NLG lawyer Moira Meltzer-Cohen speaks about legal implications of the Trump administrations declarations on "antifa", plus a little chat about mutual aid in Gaza thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09...

Anarchist organizing actually has a history in Maine. The successful 1904 anarchist IWW strike at Marston's Mills in Skowhegan was national news and a model for later IWW textile strikes in MA. The 1912 rallying cry in Lawrence, "Bread & Roses", still seems like a good goal in life to me.

We're at Maine's first radical book fair and I've had to step out to just cry a little. It's so nice to be here with the folks doing the work and making art and being in community and we've made so many glorious connections. It's so invigorating.

All of us book fair organizers are a very happy tired from the fair this weekend. Thank you to everyone who made the space, volunteers, vendors, speakers, attendees, chefs! The enthusiasm and goodwill was absolutely palpable and we were blown away by the response. ❤️‍🔥 Until next year! 🐈‍⬛

Incredibly cool experience to meet @margaret.bsky.social and hear her speak in person! Big thanks to @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social for organizing a wonderful event today.

Come find us at the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social !

Setting up today for the super awesome @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in #BelfastMaine. What a blast…a great group of exhibitors and best convos with the attendees!

So pleased to participate in the @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine yesterday. Appreciate all the engaged participats in my workshop on workers' inquiry and enjoyed local venders and publishers in attendance. Here is to the next one!

The day after is the MOONBAT SKILLSHARE in Swanville, ME, just outside Belfast. 🛠️🦇 Sunday August 24, 8am-6pm PRE-REGISTRATION is required. Sliding scale entry fee. Catering from Finocchi included and on-site childcare available. Find more or sign up 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

📣TOMORROW is it! 📣 The first Black Cat Book Fair! 🐈‍⬛📚 Books, art, print media!! Talks, workshops, author readings!! Aug 23, 11am to 6pm. 📍First Church Belfast (8 Court Street) Everything you could need to know at blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org Masks required indoors. 😷 Tell your friends! 🤩🥳

UPDATE: MASKS WILL NOW BE REQUIRED AT THE BOOK FAIR. 🐈‍⬛😷 New data shows a COVID spike. Because we're striving to make this event as accessible as possible as well as safer for ourselves & the wider community, we've changed our mask policy from masks strongly recommended to masks required.

We'll also have Samara Cole Doyon reading in our Children's Space her book NEXT LEVEL: A HYMN IN GRATITUDE FOR NEURODIVERSITY. Bring your little ones by this Saturday, Aug 23 at 11:15. 💫

We are SUPER GOSH DARN LUCKY (and pinching ourselves!) that these two fierce writers and inspiring movement thinkers, @margaret.bsky.social and Madeline ffitch, will be joining us THIS SATURDAY Aug 23, 4:30-6:00pm, to talk about the anarchist potential of fiction. ✨📣🌲

Madeline ffitch on direct action and survival work in the face of fascism.

"We handful of organizers include writers, poets, farmers, booksellers, two kinds of mill workers (woolen and saw), artists, arborists, editors, boatbuilders, activists, musicians and one arts administrator — all avid readers — living in Waldo County." Read us in the @midcoastvillager.bsky.social 🐈‍⬛📚

On Sunday, August 24, you can join our sister event, the Moonbat Skillshare, in Swanville, ME. 🦇🛠️ To register and for event location 👉 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

📣 Our 2025 schedule is live!! We'll have talks featuring @hannahmatthews.bsky.social, @margaret.bsky.social, @americanwork47.bsky.social, @bytheseed.bsky.social, @aobrien2024.bsky.social, and more!! More program details at: blackcatbookfair.noblogs.org/schedule/ Aug 23, 11a-6p 🐈‍⬛📚

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Shirts are here! We can't get over how good the colors look! If you pre-ordered, we'll be in touch! If you didn't, there will be a limited number available at the Black Cat Book Fair on Saturday, Aug 23. 🐈‍⬛

Increasing property values have some people worrying that they won’t be able to keep their homes if their taxes jump. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/08/13/m...

Excited to participate in the first @blackcatbookfair.bsky.social in Belfast, Maine, on August 23-24, 2025 with a workshop on Workers' Inquiry. Good peops with @akpress.org, @commonnotions.bsky.social, @pmpress.bsky.social and others will be attending too!

We're heading north! 📚

Local blueberries, local bookstore, local Black Cat Book Fair. 🐈‍⬛📚🫐 Patches $5 at @boxcarbooks.bsky.social in Thorndike and Selkie's Pearl in Belfast. (And maybe if you ask real nice, we might even send you one by mail! 📬) 📣 📆 August 23 (11a-6p) is only a few weeks away!

So many events 😵‍💫 See you there??

Immigrant & Trans Mainers are facing escalating, unprecedented threats to safety, dignity, & basic rights. That's why the People's Coalition for Safety & Justice (PCSJ) - a collective of frontline organizations with deep community ties - is launching the Maine Solidarity Fund.

We've a lot to say about why organize the BCBF in our small corner of the world. But it's esp important to us that ideas, money & strategic resources circulate locally. $$$ raised will go to this & next year's fairs, then shared w/ local orgs Bomazeen Land Trust, Niweskok, & Maine Solidarity Fund.

We're gearing up to print Red Cards for folks: (small cards, sized to be kept in a wallet, that have constitutional rights that can be used when confronted by ICE agents) Fill out this form if you're interested: forms.gle/XTJY3E9zix6Y...

📣 ANNOUNCING the very fab folks you can find at the biggest little rural radical book fair in Maine! 🐈‍⬛📚 @akpress.org @commonnotions.bsky.social @sipunculist.bsky.social @hellohellobooks.bsky.social @llabc24.bsky.social

4wks till the first ever 🐈‍⬛ BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR 🐈‍⬛ 8 Court St, Belfast, ME August 23, 11-6 We're excited to announce vendors and the speakers program soon! Mark your calendars! 📆📚 Questions? Email in bio!

An excellent and useful list: open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...

Today is the VERY LAST DAY to enter the raffle. We have beautiful prizes for those both local and not. Funds raised help us put on this year's fair. 🍀 Click through our thread to see the options—massages, weavings, artwork, birth chart readings, and more! Venmo @boxcarbooks 🎟️ 1 for $5, 5 for $20

📣 LAST CALL!! 📣 Pre-orders for Black Cat Book Fair merch close today. 🐈‍⬛ $25/ea for tees & spacious tote. (No pinks or yellows, sry!) Funds raised help put on the fair, bringing a full program of authors & activists to our corner of rural Maine. Announcements soon! 👉 Pre-order form: bit.ly/4eW0u5z

The loss of these services in northern Maine has raised alarm — especially given the ongoing HIV outbreak in Penobscot County. www.bangordailynews.com/2025/07/18/b...

Get yr 🐈‍⬛ merch! $25/ea for tees in one of five colors and a spacious tote. Helps us put on the event and has a cat in a bandana. What's not to love? In the spirit of anticapitalism, buy buy buy! Orders close THIS Friday July 18. 😱 👉 Pre-order form: bit.ly/4eW0u5z

Hey Boston Hey! 😘

ICE horror story from rural Waldo County, Maine If you think these “deportations” are not happening here you’re very wrong This should be top line news statewide www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8hLgVBP/

Maine peeps, please consider supporting the newly formed Maine Solidarity Fund. It's a project of the People's Coalition for Safety and Justice, whose members include Presente! Maine, and others. presentemaine.networkforgood.com/projects/254...

Don't forget we've got a slew of amazing items up for raffle! A $5 ticket supports us putting on this community event. 📚🎉 In the Midcoast, we've got bodywork, clay classes, sauna gift card & more! If you're away, we've got birth charts, a gift card to @akpress.org & some items we can ship!

Just reminding those of you who come to vacationland that all is not as it appears. Help us with your tourist dollars!

BLACK CAT BOOK FAIR MERCH preorder to raise funds for the fair in August! Share & help us put on this event! 🐈‍⬛ Tees are 100% cotton, come in 5 colors & XS-3XL. Totes are 100% cotton, 15x20x5" All feature a design by @mossspiglet.bsky.social and are $25. Order by 7/18 👇 cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/for...

3 days left to send us your vendor applications for this summer's 1st Black Cat Book Fair. 👇👇👇 📣 Please share and help us spread the word.🎉

We've also got Black Cat Book Fair patches for $5, available thanks to the good folks at Selkie's Pearl in downtown Belfast, ME 🐈‍⬛🧜‍♀️🐚

FUNDRAISING RAFFLE - We've got 🪄✨️ 13 fabulous prizes to raise money for our upcoming radical bookfair in Belfast, Maine this summer. 🐈‍⬛📚 🎟️ Tickets are 1 for $5, 5 for $20. 🔍 To enter, venmo @boxcarbooks w/ putting the the corresponding item number in the memo! The raffle is open until July 21st.

And if you're nearby, we've got some shows coming up! 🎤🪗🎶

Hey Black Cats & Moon Bats! 🐈‍⬛🦇 Our call for vendors closes on July 6. 🔜 forms.gle/DCBzvMBHX8gt... 📣 Wanna be part of the 1st radical book fair in Maine? Join publishers, printmakers, creators & groups for anti-racist, queer, feminist, anti-authoritarian & worker struggles. 📚🐈‍⬛ 8/23-24 Belfast, ME

Why not come learn about local radical history? #BostonMA #RadicalHistory #SaccoAndVanzetti sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You coming up to join us at the new radical bookfair in Belfast, Maine this summer? 🐈‍⬛

Whoa, we didn't anticipate this level of enthusiasm for a radical book fair in rural Midcoast Maine! All the moonbats are showing up! 🦇📚🐈‍⬛ If you're thinking of submitting a vendor application to join us this summer, send it soon! forms.gle/FyZELi9qnzmH... We're starting to fill our table slots. 😱🤯🥰

Announcing our 1st Black Cat Book Fair in Belfast, ME on August 23-24, 2025! 🐈‍⬛ 📚 Fair w/ publishers, distros, vendors, authors & workshops on Saturday from 11-6. 📣 Sunday, skillshares (hours TBD) Vendor applications 👉 forms.gle/j4Q4Shoj7xHa... Qs or a great idea? ✉️ blackcatbookfair @ riseup.net