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#FamiliesBelongTogether: What You Can Do Next

6/30/2018

 
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Mainers for Accountable Leadership: Pressure our federally elected representatives to uphold the Maine values of equality, acceptance, and diversity.
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Please join us by visiting our website www.mfal.me, joining our facebook page, following us on twitter @MFALpac, or sending us an email - mfalpac@gmail.com

1. ​Get trained:

Nonviolent Direct Action Training, MFAL FB Events page
July 14, 9Am – 3 PM, Portland, ME
July 15, 9 AM- 3 PM, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine
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Open-Call Training, MFAL FB Events page
July 22, 1:30-4:30 pm, Allen Avenue Unitarian Universalist Church
Come learn more about the issues, bystander intervention training, organizing 101

2. ​Get Educated, Donate, Volunteer

Visit these websites to get educated on the issues specifically related to immigrants, and donate as you are willing and able:
  • Cosecha Maine
  • Mijente:  #AbolishICE #freeourfuture
  • Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project
  • Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition
  • Maine Immigrant and Refugee Services
  • Maine NAACP
  • ACLU Maine

3. ​Volunteer or Join a Group

Voter Turnout
You can volunteer at any of the above listed organizations, or also join groups specifically dedicated to voter turn-out, including:  Engage Maine; Maine People’s Alliance, Maine Civil Liberties Union; Maine League of Conservation Voters, League of Women Voters of Maine; Maine League of Young Voters; Opportunity Maine; EqualityMaine; and Maine Women’s Lobby.

Moral Based Organizing
Moral Movement Maine or the Poor People’s Campaign

Indivisible Groups
These are groups of people, locally based, all-across Maine where many newly activated people work together.  Please email us at mfalpac@gmail.com and we can send you the running list.

4. ​Use the Power of your Wallet

You can donate to the organizations listed above or MFAL PAC.  
You can also boycott the companies that are explicitly profiting from Trump’s “zero toleration” immigration campaign: https://grabyourwallet.org/Action%20Alert.html

5. Engage

Call our federal elected and make your voice known:
  • Senator Collins: (207) 780-3575 (Portland) or (202)224-2523 (DC)
  • Senator King: (800) 432-1599 or (202) 224 5344
  • Representative Pingree (207) 774-5019 (Portland) or (202) 225-6116 (DC) 
  • Representative Poliquin:  (207) 942-0583 (Bangor) or (202) 225-6306 (DC)

TOGETHER, WE CAN.

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