17.01.04 Maine Alliance for the Common Good Rally of Unity at State House

The fifth annual Maine Alliance for the Common Good Rally of Unity was held at the State House on January 4, 2017. Scores of Maine activists braved this winter's second ice storm to attend the three hour event.
The speakers were as follows:
Lew Kingsbury - Organizer and MC
Larry Dansinger - Maine Alliance for the Common Good
Alyssa Thompson - Pine Tree Youth Organizing - ”The importance of amplifying youth voices in an age of uncertainty "
Dale McCormick - Campaign for Ranked Choice Voting
Hendrik Gideonse - Update on efforts to defeat, for the third time, Maine’s metallic mining rules
Chloe Maxmin - Writer for The Nation magazine - Environmental activist
Catherine Lewis - Medical Marijuana Caregivers of Maine
Cynthia Phinney - Maine AFL-CIO Executive Director - Maine Fair Trade Campaign - "Is TPP Dead?"
Betsy Garrold - Efforts to codify community food sovereignty
Jim Freeman - Albany, New York Bakken crude oil "bomb train" and TB Bank action updates
Ronald Flannery - Southern Maine Workers Center - Health Care is a human right campaign.
Peter Crockett - State’s expansion efforts regarding Maine’s landfills
Andy Burt - Addressing recent film projects on Maine activism
Maine video activists Martha Spiess and Eric Tuttle recorded the event.