Update, 5/5: if you didn’t make it to the park to submit video testimony on May 2, get to the Maine State House in Augusta on Thursday May 8, ask for directions to the Judiciary Committee hearing room, and sign up there to testify on the anti-Trans bills listed below. If you can’t go, see http://equalitymaine.org/takeaction/ for tips on how to submit written testimony.

Breaking: Hearing on Anti-Trans Bills is Coming This Thursday May 8

Here we are again, with those people whipping up bigotry again, always targeting the most vulnerable. We have a chance to record and enter local video testimony into the permanent searchable record of the Maine State House, and to post that testimony on YouTube to spread our message of defiance further. At Noon on May 3 in the park, we will record testimony from those who are interested that we will transcribe and share with the Maine State Legislature as official testimony.

Those who can, go to the Maine State House Thursday May 8 to speak in morning and afternoon testimony. Details on testimony and bills in the newsletter.

Newsletter #15: April 30, 2025

Contents:

1. Well Done! Many Successes

2. Our Resolve: What's Coming and Why We Must Prepare

3. Choosing your Actions to Fit your Visibility

4. What's to Come: Actions, Events and Meetings

Sure, it'll be raining hard, but times are hard.  What an opportunity to show that we're even harder.

Newsletter #14: April 24, 2025

Contents:

1. Saturday at Noon: You Must Go Because It's Raining  

2. Bring Food! AIO Food Pantry Collection at the Saturday Event

3. More Events A-Coming

4. Working Group Needs

Contents:

1. Saturday in the Park with You: What's Happening 4/26?

2. Meetings, Events, Actions: What Else is Shaking in Knox County?

3. Victory is a story: tell yours in video, in posts, in this newsletter 

4. We're looking for space: can you help in the short-term? 

5. We're looking for space: the long-term dream

6. Drop-by/Zoom hour 8 AM this Wed & Thurs at the Midcoast Villager Cafe

The Audacity: Creative Action Together | AudacityCAT.com | Newsletter #12 | 4-18-25

Contents:

1. Recap: What is The Audacity?

2. ACTION ALERT: Let's Fill Rockland's Chapman Park Saturday 4/19 at Noon

3. Different Dangers and a Shield for What's to Come

4. Meetings and Events and Actions this Week: Get Involved!

Contents: 

1. Update on our 75 Grievances and our Town Hall Invitations

2. Democracy in the Town Square: plans for Sat. April 12 and Sat. April 19

3. Visual Arts and a Brass Band

4. Making it Possible: Raising Resources

Newsletter #10:

• Get to the Maine State House in Augusta on Saturday, April 5 at Noon if you can

• Ride Share Options to the Maine State House on 4/5

• If you can’t be in Augusta, be in Rockland at Park & Main Streets on Saturday 4/5 at Noon

Saturdays of Joy

Outrage in Augusta

Town Halls coming…

Read on all this and more in The Audacity Newsletter #9…

The Audacity Newsletter #8: Why (And How) You Should Join a Protest Now

March 20, 2025

Contents: Read the full newsletter for details on the following 8 ACTIONS you can take to move the pro-democracy movement forward.

Newsletter #7, March 13 2025:

The First Amendment: Use it or Lose It!

Newsletter #6: We Launched: Now Let’s Organize!

March 6, 2025

Read our 75 grievances… will Senator Angus King, Senator Susan Collins, and Representative Chellie Pingree respond?

Newsletter #5 - February 26, 2025

Contents:

1. On March 1: Meet, Sing, March! 10 AM: MEET AND ORGANIZE at 345 Broadway, Rockland, ME 04841. NOON: PUBLIC SQUARE SINGING at Park and Main in Rockland. 12:30 PM: MARCH to Knox County Courthouse to demand redress of grievances

2. ADVERTISE: tack up these posters around town

3. Photos and Videos from the Die-In February 22 in Camden

4. Photos and Videos from Songs for Democracy February 22 in Rockland

5. NEW! Share Your Creativity Publicly in The Audacity Space

On Saturday, February 22, members of the local artistic social movement group called The Audacity will interact with visitors to the Camden Conference.

In Rockland, residents of towns from throughout the Midcoast area will meet at the corner of Park and Main streets at noon, rehearsing songs of democracy for a half hour that they have been practicing for the past two weeks. 

The Audacity will serenade conference-goers with pro-democracy, anti-dictator songs, hand out a flier (included as a separate file along with this press release), and welcome conference-goers to join them in song. 

Contents of this week’s Newsletter:

Public Actions: 

1. Rockland/Camden Noon Saturday February 22

Rockland and Statewide: Noon on Saturday March 1 

(Private) Call Jared Golden on the SAVE Act

2. Good Work by Working Groups... and how to join in

3. Next Mass Meeting: Sat. March 1 at 10 AM 

4. Activism is Storytelling: Tell Your Story

5. Each one bring one

The Audacity Newsletter #3:

Newsletter Contents:

1. Join a Group to take your Membership to Actionship

2. Upcoming Audacity Actions and Planning Sessions: A Saturday Activist Trio

3. Upcoming Actions by Other Movement Groups in Maine

4. Poll: When Should We Hold Our Next Meeting?

5. Call for a Planning Circle

6. Lessons from the February 4 debacle and the February 5 magnificence