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#Palestine conference canceled by #USM over speaker’s sanctions has new location
The academic discussion called the ‘#ConsequenceOfPalestine’ will take place at #FirstParishCongregationalChurch in #GorhamME
by Riley Board, February 26, 2026
"A conference on Palestine scheduled for Saturday has found a new venue after the University of Southern Maine said it would no longer sponsor the event because one of the planned speakers is subject to sanctions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"The 'Consequence of Palestine' event will now be hosted at the First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham, and is scheduled to proceed on the same date, organizers with the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights announced Thursday.
"University officials told organizers late last week they could no longer use Hannaford Hall on the USM’s Portland campus for the event after learning that speaker #FrancescaAlbanese is on the Office of Foreign Assets Controls’ #SanctionsLlist.
"#Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories, was slapped with sanctions in July after she wrote letters to several major American businesses, telling them she planned to name them in a U.N. report for contributing to human rights violations by #Israel; the #StateDepartment called the letters campaigns of political and #EconomicWarfare. U.S. businesses and entities are prohibited from doing business with Albanese.
"Albanese was scheduled to speak at the conference remotely, and organizers said they received guidance that her participation was permitted so long as they did not engage in any financial transaction with her or offer an honorarium for her participation.
"Organizers also say they offered to remove Albanese from the schedule, but the university said it still could not host the event because it needed, 'time to assess the risk and put in place measures to ensure compliance with all federal and state laws and university policies.'
"More than 300 people had registered for the event as of Tuesday.
"Albanese is still slated to speak at the conference, an organizer confirmed. The USM Department of Criminology and Sociology, previously a co-sponsor of the event, is no longer involved."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/8VwxN#MainePol #Capitulation #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #FreeGaza #Gaza #GazaGenocide #LandTheft #Colonialism #FreePalestine #BibiIsAWarCriminal #MaineVoicesForPeace
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#Palestine conference canceled by #USM over speaker’s sanctions has new location
The academic discussion called the ‘#ConsequenceOfPalestine’ will take place at #FirstParishCongregationalChurch in #GorhamME
by Riley Board, February 26, 2026
"A conference on Palestine scheduled for Saturday has found a new venue after the University of Southern Maine said it would no longer sponsor the event because one of the planned speakers is subject to sanctions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"The 'Consequence of Palestine' event will now be hosted at the First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham, and is scheduled to proceed on the same date, organizers with the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights announced Thursday.
"University officials told organizers late last week they could no longer use Hannaford Hall on the USM’s Portland campus for the event after learning that speaker #FrancescaAlbanese is on the Office of Foreign Assets Controls’ #SanctionsLlist.
"#Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories, was slapped with sanctions in July after she wrote letters to several major American businesses, telling them she planned to name them in a U.N. report for contributing to human rights violations by #Israel; the #StateDepartment called the letters campaigns of political and #EconomicWarfare. U.S. businesses and entities are prohibited from doing business with Albanese.
"Albanese was scheduled to speak at the conference remotely, and organizers said they received guidance that her participation was permitted so long as they did not engage in any financial transaction with her or offer an honorarium for her participation.
"Organizers also say they offered to remove Albanese from the schedule, but the university said it still could not host the event because it needed, 'time to assess the risk and put in place measures to ensure compliance with all federal and state laws and university policies.'
"More than 300 people had registered for the event as of Tuesday.
"Albanese is still slated to speak at the conference, an organizer confirmed. The USM Department of Criminology and Sociology, previously a co-sponsor of the event, is no longer involved."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/8VwxN#MainePol #Capitulation #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #FreeGaza #Gaza #GazaGenocide #LandTheft #Colonialism #FreePalestine #BibiIsAWarCriminal #MaineVoicesForPeace
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#Palestine conference canceled by #USM over speaker’s sanctions has new location
The academic discussion called the ‘#ConsequenceOfPalestine’ will take place at #FirstParishCongregationalChurch in #GorhamME
by Riley Board, February 26, 2026
"A conference on Palestine scheduled for Saturday has found a new venue after the University of Southern Maine said it would no longer sponsor the event because one of the planned speakers is subject to sanctions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"The 'Consequence of Palestine' event will now be hosted at the First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham, and is scheduled to proceed on the same date, organizers with the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights announced Thursday.
"University officials told organizers late last week they could no longer use Hannaford Hall on the USM’s Portland campus for the event after learning that speaker #FrancescaAlbanese is on the Office of Foreign Assets Controls’ #SanctionsLlist.
"#Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories, was slapped with sanctions in July after she wrote letters to several major American businesses, telling them she planned to name them in a U.N. report for contributing to human rights violations by #Israel; the #StateDepartment called the letters campaigns of political and #EconomicWarfare. U.S. businesses and entities are prohibited from doing business with Albanese.
"Albanese was scheduled to speak at the conference remotely, and organizers said they received guidance that her participation was permitted so long as they did not engage in any financial transaction with her or offer an honorarium for her participation.
"Organizers also say they offered to remove Albanese from the schedule, but the university said it still could not host the event because it needed, 'time to assess the risk and put in place measures to ensure compliance with all federal and state laws and university policies.'
"More than 300 people had registered for the event as of Tuesday.
"Albanese is still slated to speak at the conference, an organizer confirmed. The USM Department of Criminology and Sociology, previously a co-sponsor of the event, is no longer involved."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/8VwxN#MainePol #Capitulation #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #FreeGaza #Gaza #GazaGenocide #LandTheft #Colonialism #FreePalestine #BibiIsAWarCriminal #MaineVoicesForPeace
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#Palestine conference canceled by #USM over speaker’s sanctions has new location
The academic discussion called the ‘#ConsequenceOfPalestine’ will take place at #FirstParishCongregationalChurch in #GorhamME
by Riley Board, February 26, 2026
"A conference on Palestine scheduled for Saturday has found a new venue after the University of Southern Maine said it would no longer sponsor the event because one of the planned speakers is subject to sanctions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"The 'Consequence of Palestine' event will now be hosted at the First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham, and is scheduled to proceed on the same date, organizers with the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights announced Thursday.
"University officials told organizers late last week they could no longer use Hannaford Hall on the USM’s Portland campus for the event after learning that speaker #FrancescaAlbanese is on the Office of Foreign Assets Controls’ #SanctionsLlist.
"#Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories, was slapped with sanctions in July after she wrote letters to several major American businesses, telling them she planned to name them in a U.N. report for contributing to human rights violations by #Israel; the #StateDepartment called the letters campaigns of political and #EconomicWarfare. U.S. businesses and entities are prohibited from doing business with Albanese.
"Albanese was scheduled to speak at the conference remotely, and organizers said they received guidance that her participation was permitted so long as they did not engage in any financial transaction with her or offer an honorarium for her participation.
"Organizers also say they offered to remove Albanese from the schedule, but the university said it still could not host the event because it needed, 'time to assess the risk and put in place measures to ensure compliance with all federal and state laws and university policies.'
"More than 300 people had registered for the event as of Tuesday.
"Albanese is still slated to speak at the conference, an organizer confirmed. The USM Department of Criminology and Sociology, previously a co-sponsor of the event, is no longer involved."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/8VwxN#MainePol #Capitulation #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #FreeGaza #Gaza #GazaGenocide #LandTheft #Colonialism #FreePalestine #BibiIsAWarCriminal #MaineVoicesForPeace
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#Palestine conference canceled by #USM over speaker’s sanctions has new location
The academic discussion called the ‘#ConsequenceOfPalestine’ will take place at #FirstParishCongregationalChurch in #GorhamME
by Riley Board, February 26, 2026
"A conference on Palestine scheduled for Saturday has found a new venue after the University of Southern Maine said it would no longer sponsor the event because one of the planned speakers is subject to sanctions by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
"The 'Consequence of Palestine' event will now be hosted at the First Parish Congregational Church in Gorham, and is scheduled to proceed on the same date, organizers with the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights announced Thursday.
"University officials told organizers late last week they could no longer use Hannaford Hall on the USM’s Portland campus for the event after learning that speaker #FrancescaAlbanese is on the Office of Foreign Assets Controls’ #SanctionsLlist.
"#Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on #HumanRights in the #OccupiedPalestinianTerritories, was slapped with sanctions in July after she wrote letters to several major American businesses, telling them she planned to name them in a U.N. report for contributing to human rights violations by #Israel; the #StateDepartment called the letters campaigns of political and #EconomicWarfare. U.S. businesses and entities are prohibited from doing business with Albanese.
"Albanese was scheduled to speak at the conference remotely, and organizers said they received guidance that her participation was permitted so long as they did not engage in any financial transaction with her or offer an honorarium for her participation.
"Organizers also say they offered to remove Albanese from the schedule, but the university said it still could not host the event because it needed, 'time to assess the risk and put in place measures to ensure compliance with all federal and state laws and university policies.'
"More than 300 people had registered for the event as of Tuesday.
"Albanese is still slated to speak at the conference, an organizer confirmed. The USM Department of Criminology and Sociology, previously a co-sponsor of the event, is no longer involved."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/8VwxN#MainePol #Capitulation #USPol #Fascism #Authoritarianism #IsraeliWarCrimes #USWarCrimes #FreeGaza #Gaza #GazaGenocide #LandTheft #Colonialism #FreePalestine #BibiIsAWarCriminal #MaineVoicesForPeace
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#PortlandME - Emergency Actions, Gaza Vigil, Support for Activists!
"Join the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine on Thursday July 24th for a full day of emergency actions to demand an end to the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Wear black, bring pots and pans and join us in the streets of Portland. Come for a specific action or for the entire day.
- Court Support: 8:00am at 205 Newbury Street
- Know their Names: beginning at 12:00pm in Monument Square and going all day
- Empty Pots March: 5:30pm starting in Monument Square.
- Vigil for Gaza: end the day with a vigil starting at 7:00pm"
Source:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#VigilForGaza #MaineEvents #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #MaineResists #MaineVoicesForPeace #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes
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#PortlandME - Emergency Actions, Gaza Vigil, Support for Activists!
"Join the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine on Thursday July 24th for a full day of emergency actions to demand an end to the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Wear black, bring pots and pans and join us in the streets of Portland. Come for a specific action or for the entire day.
- Court Support: 8:00am at 205 Newbury Street
- Know their Names: beginning at 12:00pm in Monument Square and going all day
- Empty Pots March: 5:30pm starting in Monument Square.
- Vigil for Gaza: end the day with a vigil starting at 7:00pm"
Source:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#VigilForGaza #MaineEvents #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #MaineResists #MaineVoicesForPeace #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes
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#PortlandME - Emergency Actions, Gaza Vigil, Support for Activists!
"Join the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine on Thursday July 24th for a full day of emergency actions to demand an end to the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Wear black, bring pots and pans and join us in the streets of Portland. Come for a specific action or for the entire day.
- Court Support: 8:00am at 205 Newbury Street
- Know their Names: beginning at 12:00pm in Monument Square and going all day
- Empty Pots March: 5:30pm starting in Monument Square.
- Vigil for Gaza: end the day with a vigil starting at 7:00pm"
Source:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#VigilForGaza #MaineEvents #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #MaineResists #MaineVoicesForPeace #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes
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#PortlandME - Emergency Actions, Gaza Vigil, Support for Activists!
"Join the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine on Thursday July 24th for a full day of emergency actions to demand an end to the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Wear black, bring pots and pans and join us in the streets of Portland. Come for a specific action or for the entire day.
- Court Support: 8:00am at 205 Newbury Street
- Know their Names: beginning at 12:00pm in Monument Square and going all day
- Empty Pots March: 5:30pm starting in Monument Square.
- Vigil for Gaza: end the day with a vigil starting at 7:00pm"
Source:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#VigilForGaza #MaineEvents #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #MaineResists #MaineVoicesForPeace #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes
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#PortlandME - Emergency Actions, Gaza Vigil, Support for Activists!
"Join the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine on Thursday July 24th for a full day of emergency actions to demand an end to the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza.
"Wear black, bring pots and pans and join us in the streets of Portland. Come for a specific action or for the entire day.
- Court Support: 8:00am at 205 Newbury Street
- Know their Names: beginning at 12:00pm in Monument Square and going all day
- Empty Pots March: 5:30pm starting in Monument Square.
- Vigil for Gaza: end the day with a vigil starting at 7:00pm"
Source:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#VigilForGaza #MaineEvents #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #MaineResists #MaineVoicesForPeace #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes
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Supporters rally for #ProPalestinian #protesters arrested in #PortlandME
Aysia Reed,WGME
Thu, July 10th 2025PORTLAND, Maine (WGME) -- "The #MaineCoalitionForPalestine held a rally on Thursday outside of the Cumberland County Courthouse ahead of the criminal court arraignment of pro-Palestinian protesters who were arrested in Portland in May.
"Twenty protesters, ages 22 through 87, were arrested in May for blocking Commercial Street.
"Ten of those protesters were arraigned on Thursday morning while the remaining 10 will be arraigned later this month.
"The Maine Coalition for Palestine says they were bringing attention to the #genocide in #Gaza.
"The protesters were charged with class E misdemeanors for obstructing a public way.
"One of the people taken away in handcuffs was #BobSchaible, who's in his 80s [87 to be exact].
"He says this was his first time being arrested and said he would do it all over again to inspire action to get humanitarian aid to Gaza.
" 'Congress has to take a stand. We want the Portland people, more of them, to know what is happening,' Schaible said.
"Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights Chair Abby Fuller helped organize the protest in May.
" 'We have written our congressional representatives, we've called them, we've held rallies in the streets, we've done all kinds of things -- everything we can think of. And our government has not changed its policy of support for Israel,' Fuller said.
"Fuller was also arrested and charged with obstructing a public way."
#MaineResists #FreePalestine
#BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide #SilencingDissent #TrafficInterference #CriminalizingProtest #MainePol #Maine #HumanRightsViolations #HumanRights
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong -
#MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Recurring Standouts & Mini-Rallies
#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM Noon
6 State St (Kenduskeag Bridge)#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St (at Tontine Mall)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street (by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#DoverFoxcroftME
Saturday - 9AM
Main Street Bridge#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 11AM
Post Office#HoultonME
Friday - 1PM
Peace Pole#NewcastleME
Thursday - 3PM
Veterans Park#PortlandME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Park#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Main St & Park St#SacoME
First Friday, Monthly - 2:30PM
General Dynamics#WatervilleME
Monday - 11:30AM
Main St & Temple Sthttps://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded
#FreeGaza #EndGenocide #HumanRights #Maine #MaineResists
#MaineEvents #FreePalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace #ResistAuthoritarianism
#ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi
#BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP
#Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong -
#MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Recurring Standouts & Mini-Rallies
#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM Noon
6 State St (Kenduskeag Bridge)#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St (at Tontine Mall)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street (by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#DoverFoxcroftME
Saturday - 9AM
Main Street Bridge#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 11AM
Post Office#HoultonME
Friday - 1PM
Peace Pole#NewcastleME
Thursday - 3PM
Veterans Park#PortlandME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Park#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Main St & Park St#SacoME
First Friday, Monthly - 2:30PM
General Dynamics#WatervilleME
Monday - 11:30AM
Main St & Temple Sthttps://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded
#FreeGaza #EndGenocide #HumanRights #Maine #MaineResists
#MaineEvents #FreePalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace #ResistAuthoritarianism
#ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi
#BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP
#Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong -
#MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Recurring Standouts & Mini-Rallies
#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM Noon
6 State St (Kenduskeag Bridge)#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St (at Tontine Mall)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street (by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#DoverFoxcroftME
Saturday - 9AM
Main Street Bridge#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 11AM
Post Office#HoultonME
Friday - 1PM
Peace Pole#NewcastleME
Thursday - 3PM
Veterans Park#PortlandME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Park#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Main St & Park St#SacoME
First Friday, Monthly - 2:30PM
General Dynamics#WatervilleME
Monday - 11:30AM
Main St & Temple Sthttps://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded
#FreeGaza #EndGenocide #HumanRights #Maine #MaineResists
#MaineEvents #FreePalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace #ResistAuthoritarianism
#ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi
#BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP
#Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong -
#MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Recurring Standouts & Mini-Rallies
#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM Noon
6 State St (Kenduskeag Bridge)#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St (at Tontine Mall)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street (by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#DoverFoxcroftME
Saturday - 9AM
Main Street Bridge#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 11AM
Post Office#HoultonME
Friday - 1PM
Peace Pole#NewcastleME
Thursday - 3PM
Veterans Park#PortlandME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Park#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Main St & Park St#SacoME
First Friday, Monthly - 2:30PM
General Dynamics#WatervilleME
Monday - 11:30AM
Main St & Temple Sthttps://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded
#FreeGaza #EndGenocide #HumanRights #Maine #MaineResists
#MaineEvents #FreePalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace #ResistAuthoritarianism
#ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi
#BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP
#Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong -
#MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Recurring Standouts & Mini-Rallies
#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM Noon
6 State St (Kenduskeag Bridge)#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St (at Tontine Mall)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street (by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#DoverFoxcroftME
Saturday - 9AM
Main Street Bridge#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 11AM
Post Office#HoultonME
Friday - 1PM
Peace Pole#NewcastleME
Thursday - 3PM
Veterans Park#PortlandME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Park#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Main St & Park St#SacoME
First Friday, Monthly - 2:30PM
General Dynamics#WatervilleME
Monday - 11:30AM
Main St & Temple Sthttps://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded
#FreeGaza #EndGenocide #HumanRights #Maine #MaineResists
#MaineEvents #FreePalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace #ResistAuthoritarianism
#ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi
#BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP
#Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong -
And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
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New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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And THIS is one of the reasons why I'm a #DemocraticSocialist!
#Unions and Community Unite for #MayDay: Lessons for the Fight Ahead
Posted by #ToddChretien | Jun 16, 2025 |
This article is reprinted from the Socialist Forum, a publication of #DSA. It was authored by Todd Chretien, who serves both on DSA’s Editorial Board as well as Pine & Roses’ Editorial Collective. It was originally published on May 30, 2025.
What happened?
"Hundreds of thousands of workers marched and rallied on May Day, making it the largest International Workers Day since 2006 when two million immigrant workers left work and marched to demand their rights. Protests were organized in 1300 locations, large and small; no doubt the first May Day protest in many places. Broadly speaking, there were three different levels of mobilization. First, as in 2006, Chicago stood out with some 30,000 marching, organized by a mass coalition of labor and immigrant rights organizations. Second, cities like Philly, New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, Oakland, Burlington, and #PortlandME mobilized between two and fifteen thousand. Third, hundreds of cities and towns turned out crowds from a couple dozen to hundreds, including smaller cities like Davis, California. This ranking is not intended as a judgement on the organizers. In fact, some of the smaller rallies included higher percentages of the population than the largest. For instance, in the town of #WayneME — population 1,000 — seventy-five people turned out for both morning and evening rallies.
"It’s worth noting that the crowds were not as large as the #April5 day of protest initiated by #Indivisible; however, participants were noticeably more #multiracial, younger, and #radical with widespread support for #TransgenderRights and opposition to the genocide of #Palestinians in #Gaza. Though an important step in the process of building working-class unity against the billionaires and capitalist class, these efforts have a long way to go. For instance, although multiracial, at the national level, the marches did not entirely reflect working-class diversity. And if immigrant rights organizations were critical in many cities, Trump’s reign of terror against immigrant workers suppressed turnout from this community in many places.
[...]
New York City
"On the day, NYC-DSA turned out some 500 members, many of whom marched with their unions. They did so while keeping up with other work—DSA member #ZohranMamdani is running for mayor—with #NYCDSA labor organizers having advanced a month-long Build to May Day campaign. Organizers called on committees and working groups across the chapter to make May Day a priority, turning out members and volunteer marshalls. The chapter is now in a stronger position to discuss next steps with the broader coalition and consolidate a layer of new members and allies. There’s more pain ahead, but May Day helped gather working-class forces together for action and to take the temperature of the most active and militant layer of trade unionists and community activists. As NYC-DSA Labor Working Group member David Duhalde suggests, 'The New York City May Day rally and march from Foley Square to the iconic Wall Street Bull statue was a microcosm of the shift in energy in labor during Trump’s second term.' How far that shift goes can only be tested in practice.
[...]
Portland, Maine
"Maine DSA’s Labor Rising working group decided to focus on May Day in December, laying the basis to help initiate an organizing meeting open to all community groups and unions. Maine AFL-CIO leaders and UAW graduate students participated in a preliminary meeting to brainstorm ideas, and more than 70 people attended an April 12 meeting in the South Portland Teamsters’ Hall, where the group democratically planned Portland’s May Day. Working groups took up all aspects of the action, and we took all important decisions back to the coalition for votes. Running a long a related track, Maine Education Association and Maine AFL-CIO leaders called for actions across the state, amplifying the Chicago May Day Strong call and dramatically broadening what the Portland coalition could organize.
"Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Portland, starting with a rally at the University of Southern Maine to back UAW graduate students’ demands for a first contract and then marching to the Post Office to hear from postal workers. Members of the Portland Education Association and a trans student poet headlined the stop at Portland High School and a librarian union rep spoke in Monument Square before the final rally that heard from the president of the Metal Trades Council at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, a rep from the Maine State Nurses Association, members of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine, an organizer from #LGTBQ+ community group #PortlandOutright, a local immigrant rights group called Presente! Maine, and others. It was a great demonstration and showed the thirst for a broader coalition. Twenty-five other towns held actions, bringing the total number of Maine participants to over 5,000, the largest Maine May Day anyone can remember.
"It would be shortsighted to overstate the power and stability of this fledgling coalition. Large doses of patience and understanding will be necessary to foster bonds of trust. Sectarian pressures to draw 'red lines' that exclude workers new to political activity and organizations who have various programs and interests represent one danger. A narrow focus on the midterm elections represents another. Fortunately, there’s a lot of room for creativity between those two extremes.
Long road ahead
"May Day was the first test of strength for the left and working class against #Trump, #MAGA, and forty-plus years of #neoliberal rot. We face a long, complex problem where political pressures to return to passivity will be strong, but May Day 2025 constitutes a small step towards healing deep wounds in the American working class, the divide between organized and unorganized, immigrant and US born, etc. If brother Fain’s call for 2028 is to grow strong, then 2026 and 2027 must be practice runs. If 2026 and 2027 are to be real demonstrations of strength, they must grow out of tighter bonds between labor, community, and the left, more active membership participation in all of those forces, and a combination of defensive struggles we are forced to fight and battles we pick on our own terms. As Sarah Hurd, co-chair of DSA’s National Labor Commission, spells out, 'This year’s May Day actions showed the power of what we can accomplish just by setting a date and inviting people to take action together. It has also highlighted what work we need to do to scale up our level of organization in the next three years.'
"What did May Day teach us? Fittingly, the last word goes to Kirsten Roberts, a rank-and-file Chicago teacher, 'The most important element of #MayDay2025 is the explicit entry of organized and unorganized labor into #resistance to Trump. Trump’s attacks are aimed directly at dividing the working class and turning ordinary people against one another while the billionaires rob and plunder us all. An agenda for working class unity can be built when we stand up for those most victimized and vilified by the right-wing bigots AND when we stand together to fight for the things that the billionaire class has denied us—the fight for healthcare, education, housing, and good-paying jobs for starters. For decades, we’ve been told by both parties that funding war, incarceration, and border militarization are their priorities. May Day showed that working people have another agenda. Now let’s organize to win it.”
https://pineandroses.org/reports/unions-and-community-unite-for-may-day-lessons-for-the-fight-ahead/
#MaineResists #NYCResists #ResistTrump #ResistFascism #Socialism #CapitalismKills #MaineDSA #PinesAndRoses #DemocraticSocialistsOfAmerica
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Public Conversation: US Role In The World Today
Friday, May 30, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:00 PMMorrell Room, Curtis Memorial Library 23 Pleasant Street Brunswick, ME, 04011
"A facilitated discussion on the US war economy, genocide in #Palestine, our unmet domestic needs, and much more.
"Where are we? What are Your Thoughts About the Role of the United States in the World Today?
"Join us in a Circle Discussion, moderated by #MaryBethSullivan, for sharing ideas and questions as we explore critical issues facing us as a nation, including:
"Endless Wars ... #Genocide in Palestine ... Ongoing Planning for War with #China and #Iran ... #Musk's role in the #militarization of Space ... Trillion dollar annual #Pentagon Budget ... The resulting cutbacks in social and environment spending ... and the question of Conversion from a war economy to a peace economy ... and more....
"Paper and pencils will be handed out for noting questions, concerns, ideas."
Sponsors include Brunswick #PeaceWorks and #MaineCoalitionForPalestine
https://www.mvprights.org/events/public-conversation-us-role-in-the-world-today
#FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi
#BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #Palestine #EndlessWars #NoWar #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong -
#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated May 2025)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM
Maine Street (at Tontine Mall)#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM
6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office#FreeportME
Every Other Monday - 1PM
Main Street & West Street#PortlandME
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow Square#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Maine & Park St#SacoME
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicsSource:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded#FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
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#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated May 2025)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM
Maine Street (at Tontine Mall)#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM
6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office#FreeportME
Every Other Monday - 1PM
Main Street & West Street#PortlandME
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow Square#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Maine & Park St#SacoME
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicsSource:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded#FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
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#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated May 2025)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM
Maine Street (at Tontine Mall)#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM
6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office#FreeportME
Every Other Monday - 1PM
Main Street & West Street#PortlandME
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow Square#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Maine & Park St#SacoME
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicsSource:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded#FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
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#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated May 2025)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM
Maine Street (at Tontine Mall)#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM
6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office#FreeportME
Every Other Monday - 1PM
Main Street & West Street#PortlandME
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow Square#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Maine & Park St#SacoME
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicsSource:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded#FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
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#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated May 2025)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM
Maine Street (at Tontine Mall)#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM
6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office#FreeportME
Every Other Monday - 1PM
Main Street & West Street#PortlandME
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow Square#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Maine & Park St#SacoME
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicsSource:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded#FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
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#PortlandME #protesters arrested after blocking traffic to call for end of #Israel-#Gaza war
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published May 21, 2025"Portland police arrested more than a dozen [18, I heard] #activists Wednesday afternoon as they staged a so-called '#DieIn' to protest the ongoing war in Gaza and the lack of #HumanitarianAid for #Palestinians.
"The demonstrators were part of a larger group that blocked a four-way intersection on Commercial Street for roughly an hour. #KristenSalvatore was among those arrested after refusing to leave the street despite several warnings from police.
" 'Well nothing else seems to be working. We have to draw attention to this issue. People are going about their lives as if nothing is happening, as if their taxes aren't paying to blow up children and destroy Gaza,' Salvatore said.
"Abby Fuller of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine said the effort is intended '#DisruptBusinessAs Usual.'
" 'To make sure that powerful people who can make a difference and change policies know that we are not willing to let business go on as usual. And we plan on staying in the street as long as we can and up until arrest,' she said.
"On Thursday, more than a dozen #Mainers will go on a 40-day #HungerStrike. They hope it will keep attention on Gaza and lead to congressional action.
"This week, leaders from the U.K., France and Canada issued a joint statement calling on the Israeli government to end its military operations in Gaza."
https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2025-05-21/portland-protesters-block-traffic-plan-hunger-strike-to-call-for-end-of-israel-gaza-war
#MainePol #USPol #WorldPol #MaineResists #GazaGenocide #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #RightToProtest #ACAB #CriminalizingProtest #TrafficInterference #Maine -
#PortlandME #protesters arrested after blocking traffic to call for end of #Israel-#Gaza war
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published May 21, 2025"Portland police arrested more than a dozen [18, I heard] #activists Wednesday afternoon as they staged a so-called '#DieIn' to protest the ongoing war in Gaza and the lack of #HumanitarianAid for #Palestinians.
"The demonstrators were part of a larger group that blocked a four-way intersection on Commercial Street for roughly an hour. #KristenSalvatore was among those arrested after refusing to leave the street despite several warnings from police.
" 'Well nothing else seems to be working. We have to draw attention to this issue. People are going about their lives as if nothing is happening, as if their taxes aren't paying to blow up children and destroy Gaza,' Salvatore said.
"Abby Fuller of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine said the effort is intended '#DisruptBusinessAs Usual.'
" 'To make sure that powerful people who can make a difference and change policies know that we are not willing to let business go on as usual. And we plan on staying in the street as long as we can and up until arrest,' she said.
"On Thursday, more than a dozen #Mainers will go on a 40-day #HungerStrike. They hope it will keep attention on Gaza and lead to congressional action.
"This week, leaders from the U.K., France and Canada issued a joint statement calling on the Israeli government to end its military operations in Gaza."
https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2025-05-21/portland-protesters-block-traffic-plan-hunger-strike-to-call-for-end-of-israel-gaza-war
#MainePol #USPol #WorldPol #MaineResists #GazaGenocide #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #RightToProtest #ACAB #CriminalizingProtest #TrafficInterference #Maine -
#PortlandME #protesters arrested after blocking traffic to call for end of #Israel-#Gaza war
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published May 21, 2025"Portland police arrested more than a dozen [18, I heard] #activists Wednesday afternoon as they staged a so-called '#DieIn' to protest the ongoing war in Gaza and the lack of #HumanitarianAid for #Palestinians.
"The demonstrators were part of a larger group that blocked a four-way intersection on Commercial Street for roughly an hour. #KristenSalvatore was among those arrested after refusing to leave the street despite several warnings from police.
" 'Well nothing else seems to be working. We have to draw attention to this issue. People are going about their lives as if nothing is happening, as if their taxes aren't paying to blow up children and destroy Gaza,' Salvatore said.
"Abby Fuller of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine said the effort is intended '#DisruptBusinessAs Usual.'
" 'To make sure that powerful people who can make a difference and change policies know that we are not willing to let business go on as usual. And we plan on staying in the street as long as we can and up until arrest,' she said.
"On Thursday, more than a dozen #Mainers will go on a 40-day #HungerStrike. They hope it will keep attention on Gaza and lead to congressional action.
"This week, leaders from the U.K., France and Canada issued a joint statement calling on the Israeli government to end its military operations in Gaza."
https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2025-05-21/portland-protesters-block-traffic-plan-hunger-strike-to-call-for-end-of-israel-gaza-war
#MainePol #USPol #WorldPol #MaineResists #GazaGenocide #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #RightToProtest #ACAB #CriminalizingProtest #TrafficInterference #Maine -
#PortlandME #protesters arrested after blocking traffic to call for end of #Israel-#Gaza war
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published May 21, 2025"Portland police arrested more than a dozen [18, I heard] #activists Wednesday afternoon as they staged a so-called '#DieIn' to protest the ongoing war in Gaza and the lack of #HumanitarianAid for #Palestinians.
"The demonstrators were part of a larger group that blocked a four-way intersection on Commercial Street for roughly an hour. #KristenSalvatore was among those arrested after refusing to leave the street despite several warnings from police.
" 'Well nothing else seems to be working. We have to draw attention to this issue. People are going about their lives as if nothing is happening, as if their taxes aren't paying to blow up children and destroy Gaza,' Salvatore said.
"Abby Fuller of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine said the effort is intended '#DisruptBusinessAs Usual.'
" 'To make sure that powerful people who can make a difference and change policies know that we are not willing to let business go on as usual. And we plan on staying in the street as long as we can and up until arrest,' she said.
"On Thursday, more than a dozen #Mainers will go on a 40-day #HungerStrike. They hope it will keep attention on Gaza and lead to congressional action.
"This week, leaders from the U.K., France and Canada issued a joint statement calling on the Israeli government to end its military operations in Gaza."
https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2025-05-21/portland-protesters-block-traffic-plan-hunger-strike-to-call-for-end-of-israel-gaza-war
#MainePol #USPol #WorldPol #MaineResists #GazaGenocide #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #RightToProtest #ACAB #CriminalizingProtest #TrafficInterference #Maine -
#PortlandME #protesters arrested after blocking traffic to call for end of #Israel-#Gaza war
Maine Public | By Patty Wight
Published May 21, 2025"Portland police arrested more than a dozen [18, I heard] #activists Wednesday afternoon as they staged a so-called '#DieIn' to protest the ongoing war in Gaza and the lack of #HumanitarianAid for #Palestinians.
"The demonstrators were part of a larger group that blocked a four-way intersection on Commercial Street for roughly an hour. #KristenSalvatore was among those arrested after refusing to leave the street despite several warnings from police.
" 'Well nothing else seems to be working. We have to draw attention to this issue. People are going about their lives as if nothing is happening, as if their taxes aren't paying to blow up children and destroy Gaza,' Salvatore said.
"Abby Fuller of the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine said the effort is intended '#DisruptBusinessAs Usual.'
" 'To make sure that powerful people who can make a difference and change policies know that we are not willing to let business go on as usual. And we plan on staying in the street as long as we can and up until arrest,' she said.
"On Thursday, more than a dozen #Mainers will go on a 40-day #HungerStrike. They hope it will keep attention on Gaza and lead to congressional action.
"This week, leaders from the U.K., France and Canada issued a joint statement calling on the Israeli government to end its military operations in Gaza."
https://www.mainepublic.org/maine/2025-05-21/portland-protesters-block-traffic-plan-hunger-strike-to-call-for-end-of-israel-gaza-war
#MainePol #USPol #WorldPol #MaineResists #GazaGenocide #Genocide #IsraeliWarCrimes #BibiIsAWarCriminal #RightToProtest #ACAB #CriminalizingProtest #TrafficInterference #Maine -
#PortlandME - Film Screening, "#NoOtherLand"
Sunday, April 20, 2025
12:00 PM 1:40 PMPortland Museum of Art
7 Congress Square
Portland, ME, 04101 United StatesSCREENING IN THE BERNARD OSHER FOUNDATION AUDITORIUM
"For half a decade, #BaselAdra, a #Palestinian activist, films his community of #MasaferYatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. Winner of Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards!"
Ticket prices:
Adult $10.00
PMA Member $7.00
Student (with ID) $7.00FMI:
https://www.portlandmuseum.org/eventscalendar/no-other-land-14Tickets:
https://altru1519.sky.blackbaud.com/1519/tickets?tab=2&txobjid=570ad868-1abb-4ef8-9a06-6369a1e1fafc
#MaineCoalitionForPalestine
#MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #Maine #NoWar #Events #GazaSolidarity #CoalitionForPalestineMaine #MaineVoicesForPeace #FreePalestine -
#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism -
#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism -
#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism -
#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism -
#PineAndRoses #NewEngland #DSA protests #ICEDetentions
Posted by #MaineDSA and Wes Pelletier | Mar 27, 2025
"Last week, the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine organized a protest of ICE detention of #ColumbiaUniversity student leader #MahmoudKhalil. Since then, ICE has operated as the #Trump Administration’s #SecretPolice, abducting a growing number of immigrant organizers for exercising their right to #FreeSpeech and protesting the U.S.-sponsored #genocide in #Gaza. The list includes #RumeysaOzturk, #YunseoChung, #BadarKhunSuri, #MomodouTaal, #RanjaniSrinivasan, as well as #farmworker organizer #AlfredoJuarezZerefino. Maine DSA member and Portland District 2 City Councilmember #WesPelletier spoke at the Portland Mahmoud Khalil protest and DSA chapters around New England issued a joint declaration reprinted below against the ICE abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk.
New England DSA chapters demand freedom for Rumeysa Ozturk
"Yesterday, ICE agents abducted Rumeysa Ozturk, a graduate student and pro-Palestine activist at Tufts.
"The kidnapping comes after almost 400 #ICEArrests in Massachusetts, as well as the #doxxing of Ozturk by the pro-Isreal website #CanaryMission.
"ICE’s abductions—of Ozturk, Khalil, and many others—is an unprecedented attack on basic #CivilRights in the name of U.S. Empire, whether those detained are peaceful #PoliticalActivists or undocumented #migrants seeking safety, jobs, and a better life.
"We must stand up against this brazen attack on #Palestine, #FreeSpeech, and the #RightToProtest.
"We must stand in solidarity with our neighbors and communities under attack from Trump, ICE, and all agents of #imperialism.
"Governor Healey, the courts, and the Democratic Party establishment are not coming to save us—we must mobilize, agitate, and organize in our workplaces and campuses to defend working-class rights.
In Solidarity,
#BerkshiresDSA, #BostonDSA, #BostonUniversityYDSA, #CapeCodDSA, #ConnecticutDSA, #MaineDSA, #NortheasternYDSA, #RiverValleyDSA, #SimmonsYDSA, #SouthernNewHampshireDSA, #UpperValleyDSA, #WorcesterDSA"
Source:
https://pineandroses.org/news/new-england-dsa-protests-ice-detentions/
#ResistICE #ResistFascism #Resistance #District13 #District13Resists #Fascism #USPol #Authoritarianism #TurReich #CharacteristicsOfFascism -
#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly #Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated March 2025)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from #Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the #Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
#BangorME
Wednesday - 12PM
6 State Street (Kenduskag Bridge)#BelfastME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office Square#BlueHillME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town Hall#BrunswickME
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)#BrunswickME
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(by Walgreens)#BucksportME
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona Bridge#CamdenME
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village Green#EllsworthME
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River Bridge#FarmingtonME
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post Office#FreeportME
Every Other Monday - 1PM
Main Street & West Street#PortlandME
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow Square#RocklandME
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Maine & Park St#SacoME
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicsSource:
https://www.mvprights.org/events
#FreePalestine #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal #Genocide #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #MaineStudentsForPalestine #PSL #FreeMahmoud #FreeMahmoudKhalil -
And this is why I love #MaineDSA!
#Maine #Socialists #SayNoToTrump
Posted by Todd Chretien | Jan 31, 2025 |
"Maine Democratic Socialists of America co-chair #SophieG welcomed more than one hundred members and friends from across the state who met in Portland over the weekend. Alongside nuts and bolts discussions and elections for the group’s organizing committees and working groups, Maine DSA welcomed solidarity greetings from allies and friends, including the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and the Maine-based #ImmigrantsRights organization #Presente! as well as reports from #MaineYouthPower and the #MaineGunSafetyCoalition. Members also hosted several workshops including a panel on the opportunities and pitfalls of electoral politics, renters organizing in the mid-coast, and the ABCs of being a good organizer.
"Maine DSA accomplished a lot over the last year. We elected #WesPelletier to serve alongside #KateSykes as #PortlandMaine’s two socialist city councilors. Comrades in #BrunswickMaine launched the #BrunswickRentersOrganization and made their voices heard in city council hearings—even if the city councilors 'value the class position of a landlord over the class position of a tenant' as DSAer #PeachCushing put it at the time.
"Members are also launching a new organizing committee in #SouthPortlandMaine as well as building up working groups to #DefendBodilyAutonomy—for #LGTBQ+ and #ReproductiveRights—and to expand our solidarity work with the #labor movement. In another sign of members’ increasing dedication, a full slate of candidates ran to fill more open leadership positions than last year. Yet, despite that good work, everyone recognized the depth of the danger facing working-class Mainers heading into Trump’s second term—not the least of which is the fact that local Republican county committees are openly celebrating Trump’s pardon for Maine’s very own #January6 #insurrectionists.
"Last week #PineAndRoses published a proposal to guide our organizing over the coming year and it was taken up at the conference. The resolution emphasizes the dangers Trump represents and frankly acknowledges that we are facing 'a period of increased attacks on #MarginalizedCommunities, the labor movement, #PublicEducation, and the working class as a whole.' As such, '#socialists must play a #frontline role in defending the #WorkingClass from attacks by the #FarRight' even as 'the political environment in Maine, as of 2025, presents opportunities to resist the Trump administration and make gains at the state and municipal levels.'
"In order to put this analysis to the test, Maine DSA aims to work side by side a wide array of allies to defend #Immigrants, the #TransCommunity, #IndigenousSovereignty, #Unions, public education, and #democracy in general while simultaneously building up the socialist movement’s reach across the state. During the debate, several members suggested the resolution ought to have a more clearly defined international section. One member proposed an amendment (which passed with a clear majority voting in favor) to specify that Maine DSA aims to 'challenge the #hegemony of the Democratic Party.' Thus amended, the resolution passed (nearly) unanimously. Now comes the hard work of trying to put ideas into action.
"As we do, the more #activists and organizers we can muster the better. So if you’re looking for a way to join the fight against Trump, please consider getting in touch with us and joining Maine DSA."
https://pineandroses.org/news/maine-socialists-say-no-to-trump/
#Organize #Resist #Unite!
#USPol -
And this is why I love #MaineDSA!
#Maine #Socialists #SayNoToTrump
Posted by Todd Chretien | Jan 31, 2025 |
"Maine Democratic Socialists of America co-chair #SophieG welcomed more than one hundred members and friends from across the state who met in Portland over the weekend. Alongside nuts and bolts discussions and elections for the group’s organizing committees and working groups, Maine DSA welcomed solidarity greetings from allies and friends, including the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and the Maine-based #ImmigrantsRights organization #Presente! as well as reports from #MaineYouthPower and the #MaineGunSafetyCoalition. Members also hosted several workshops including a panel on the opportunities and pitfalls of electoral politics, renters organizing in the mid-coast, and the ABCs of being a good organizer.
"Maine DSA accomplished a lot over the last year. We elected #WesPelletier to serve alongside #KateSykes as #PortlandMaine’s two socialist city councilors. Comrades in #BrunswickMaine launched the #BrunswickRentersOrganization and made their voices heard in city council hearings—even if the city councilors 'value the class position of a landlord over the class position of a tenant' as DSAer #PeachCushing put it at the time.
"Members are also launching a new organizing committee in #SouthPortlandMaine as well as building up working groups to #DefendBodilyAutonomy—for #LGTBQ+ and #ReproductiveRights—and to expand our solidarity work with the #labor movement. In another sign of members’ increasing dedication, a full slate of candidates ran to fill more open leadership positions than last year. Yet, despite that good work, everyone recognized the depth of the danger facing working-class Mainers heading into Trump’s second term—not the least of which is the fact that local Republican county committees are openly celebrating Trump’s pardon for Maine’s very own #January6 #insurrectionists.
"Last week #PineAndRoses published a proposal to guide our organizing over the coming year and it was taken up at the conference. The resolution emphasizes the dangers Trump represents and frankly acknowledges that we are facing 'a period of increased attacks on #MarginalizedCommunities, the labor movement, #PublicEducation, and the working class as a whole.' As such, '#socialists must play a #frontline role in defending the #WorkingClass from attacks by the #FarRight' even as 'the political environment in Maine, as of 2025, presents opportunities to resist the Trump administration and make gains at the state and municipal levels.'
"In order to put this analysis to the test, Maine DSA aims to work side by side a wide array of allies to defend #Immigrants, the #TransCommunity, #IndigenousSovereignty, #Unions, public education, and #democracy in general while simultaneously building up the socialist movement’s reach across the state. During the debate, several members suggested the resolution ought to have a more clearly defined international section. One member proposed an amendment (which passed with a clear majority voting in favor) to specify that Maine DSA aims to 'challenge the #hegemony of the Democratic Party.' Thus amended, the resolution passed (nearly) unanimously. Now comes the hard work of trying to put ideas into action.
"As we do, the more #activists and organizers we can muster the better. So if you’re looking for a way to join the fight against Trump, please consider getting in touch with us and joining Maine DSA."
https://pineandroses.org/news/maine-socialists-say-no-to-trump/
#Organize #Resist #Unite!
#USPol -
And this is why I love #MaineDSA!
#Maine #Socialists #SayNoToTrump
Posted by Todd Chretien | Jan 31, 2025 |
"Maine Democratic Socialists of America co-chair #SophieG welcomed more than one hundred members and friends from across the state who met in Portland over the weekend. Alongside nuts and bolts discussions and elections for the group’s organizing committees and working groups, Maine DSA welcomed solidarity greetings from allies and friends, including the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and the Maine-based #ImmigrantsRights organization #Presente! as well as reports from #MaineYouthPower and the #MaineGunSafetyCoalition. Members also hosted several workshops including a panel on the opportunities and pitfalls of electoral politics, renters organizing in the mid-coast, and the ABCs of being a good organizer.
"Maine DSA accomplished a lot over the last year. We elected #WesPelletier to serve alongside #KateSykes as #PortlandMaine’s two socialist city councilors. Comrades in #BrunswickMaine launched the #BrunswickRentersOrganization and made their voices heard in city council hearings—even if the city councilors 'value the class position of a landlord over the class position of a tenant' as DSAer #PeachCushing put it at the time.
"Members are also launching a new organizing committee in #SouthPortlandMaine as well as building up working groups to #DefendBodilyAutonomy—for #LGTBQ+ and #ReproductiveRights—and to expand our solidarity work with the #labor movement. In another sign of members’ increasing dedication, a full slate of candidates ran to fill more open leadership positions than last year. Yet, despite that good work, everyone recognized the depth of the danger facing working-class Mainers heading into Trump’s second term—not the least of which is the fact that local Republican county committees are openly celebrating Trump’s pardon for Maine’s very own #January6 #insurrectionists.
"Last week #PineAndRoses published a proposal to guide our organizing over the coming year and it was taken up at the conference. The resolution emphasizes the dangers Trump represents and frankly acknowledges that we are facing 'a period of increased attacks on #MarginalizedCommunities, the labor movement, #PublicEducation, and the working class as a whole.' As such, '#socialists must play a #frontline role in defending the #WorkingClass from attacks by the #FarRight' even as 'the political environment in Maine, as of 2025, presents opportunities to resist the Trump administration and make gains at the state and municipal levels.'
"In order to put this analysis to the test, Maine DSA aims to work side by side a wide array of allies to defend #Immigrants, the #TransCommunity, #IndigenousSovereignty, #Unions, public education, and #democracy in general while simultaneously building up the socialist movement’s reach across the state. During the debate, several members suggested the resolution ought to have a more clearly defined international section. One member proposed an amendment (which passed with a clear majority voting in favor) to specify that Maine DSA aims to 'challenge the #hegemony of the Democratic Party.' Thus amended, the resolution passed (nearly) unanimously. Now comes the hard work of trying to put ideas into action.
"As we do, the more #activists and organizers we can muster the better. So if you’re looking for a way to join the fight against Trump, please consider getting in touch with us and joining Maine DSA."
https://pineandroses.org/news/maine-socialists-say-no-to-trump/
#Organize #Resist #Unite!
#USPol -
And this is why I love #MaineDSA!
#Maine #Socialists #SayNoToTrump
Posted by Todd Chretien | Jan 31, 2025 |
"Maine Democratic Socialists of America co-chair #SophieG welcomed more than one hundred members and friends from across the state who met in Portland over the weekend. Alongside nuts and bolts discussions and elections for the group’s organizing committees and working groups, Maine DSA welcomed solidarity greetings from allies and friends, including the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and the Maine-based #ImmigrantsRights organization #Presente! as well as reports from #MaineYouthPower and the #MaineGunSafetyCoalition. Members also hosted several workshops including a panel on the opportunities and pitfalls of electoral politics, renters organizing in the mid-coast, and the ABCs of being a good organizer.
"Maine DSA accomplished a lot over the last year. We elected #WesPelletier to serve alongside #KateSykes as #PortlandMaine’s two socialist city councilors. Comrades in #BrunswickMaine launched the #BrunswickRentersOrganization and made their voices heard in city council hearings—even if the city councilors 'value the class position of a landlord over the class position of a tenant' as DSAer #PeachCushing put it at the time.
"Members are also launching a new organizing committee in #SouthPortlandMaine as well as building up working groups to #DefendBodilyAutonomy—for #LGTBQ+ and #ReproductiveRights—and to expand our solidarity work with the #labor movement. In another sign of members’ increasing dedication, a full slate of candidates ran to fill more open leadership positions than last year. Yet, despite that good work, everyone recognized the depth of the danger facing working-class Mainers heading into Trump’s second term—not the least of which is the fact that local Republican county committees are openly celebrating Trump’s pardon for Maine’s very own #January6 #insurrectionists.
"Last week #PineAndRoses published a proposal to guide our organizing over the coming year and it was taken up at the conference. The resolution emphasizes the dangers Trump represents and frankly acknowledges that we are facing 'a period of increased attacks on #MarginalizedCommunities, the labor movement, #PublicEducation, and the working class as a whole.' As such, '#socialists must play a #frontline role in defending the #WorkingClass from attacks by the #FarRight' even as 'the political environment in Maine, as of 2025, presents opportunities to resist the Trump administration and make gains at the state and municipal levels.'
"In order to put this analysis to the test, Maine DSA aims to work side by side a wide array of allies to defend #Immigrants, the #TransCommunity, #IndigenousSovereignty, #Unions, public education, and #democracy in general while simultaneously building up the socialist movement’s reach across the state. During the debate, several members suggested the resolution ought to have a more clearly defined international section. One member proposed an amendment (which passed with a clear majority voting in favor) to specify that Maine DSA aims to 'challenge the #hegemony of the Democratic Party.' Thus amended, the resolution passed (nearly) unanimously. Now comes the hard work of trying to put ideas into action.
"As we do, the more #activists and organizers we can muster the better. So if you’re looking for a way to join the fight against Trump, please consider getting in touch with us and joining Maine DSA."
https://pineandroses.org/news/maine-socialists-say-no-to-trump/
#Organize #Resist #Unite!
#USPol -
And this is why I love #MaineDSA!
#Maine #Socialists #SayNoToTrump
Posted by Todd Chretien | Jan 31, 2025 |
"Maine Democratic Socialists of America co-chair #SophieG welcomed more than one hundred members and friends from across the state who met in Portland over the weekend. Alongside nuts and bolts discussions and elections for the group’s organizing committees and working groups, Maine DSA welcomed solidarity greetings from allies and friends, including the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine and the Maine-based #ImmigrantsRights organization #Presente! as well as reports from #MaineYouthPower and the #MaineGunSafetyCoalition. Members also hosted several workshops including a panel on the opportunities and pitfalls of electoral politics, renters organizing in the mid-coast, and the ABCs of being a good organizer.
"Maine DSA accomplished a lot over the last year. We elected #WesPelletier to serve alongside #KateSykes as #PortlandMaine’s two socialist city councilors. Comrades in #BrunswickMaine launched the #BrunswickRentersOrganization and made their voices heard in city council hearings—even if the city councilors 'value the class position of a landlord over the class position of a tenant' as DSAer #PeachCushing put it at the time.
"Members are also launching a new organizing committee in #SouthPortlandMaine as well as building up working groups to #DefendBodilyAutonomy—for #LGTBQ+ and #ReproductiveRights—and to expand our solidarity work with the #labor movement. In another sign of members’ increasing dedication, a full slate of candidates ran to fill more open leadership positions than last year. Yet, despite that good work, everyone recognized the depth of the danger facing working-class Mainers heading into Trump’s second term—not the least of which is the fact that local Republican county committees are openly celebrating Trump’s pardon for Maine’s very own #January6 #insurrectionists.
"Last week #PineAndRoses published a proposal to guide our organizing over the coming year and it was taken up at the conference. The resolution emphasizes the dangers Trump represents and frankly acknowledges that we are facing 'a period of increased attacks on #MarginalizedCommunities, the labor movement, #PublicEducation, and the working class as a whole.' As such, '#socialists must play a #frontline role in defending the #WorkingClass from attacks by the #FarRight' even as 'the political environment in Maine, as of 2025, presents opportunities to resist the Trump administration and make gains at the state and municipal levels.'
"In order to put this analysis to the test, Maine DSA aims to work side by side a wide array of allies to defend #Immigrants, the #TransCommunity, #IndigenousSovereignty, #Unions, public education, and #democracy in general while simultaneously building up the socialist movement’s reach across the state. During the debate, several members suggested the resolution ought to have a more clearly defined international section. One member proposed an amendment (which passed with a clear majority voting in favor) to specify that Maine DSA aims to 'challenge the #hegemony of the Democratic Party.' Thus amended, the resolution passed (nearly) unanimously. Now comes the hard work of trying to put ideas into action.
"As we do, the more #activists and organizers we can muster the better. So if you’re looking for a way to join the fight against Trump, please consider getting in touch with us and joining Maine DSA."
https://pineandroses.org/news/maine-socialists-say-no-to-trump/
#Organize #Resist #Unite!
#USPol -
#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated January 2025)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the# Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Bangor
Wednesday - 12PM
Harlow St & Central StBelfast
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office SquareBlue Hill
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town HallBrunswick
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)Brunswick
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(across from Walgreens)Bucksport
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona BridgeCamden
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village GreenEllsworth
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River BridgeFarmington
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post OfficeFreeport
Every Other Monday - 1PM
Main Street & West StreetPortland
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow SquareRockland
2nd + 4th Thursdays - 3PM
Maine & Park StSaco
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicsSource:
https://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded
#FreePalestine #CeasefireNow
#Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal
#Genocide #EndGenocide
#MaineCoalitionForPalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace
#PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
#MaineStudentsForPalestine
#PSL -
#JewishVoiceForPeaceMaine - People's Menorah
Nightly, Wednesday, December 25, 2024 through Wednesday, January 1, 2025
5:30 - 6:00 PMMonument Square
456 Congress St
Portland, ME, 04101
United States#PeoplesMenorah #Palestine #Lebanon #FreePalestine #PalestinianYouthMovement #Zionism #PalestinianResistance #JewishVoiceForPeace #Maine #CeasefireNow #GazaSolidarity #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #MaineCoalitionForPalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace
#FreePalestine #Gaza #Rafa
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#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly Standouts & Mini-Rallies (Updated December 2024)
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NEVER WRONG
"We are a group of people from Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the# Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Bangor
Wednesday - 12PM
Harlow St & Central StBelfast
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office SquareBlue Hill
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Blue Hill Town HallBrunswick
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St
(in front of Tontine Mall)Brunswick
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street
(across from Walgreens)Bucksport
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona BridgeCamden
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village GreenEllsworth
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River BridgeFarmington
Saturday - 12PM Noon
Post OfficePortland
Saturday - 1PM
Longfellow SquareRockland
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Winslow Holbrook ParkSaco
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamicshttps://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded
#FreePalestine #CeasefireNow
#Gaza #WorldWarBibi #BibiIsAWarCriminal
#Genocide #EndGenocide
#MaineCoalitionForPalestine
#MaineVoicesForPeace
#PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #NoWar #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights
#HumanRightsAreNeverWrong
#MaineStudentsForPalestine
#PSL -
Join the #MaineCoalitionForPalestine for a #NationalDayOfMourning Bus Trip
Thursday, November 28, 2024
7:30 AM - 8:00 PMMarginal Way Park & Ride
274 Marginal Way
Portland, ME, 04101 United StatesFMI and Tickets: https://www.mvprights.org/events/ndom-2024
Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/live/pdpBNKI31TA#UAINE #DayOfMourning #InTheSpiritOfMetacom #UnitedAmericanIndiansOfNewEngland #NewEngland #Protest #DayOfMourning #Solidarity
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#PALESTINE CINEMA DAYS: NAILA AND THE UPRISING
Saturday, November 2, 2024
7:00 PM 8:30 PM
Space Gallery 538 Congress Street Portland, ME, 04101 United StatesALL AGES
Co-presented by Maine Palestine Film Collective, Maine Coalition for Palestine & Multitude Films.
Source:
https://www.mvprights.org/events/palestine-cinema-days-naila-and-the-uprising#MainePalestineFilmCollective #SpaceGallery #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #MultitudeFilms #FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #Genocide #WorldWarBibi #NaliaAndTheUprising
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#Maine Voices for #Palestinian Rights - Weekly Standouts & Mini-Rallies
HUMAN RIGHTS
ARE NEVER WRONG"We are a group of people from Maine and beyond who stand in solidarity with the# Palestinian people and seek to amplify their movement of liberation from occupation and #apartheid."
Bangor
Wednesday - 12PM
Harlow St & Central StBelfast
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Post Office SquareBelfast
Friday - 4:30PM
Waldo County Democrats (until election day)Blue Hill
Saturday - 12PM Noon Blue Hill Town HallBrunswick
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Maine St (in front of Tontine Mall)Brunswick
Friday - 5PM
Maine Street (across from Walgreens)Bucksport
Saturday - 12:30PM
Bucksport-Verona BridgeCamden
Friday - 5PM
Camden Village GreenEllsworth
Sunday - 12PM Noon
Union River BridgeFarmington
Saturday - 12PM Noon P
ost OfficeFreeport
Sunday - 1PM
Corner of West St and Main StPortland
Saturday - 1PM
Post Office ParkRockland
Thursday - 12PM Noon
Winslow Holbrook ParkSaco
Friday - 2:30PM
#GeneralDynamics
https://www.mvprights.org/events#block-a15fa12ef4b264f29ded#FreePalestine #CeasefireNow #Gaza #WorldWarBibi #EndGenocide #MaineCoalitionForPalestine #MaineVoicesForPeace #PeaceActionMaine #MaineDSA #JVP #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #NoWar #EndGenocide #PeaceWorks #MaineVoicesForPalestinianRights #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #Palestine #Lebanon #Iran #MaineStudentsForPalestine #PSL