Next Meeting, Upcoming Actions, and Work Groups
January 12, 2025
The Audacity is a group of locals in the Midcoast region of Maine who are working together to engage in creative action together, responding to the threats raised by a second Trump administration and its allies in our legislatures, courts, and communities. We’re just getting started in these early days, but it’s been so heartening to see people standing up and volunteering to take responsibility for organizing positive counter-action.
1. Save the Date for our next Meeting: Saturday, February 1 @ Rockland Public Library
The Audacity has held three meetings since the election at a farmhouse in Rockport, but as we've grown in size, we need a larger space, so we're moving to the Rockland Public Library for our next whole-group meeting. Save the date of Saturday, February 1, 1-3 PM! We'll meet in the Community Room of the Rockland Public Library (80 Union Street Rockland, ME 04841).
Please help spread the word! How?
If you can, download and print out a poster (8.5 x 11 | 11 x 17) and post it somewhere public around town.
Better yet, design your own poster promoting the meeting and post it around, too.
Write something up on social media about the meeting (which not only gets people to our meeting but also helps change the appearance of consensus around Trump and his followers). Link to this page when you’re posting, or link to the Facebook event for this page.
Perhaps the most effective recruitment method, however, is talking to people you know one-on-one. Research shows that people tend to join social movements most often and most enduringly when they are recruited by someone they know.
[This is a thumbnail image of an 8.5×11 inch poster welcoming Mainers to our organizing meeting on February 1, 2025 at the Rockland Public Library. Please download, print, and post!]
(The Rockland Library policy for all meetings asks us to state that "This event/meeting is not sponsored by the Rockland Public Library and the Library is in no way affiliated with, nor liable for, the content or organization of this event." All true.)
2. Upcoming Actions. Although Donald Trump hasn't taken his oath of office yet, actions are already afoot in Maine. Here are three of which we know:
1. People’s March Augusta: Saturday, January 18 at Noon, Maine State House, Augusta ME
2. People’s March Portland: Saturday, January 18 at 10:30 AM, Monument Square, Portland ME
3. Just Stop (demonstration against genocide in Palestine): Saturday, January 25, 1:30 pm, Corner of Elm and Chestnut Streets, Camden ME 04843
3. Call for Newsletter Items. We're going to start up a newsletter. If you're in a working group that has something to announce, if you have an upcoming organizing meeting, or if you know of a social movement action taking place, please write to contact@audacitycat.com with your news by Friday, January 17. (If you haven't joined one of the groups yet or are looking to start one of your own, fear not: you'll have a chance to get involved.)
Thanks for being audacious, friends, and keeping on in difficult times! If you’re new to The Audacity and would like to join our email list or contribute in another way, please drop a note to us on our contact page.
