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Happening Right Now -

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    • Our 2025 Membership Campaign was our strongest ever! We crushed our goal of 500 members, with 550 and counting! It's never too late to join FAM!  Click here to join or renew your membership for the current calendar year. We welcome members who aren't able to make a financial contribution right now. Join FAM as a $0 member using this form.
    • Monthly Resource Fair - Locations Vary! Second Wednesday of each month from 10am to noon.
    • We're Hiring an experienced Community Organizer for our Gardens Network, posted April 2025. See our Employment page for full job description and how to apply.
    • Nationwide Day of Action - Saturday 4/19/25, locations and times vary. In Bangor, 12-1pm outside the Federal Building on Harlow Street. See activatemaine.com for other locations and times.
    • Plant Pot Painting Event and Fundraiser, Earth Day 4/22/25 at our offices, 20 Ivers Street, Brewer, 5:30-7pm. FAM has teamed up with the Bangor Pride Committee to host a fun plant pot painting event, with supplies donated by The Garden Shed, Orono. Suggested donation $10-15 to benefit Bangor Pride, which is operating entirely on donations this year. Support the Pride parade and events happening in June in Bangor.
    • CONTRACT NOW! Action with University of Maine Graduate Student Workers Union (UMGWU), Thursday 4/24/25, noon, at MLK Plaza in Orono. Join us, Eastern Maine Labor Council and other allies to demand the University of Maine System agree to the UMGWU's first contract; they've been in bargaining for over 500 days!
    • International Workers' Memorial Day / May Day event, Thursday 5/1/25; join UMGWU, the Eastern Maine Labor Council for an event in Orono. Save the date, details will be posted soon.

 

Resources

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

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 this 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.