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| Happy New Year! 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! |
| Friday, January 2 @ 10:30AM: The Audacity Weekly Office Hours at Camden’s Villager Cafe Where: Villager Cafe, 25 Mechanic Street, Camden When: Fridays, 10:30 AM — 11:30 AM Owners 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! |
| Saturday, January 3 @ 10AM: Community Meeting of The Audacity One year in, the devastation is immense, and we know it’s going to get worse. History needs you, your energy, your projects, your information, your ideas. This is the time for good people to step forward. Please come and bring a good friend with you!345 Broadway, Rockland Please send agenda items for the meeting to contact@audacitycat.com. |
| Saturday, January 3 @ 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. Together, we choose democracy. |
| #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 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. |
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| SoF (Signs of Fascism) sets (2) are available for loan. Contact Ellen Koches: ripko55@gmail.com; 207-462-4241 to reserve a set of placards for a demonstration in your town.Spread the word about this critical message. Offer our creation to church groups, civic groups, school groups, activists and political groups. Let’s get them circulating! Ellen has written instructions/suggestions for a display and has a list of willing participants.Take advantage of this meaningful proclamation! |
| From an Audacious Friend: With all my admiration for Audacity, I submit two items:1) suggest that people bring their own mugs to the winter Saturday Stand outs in addition to having cups for those without (but I always forget, still…)2) please remember to add addressing climate change to the long list of rights to Trump’s wrongs. Climate change (now referred to as climate heating) is bigger than them all and will make everything magnitudes worse in the future, such as we have one, And priorities it now and then (perhaps the problem is that it doesn’t seem to relate to Democracy??….???….???)Hopefully,Beedy |
 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 |
| 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… Or, ‘something’ you love – Liberty, peace, Justice, democracy…Date and time and place TBD. Stay tuned. |
| Midcoast Villager Meetup still unscheduled. Please send your replies to the following questions to dora_lievow@yahoo.com: What change(s) in the Villager would you make? What question(s) do you have for the editors? Are you likely to attend a daytime meeting? |
 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 |
| “We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.” ― Louis D. Brandeis |
