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PINE TREE ACTIVISM CALENDAR Events for June 29 – July 5, 2025 pg 13/13 Details confirmed as of Sun June 29, 6:45AM ==================================================== Share/Repost so Mainers know where to #RESIST! Submit events to: ptactivism@gmail.com ==================================================== #RESIST the Budget Bill & #SAVEMEDICAID CALL YOUR SENATORS & REPRESENTATIVES: Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 CALL AARP and tell them to pressure Congress: AARP Maine: 207-776-6348 ==================================================== Other ways to contact your elected officials: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials #RESIST through #PeacefulProtest #STOPtheCUTS-HEALtheWOUNDS #NONViolence is Power Wherever you go, whatever you do, whomever you meet, #LeaveItBetterThanYouFoundIt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To add calendar events, make corrections, offer support, or for details on Pine Tree Activism's #SupportFreeSigns, please send email to ptactivism@gmail.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PineTreeActivism.org Bluesky: @pinetreeactivism.org Email: ptactivism@gmail.com

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MAINE RESISTANCE
JUNE 29 - JULY 05
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#RESIST the Big Budget Bill & #SAVEMedicaid & More
CALL YOUR SENATORS: 202-224-3121
CALL YOUR AARP & TELL THEM TO PRESSURE SENATORS!
Maine AARP: 202-776-6348

REPOST & SHARE!
Updated June 29 6:45AM #Maine #MEPolitics
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WHY PINE TREE ACTIVISM? In 1772, 90 miles from where I write this in Maine, the Pine Tree State, English colonists in Weare, NH resisted the rule of King George III. The colonists rebelled against England's long standing Broad Arrow Policy, which decreed “for better providing and furnishing of Masts for our Royal Navy wee do hereby reserve to us ... ALL trees of the diameter of 24 inches and upward...” Colonists were prohibited from felling and using any tree marked by broadaxe with an arrow for their own shipbuilding and construction. They were forced to sell these trees to the Crown only, at far below market price. The King wanted it all. When the policy was broadened to all trees over 12” in diameter, a leader of local sawmill owners milling marked trees was arrested. Colonists resisted, attacked British authorities and ran them out of town. The rebellion came to be known as the Pine Tree Riot. Word of the resistance spread, inspiring the Boston Tea Party and other acts of rebellion. These first acts of resistance led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States of America. Pine Tree Activism was created in the spirit of American colonists resisting authoritarian rule. #EveryEffortCounts // Email Maine resistance events to: ptactivism@gmail.com PINE TREE ACTIVISM on Bluesky: @pinetreeactivism.org Born this day, Feb 16, 2025

Welcome all new followers to the resistance against this admin & its P2025 platform!

I appreciate the follows & the posts you all make. I feel more informed because of you.

I post this from time to time as to why I chose the name Pine Tree Activism.

#RESIST through #PeacefulProtest
#STOPtheCUTS

@bluegenes64.bsky.social hello

It needs to be said. EVERY Republican voter, official, and elected member at every level is COMPLICIT in the attack on our government. These are NOT policy preferences. These are explicit attacks on the Constitution.

Identify and confront them wherever they are found.

What is the value of still making statements of false equivalency? Things like “if Obama, Harris, or Biden did X then the fascists would have been outraged”. The fascists by their nature are bad faith actors.

There is no equivalency between what any prior Democratic did or would do.

Thank you for the continued updates.

Millions of you, around the world, have put the lessons I wrote in #OnTyranny in late 2016 to good use. It has been humbling to learn how from courageous and creative dissenters, protestors, and oppositionists. I was honored when John Lithgow volunteered to read them aloud.

This is art I commissioned a few years back. The artist agrees it should be posted far and wide now. Please share this message. My social reach is very short.

@aoc.bsky.social & @sanders.senate.gov drawing huge crowds in GOP territory in their ongoing #FightOligarchy tour.

Rs & Ds alike are turning out to tune in.

#NON-COOPERATION
#ResistanceWorks
#ProtestWorks
#SpeakOut
#StandUp

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Hope grows bright in the dimmest light.

I refuse to concede. More feel the same every day & realize the importance of speaking out now, or lose democracy.

History shows, time & again, that when enough people protest in peace, regimes topple.

It will happen here, too.

#SPEAKOUT #RESIST #PROTEST

PINE TREE ACTIVISM CALENDAR SCHEDULED EVENTS – updated 03.17.25 5:50PM pg 7 of 7 – Most recently updated calendar is always pinned! ============================================================================== Repost so Mainers know where to protest! @PineTreeActivism.bsky.social ============================================================================== APR 19, Sat 11:30-12:30 (& every Sat thru Apr 19) - Bath Bath Iron Works Admin Bldg, 700 Washington St, Bath, Maine Vigil for Disarmament – Say No! to the production of weapons of mass destruction in Maine. FMI: Smilin' Trees Disarmament Farm: 763-4062 Pine Tree Activism strives to publish confirmed events with accurate details as provided to me or on a group's website. Last minute changes in venue or day/time may not be reflected. To add #calendar event, make corrections, or for details on Pine Tree Activism's #SupportFreeSigns program, please send email to ptactivism@gmail.com. Include date/time, location, event name, purpose of event and contact info (for confirming). Thank you, PineTreeActivism.org @PineTreeActivism.bsky.social ptactivism@gmail.com

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MAINERS! WHERE WILL
*YOU* GO THIS WEEK?
#STANDUP #SPEAKOUT
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#Maine #MEPolitics #PortlandMaine #Portland #RESIST
To add event, for corrections, or for #SupportFreeSigns details, please send note to: ptactivism@gmail.com
UPDATED 03.17.25 5:50AM
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BYSTANDER INTERVENTION
Do you know what to do if you witness an attack in public?

Do's & Don'ts to getting involved. Tips to assess how to intervene while considering the safety of everyone involved.

#bystanderintervention #safetytips

Thanks for posting here Chris.

How do you think his peers and people that report to him will respond ?

And if I’m asking this wrong, please correct me, but if he makes a ridiculous decision to bring charges, which court is it appealed to if he wins the case ?

All insights welcome

Democrats should be in rural and red areas right now. Talk to the folks and tell them who is hurting them. Right now.

We are missing a massive opportunity…trust me on this. Get out here.

The RNC chair says it again -- the only function of the RNC is voter suppression and election subversion. It is time to take him literally and seriously.

Sign-up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. www.democracydocket.com/me-subscribe...

Let me know what you'd like to see here, what you'd like to read about, learn more about, and what you're doing in your town, your family, your state, for our country.

#DEMOCRACY=COURAGE

#WETHEPEOPLE are pissed off!

#RESIST the dismantling of #America.

#PineTreeActivism - #spreadtheword

Not usually concerned about number of likes and followers, tho we've hit 200 in just 8 days!

Let's make 2,000, then 20,000, then more, to spread the word around #Maine and the nation as to #resistance news when events are happening, and how we can act to #PreserveDemocracy.

Here's how it started:

TOGETHER WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE

"Every day our job is to wake up and say ‘what can I do today?'
There is no act too small." #AOC

#CivilDisobedience

#MakeADifference

#EveryActMatters

Posting that made that crowd uncomfortable were reported as bullying and got posts hidden.

Maine has one national Republican. Susan Collin’s. She must go. She is up for election in 2026. Maine has a lot of state and local Republican elected officials that are doing nothing to defend our constitution. They must go.

Good to see you here. I may be getting shadow banned on ND. It is a shame.

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Why not ? Because the Jewish population would be outvoted and they know that. Voter suppression of Israeli citizens that are not ethnically or religious Jewish has been suppressed since the start.

Most recent guest decides to stay.