vessels have been blown up and dozens of people killed, with no hearings, no due process. . Trump wants to distract from his problems at home by creating a “war” on drug traffickers in which he can order anyone he wants killed by claiming they are drug dealers. What could go wrong? The Senate voted down S.J. Res 90 which directs the “cessation of US military involvement in any non-congressionally authorized hostilities with Venezuela.” Both of Maine’s Senators voting against the resolution. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW, as well as a say in stopping a war with Venezuela!! For more information go here.
Consider boycotting Spotify and canceling your subscription to them: To participate in the boycott of Spotify for their running of ads recruiting for ICE, visit this Indivisible page for more information, and for ready-made materials you can post online and use in other ways to encourage others to cancel their subscriptions, visit this page. According to Indivisible Bangor, Pandora is running the same ICE recruiting adds. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Spotify’s stock has dropped 13% in the past month.
As always, throw a little sand in their gears! ~~Emanuel
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
~~Wendell Berry
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning!! Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor. Following this newsletter is Emanuel’s Daily Action Email from Augusta -a great list of important actions and information.
Also, actions from Hancock County Democrat: Action 183 – We Need Nurses (11/24), that discusses the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to reclassify a number of professions, such as nursing, physician assistants, and social workers, as “not professional” (Newsweek, 11/21), which will adversely affect the way students can borrow money for their education. This is part of the Big Beautiful Bill that was passed this past summer and the MAGA attack on higher education.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/24)that asks to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and to pressure Apple to take back its donation to Trump’s ballroom.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
And “thank you” to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
Upcoming Events:
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Shopping Boycott THIS Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1
What we’re experiencing in America now is strikingly similar to what other democracies that have collapsed into authoritarianism have experienced.
Yes, it’s a right-wing government passing right-wing laws that cut healthcare to give tax cuts to right-wing donors. But the fight is over more than just the national legislature or with the executive branch. In an authoritarian breakthrough moment, the regime attacks or co-opts other sources of power in a society as well — media, law firms, universities, businesses, political critics, and even comedians.
We’ve seen this story play out again and again — in Serbia under Milošević, Hungary under Orbán, Turkey under Erdoğan, Russia under Putin. Theregime guts the judiciary, shutters newsrooms, attacks universities, brands NGOs as foreign agents, undermines the political opposition, bullies businesses into submission, and even drives satirical shows off the air.
And now we’re seeing it in America.
Businesses are caving to regime pressure or simply obeying in advance. Since Trump took office, we’ve seen corporations and billionaires rush to bend the knee. The list is so long it can feel like cowardice is just part of the culture now:
Companies like Target preemptively ended their DEI and trans-inclusive policies.
Companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft forked over millions to Trump’s inauguration slush fund.
Companies like Spotify are running ads to recruit for the regime’s secret police.
Companies like Facebook/Meta, Comcast, and T-Mobile helped fund the destruction of the East Wing of the White House.
Media companies like ABC and CBS have embarrassed themselves with a pro-Trump lurch away from real journalism.
I could go on, but you get the gist: A huge number of companies have decided that their interests are best advanced by throwing their lot in with the regime. For those collaborators and capitulators, it’s simply a business calculation. And that’s why it’s time for us to change the math.
This Black Friday weekend, we’re joining with a super-team of organizers — the Target Three, Black Voters Matter Fund, Until Freedom, Working Families Party, 50501, and more — to issue a shared collective call: We Ain’t Buying It.
We Ain’t Buying It is a movement action to flex our power by zeroing in on three targets — companies who have, each in their own way, enabled Trump’s agenda:
Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump’s campaigns.
Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEI goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.
Amazon didn’t just shower Trump’s inauguration with cash — Jeff Bezos’ company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime’s deportation machine.
We want to concentrate our focus on three notable consumer-facing enablers because we’ve seen that organizing is far more effective when it is concentrated and easy to join in on.
That doesn’t mean our three targets are the only problem. But if we can get their attention and provide impetus for them to shape up, we’ll send every other consumer-facing company the message that even a quiet decision to enable this administration might trigger widespread consumer outrage.
And that message, if we land it, will be heard all across the corporate world. Then, rinse and repeat!
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap NEXT Tuesday December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: Aftyn Behn in Tennessee 7.
She’s a state representative and former Indivisible organizer who can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits if we turn out enough voters.
Join a phone bank on Nov 25 and/or Dec 1 to flip this critical seat!
Just in time for Thanksgiving travel, we released a new batch of anti-Republican flyers, posters, and stickers on republicanpriorities.org!
If you’re headed to an area that isn’t a big blue bubble like Chicago, you can maximize your impact by hanging a few flyers around your destination, whether in coffee shops, churches, or even just in car windshields.
This program is designed to target low-info and no-info voters who likely have no idea of the harm that Republican governance is bringing to their lives.
Head to republicanpriorities.org to download print materials or order stickers directly!
Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings!
The shutdown is over, but the need is not. There are still cuts to programs that help people with food and other needs.
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County:
Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities.
Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future!
Donate to the Maine Solidarity Fund: Fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise.
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities! Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops, New Orleans is next on their list
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
We have an easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangorand tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
Action Tuesday November 25th: Contact Governor Mills to Let LD 1971 Become Law + Demonstrate at Your Local Home Depot This Weekend
Good Morning Folks, it’s the last Tuesday in November and we are closing in on Thanksgiving, a day for most of us where there is plenty of food. But for an increasing number of us that is no longer the case. If you can, donate to your local food bank for all those folks who will be looking for more food for their families. Go here to find a food bank near you and go here to find out how to help.
Top Action to Take Today:
Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to let LD 1971 , an act which forbids Maine Law Enforcement and other public offices from doing the work of ICE, go into law. (She can no longer sign it, but she can veto it.)Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. Anti -Ice Actions will be taking place at Home Depots, this coming Saturday the 29th (see the poster below) as well as a boycott of Home Depot. Join in the effort. Remember in Nazi Germany, and in many other fascist government take overs, action starts with scapegoating a perceived “outside” group of people such as Immigrants, Jews, Roma, Buddhists, etc.
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
Last week Trump posted execution threats towards Democratic lawmakers who are all former military/CIA who posted a video asking troops not to obey illegal orders: Ask Pingree and Golden to join the effort begun yesterday by Representative Al Greene to begin impeachment hearings. There is no walking this threat of violence back.
Trump and his gang have started an illegal war through extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. A dozen civilian vessels have been blown up and dozens of people killed, with no hearings, no due process. . Trump wants to distract from his problems at home by creating a “war” on drug traffickers in which he can order anyone he wants killed by claiming they are drug dealers. What could go wrong? The Senate voted down S.J. Res 90 which directs the “cessation of US military involvement in any non-congressionally authorized hostilities with Venezuela.” Both of Maine’s Senators voting against the resolution. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW, as well as a say in stopping a war with Venezuela!! For more information go here.
Consider boycotting Spotify and canceling your subscription to them: To participate in the boycott of Spotify for their running of ads recruiting for ICE, visit this Indivisible page for more information, and for ready-made materials you can post online and use in other ways to encourage others to cancel their subscriptions, visit this page. According to Indivisible Bangor, Pandora is running the same ICE recruiting adds. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Spotify’s stock has dropped 13% in the past month.
As always, throw a little sand in their gears! ~~Emanuel
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, ‘although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,’ wrote Orwell, tends to be ‘uninterested in what happens in the real world.’ Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”
~~Timothy Snyder “Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century”.
Script for comment to DHS on misuse of Social Security information:
“The Privacy Act protects U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents from improper government use of their data. We share private citizenship information with the Social Security Administration with the guarantee that it will only be used for purposes related to benefits, retirement, disability, and death. We did NOT consent to our sensitive SSA data being repurposed by federal or state governments for use in a massive voter verification system. The government has no right to do this without our consent. “This misuse of private data could wrongfully purge lawfully registered voters from voter rolls and prevent eligible voters from voting. In fact, some states have alreadystarted purging voter rolls and opening criminal cases using this system–even though this data is especially unreliable for naturalized citizens and states are doing littleto confirm the data is accurate.”
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning!! Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor. Following this newsletter is the Daily Action Email from our friends in Augusta -a great list of important actions and information.
Please read this as it discusses the CDC’s efforts to remove the universal Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine recommendation. The deadline for comments is today,Monday, November 24th, 11:59pm! So, be sure to read!
Also, actions from Hancock County Democrat: Action 183 – We Need Nurses (11/24), that discusses the U.S. Department of Education’s plan to reclassify a number of professions, such as nursing, physician assistants, and social workers, as “not professional” (Newsweek, 11/21), which will adversely affect the way students can borrow money for their education. This is part of the Big Beautiful Bill that was passed this past summer and the MAGA attack on higher education.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/24)that asks to save the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and to pressure Apple to take back its donation to Trump’s ballroom.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
And “thank you” to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
From the article: LD 1971 and LD 1259 were introduced earlier this year to combat ICE’s impact in Maine. LD 1971, “An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities,” was introduced in May.
While this bill passed in both the House and Senate, when it was given to Gov. Janet Mills, she did not sign it. This means it is currently waiting for the next legislative session. LD 1259 is also waiting for the next legislative session. This bill would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from entering into contracts with ICE.”
Please contact Governor Mills and ask her to sign these bills.
Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings!
Shopping Boycott THIS Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1
We Ain’t Buying It
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power. This Thanksgiving, choose freedom over shopping. Family over corporations.
This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
(And you don’t have to limit it to these only these three companies on these few days. Many people have added Walmart to this list and have stopped shopping at these places all together– George).
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap Tuesday, December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
“Maine lawmakers won’t consider proposed ban on masks for ICE agents”
From the Bangor Daily News article (found here, 11/20/2025), “A panel of top Maine lawmakers declined Thursday to consider next year a proposal to ban police officers and immigration enforcement agents operating in the state from wearing masks that conceal their identities. The bill request from Rep. Grayson Lookner, D-Portland would “increase accountability of law enforcement by prohibiting the use of masks that conceal the identities of law enforcement officers.”
“The Legislative Council that is made up of top lawmakers from each party voted 6-3 without any discussion to reject Lookner’s appeal to have his proposal heard next year, when the Democratic-led Legislature is slated to hold a shorter session that typically ends around April.
“House Majority Leader Matt Moonen, D-Portland, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Jill Duson, D-Portland, and Assistant House Majority Leader Lori Gramlich, D-Old Orchard Beach, voted in favor of considering Lookner’s proposal. Three Democrats — House Speaker Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford, Senate President Mattie Daughtry of Brunswick and Senate Majority Leader Teresa Pierce of Falmouth — and three Republicans — Senate Minority Leader Trey Stewart of Presque Isle, Assistant Senate Minority Leader Matt Harrington of Sanford and Assistant House Minority Leader Katrina Smith of Palermo — opposed considering it.” ~~~~
We’ve got one more chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025: Aftyn Behn in Tennessee 7.
She’s a state representative and former Indivisible organizer who can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits if we turn out enough voters.
Join a phone bank on Nov 25 and/or Dec 1 to flip this critical seat!
Just in time for Thanksgiving travel, we released a new batch of anti-Republican flyers, posters, and stickers on republicanpriorities.org!
If you’re headed to an area that isn’t a big blue bubble like Chicago, you can maximize your impact by hanging a few flyers around your destination, whether in coffee shops, churches, or even just in car windshields.
This program is designed to target low-info and no-info voters who likely have no idea of the harm that Republican governance is bringing to their lives.
Head to republicanpriorities.org to download print materials or order stickers directly!
The shutdown is over, but the need is not. There are still cuts to programs that help people with food and other needs.
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County:
Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities.
Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future!
The Maine Solidarity Fund (MSF) is an initiative of the People’s Coalition for Safety & Justice (PCSJ), a collective of frontline organizations, cultural anchors, and direct service providers with deep ties to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant, and Trans communities.
This statewide fund is one arm of the coalition’s broader community defense strategy, designed to provide rapid, direct, and equitable support to community members facing increased detention, targeted harassment, policy rollbacks, and systemic discrimination under the new Trump administration.
Rather than scrambling to crowdfund every time a neighbor is detained or faces a medical emergency, our fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise.
This isn’t about left vs right. This is about fighting back vs losing. The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. As we head into the midterms next year, we need a Democratic Party that inspires and instills pride. In this moment when the fascists are on the march, we need a Democratic Party with a spine.
Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. We will work with Indivisible groups to identify key races, provide support on the ground, and tap into movement energy across the country to boost candidates with a spine. One thing we can say for sure: We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Majority Leader.
Earlier this month, Spotify began running ads to recruit for ICE, making them an active enabler of the hiring spree to build an American secret police force. That’s bad, and if we want there to be consequences for capitulation, we have to be the consequence!
If you’ve joined a weekly “What’s the Plan?” call, you’ve probably heard me and Leah reflect on the lessons from the successful Disney/ABC/Kimmel campaign. The regime bullied, the institution capitulated, the people rebelled, the institution reversed course, and democracy sat up a little straighter the next day.
What worked to influence Disney can work with Spotify! Like Disney, Spotify is a multi-billion dollar corporation that relies on subscriptions. That means we, the paying customers, have real influence.
Note, according to the Huffington Post (10/31) and Rolling Stone (10/15), Pandora is also running ICE recruitment ads. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM satellite radio. SiriusXM acquired Pandora in 2019 “to form the world’s largest audio entertainment company.”
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities! Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops, New Orleans is next on their list
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
We have an easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangorand tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
Action Monday November 24th: Consider One Thing You Are Thankful For + Contact the CDC to Oppose RFK’s Efforts to Remove Universal Hepatitis B Birth Dose Vaccine Recommendation
Good Morning Folks, the beginning of Thanksgiving Week. Before launching in, take a breath and think of 1 maybe 2 things you are thankful for today. (Did you wake up without a toothache?? That counts.) Practice this every day this week.
Top Action to Take Today:
In relation to health and gratitude, up to now, we have had a national public health system through the CDC that has fostered the physical health of our people. It is now deeply endangered by Robert F. Kennedy. Oppose the CDC’s efforts to remove the universal Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine recommendation:Monday, November 24th, 11:59pm, is the deadline for submitting public comments about the efforts of ACIP (Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices) to remove the recommendation of the universal Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine. The Hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine has been given over a billion times to newborns and has saved countless lives with almost no side-effects. Now the CDC, under anti-vaxxer RFK Jr., is proposing to stop recommending this vaccine for newborns. Speak up now: go here. (Thanks to the BCCA newsletter for this item.)
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
Last week Trump posted execution threats (see this article – George) towards Democratic lawmakers who are all former military/CIA who posted a video asking troops not to obey illegal orders: Ask Pingree and Golden to join the effort begun yesterday by Representative Al Greene to begin impeachment hearings. There is no walking this threat of violence back.
Trump and his gang have started an illegal war through extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. A dozen civilian vessels have been blown up and dozens of people killed, with no hearings, no due process. Trump wants to distract from his problems at home by creating a “war” on drug traffickers in which he can order anyone he wants killed by claiming they are drug dealers. What could go wrong? The Senate voted down S.J. Res 90 which directs the “cessation of US military involvement in any non-congressionally authorized hostilities with Venezuela.” Both of Maine’s Senators voting against the resolution. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW, as well as a say in stopping a war with Venezuela!! For more information go here. Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to sign LD 1971 into law. Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. Anti -Ice Actions will be taking place at Home Depots, as well (see the poster below) as an effort to boycott Home Depot.
“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.”
~~Father David Steindl Rast. To learn more about practicing gratitude go to Father David Steindl Rast’s website on gratefulness.
As always, throw a little sand in their gears! ~~Mid Maine Indivisible
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning!! Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor. Following this newsletter is the great list of important actions and information from our friends at Mid Maine Indivisible.
Please read this as it discusses President Donald Trump’s call to execute Democrats who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders. It is not to be dismissed that the President of the United States is accusing these Democrats of sedition and calling for them to be put to death. This is an escalation and not to be shrugged away, that this is just “Trump being Trump”.
Also, actions from Hancock County Democrat: Action 182 – Follow up on LD 1971 (11/17), that discusses “Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities” that has been waiting for her signature since July. Click here for a list of more actions from the HCD, including those concerning ICE and more.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/17)that discusses the Epstein files, the U.S. Border Patrol’s invasion of Charlotte, North Carolina, and a reminder of Maine-specific actions from Friday, 11/14.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
And “thank you” to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
From the article: LD 1971 and LD 1259 were introduced earlier this year to combat ICE’s impact in Maine. LD 1971, “An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities,” was introduced in May.
While this bill passed in both the House and Senate, when it was given to Gov. Janet Mills, she did not sign it. This means it is currently waiting for the next legislative session. LD 1259 is also waiting for the next legislative session. This bill would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from entering into contracts with ICE.”
Please contact Governor Mills and ask her to sign these bills.
Two quick actions–but you need to do them today! Check out this Substack page from Amy MacDonald. This page lists two easy actions and has a lot of good information on many important topics.
Join Indivisible Bangor!
Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings!
Food AND Medicine Annual Solidarity Harvest Update Help Needed During This Final Weekend
Food and Medicineis holding its annual Solidarity HarvestNOW through November 24th. Please consider volunteering to help them assemble and distribute locally-sourced meal baskets, each with nearly 30 pounds of produce, which is enough food for 8-10 people.
From Food AND Medicine (11/20): Thursday update – Box distribution is in full swing; about 1/4 of the boxes have gone out. We’ve got a few big days ahead of us.
STRONG ARMS are needed SATURDAY morning from 8:30 am to 10 to help manually load 350+ boxes onto a trailer. This trailer will not accommodate our forklift and boxes on pallets, so we have to do it by hand. The more hands, the faster it will go. Are you available? Reply to this email and let us know you can help. The RSVP will let us know how many people to expect. Note that each box weighs about 30 pounds.
The boxes going on Saturday morning are for a number of unions, including over 200 for federal workers in Bath and Kittery. The Teamsters will be here with their trailer and will be making stops in Augusta, Bath and Kittery. Solidarity makes things happen, and you can be part of it. If you’d like to sponsor a meal, click here.
National Protest in Washington, D.C. This Weekend, November 20-22, 2025
We the People mean business. Our presence is our power, and this time we’re showing up with firm demands and intend to change history. Remove the Regime is the moment we’ve been waiting for.
This is not a 50-state protest. On November 22, 2025, we will peacefully descend on the seat of power in Washington, DC to demand that this lawless administration come to an END.
We will no longer tolerate inaction or delay from elected officials as Donald Trump commits actual treason. We are calling out their complicity in the sabotage of American democracy unless and until they honor their oath. We are demanding impeachment and removal, and we are demanding it NOW.
We will lobby Congress directly beginning on Thursday, November 20, joined by movement leaders, veterans, artists, pastors, farmers and more. The Dropkick Murphys will headline our main event on Saturday!
Shopping Boycott Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1
We Ain’t Buying It
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power. This Thanksgiving, choose freedom over shopping. Family over corporations.
This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
(And you don’t have to limit it to these only these three companies on these few days. Many people have added Walmart to this list and have stopped shopping at these places all together- George).
We are participating in the “We Ain’t Buying It” solidarity campaign (described above)! We will be on Stillwater Avenue, across from the Home Depot in Bangor on the Saturday, November 29th, from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.!
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap Tuesday, December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
“Maine lawmakers won’t consider proposed ban on masks for ICE agents”
From the Bangor Daily News article (found here, 11/20/2025), “A panel of top Maine lawmakers declined Thursday to consider next year a proposal to ban police officers and immigration enforcement agents operating in the state from wearing masks that conceal their identities. The bill request from Rep. Grayson Lookner, D-Portland would “increase accountability of law enforcement by prohibiting the use of masks that conceal the identities of law enforcement officers.”
“The Legislative Council that is made up of top lawmakers from each party voted 6-3 without any discussion to reject Lookner’s appeal to have his proposal heard next year, when the Democratic-led Legislature is slated to hold a shorter session that typically ends around April.
“House Majority Leader Matt Moonen, D-Portland, Assistant Senate Majority Leader Jill Duson, D-Portland, and Assistant House Majority Leader Lori Gramlich, D-Old Orchard Beach, voted in favor of considering Lookner’s proposal. Three Democrats — House Speaker Ryan Fecteau of Biddeford, Senate President Mattie Daughtry of Brunswick and Senate Majority Leader Teresa Pierce of Falmouth — and three Republicans — Senate Minority Leader Trey Stewart of Presque Isle, Assistant Senate Minority Leader Matt Harrington of Sanford and Assistant House Minority Leader Katrina Smith of Palermo — opposed considering it.” ~~~~
Laurel Libby was at The University of Maine on Wednesday, November 19th, 2025, and was met with well over 100 students and community members who protested her message of hate and vilifying children.
Read more here in these two articles from The Maine Campus, the newspaper of the University of Maine:
The shutdown is over, but the need is not. There are still cuts to programs that help people with food and other needs.
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County:
Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities.
Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future!
The Maine Solidarity Fund (MSF) is an initiative of the People’s Coalition for Safety & Justice (PCSJ), a collective of frontline organizations, cultural anchors, and direct service providers with deep ties to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant, and Trans communities.
This statewide fund is one arm of the coalition’s broader community defense strategy, designed to provide rapid, direct, and equitable support to community members facing increased detention, targeted harassment, policy rollbacks, and systemic discrimination under the new Trump administration.
Rather than scrambling to crowdfund every time a neighbor is detained or faces a medical emergency, our fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise.
This isn’t about left vs right. This is about fighting back vs losing. The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. As we head into the midterms next year, we need a Democratic Party that inspires and instills pride. In this moment when the fascists are on the march, we need a Democratic Party with a spine.
Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. We will work with Indivisible groups to identify key races, provide support on the ground, and tap into movement energy across the country to boost candidates with a spine. One thing we can say for sure: We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Majority Leader.
Are you someone or do you know someone who wants to leave MAGA? Please visit this site created by a man who was once in MAGA and has since left. Leavingmaga.org
Boycott Spotify
From Ezra and Leah-
Earlier this month, Spotify began running ads to recruit for ICE, making them an active enabler of the hiring spree to build an American secret police force. That’s bad, and if we want there to be consequences for capitulation, we have to be the consequence!
If you’ve joined a weekly “What’s the Plan?” call, you’ve probably heard me and Leah reflect on the lessons from the successful Disney/ABC/Kimmel campaign. The regime bullied, the institution capitulated, the people rebelled, the institution reversed course, and democracy sat up a little straighter the next day.
What worked to influence Disney can work with Spotify! Like Disney, Spotify is a multi-billion dollar corporation that relies on subscriptions. That means we, the paying customers, have real influence.
Note, according to the Huffington Post (10/31) and Rolling Stone (10/15), Pandora is also running ICE recruitment ads. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM satellite radio. SiriusXM acquired Pandora in 2019 “to form the world’s largest audio entertainment company.”
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities! Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops, New Orleans is next on their list
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
From the article, “Based on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year.” Such an increase will result in many Mainers simply not having healthcare insurance any longer.
Please continue to contact your senators and member in the House that they “must act immediately to preserve affordable health insurance for millions before costs skyrocket at the end of year” (www.5calls.org). Contact info for all four representatives inWashington are at the end of this newsletter.
Make Some Calls!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
We have an easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangorand tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
And now to the Mid Maine Indivisible morning Call to Action:
Action Friday November 21st: Demand That Our Congressional Representatives Condemn Trump’s Death Threats to Democratic Lawmakers + Begin Impeachment Procedures
Good Morning Folks, the latest news is explosive. From CNN: President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that Democratic lawmakers who urged service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders should be put to death, sparking an outcry among Democrats on Capitol Hill that the president was seeking to incite violence. For more go here.
Top Action to Take Today:
Trump posted the following yesterday about the video posted by Democratic lawmakers who are all former military/CIA: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” and reposted a user who wrote “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD.” Call your Congressional Representatives and ask them to condemn this language, especially Susan Collins who has not said a word. (Nor, to my knowledge has any Republican Lawmaker) Ask them to join the effort begun yesterday by Representative Al Greene to begin impeachment hearings. There is no walking this threat of violence back.
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
More pertinent than ever: As I have mentioned before there is a “Remove the Regime” demonstration in DC this weekend (Nov. 20 – 22), with a rally, the Dropkick Murphys performing, and Congressional Visits (see attached poster). Most of us here in Maine aren’t going but we can hold rallies with that theme at home. Indivisible Mid Maine is planning one in Augusta at the Federal Building from 2 – 3 on this Saturday, November 22nd! There are 25 ongoing rallies throughout Maine on Saturday – join one and bring your Remove the Regime related signs!! Go to Activate Maine to find a rally closest to you. Here are the towns involved: Portland, South Portland, Houlton, Wells, Bucksport, Waldoboro, Rockland, Machias, Lincoln, Damariscotta, Calais, Blue Hill, Belfast, Auburn, Millinocket, Westbrook, Southwest Harbor, Lubec, Bangor, Freeport, Vinalhaven, York, Yarmouth, Lewiston!! (Is that amazing or what??) Bring your IMPEACH TRUMP signs!!!
Trump and his gang have started an illegal war through extra-judicial killings in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. A dozen civilian vessels have been blown up and dozens of people killed, with no hearings, no due process. . Trump wants to distract from his problems at home by creating a “war” on drug traffickers in which he can order anyone he wants killed by claiming they are drug dealers. What could go wrong? The Senate voted down S.J. Res 90 which directs the “cessation of US military involvement in any non-congressionally authorized hostilities with Venezuela.” Both of Maine’s Senators voting against the resolution. Our lawmakers should be demanding an investigation of these murders NOW, as well as a say in stopping a war with Venezuela!! For more information go here. (See Daniel Ellsberg’s quotes at the end of this email – things have been this way for a long, long, time)
Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to sign LD 1971 into law. Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. This bill has passed the legislature, is sitting on Mills’ desk and forbids our state law enforcement from working with ICE and Custom and Border Patrol. She just spent time in person with Illinois, Governor Pritzker who spoke at the Maine Democratic Gala, so the issue must be top of mind for her right now.
(can you imagine our current President saying something of this nature?)
As always, throw a little sand in their gears! ~~Mid Maine Indivisible
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning!! Here is today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor. Following this newsletter is the great list of important actions and information from our friends at Mid Maine Indivisible.
Also, actions from Hancock County Democrat: Action 182 – Follow up on LD 1971 (11/17), that discusses “Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities” that has been waiting for her signature since July. Click here for a list of more actions from the HCD, including those concerning ICE and more.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/17)that discusses the Epstein files, the U.S. Border Patrol’s invasion of Charlotte, North Carolina, and a reminder of Maine-specific actions from Friday, 11/14.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
And “thank you” to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
New Action Being Planned for Saturday, November 29th!
Home Depot continues to allow ICE to terrorize, intimidate, and abduct people, non-citizens and citizens alike, from their property.
We are working out a plan to take part in the “We Ain’t Buying It” solidarity campaign (see below) at the Home Depot in Bangor on the Saturday of the big shopping weekend after Thanksgiving, November 29th. Stay tuned!
From the article: LD 1971 and LD 1259 were introduced earlier this year to combat ICE’s impact in Maine. LD 1971, “An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities,” was introduced in May.
While this bill passed in both the House and Senate, when it was given to Gov. Janet Mills, she did not sign it. This means it is currently waiting for the next legislative session. LD 1259 is also waiting for the next legislative session. This bill would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from entering into contracts with ICE.”
Please contact Governor Mills and ask her to sign these bills.
Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings! The next NEWCOMERS’ MEETING is THIS Thursday, NOVEMBER 20, so sign up and join soon!
Laurel Libby at the University of Maine Tonight, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
“UMaine students support our transgender community members, and Turning Point USA is sending Laurel Libby to our campus to spread hate and fear. Her event starts at 4pm in the Corbett Business Building, and we would LOVE to fill it with protestors. Not comfortable demonstrating inside? We’ll be outside too! Join us to rally in opposition to Libby and TPUSA and in solidarity for our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and community!”
TODAY- Rally on UMaine Campus! 3:30, 11/19, MLK Plaza, next to the Memorial Union.
Rally at Senator Susan Collins’ Office Tomorrow, Thursday, November 20, 2025 11:00 a.m.
From the Maine People’s Alliance: After more than a month, the federal shutdown is finally over. In many ways, that’s a very good thing: We’re glad that the programs a lot of us rely on will resume and federal employees will be back to work and getting paid. But Congress still hasn’t fixed the health care affordability crisis Republicans created.
That’s why on Thursday, Nov. 20, we’re rallying as a community to urge her to protect our health care.
Congress will be voting before the end of the year on whether to reinstate the Affordable Care Act tax credits that have (finally) made health insurance affordable for tens of thousands of Mainers. We need to show Senator Collins that we’re ready to hold her to her promises to work for Mainers.
Join the Maine People’s Alliance on Thursday, November 20th at 11am to rally in front of Senator Collins office at 202 Harlow Street in Bangor to protect the ACA and the subsidies Mainers need to afford it!
DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, INCLUSION, AND RELATED DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND POLICIES UNDER ATTACK AT UMAINE AND BEYOND Tomorrow, Thursday,November 20
In 2025, DEI policies at UMaine and beyond are under attack; students, researchers, and others are threatened and live with great fear and uncertainty. This program will explore these current threats and how we can respond, resist, uphold freedom of speech, and create democratic alternatives. Elliot Benjamin has a Ph.D. from the University of Maine and has been deeply committed to Indivisible Maine and Indivisible nationally, especially in 2025. Doug Allen retired after 46 years as a professor of philosophy at UMaine and has served as Coordinator of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series since its inception in the mid-1980s.
Please email Elliot Benjamin (ben496@prexar.com) for more information on this discussion and for the Zoom link if you’d like to attend remotely.
This Thursday, 11/20/2025 12:30-1:45 P.M. Bangor Room, Memorial Union The University of Maine, Orono
National Protest in Washington, D.C. This Weekend, November 20-22, 2025
We the People mean business. Our presence is our power, and this time we’re showing up with firm demands and intend to change history. Remove the Regime is the moment we’ve been waiting for.
This is not a 50-state protest. On November 22, 2025, we will peacefully descend on the seat of power in Washington, DC to demand that this lawless administration come to an END.
We will no longer tolerate inaction or delay from elected officials as Donald Trump commits actual treason. We are calling out their complicity in the sabotage of American democracy unless and until they honor their oath. We are demanding impeachment and removal, and we are demanding it NOW.
We will lobby Congress directly beginning on Thursday, November 20, joined by movement leaders, veterans, artists, pastors, farmers and more. The Dropkick Murphys will headline our main event on Saturday!
Shopping Boycott Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1
We Ain’t Buying It
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power. This Thanksgiving, choose freedom over shopping. Family over corporations.
This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
(And you don’t have to limit it to these only these three companies on these few days. Many people have added Walmart to this list and have stopped shopping at these places all together- George).
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap Tuesday, December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
The shutdown is over, but the need is not. There are still cuts to programs that help people with food and other needs.
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
The Maine ICE Watch Hotline
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County:
Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities.
Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future!
The Maine Solidarity Fund (MSF) is an initiative of the People’s Coalition for Safety & Justice (PCSJ), a collective of frontline organizations, cultural anchors, and direct service providers with deep ties to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant, and Trans communities.
This statewide fund is one arm of the coalition’s broader community defense strategy, designed to provide rapid, direct, and equitable support to community members facing increased detention, targeted harassment, policy rollbacks, and systemic discrimination under the new Trump administration.
Rather than scrambling to crowdfund every time a neighbor is detained or faces a medical emergency, our fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise.
This isn’t about left vs right. This is about fighting back vs losing. The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. As we head into the midterms next year, we need a Democratic Party that inspires and instills pride. In this moment when the fascists are on the march, we need a Democratic Party with a spine.
Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. We will work with Indivisible groups to identify key races, provide support on the ground, and tap into movement energy across the country to boost candidates with a spine. One thing we can say for sure: We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Majority Leader.
Are you someone or do you know someone who wants to leave MAGA? Please visit this site created by a man who was once in MAGA and has since left. Leavingmaga.org
Boycott Spotify
From Ezra and Leah-
Earlier this month, Spotify began running ads to recruit for ICE, making them an active enabler of the hiring spree to build an American secret police force. That’s bad, and if we want there to be consequences for capitulation, we have to be the consequence!
If you’ve joined a weekly “What’s the Plan?” call, you’ve probably heard me and Leah reflect on the lessons from the successful Disney/ABC/Kimmel campaign. The regime bullied, the institution capitulated, the people rebelled, the institution reversed course, and democracy sat up a little straighter the next day.
What worked to influence Disney can work with Spotify! Like Disney, Spotify is a multi-billion dollar corporation that relies on subscriptions. That means we, the paying customers, have real influence.
Note, according to the Huffington Post (10/31) and Rolling Stone (10/15), Pandora is also running ICE recruitment ads. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM satellite radio. SiriusXM acquired Pandora in 2019 “to form the world’s largest audio entertainment company.”
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities! Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
From the article, “Based on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year.” Such an increase will result in many Mainers simply not having healthcare insurance any longer.
Please continue to contact your senators and member in the House that they “must act immediately to preserve affordable health insurance for millions before costs skyrocket at the end of year” (www.5calls.org). Contact info for all four representatives inWashington are at the end of this newsletter.
Make Some Calls!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
We have an easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangorand tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
And now to the Mid Maine Indivisible morning Call to Action:
Action Wednesday November 19th: Ask Our Congressional Lawmakers to Demand an Investigation of Illegal Killings in the Caribbean + East Pacific + Arms Buildup Near Venezuela
Good Morning Folks, it’s Wednesday and we have a major win. The Epstein Files Transparency Act passed the House with an almost unanimous vote, and passed the Senate by unanimous consent. Now it goes to the President’s desk to be signed. This is a highly unusual turn of events. Thanks to all of you who called our Congressional Representatives on this. But, “it ain’t over till it’s over”, and Trump and his gang will continue covering up however and wherever they can, so we will need to keep pushing on this. Keep tuned.
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
Masked ICE and Customs and Border Patrol continue to abduct people in Maine. Several of these kidnappings have happened at Home Depots around Maine. Here are a few related actions you can take in response. Ask Governor Mills to sign LD 1971 into law. Go here to email or call her at (207) 287-3531. This bill has passed the legislature, is sitting on Mills’ desk and forbids our state law enforcement from working with ICE and Custom and Border Patrol. She just spent time in person with Illinois, Governor Pritzker who spoke at the Maine Democratic Gala, so the issue must be top of mind for her right now.
Call Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau and Senate President Mattie Dougherty and ask them to allow LR 2591 into the Legislative Session starting in January. This bill would require ICE and Custom and Border Patrols to be UNMASKED in Maine. Finally educate yourself about Home Depot’s actions and consider starting a demonstration at your local Home Depot. As ICE Targets Home Depot Stores, Advocates Say Company Is Failing To Protect Day Laborers (10/31)
ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” Even though the Government is “open” now, hunger issues continue for people around the country.
As always, throw a little sand in their gears! ~~Mid Maine Indivisible
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
Good morning!! I’m about back on track now with today’s newsletter from Indivisible Bangor. Following this newsletter is the great list of important actions and information from our friends at Mid Maine Indivisible, including:
-CURRENT information the Epstein Files, the Discharge Petition, and H.R. 4405. Read this CNN article (11/12) for background information on this process. Also included is Maine LR 2591, which would require ICE and Custom and Border Patrols to be UNMASKED in Maine.
Also, actions from Hancock Country Democrat: Action 182 – Follow up on LD 1971 (11/17), that discusses “Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities” that has been waiting for her signature since July. Click here for a list of more actions from the HCD, including those concerning ICE and more.
Also, check out the latest from the Bold Coast Civic Alliance (11/17)that discusses the Epstein files, the U.S. Border Patrol’s invasion of Charlotte, North Carolina, and a reminder of Maine-specific actions from Friday, 11/14.
A lot of research goes into these additional actions, so be sure to read them!
Thank you to supporters who have been donating to our ActBlue fund!
Current News:
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Weekly Vigils
Weekly vigils are happening here in the Bangor area!
The week finishes with the Visibility Brigade on Fridays. Join the brigrade on the Essex Street overpass at the new time of 3:00 p.m. as we hold letters to spell out messages for the drivers on I-95! Learn more here. Tell them you read about it here
New Action Being Planned for Later This Month!
Home Depot continues to allow ICE to terrorize, intimidate, and abduct people, non-citizens and citizens alike, from their property.
We are working out a plan to take part in the “We Ain’t Buying It” solidarity campaign (see below) at the Home Depot in Bangor on the Saturday of the big shopping weekend after Thanksgiving, November 29th. Stay tuned!
Release the Epstein Files
Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., was officially sworn into the House on Wednesday, 50 days after she won her special election to take her late father’s seat — the longest time a lawmaker has waited to take the oath of office. (Desert News, 11/12/2025). She then became the 218th person to sign the petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files. This petition allows a vote without the blessing of the House leadership. It has been reported (MSNBC 11/12) that President Trump met with Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert (one of only four House Republicans who have signed) to try to get her to remove her name from that petition. However, once that 218th signature was made, the process was triggered and the vote will be held.
Please call your House Representative and ask her or him to vote in favor of H.R. 4405 the Epstein Files Transparency Act. For more on this go here. Just tap the phone numbers to make the call.
From the article: LD 1971 and LD 1259 were introduced earlier this year to combat ICE’s impact in Maine. LD 1971, “An Act to Protect Workers in This State by Clarifying the Relationship of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies with Federal Immigration Authorities,” was introduced in May.
While this bill passed in both the House and Senate, when it was given to Gov. Janet Mills, she did not sign it. This means it is currently waiting for the next legislative session. LD 1259 is also waiting for the next legislative session. This bill would prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from entering into contracts with ICE.”
Please contact Governor Mills and ask her to sign these bills.
Join Indivisible Bangor! Newcomers’ Meeting This Thursday, Nov. 20
Do you want to become more involved? Would you like to help with the website and communications? How about helping to organize events, such as rallies and overpass actions or be a peacekeeper? Or do you just want to keep up with what we’re doing? Volunteer with Indivisible Bangor! You level of involvement is up to you!
Weekly member meetings are on Zoom with in-person meetings on the first Wednesday of the month. Please click the link below to sign up and we’ll help you with the process of becoming a member of Indivisible Bangor!
New members, and current members, too, are invited to join one of our monthly Zoom informational meetings! The next NEWCOMERS’ MEETING is THIS Thursday, NOVEMBER 20, so sign up and join soon!
Laurel Libbey at the University of Maine Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
“UMaine students support our transgender community members, and Turning Point USA is sending Laurel Libby to our campus to spread hate and fear. Her event starts at 4pm in the Corbett Business Building, and we would LOVE to fill it with protestors. Not comfortable demonstrating inside? We’ll be outside too! Join us to rally in opposition to Libby and TPUSA and in solidarity for our LGBTQ+ friends, family, and community!”
Rally at Senator Susan Collins’ Office This Thursday, November 20, 2025 11:00 a.m.
From the Maine People’s Alliance: After more than a month, the federal shutdown is finally over. In many ways, that’s a very good thing: We’re glad that the programs a lot of us rely on will resume and federal employees will be back to work and getting paid. But Congress still hasn’t fixed the health care affordability crisis Republicans created.
That’s why on Thursday, Nov. 20, we’re rallying as a community to urge her to protect our health care.
Congress will be voting before the end of the year on whether to reinstate the Affordable Care Act tax credits that have (finally) made health insurance affordable for tens of thousands of Mainers. We need to show Senator Collins that we’re ready to hold her to her promises to work for Mainers.
Join the Maine People’s Alliance on Thursday, November 20th at 11am to rally in front of Senator Collins office at 202 Harlow Street in Bangor to protect the ACA and the subsidies Mainers need to afford it!
DIVERSITY, EQUALITY, INCLUSION, AND RELATED DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND POLICIES UNDER ATTACK AT UMAINE AND BEYOND THIS Thursday,November 20
In 2025, DEI policies at UMaine and beyond are under attack; students, researchers, and others are threatened and live with great fear and uncertainty. This program will explore these current threats and how we can respond, resist, uphold freedom of speech, and create democratic alternatives. Elliot Benjamin has a Ph.D. from the University of Maine and has been deeply committed to Indivisible Maine and Indivisible nationally, especially in 2025. Doug Allen retired after 46 years as a professor of philosophy at UMaine and has served as Coordinator of the Socialist and Marxist Studies Lecture Series since its inception in the mid-1980s.
Please email Elliot Benjamin (ben496@prexar.com) for more information on this discussion and for the Zoom link if you’d like to attend remotely.
This Thursday, 11/20/2025 12:30-1:45 P.M. Bangor Room, Memorial Union The University of Maine, Orono
National Protest in Washington, D.C. This Weekend, November 20-22, 2025
We the People mean business. Our presence is our power, and this time we’re showing up with firm demands and intend to change history. Remove the Regime is the moment we’ve been waiting for.
This is not a 50-state protest. On November 22, 2025, we will peacefully descend on the seat of power in Washington, DC to demand that this lawless administration come to an END.
We will no longer tolerate inaction or delay from elected officials as Donald Trump commits actual treason. We are calling out their complicity in the sabotage of American democracy unless and until they honor their oath. We are demanding impeachment and removal, and we are demanding it NOW.
We will lobby Congress directly beginning on Thursday, November 20, joined by movement leaders, veterans, artists, pastors, farmers and more. The Dropkick Murphys will headline our main event on Saturday!
Shopping Boycott Black Friday Weekend November 27 – December 1
We Ain’t Buying It
We Ain’t Buying It is an economic action and solidarity campaign designed to defend democracy and reclaim community power. This Thanksgiving, choose freedom over shopping. Family over corporations.
This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
(And you don’t have to limit it to these only these three companies on these few days. Many people have added Walmart to this list and have stopped shopping at these places all together- George).
Town Hall with Matt Dunlap Tuesday, December 2, 2025
About this event
“I’m excited to invite you to a town hall in Bangor! This is a chance for us to sit down together, talk about the issues that matter most to Maine families, and hear directly from you.
“I’ll share my vision for Maine, answer your questions, and listen to your concerns. I’ve always made it a priority to be accessible to voters, and I look forward to having an open conversation with you.
“I hope you can join me — bring your questions, ideas, and your voice!”
The Norman Minsky Lecture Hall is located on the third floor of the Library. It is accessible by stairs or elevator.
Please DONATE to a local food pantry- food, personal items, and even cash. Faith Linking in Action maintains a database of all food pantries and free meals– organized by both location and day of the week– in the Bangor area. Check it out here.
Also, ActivateMaine has created a site, SNAP Into Action: “a statewide effort to help those who are affected by the freezing of benefits due to the Government shut down.” If you know of any food drives that are happening, please visit this site to add it to the database!
The Maine ICE Watch Hotline
The purpose of the hotline is to protect immigrant families by providing accurate, real-time information about ICE and Border Patrol activity and connect Maine families to resources and support services during a time of heightened enforcement and targeting of immigrants and refugees.
Other Ways to Take Action (Courtesy of Indivisible Cumberland County:
Maine’s ICE Watch Hotline Training: Get trained to field, verify, and document potential community ICE sightings and provide trusted, reliable information on ICE activity to immigrant communities.
Action Alert on LD 1917: Contact Governor Mills and tell her to sign into law this bill to protect Maine’s immigrant communities, workforce, public safety, and future!
The Maine Solidarity Fund (MSF) is an initiative of the People’s Coalition for Safety & Justice (PCSJ), a collective of frontline organizations, cultural anchors, and direct service providers with deep ties to Maine’s Black and Brown immigrant, and Trans communities.
This statewide fund is one arm of the coalition’s broader community defense strategy, designed to provide rapid, direct, and equitable support to community members facing increased detention, targeted harassment, policy rollbacks, and systemic discrimination under the new Trump administration.
Rather than scrambling to crowdfund every time a neighbor is detained or faces a medical emergency, our fund pools resources from across communities into a shared fund we can draw from immediately when urgent needs arise.
This isn’t about left vs right. This is about fighting back vs losing. The regime’s threats are too real and the stakes are too high to settle for the feckless, loser version of the Democratic Party we saw this week. As we head into the midterms next year, we need a Democratic Party that inspires and instills pride. In this moment when the fascists are on the march, we need a Democratic Party with a spine.
Our primary program will include both the House and Senate. We will work with Indivisible groups to identify key races, provide support on the ground, and tap into movement energy across the country to boost candidates with a spine. One thing we can say for sure: We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Majority Leader.
Are you someone or do you know someone who wants to leave MAGA? Please visit this site created by a man who was once in MAGA and has since left. Leavingmaga.org
Boycott Spotify
From Ezra and Leah-
Earlier this month, Spotify began running ads to recruit for ICE, making them an active enabler of the hiring spree to build an American secret police force. That’s bad, and if we want there to be consequences for capitulation, we have to be the consequence!
If you’ve joined a weekly “What’s the Plan?” call, you’ve probably heard me and Leah reflect on the lessons from the successful Disney/ABC/Kimmel campaign. The regime bullied, the institution capitulated, the people rebelled, the institution reversed course, and democracy sat up a little straighter the next day.
What worked to influence Disney can work with Spotify! Like Disney, Spotify is a multi-billion dollar corporation that relies on subscriptions. That means we, the paying customers, have real influence.
Note, according to the Huffington Post (10/31) and Rolling Stone (10/15), Pandora is also running ICE recruitment ads. Pandora is a subsidiary of SiriusXM satellite radio. SiriusXM acquired Pandora in 2019 “to form the world’s largest audio entertainment company.”
Stop the Military Occupation of American Cities! Charlotte Joins the List of American Cities Occupied by Trump’s Troops
We cannot allow Donald Trump’s continued use of armed federal agents and the military on American soil to intimidate and terrorize civilians to stand. This cannot be the new norm. The sole purpose of these actions is to intimidate and terrorize the local communities into compliance. Please contact your congressional delegation in Washington to let them know this is unacceptable and un-American. This should not be tolerated in our country!
From the article, “Based on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year.” Such an increase will result in many Mainers simply not having healthcare insurance any longer.
This is what the Democrats in the Senate WERE fighting against. Please contact your Maine senators and let them know you would like them to vote with the Democrats on the Continuing Resolution to extend the ACA tax credits!
It’s mentioned a few times in these newsletters about calling your representatives in Washington, D.C. It’s one of the most important things we can do and it’s so easy!
If you are more comfortable with sending emails to our Maine congressional delegation in Washington, click the links/buttons. This is a good option if you have lengthy comments or questions.
We have an easy way to donate to Indivisible Bangor. Drop off your returnable bottles and cans to Ohio Street Redemption in Bangorand tell them to put it on the account of Dave Cox. They’ll add the money to our kitty, mail out a regular check, and the money goes to our bank account to help with our expenses! You can find them here!
****Be sure the attendant writes down “Indivisible Bangor” because several donations have not been credited. Thank you!****
And you can donate here, too! Donations help pay for supplies, website, outreach, and to fund the many upcoming actions in Maine.
And now to the Mid Maine Indivisible morning Call to Action:
Action Tuesday November 18th: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize – Release the Epstein Files Vote Today in the House + Contact Governor Mills About LD 1971
Good Morning Folks, it’s Tuesday and the historic move to release the Epstein Files will probably be voted on today in the House. (See Marjorie Taylor Greene’s quotes at the end of this email!)
Top Action to Take Today:
Take a stand to support sexual abuse survivors by contacting Pingree or Golden, to vote in favor of H.R. 4405 the
Epstein Files Transparency Act which will likely be up for a vote today. It is being noted that this will be a truly bipartisan vote in which possibly 100+ Republicans will join the Democrats in voting for this bill. For more on this go here.
If you haven’t contacted Senators King and Collins on this, please do. They are both likely to vote in favor of the release. The bill will then go to Trump to be signed. If he vetoes, or claims there is an investigation going on, we’ll have to reorient our strategy. Regardless of the political effect of the release of these files, it’s something the survivors of this sex trafficking ring have been working on for decades and at last they are being heard. It will be amazing to have a truly bi-partisan consensus on getting these files released.
More Actions Today if You Have the Bandwidth
Call Speaker of the House Ryan Fecteau and Senate President Mattie Dougherty and ask them to allow LR 2591 into the Legislative Session starting in January. This bill would require ICE and Custom and Border Patrols to be UNMASKED in Maine. Finally educate yourself about Home Depot’s actions and consider starting a demonstration at your local Home Depot. As ICE Targets Home Depot Stores, Advocates Say Company Is Failing To Protect Day Laborers (10/31)
“Tomorrow Congress will finally vote to release the Epstein files. This should have never been a fight. Raping teenage girls, trafficking victims, and protecting powerful people is not a hoax. I unapologetically and proudly stand with these women,”
“I believe the country deserves transparency in these files, and I don’t believe that rich, powerful people should be protected if they have done anything wrong,” ~~Marjorie Taylor Greene
As always, throw a little sand in their gears! ~~Mid Maine Indivisible
It’s a piece of cake to email or call with these links!
The names of our senators and representatives listed below are links that go right to their official congressional contact form pages. The telephone numbers are links that should open your phone app to call that number. It’s that easy!
