Thursday, April 12, 2012

10:00 to 12:30

at Maine Equal Justice conference room

126 Sewall St., Augusta

 Help with travel and child care costs will be available at the meeting.

In case of bad weather, call 1-866-626-7059 x204 and listen to voice mail to see if the meeting has been cancelled.  Since road conditions vary around the state, please use common sense before driving in bad weather.

If you have something you want to add to the agenda that will take more than 5 minutes, please contact MAIN leaders at contact.main.team AT gmail.com or call 207-370-5554.

Agenda

I.     Introductions & Announcements:  10:00 am

Share something about yourself, and what's going on in your life, your community, or with groups you work with.  Announcements of events or actions are welcome!

II.  Legislative and public policy updates:  10:30 am

Maine Equal Justice will update us on:

• State supplemental budget;
• Bad General Assistance bill; and
• Other legislation.

Share information on legislation that you are working on.

III.  MAIN Leadership Team:  11:30 am 

Report on MAIN 2012 Outreach & Action Campaign:

• Outreach to members on legislative & organizational work including Working Retreat on May 10th;
• MAIN testifies against bad General Assistance proposals in budget;
• MAIN leader, Tammy Trask, speaks at Rally for Human Needs organized by OCCUPY and Bring Our War Dollars Home;
• Voter registration and education:  Working with our allies!

Maine People’s Alliance, a MAIN member organization, will talk about ways that MAIN and MAIN members can work with their campaign to register and educate voters.

Be an educated voter!  We'll take 10 minutes to create a list of questions that MAIN members can ask candidates for public office.  Bring your questions to add to the list!  For examples:

o   Do you support funding MaineCare for low-wage working parents and very poor childless adults? 

o   Do you support funding child care subsidies for low-wage working parents?

• Join in the fun and action by taking on a simple task!

No regular MAIN meeting will be held in May.  See May 10th Working Retreat below.

Announcements

• MAIN Facebook page
• with personal stories.  Please “like” and add comments.  Go to MAIN’s website, and click on “Facebook page”. 
• MAIN contact info: contact.main.teamATgmail.com; 207-370-5554
• MAY 10^th – MAIN Working Retreat – 10:00 to 4:00 – Augusta.  Want to attend? Contact MAIN leaders.  
• Next MAIN meeting - Thursday, June 14th, 10:00 to 12:30 at MEJP.    If you have an item that you want discussed at the June meeting, contact the MAIN leaders as soon as possible.