It’s beach season here in Maine, and killer sharks are in the news again. Maine occupies the northernmost range of the great white shark, but thanks to climate change, these apex predators are now stalking our rapidly warming coastal waters with...
Today we're pleased to reintroduce the Maine Mural Podcast. After a long hiatus, the podcast returns to bring you readings of two recent Pine & Roses articles, Augusta Chipotle Workers Speak Out by Wil Thieme, and America's Desensitization to...
On July 20th, in response to the sudden closure of the Chipotle Mexican Grill in Augusta that had recently announced their first-in-the-nation unionization campaign, comrades from Maine DSA drove up to support their fellow workers in protest. Also...
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,...
On Sunday, June 26, hundreds of people came out to a rally sponsored by Maine DSA to stand up for reproductive justice and decry the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade. The crowd was overwhelmingly young and the event featured a diverse...
On Saturday, June 4 the Maine State Council of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM or simply “the Machinists'') hosted their Biennial Conference in South Portland. The conference featured twelve keynote speakers,...
Many column inches have been dedicated to the recent food truck controversy on the Eastern Prom of Portland. The ‘debate’ is framed in traditional neo-liberal terms, with free-market entrepreneurs (the food truck owners) hustling for a living and...
Today, Maine DSA for a Livable Portland filed paperwork with the City of Portland to pursue four citizen initiatives for November 2022. These referenda are a bid to make the city that we love and reside in livable: not only for business owners, not...
Ten people in Buffalo, NY on May 14. Twenty-one people in Uvalde, TX, including nineteen children, on May 24. Most people will recognize the events alluded to here: recent mass shootings in the United States. We know about these two events because...