
Maine Youth Justice Rally In Augusta To Close Long Creek Juvenile Detention Center
Today in Augusta two demonstrations were held by the organization Maine Youth Justice. The first of these demo...

People Power And The Affordable Housing Crisis
Growing up working in my family’s property management business I have watched not just the homeless popu...

An Eventful Day At The Capital
Each week I volunteer on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Maine People’s Alliance to speak with representativ...

Rally and Street Theater at Holyoke City Hall Demands New England Grid Operator Stop Subsidizing Coal
Holyoke, MA (January 29, 2020) – As awareness of the climate emergency continues to grow, the campaign...

Portland’s Women’s March Hosts Many Inspiring Speakers
Last weekend Portland held its annual women’s march. Over one hundred people congregated in Monument Squ...

The Weymouth Compressor Should Be Of Regional Concern
As someone who has been very involved in the campaign to close the coal-fired generating plant in Bow, New Ham...

The Bow 69 Interviews: Jay O’Hara
In 2013, when Jay O’Hara blockaded the largest coal plant on the East Coast in 2013, he did so as an act of fa...

The Risks Of 5G Technology May Outweigh The Benefits
Around the world, many cities are demanding that the installation of 5g cellphone towers be paused. Residents...

Portland City Council Hears Testimony On Several Local Issues
Homeless Voices For Justice holds a vigil before the meeting: Monday, November 18 was an eventful night for Po...

Its time we talk about Fluoride…
One of the reasons so many people across the nation say “water is life” is because without it life...

Opioid Response Summit
By: Lizzy Handschy, Co-Executive Director Portland Overdose Prevention Society On Monday, July 15th over one t...

What propels an atrocity? Silence.
By Kelly Merrill Some of the issues I work on as an activist and journalist need to be unpacked before the mes...

Convert War $$ to Green New Deal
By Kelly Merrill Twenty-two people were arrested on June 22nd at a protest calling for the conversion of Bath...

Where is the Shelter Relocation Going?
By Zack Barowitz One thing that everyone can agree upon is that the Oxford Street Emergency Shelter is overcro...

The Democrats are Also Climate Change Deniers
The Portland Phoenix made an excellent selection with their “Tweet of the Week,” for the Feb. 28, 2019 issue....

Trump’s New Cold War
by Adam Marletta Trump is afraid of the socialist movement. He should be. A scourge is haunting the Trump Whit...

Pets!
“The history of domestication is interesting because it changed human history. The domestication of animals wa...

Enough is Enough…
Authorized by Title XIX of the Social Security Act, Medicaid was signed into law in 1965 alongside Medicare. A...

Corporate Media: The Real Enemy of the People
By Adam Marletta On Aug. 16, 350 daily newspapers banded together to denounce Donald Trump’s ongoing wa...

All Out to Oppose Brett Kavanaugh and a Feminist Dystopia
By Adam Marletta Regular readers of this column do not need me to tell them that Brett Kavanaugh, Donal...

The Socialist Insurgent: Three Takeaways from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Primary Victory
by Adam Marletta Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent defeat of ten-term Democratic Party establishment in...

Roundup Ready
At Monsanto, corporate responsibility is embedded in our values, which guides our path to helping make farming...

It is Happening Here: Reunite Families, Deport Trump
By Adam Marletta My mother developed polio as a child. It left her paralyzed from the waist down. She i...

Chamber Has It Wrong on Paid Sick Time
By Tony Zeli, Publisher & Editor It’s time to set the record straight. In a May 21st special to the Press...

Solidarity with Palestine
by Adam Marletta Israel’s May 14 assault on peaceful Palestinian protesters is the latest escalat...

Keeping it all together.
Christian L. Torp is an attorney, missionary, activist, urban-farmer, master gardener, foster parent and advoc...

You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him less stupid.
THE AMOS FARM You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him less stupid. Forced to choose between limi...

A Win for Labor in “Trump Country”
By Adam Marletta The successful teachers strike in West Virginia that resulted in a five percent pay in...

Ain’t nothing but a dog.
The Amos Farm by Christian Torp Christian L. Torp is an attorney, missionary, activist, urban-farmer, Extensio...

Tilting at Russian Windmills
By Adam Marletta If the left is serious about resisting not just Donald Trump, but the entire racist, m...

… As the War Machine Keeps Turning
By Adam Marletta The latest round of Congressional budget negotiations — which seem to have become a routine f...

The Perils of Ultra-Leftism
By Adam Marletta Last weekend’s Women’s Marches, while nowhere near the size and magnitude of la...

Notes From a S!#@hole Country
By Adam Marletta One year into Donald Trump’s nightmarish presidency the United States governmen...

Rats!!!
The Amos Farm by Christian Torp RATS! DISCLAIMER: Nothing in this article is to be taken as a potential solut...



































By Adam Marletta On Aug. 16, 350 daily newspapers banded together to denounce Donald Trump’s ongoing war on the press, which he has derided as perpetuating “fake news,” and as the “en... Read more
By Adam Marletta Regular readers of this column do not need me to tell them that Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, would be an appalling disaster for wome... Read more
by Adam Marletta Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent defeat of ten-term Democratic Party establishment insider, Joseph Crowley in the New York Democratic primary for the 14th district i... Read more
At Monsanto, corporate responsibility is embedded in our values, which guides our path to helping make farming more sustainable through modern agriculture innovations and practices. Pam Stri... Read more
By Adam Marletta My mother developed polio as a child. It left her paralyzed from the waist down. She is one of the few remaining polio survivors still alive. She often reflects on ho... Read more
By Tony Zeli, Publisher & Editor It’s time to set the record straight. In a May 21st special to the Press Herald, “Portland mayor’s divisive politics bode ill for businesses,” Portland R... Read more
by Adam Marletta Israel’s May 14 assault on peaceful Palestinian protesters is the latest escalation of its 70-year long campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. While American and... Read more
Christian L. Torp is an attorney, missionary, activist, urban-farmer, master gardener, foster parent and advocate for social change who lives at Justice House (facebook: Justice House) with... Read more
THE AMOS FARM You can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him less stupid. Forced to choose between limiting population or trying to increase food production, we chose the latter and e... Read more
By Adam Marletta The successful teachers strike in West Virginia that resulted in a five percent pay increase for all of the state’s public workers is a major victory for the labor mo... Read more
We Need Public Funding for Cultured Meat Research
By Jon Hochschartner Jon Hochschartner is the author of a number of books about animal-rights history. He thin...