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  • I’m learning from y’all!!

    Mary Ellen Griffin

    Hi, neighbors in the Maine resistance community! My friend who lives in Camden shared your Audacity:CAT link with me. I love how creative and articulate you are as you organize and choose actions! Your website is so fun and inviting! 

    I am an old white lady in western North Carolina near Asheville. We have stuff going on here but OMG is the messaging ever BORING and OLD SCHOOL!!! I’m going to bring your creative spirit to my local folks and see if we can raise our game. Then maybe the young people will be more interested in including us in the cool organizing they’ve got going on. 

    Thank you for your inspiration! And also, I am poised to launch my Substack blog, “Resist and Thrive Together,” in case you want to check it out. 

    Go Team Maine! We are in this together!

    Your southern neighbor,

    Mary Ellen Griffin

    Black Mountain, NC

  • Why Protest? Reason #1: Different Games and When it’s Not a Game At all

    James Cook

    Episode 1 of a YouTube series on the question, “Why Protest?” Each video shares an answer from a different vantage point or experience of protest.

    Episode summary:

    GOP senators voted unanimously on 3/1/25 to target some of the already most vulnerable children for being different. Living in Maine, it’s necessary to point out this includes Senator Susan Collins.

    The morning after the vote, the Ivy League Debate Club circles in Democratic Leadership are murmuring their wishes that we regular folk avoid talking about it. “Shh. This issue loses the game in Maine!” they say.

    But we’re not in an oak-paneled room of cozy polite opponents winning on points. MAGA has played Kayfabe for years. Confidence wins that game. And that means confidence in one’s values, whether they be cruel (Republicans targeting kids) or kind (lifting up all children, not using them).

    The priorities of this argument are also oriented inappropriately to elections. Yes, elections matter, but winning them is not the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal is to build a constructive, trusting, nurturing society that includes and benefits as many people as possible, and they’re HURTING VULNERABLE KIDS. It is crucial to make that unacceptable, and that means standing up in our communities and setting the standard. That is what public demonstrations do: reset the agenda to reframe the stakes and priorities, with the confidence needed to win a Kayfabe audience over.

  • What Should The Audacity Do With $1,000,000?

    James Cook

    Audacious folks,

    Imagine with me for a moment that The Audacity somehow came into a million bucks, unrestricted by purpose. (It hasn’t, but imagine that it has.)

    What would be the Top 3 things that The Audacity should do with that money?

    Answer in the comments!

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