Injured Workers Speaking Out

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April 10, 2012

Please contact your legislators to stop the attack on Workers Compensation, LR 2787.

Food AND Medicine’s Worker Center of Eastern Maine held a press conference to speak out about how LR 2787 would how injured workers. Please see below for press coverage that tells the whole story. We are expecting this bill to be voted on this week. Here are three things you can do:

•    Go to Augusta and join union brothers and sisters to lobby
•    Call your representatives and leave a message asking them to oppose LR 2787:

  • Message Line – House of Representatives: 1-800-423-2900
  • Message Line – Senate: 1-800-423-6900

Click here to find who your Senator and Representative are.

Thanks to those who made the press conference yesterday possible:

•    Mark Richards, Dean Harding and Loren Snow, Workers’ Comp recipients who did a great job speaking about their experiences
•    Rev. Mark Doty who gave a hard hitting moral judgement on our position!
•    Matt Schlobohm- for supplying so much great information.
Press Coverage

WERU Community Radio and Cumulus Radio (they do about 4 stations) covered the event as well.

Please support injured workers and call your Representative & Senator this week!

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Farmer-Labor Legislative Breakfast

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February 21, 2012

Farmer Labor Legislative Breakfast: Leveling the Playing Field

The third annual Food AND Medicine/ Eastern Maine Labor Council Legislative Breakfast occurred this past Saturday, despite a winter weather advisory, and 82 people–including 10 legislators–turned out.

There are critical issues at stake in Augusta (click here to see full list of issues). This breakfast was a great step in educating our legislators about working family and local agriculture issues.

All the legislators present (see list below) merit recognition for coming to the house of labor to hear our issues.  They respected us and showed a willingness to learn.  And some of them, as some admitted, have a great deal to learn.  Please contact them, thank them for coming and give your position on these issues. Please cc fam@foodandmedicine.org when you do.

Please click here to find your Senator and Representative and contact them about the issues listed here.

An amazing team of volunteers organized the event, spread the word and cooked up the pancake, egg, sausage, bacon and French toast breakfast with virtually all Maine-grown ingredients. Others researched the issues, invited legislators, or simply came. A huge thanks is due to all these folks who helped make Saturday possible.

For more info on all of these issues and on what more Food AND Medicine is doing, together with the Eastern Maine Labor Council, contact Jack McKay at 989-4141 or jack@foodandmedicine.org.

In Solidarity,

Food AND Medicine & the Eastern Maine Labor Council

Legislators Attending
Rep. Andy O’Brien (D-Lincolnville)
Rep. Stacy Guerin (R-Glenburn)
Rep. Adam Goode (D-Bangor)
Rep. Doug Damon (R-Bangor)
Sen. Nichi Farnham (R- Bangor, Hermon)
Rep. Jim Dill (D-Old Town)
Rep. Jim Parker (R-Bangor)
Rep. Ralph Chapman (D-Brooksville)
Rep. Dave Johnson (R-Eddington)
Rep. Paul Davis (R-Sangerville)

http://www.foodandmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/LegBreakIssues_Final.doc

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Rally to Save America’s Postal Service

February 14, 2012
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The specter of “pre-funding,” which some in Congress are using as an excuse to kill the US Postal Service, hangs over a group of FAM Members, postal workers and activists at a Presidents’ Day Rally to Save the US Postal Service. Click here to see more pictures of the rally! On President’s Day, 70 people [...]

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2012 Annual Membership Meeting

January 19, 2012

Thanks to the 40+ people who joined us and made this a great meeting! Notes from the Annual Meeting coming soon.

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Speaking up for unemployment insurance

December 12, 2011

Support Extending UI for Maine’s workers! Click here to see media coverage of our December 8 Forum on Unemployment! Brothers and Sisters, On December 8th, the Eastern Maine Labor Council, Food AND Medicine, the Maine AFL-CIO and the National AFL-CIO sponsored a forum on just how important unemployment benefits are for laid off workers. If [...]

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Do you know an unemployed worker?

December 7, 2011

And if you do know an unemployed worker, will you take a bit of time to help them out? 5,200 Maine workers will lose unemployment aid on Jan. 1 unless Congress acts now! Please join us for a roundtable discussion about the importance of Unemployment Benefits. Afterwards, we will go to our Senators’ offices to [...]

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Solidarity Harvest a huge success!

November 20, 2011

With the help of over 100 dedicated volunteers, we have sourced 500 Thanksgiving baskets of vegetables, apple cider, rolls, butter, turkey and stuffing for families out of work and facing other economic hardships. As much as possible, all food came from local farms and businesses. We are grateful to the many volunteers and donors who [...]

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Food AND Medicine Supports Occupy Bangor

November 20, 2011

Food AND Medicine has made the following statement of support for Occupy Bangor: Food AND Medicine has worked since 2002 for a just economy in which nobody is forced to choose between food, medicine and other basic necessities. We organize to make Eastern Maine a livable region for all by building a grassroots movement of [...]

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Solidarity Harvest 2011

October 21, 2011

Thanksgiving is now less than three weeks away. That means that as this year’s Solidarity Harvest Coordinator, I am at the point of gathering together all the wonderful volunteers who make this event happen. Solidarity Harvest is an annual project coordinated by Food AND Medicine and the Eastern Maine Labor Council that brings local foods [...]

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Great showing at Child Care hearing!

September 16, 2011

Thanks to all who joined us in Augusta on Tuesday or sent testimony to DHHS about Child Care Subsidy Program. Food AND Medicine members were a big part of what we’ve heard was one of the largest turnouts seen at a CCSP rulemaking hearing! We made sure the Administrators heard testimony from parents who want [...]

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