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Happening Right Now and Upcoming -

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    • Monthly Resource Fair - Second Wednesday of each month from 9am to noon at the Bangor Public Library.
      • The next Resource Fair is Wednesday, March 11th at the Bangor Public Library. 
    • Justice for the Fair Housing Three - 
      • The Fair Housing Three are civil rights attorneys in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) members, and organizers with the Federal Unionists Network (FUN). When they saw the Trump regime dismantling civil rights, violating federal law, and putting vulnerable communities at risk of major housing discrimination they spoke up, which they have the legal right to do. Shortly after, they were fired, placed on administrative leave, or reassigned.The retaliation against the Fair Housing Three is a direct attack on essential protections from housing discrimination for domestic violence survivors, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color, and low-income people. HUD Secretary Scott Turner–under the guidance of billionaire champions like Donald Trump and Russell Vought– wants to give free rein to landlords, real estate agents, corrupt lenders, and corporate investors to pick and choose who deserves safe housing. Justice for the Fair Housing Three means our friends, neighbors, and families are safer.
      • Add your name to the petition  and join us February 18 to deliver it to Susan Collins' office in Bangor, Federal Building at Noon

Resources

Food AND Medicine does not have a food pantry, despite Google search results. Click the link in the button for a list of free food resources in the Bangor/Brewer area. The list includes locations, hours and contact information, and is compiled and updated regularly by our friends at Faith Linking in Action.

Bangor Area Food Pantries

Become A Member

There are several ways you can participate in our work. The best place to start is becoming a member of Food AND Medicine. Annual membership dues are on a sliding scale, what you feel you can afford; suggested dues are $35. Many members contribute more in solidarity with our lower-income members. We also welcome zero dollar members, because no one should be excluded from standing with us. Membership is for the calendar year; use the same link to RENEW your membership too!

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What we do

Food AND Medicine is a grassroots member-based organization that works to address the root causes of poverty. We prioritize people’s ability to form a union, have affordable healthy food, access public transportation, and make a living wage. We use a hybrid of direct service and grassroots organizing to:

  • Empower and involve those directly affected, to take an active, leadership role in bringing awareness and change.

  • Be informed by a knowledge of our community gained through research, listening and outreach.

  • Facilitate and sponsor events and educational programs, legislative and workplace organizing campaigns, and creation of alternative economic and cultural structures.

 

 

Why we do it

We believe it is an outrage for people in the richest country in the world to be forced to choose between food, medicine or other basic necessities. We believe in facing our history of genocide, slavery and ongoing systemic and strategic racism and other forms of oppression against working class people.  We believe that a multiracial, multiethnic movement that reaches across class lines is needed to build the sort of community that we aspire to. We have trust that that will make a better future for all of us.

Who we are

Food AND Medicine has over 500 annual members, primarily in Maine but also people across the country with a Maine connection. We are a diverse coalition of union members, workers and farmers; low-income community members; members of most faith and political beliefs; seniors, students and people of different abilities - all connected by a belief that nobody should have to choose between food, medicine and other basic necessities.