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| Hello and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyful Yule, and Happy Candlenights! Whatever holiday you celebrate this winter, we are glad you are part of the Audacity. This winter, we are taking some time to reflect and plan for actions this spring, summer, and beyond. Now is a great time to get involved further! Help us organize and activate the midcoast for democracy, equality, and freedom! |
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| Saturday, December 27 @ Noon: Stand Out and Sing Out in Rockland’s Chapman Park Every Saturday from Noon to 1 PM, we sing, hold signs, have conversations, collect food and hygiene donations for the local food bank, give away free political buttons, and demonstrate the perseverance of local opposition at the corner of Park & Main Streets. Bring food and hygiene items to donate. Bring a sign (we have signs you can borrow too), your voice and your heart. Make a friend. Bring a friend! And as winter sets in, dress warmly and know your own limits. We are a diverse group. And, together, we choose democracy. Special Request: Does anyone have large thermos hot beverage dispensers we can set up on Saturdays at Chapman to help us through the cold weather with tea, hot chocolate, and coffee? We will need hot beverage cups, stick stirrers, sweetener, and milk/cream, also. If you can help with this request, contact@audacitycat.com. |
| “AIO is most grateful to Audacity for the donations we collect. I am the only one who hears this, as I make the delivery every Monday morning. I want everyone to know that the volunteers at AIO most grateful for the weekly haul. Several of them also are quite vocal in their support of our protests ! It’s a fun errand !!”-Cecilia |
| A huge Thank You to all who donated goodies to fill the Christmas stockings for the teens at The Landing Place! All was delivered to a very appreciative staff and the stockings were given out on a day of special festivities. It’s great to see what can be done when community comes together. |
| What is #TheMajorityProject? Donald Trump may have won the popular vote, but that doesn’t mean America supports his extremist agenda. Yet, the far right is spinning his victory as a mandate for policies that most Americans do not support: ✅ 86% support Universal Background Checks¹ for all gun sales ✅ 74% support Trans Rights Protections² ✅ 70% support Safe & Legal Abortion Access³ ✅ 70% support Paths to Citizenship⁴ for Dreamers and Essential workers– Sources: 1McCourtney Institute for Democracy, May 2023, 2Data for Progress, October 2024, 3Gallup, July 2024, 4AP-NORC, July 2024 These aren’t radical ideas – this is our common ground.We will have postcards on Saturday for you to send to Maine’s Congressional Delegation. Join us on Sunday to fill out a postcard, we’ll supply the stamp. Every voice counts. Together, we make it impossible to ignore the real majority. |
 Ongoing Standouts to Oppose Gaza starvation and genocideParticipate in regular “standouts” with Maine Voices For Palestinian Rights: * In Rockland, at Chapman Park on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month at 3 PM — next standout is January 8. * In Camden, on the Village Green, every Friday at 5 PM |
| The Audacity Weekly Office Hours at Camden’s Villager CafeWhere: Villager Cafe,25 Mechanic Street, Camden When: Fridays, 10:30 AM — 11:30 AMOwners of the Midcoast Villager, the sole remaining newspaper for Knox County, have invited groups to use its Villager Cafe breakfast restaurant in Camden as a gathering space where community members can meet, discuss issues of the day, and hatch plans to improve life around Maine. Taking that invitation, attendees of The Audacity’s December 2025 voted unanimously to start holding weekly office hours for The Audacity every Friday at 10:30 AM. Grab a coffee or a sticky bun, come find our table, and sit a spell with fellow Audacitizens! We’ll catch up, gear up, and hatch plans to act up. Who’s welcome? Everyone! |
 Visual Arts Workshop : Sunday,Jan 4 @ 1-4 PM: the School of Earth Life, WarrenStarting in the new year, we will meet the first Sunday of each month : Jan 4,Feb 1, Mar 1, Apr 12, May 3, June 7. Additional sessions will be scheduled as needed. |
| Looking ahead! Valentine’s Day Dance and Costume Party. Come as ‘someone’ you ‘love’. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, MLK jr, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, the Statue of Liberty, Superman, le chat noir, yourself… Date and time and place TBD. Stay tuned. |
| Group meeting with The Villager to happen in January, date to be announced after the holidays. Please be thinking about specific requests regarding changes you’d like to see in the paper. |
 lawn signs, art supplies…Together, we can!Pick up a Clynk bag at a Saturday demonstration, fill it with returnables to support Audacity CAT…Clynk drop off locations |
| “They are Man’s,” said the Spirit, looking down upon them. “And they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased…””Have they no refuge?” cried Scrooge.”Are there no Prisons?” said the Spirit, turning on him for the last time with his own words. “Are there no workhouses?”-Charles Dickens, from A Christmas Carol, 1843 |