We are re-running this piece from April in light of the on-going attack on abortion rights, and Maine DSA's growing new campaign to expose and put pressure on Maine's Crisis Pregnancy Centers to close up shop. As the article below will make clear,...
A version of this article was originally published on Bill of Health, the blog of Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, as part of a digital symposium, Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID. The author draws...
In the summer of 2020, I became radicalized. Somewhat. In quarantine, I was exposed to left wing ideas that clicked with my experience with the world so far. I had been given language to articulate the discontent and inequality that my previous...
How do we organize a campaign to democratize the entirety of Maine’s energy grid? Engage with local debates about national flashpoints like teaching racism in schools? Unite renters at risk of eviction at a time when neighbors talk less and less?...
This is a follow-up article to one printed on November 8, 2021 about allegations made against Amazon regarding unfair intimidation and ballot solicitation aimed at their largely Black workforce in Bessemer, Alabama prior to a union election; and...
On Thursday night outside of Merrill Auditorium, audience members lining up for Chelsea Handler’s show were met with picketers spanning the street. Instead of being in the auditorium preparing for the show, the unionized stagehands were locked...
The CARES Act eviction moratorium has expired, but the CDC has issued an extension for counties where there are high transmission rates of COVID-19 under pressure from Congresswomen Corey Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Yet as the emergency rent...
Pine and Roses and the Maine Mural podcast are proud to announce a little socialist media mutual aid. We'll be sharing resources, people power, research, interviews, and stories to bring current debates, critical analysis, and grassroots stories to...
According to Maine Beacon, LD 1708, put forward by Rep. Seth Berry (D-Bowdoinham) and a bipartisan slate of co-sponsors, and supported by Maine Public Power (initiated by the Maine chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America) and the Our Power...