Keywords: Advocacy
Item 112073
Save our Shipyard t-shirt, 2005
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 2005
Location: Portsmouth; Kittery
Media: Cotton, ink
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Item 108741
Maine Lesbian/Gay Political Alliance Pin, Portland, ca. 1994
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1994 Location: Portland Media: Metal
Exhibit
Student Exhibit: Save the Skowhegan Grange & Granges in General
A brief history of the Grange in Skowhegan, its importance to community history, and a plea to save it from destruction.
Exhibit
Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?
Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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Story
Why environmental advocacy is critical for making baskets
by Jennifer Sapiel Neptune
My advocacy work for the Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Story
From Naturalists to Environmentalists
by Andy Beahm
The beginnings of Maine Audubon in the Portland Society of Natural History
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12, Postsecondary
Content Area: Social Studies
This lesson presents an overview of the history of the LGBTQ community in Maine and the U.S., including the ways in which attitudes towards the LGBTQ community have changed over time, some of the ways LGBTQ people have faced discrimination and unfair treatment, and some of the moments in Maine and U.S. history that inspired LGBTQ people and their allies to fight for equality and LGBTQ rights.
