| Ongoing Actions! |
| Office Hours on Friday: Meet up with Audacitizens at Main Street Markets Cafe’s back room in Rockland at 10:30 AM over coffee and share your ideas, plans, and notions to act up. Stand Up and Sing Out on Saturday @ noon: Come to Chapman Park in Rockland for our weekly demonstrations. We sing, hold signs, have conversations, give away buttons and postcards. We collect food/hygiene items for the local food bank and clean up the park every week. Stand Out with Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights Camden, on the Village Green, Fridays @ 5 PM Rockland, at Chapman Park on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays @ 3PM Belfast, in Post Office Square, Sundays 12-12:30 PM |
 Chalk It Up! Grab some bright colors, write loud and clear: ICE OUT * MELT ICE * ABOLISH ICE * ICE COLD KILLERS * NO ICE for ME * Then, take pictures and share the message on social media, emails, and in the Audacity newsletter! Free chalk available on Saturdays at Chapman Park |
| The Audacity in the News |
Local and national news outlets have covered recent Kayak-tivism and simultaneous vigils with Lincoln County Indivisible and Indivisible Waldo County. |
| Upcoming Actions to Join |
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| Join Purge Palantir Maine for a day of action led by the Maine State Nurses Association against Palantir at Susan Collins’ Office in Portland on Aug 27th at 12 pm EST. Scan the UR code in the poster for more information. |
 The League of Women Voters of Maine is starting fall election observation training. They are considering an in-person training in Rockland; if you are interested, please let them know at the link below. This training is available for new and returning volunteers. Sign Up Form: If you’d like to join us on Election Day, please sign up here by October 14! Training & New Information: Attending another training isn’t required for volunteers who observed the June primary. In October, we’ll make sure to email you refresher resources and any new information you’ll need to know. While attending another training isn’t required, we’re planning October in-person trainings in Portland, Ellsworth, and potentially Rockland, for returning and new election observation volunteers, and we’d love to see you there! If you’re interested in joining one of these events, sign up below: Portland Training, Monday October 19 at 5:30pm: sign up here Stay in the loop about Rockland and Ellsworth trainings: let us know here and we’ll be in touch with more details. If you can’t make one of these events but would still like to attend another training, you’re always welcome to join a virtual election observer training too! You can sign up for a virtual training here. |
| OTHER WAYS TO GET INVOLVED |
 A few days left: Awesome Fundraising Opportunity!Indivisible.org is offering a matching campaign where every donation made in August will be matched up to $500. Please consider donating to help keep our work financially viable. Money raised helps pay for materials and supplies for our events, subscription costs for our online presence, our podcast, signage, etc. Please note: Donations made directly to Audacity or through Indivisible.org (via ActBlue) are NOT tax-deductible. donate here |
 Join The Audacity’s Book ClubA new book group is forming to read and discuss books by Timothy Snyder, such as ‘On Fascism’, ‘On Freedom’, and ‘The Road to Unfreedom’; books by Colin Woodard, ‘A Resistance History of the United States’ by Tad Stoermer, and MORE (we are open to suggestions!)We are beginning with the new book by Brian Tyler Cohen, “The Day After”. This book is about building this nation NOW so that when that man leaves office, we aren’t scrambling to rebuild this country. It’s about building NOW and what and how to do that. It “explores how Republicans have abused power, how Democrats have refused to exercise power when they held it, and how progressives should wield power if they are fortunate enough to win a free and fair election in a post-Trump world.” If you are interested in joining us, please send a message to Contact@audacitycat.com and put “book group” in the subject line. |
| JOIN A DEMOCRACY CIRCLE Emily J. writes: You are invited to be a part of something that is happening and growing. It’s called Democracy Circles. The first one started in Rockland in January in someone’s barn and Peter and I (and others you may know) have been attending.In order to protect and rebuild our democracy we need to find power. That power comes from the organizing of people in solidarity, “People Power”. The best way to do that organizing is by building community groups, discussing common issues and discovering solutions; a Democracy/ Organizing Circle, inviting neighbors around a circle and communicating. Other Democracy Circles have begun to emanate and ripple out, organizing more people into a movement. The larger and more significant the issue to be addressed, the more power, and the more people organized in solidarity, is needed.Interestingly, the Troy Jackson Campaign holds a similar idea for their campaigning, to build groups (Circles) in every town throughout Maine. This becomes an excellent opportunity to ripple the Democracy Circles across the state. The town groups will be empowered and function as grassroots organizations. By joining a Democracy Circle, you will be adding critical mass to the numbers of people needed to organize in solidarity and build the power needed to keep our democracy. People Power – of the people, by the people, for the people.2 Top Goals: Defeating Susan Collins/ Electing Troy Jackson to the US Senate; and Building/Rebuilding this Country of ours.Currently, Democracy Circles are heavily tied to Troy (as the first one was tied to Graham before), but the deeper and ongoing need is the work we need to do – and it is going to be WORK, to not only put this country back together, but to rebuild it better. And after the Nov. 3rd election the Democracy Circles will continue on as a productive force to build and care for our democracy. Circles can help maintain communication with those elected as well as be there to hold them accountable. If you would like to join a democracy circle, please just reach out to me through Contact@audacitycat.com and I can give you more information. |
 Attend The Audacity’s Monthly Mass Meeting Sept 5 @ 10AM 345 Broadway, Rockland |
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| Get a Free Lawn Sign! The Audacity is distributing signs around the Midcoast for free — delivered right to you. We’ve been delivering Robert’s Court signs, and we now have ICE OUT signs too! |
 The Voices of Audacity CAT Podcast Episode Ten – Protest as a Family Tradition Activist. Educator. Parent. One Audacity participant details her journey from her parents’ political activism to founding The Community School in Camden (soon to be featured in an upcoming documentary film), and the lessons she passes on to her children, one of whom became executive director of MoveOn.org. She also details how Audacity continues to fuel her commitment to democracy and justice. Listen on (Apple Podcasts) * (Spotify) * (YouTube Channel) |
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| A benefit garage sale for Rockland’s Emergency Warming Center – donate stuff to sell or help out in person. FMI: talk to Jennifer or Stephy. |
| “Action is the antidote to despair.”Joan Baez |