Upcoming events.
A Street Band for The Audacity - Gathering and Rehearsal
The Audacity Needs a Street Band. So Let’s Make One.
Brass and percussion form the center of the sound but that other thing you play has a place too. If it plays on the street, it fits in the band! We’ll look good, play loud, and sound alright — and we’ll help get this country back on the right track. A motivational, elevational, unificational, perseverational street band is just the thing.
Let’s Do It.
Where: 52 Conway Road in Camden
When: Friday, April 25, 7 PM
How to Prevent a Coup: Lessons from Korea
The ongoing struggle for self-governance in South Korea has seen a powerful and significantly successful nonviolent movement act quickly and strategically to prevent martial law.
In some countries, such as the United States, people often watch others in distant places like Korea, Bolivia, Tunisia, Bangladesh, or Niger nonviolently turn back coups and dictatorships, even while the U.S. government steadily advances an unaccountable police state and no appropriate movement challenges these steps.
We'll hear voices from Korea on lessons from recent experience, and on the U.S. role in Korea, and take your questions.
Save Democracy Town Hall
Brought to you by Lincoln County Indivisible:
On Monday, April 28th, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, there will be a Save Democracy Town Hall in the Waldo Theatre, Waldoboro. Historian Benjamin Carter Hett will open the meeting. He has written books on German History and the Nazi rise to power, including The Death of Democracy. Senator Susan Collins has been invited to participate, although so far has not accepted. Attendees will read personal statements describing how the policies and actions of the current administration are impacting them. The statements will be delivered to Senators Collins and King, and Representatives Pingree and Golden. Email Jan John at janjohn1us@yahoo.com - to reserve your free ticket.
Rockland Pride Kickoff Party
Rockland Pride Kickoff Party
Monday April 28, 6-8 PM
Steelhouse Basement
639 Main Street, Rockland
All Welcome! Please bring food to share.
Email rocklandmainepride@gmail.com for more information.
Flatbread Benefit Concert for Penobscot Nation Food Pantry on Indian Island
Grab a bite to eat and enjoy musicians Gabe Zacchai, Will Neils, and Aaron Englander as they play a unique blend of American music at the Flatbread Pizza joint on Route 1 in Rockport on Tues. April 29 from 4-7 pm. For every large pizza you buy (either to pick up or eat in the restaurant), the Flatbread folks will donate $3.50 to the Penobscot Nation Food Pantry. For every small pizza, Flatbread will donate $1.75. Together, we hope these dollars and cents will add up to a meaningful difference.
Portland May Day Event: Local Workers Walk Out & Stand up to Billionaires
National May Day Event (Portland): Local Workers Stand up to Billionaires
Stop the billionaire takeover! On May Day, Thurs, May 1st at 3:30 in Portland, we're walking out of our jobs to rally with 100+ labor unions and social justice organizations across the country to stand up for working people, end the racist attacks, and stop Trump and Musk’s billionaire cronies. On this historic day to honor workers, we are all working people, and we stand together against the billionaires who are violently targeting our communities and neighbors, destroying livelihoods, gutting public resources, and driving up costs just to pad their own pockets. More info at https://www.mobilize.us/surj/event/776818/ Contact laura@laurasquinn.com for more details or carpooling.
Panel: Guardrails for Our Democracy
On the evening of Friday, May 9 at Watts Hall in downtown Thomaston, the Knox County Democratic Committee hosts the following panel, which will discuss the threats posed to the people of Maine by budget cuts, program cuts, and executive orders of the Trump administration. Members of the panel are:
SHENNA BELLOWS, Maine Secretary of State
AARON FREY, Maine Attorney General
GARRETT MARTIN, President & CEO of Maine Center for Economic Policy
ANNA KELLAR, Executive Director of Democracy MaineFollowing the panel, all attending are welcomed to discuss how to defend democracy and reverse the current destructive course.
Midcoast Women Event on Active Participation in Democracy
Midcoast Women sponsors this free, public event on Saturday, May 10th, 10-12 noon at The First Universalist Church in Rockland (345 Broadway). The program will provide participants with ways to take proactive steps to foster the democratic process. The program is divided into four segments:
Managing Your Mental Health through Local Engagement
Engaging with your Local Legislators
Voices for Change: Activist Groups Leading the Way
Activating Change: A Panel of Young Leaders
Letter-Writing Party in Thomaston
Please join me at @ontheround‘s gorgeous new studio in Thomaston, Maine on Tuesday April 22nd from 4-6pm (other locations and dates coming soon).
We’ll have letter writing supplies (including some sample wording in case you’re not sure what to say). We’ll hang out. We’ll doodle on some paper. We’ll tell these folks to do their jobs.
And if enough of us do it, it will matter.
Because the more noise we make, the harder we are to ignore. And not all of us can stand on the sidewalk with a protest sign. But I bet a whole damn bunch of us can spend an hour writing a note with new friends.
Demonstrate for Democracy in Rockland’s Chapman Park
When: April 19 2025, Noon
Where: Chapman Park in Rockland (at the corner of Park & Main, next to the Walgreens)
The Audacity is a creative nonviolent group resisting the bigotry, corruption and fascism of Donald Trump and his supporters in the Midcoast. We continue our weekly community singing protest this upcoming Saturday, April 19 at Noon in Chapman Park (corner of Park & Main) in Rockland, Maine.
We will gather every Saturday at Noon as long as Trump remains in the White House, and all those in peaceful opposition are welcomed to join us. We will sing songs of protest, resistance, freedom, and a better world. Teach a song you learned when you were young, learn a song from social movement veterans, and sing together in community.
Midcoast Solidarity Public Meeting
Midcoast Solidarity holds its April 17 public meeting at the Waldoboro Inn, 926 Main Street in Waldoboro. Come for a “social(ist) half hour” at 6:30 PM, with the meeting beginning promptly at 7 PM.
Maine Youth Day of Action on Climate
On April 17th Maine Youth for Climate Justice and an additional array of organizations will be hosting a day for young people to rally, speak truth to the press, network, and lobby legislators at the Maine State House in Augusta. Please direct any questions to phoebe@mycj.org.
Film: "From Ground Zero"
The Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County will present the film "From Ground Zero", on Wednesday, April 16 2025, 6 pm, at the Belfast Free Library. An award-winning film produced by Michael Moore, "From Ground Zero " is a collection of stories from 22 Palestinian filmmakers who capture their lives in Gaza amidst war.
Free and open to all. For more information, email peace.and.justice.waldo@gmail.com
MOFGA Farmer Day of Action
Recent federal funding turmoil, program and staff cuts, and tariffs have created uncertainty for farmers, community members, MOFGA and other local food system partners. We're standing up for local farmers to demand federal programs get reinstated. Join us for a tractor brigade and rally in Augusta around the State House to elevate the stories of impacted farmers.
Sponsored by MOFGA, the Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association
In-Person Town Hall with Rep. Chellie Pingree
After The Audacity submitted a petition containing the names and towns of 1,089 Mainers to the office of Representative Chellie Pingree inviting her to visit Knox County during the April recess, her staff quickly agreed to the offer and organized an event. We are pleased to announce that Rep. Pingree will be holding a in person Town Hall on Sunday, April 13 at the Camden Hills Regional High School, off Route 90 in Rockport. Anyone will be able to ask a question of their member of Congress.
Admission to this town hall is free of charge and open to all, but to obtain a free ticket you must register using an Eventbrite page set up by Rep. Pingree’s office. Because the space of the Camden Hills high school auditorium is limited (although large), we encourage you to request a ticket right away through that Eventbrite page.
Visual Art Production Workshop
Visual artists, meet at the Hope Library in the Hope Town Office, this coming Sunday, April 13 from Noon to 2 PM
We will be working on posters, buttons, scarves, and whatever else we come up with. Bring supplies if you can; we will have some there, including a sewing machine, scarves, and a banner. Bring your ideas as well; we all have a need to create.
Sing Out In Rockland’s Public Square (Park & Main Streets)
When: April 12 2025, Noon
Where: Chapman Park in Rockland (at the corner of Park & Main, next to the Walgreens)
The Audacity is a creative nonviolent group resisting the bigotry, corruption and fascism of Donald Trump and his supporters in the Midcoast. We continue our weekly community singing protest this upcoming Saturday, April 12 at Noon in Chapman Park (corner of Park & Main) in Rockland, Maine.
We will gather every Saturday at Noon as long as Trump remains in the White House, and all those in peaceful opposition are welcomed to join us. We will sing songs of protest, resistance, freedom, and a better world. Teach a song you learned when you were young, learn a song from social movement veterans, and sing together in community.
State House Action Day with the Natural Resources Council of Maine
Join NRCM at its State House Action Day
Tuesday, April 8
8:00 AM — 12:30 PM
Legislators say that the voices of their constituents are the most important voices they need to hear. That's why every year, the Natural Resources Council of Maine hosts our members and supporters for State House Action Day — a day for Maine people to come to the State House in Augusta to speak with their legislators about important issues affecting Maine's environment. Join NRCM at the State House in Augusta to talk with legislators about pressing environmental issues. Preregistration is required: contact nhathaway@nrcm.org for more information.
Visual Art Production Workshop
Visual artists, meet at the Hope Library in the Hope Town Office, this coming Sunday, April 6 from Noon to 3 PM
We will be working on posters, buttons, scarves, and whatever else we come up with. Bring supplies if you can; we will have some there, including a sewing machine, scarves, and a banner. Bring your ideas as well; we all have a need to create.
Hands Off! Maine Fights Back Rally in Augusta
Hands off our government, our democratic institutions, our freedoms, our Medicaid, our Medicare, our Social Security, our courts, our immigrant neighbors, our personal data, our reproductive rights, our jobs, our elections, our LGBTQIA+ friends…
HANDS OFF! Maine nonviolently resists the descent into authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption with a statewide rally at the Maine State House in Augusta on Saturday, April 5, 2025 from Noon to 2 PM.
This demonstration is part of a nationwide set of protests scheduled for April 5. For national information, visit http://handsoff2025.com. For more local information, email MaineResists25@gmail.com.
Sing Out In Rockland’s Public Square
When: Saturday, March 22 2025, Noon
Where: Chapman Park in Rockland (at the corner of Park & Main, next to the Walgreens)
We will gather every Saturday at Noon as long as authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption inhabit the White House, and all those in nonviolent opposition are welcomed to join us. We will sing songs of protest, resistance, freedom, and a better world. Teach a song you learned when you were young, learn a song from social movement veterans, and sing together in community.
Sing Out In Rockland’s Public Square
When: Saturday, March 29 2025, Noon
Where: Chapman Park in Rockland (at the corner of Park & Main, next to the Walgreens)
We will gather every Saturday at Noon as long as authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption inhabit the White House, and all those in nonviolent opposition are welcomed to join us. We will sing songs of protest, resistance, freedom, and a better world. Teach a song you learned when you were young, learn a song from social movement veterans, and sing together in community.
Mass Meeting of The Audacity
Defend Democracy … Before It’s Too Late!
Join a Mass Meeting of The Audacity, the local, grassroots, nonviolent organization carrying out creative action together to counter the dictatorship, bigotry, and corruption of the second age of Trump.
WHAT: Mass gathering to Organize a Defense of Democracy
WHO: You and Ten Friends
WHERE: Universalist Church of Rockland at 345 Broadway (park across the street)
WHEN: Saturday, March 29 at 10 AM
BE THERE.
State Legislature Town Hall
This is an opportunity to meet with your Maine State Senator and Maine State Representatives in an informal Town Hall setting.
Listen to their work to ensure that Maine continues as a healthy place to live. Ask your questions about statewide initiatives and about how the current national events impact Maine.
The Panel:
Senator Pinny Beebe-Center
Representative Vicki Doudera
Representative Valli Geiger
Representative Ann Matlack
Representative Bill Pluecker
Moderator: Arleigh Kraus
For more information please call: 207-319-4556
This is an in-person & hybrid event; to register for a zoom link email your full name and town of residence to knoxdems@gmail.com
Parking at the UU church is limited; please plan to park across Broadway at MacDougal Park or along Gay Street if you are able.
This event is co-sponsored by Arleigh Kraus and the Knox County Democratic Committee
United 4 Visibility March in Bangor
United 4 Visibility Rally & March
Sponsored by the Maine Wabanaki Two Spirit Alliance
March 26, 5:30pm
Bangor Peirce Memorial Park (125 Harlow St, Bangor, ME 04401)
Brass Band Rehearsal with Joe Niemczura
This is a practice session for experienced brass players to participate in a brass band at the April 5 2025 Hands Off! demonstration at the Maine State House. Please wear all-black; we will have some photos taken.
Please bring a chair or stool; if the weather is good Joe N. would like to be outside for this rehearsal (more below). if the weather is bad we will most definitely be inside using MCMA's chairs....... but bring a light jacket and a "tuque".
Visual Art Workshop
Visual artists, meet at the Hope Library in the Hope Town Office, this coming Sunday, March 23 from Noon to 3 PM
We’ll work on posters, banners, buttons, scarves, and whatever else we come up with. Bring supplies if you can; we will have some there, including a sewing machine, scarves, and a banner. Bring your ideas as well!
Jared Golden Town Hall in Bangor
People interested in sharing their concerns with US Representative Jared Golden are invited to attend a
public Town Hall in Bangor. The meeting will run from 4 pm to 6 pm on Saturday, March 22 at the Bangor
Public Library, 145 Harlow Street, in the Atrium on the first floor. Second District Congressman Jared
Golden has been invited to attend in person and listen to the concerns of his constituents. The
organizers have stated “We’re saving a seat for Jared and the Town Hall will be held with or without
him”.
Report from the West Bank
Belfast residents Ridgely Fuller and Beth Whitman recently visited the West Bank as part of a witness delegation sponsored by a Liberation Theology Center based in Jerusalem. Please join them at the Universalist Church of Rockland to hear their report and reflections on the journey. Come with your questions!
Theater Group Working Session
Saturday, March 3/22, 1:15 pm: the Theater group meets at the Universalist Church of Rockland, 345 Broadway. What will the theater group come up with next? Find out, and make sure your dreams are included. Be there!
Midcoast Solidarity Public Online Meeting
Midcoast Solidarity’s March 20th meeting is public online via jitsi.
The room opens at 6:30pm, meeting starts at 7pm and goes until 8:30. Please send us an email to midcoastsolidarity@protonmail.com to get the link for the meeting.
Rally to Support the US Postal Service
USPS & Labor Rally in Portland, ME! 03/20 11am-12pm
Sponsored by the Maine AFL-CIO
Monument Square, Portland, Maine
The Postal Service is facing one of the most serious threats in our history. Reports indicate that the new presidential administration is preparing an illegal and hostile takeover of the USPS, threatening the stability of our jobs, our workplaces, and the public service we proudly provide. The American people deserve a Postal Service that remains true to its public mission and continues to serve communities across the country, no matter where you live. Now postal workers and the communities we serve are standing together to ensure our postal service stays in the hands of the people, not the billionaires. Let's make it clear to the country that the U.S Mail is Not For Sale!
Night of Poetry for International Women's Day
Nourish the Resistance with a night of poetry for International Women’s Day!
March 19, 6 pm, Belfast Free Library
Sponsored by the Peace and Justice Group of Waldo County
Where's Susan? Gorham Town Hall for Susan Collins in Absentia
Where's Susan?!? Senator Collins has been invited to a special town hall on March 19th but WILL SHE SHOW???
Come anyway! Think of it as a public hearing where you can share your stories, concerns, and leave your questions for Collins if she's a no-show (don't worry, we'll deliver them to her!) Help us send a clear message to Sen. Collins that we demand real leadership during these perilous times!!
Event Moderator:Former US Representative Thomas Allen.
Demonstration to Free Mahmoud Khalil
This solidarity demonstration in support of rights for migrants and refugees, and in support of Mahmoud Khalil — imprisoned in violation of the First Amendment without charges and with no crime — on Tuesday at 4pm in Portland. Speakers will include Portland City Council members, local migrant advocacy groups, indigenous leaders, and Palestine solidarity organizations.
Sing Out In Rockland’s Public Square
When: March 15 2025, Noon
Where: Chapman Park in Rockland (at the corner of Park & Main, next to the Walgreens)
The Audacity is a creative nonviolent group resisting the bigotry, corruption and fascism of Donald Trump and his supporters in the Midcoast. We continue our weekly community singing protest this upcoming Saturday, March 15 at Noon in Chapman Park (corner of Park & Main) in Rockland, Maine.
We will gather every Saturday at Noon as long as Trump remains in the White House, and all those in peaceful opposition are welcomed to join us. We will sing songs of protest, resistance, freedom, and a better world. Teach a song you learned when you were young, learn a song from social movement veterans, and sing together in community.
Singing Revolution Film and Sing-In
A single nation. A million voices. The fall of an empire. All accomplished without violence. Watch the documentary The Singing Revolution at the Neighborhood UCC on March 14 starting at 6:30 pm, and sing together afterward to get a little something started in Bath. Admission is free.
Veterans Rally at the Maine State House
The Friday, March 14 Veterans March in Augusta has obtained a permit, which means it will be protected by the Capitol Police. The organizers ask that folks focus their signs on support for veterans as the Trump administration yanks away that support. Gather in the space between the Cross Office Building and the Maine State House, as in recent protests.