Maine Student Action

Maine Student Action members were honored tonight at the USM Student Leadership Gala as the “Outstanding New Student Organization” for the 2021-2022 school year. Congrats to our members at the University of Southern Maine for your hard work this school year - you deserve this recognition!

Thank you to all who came out to Congress Square Park to . Join us for what’s next: a virtual community conversation on climate - happening May 24 at 6pm. Watch this space for more info.

Sign our petition in support of LD 1838 to prevent Maine colleges and universities from withholding transcripts from students who owe modest debts!

Sign here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-school-administrators-to-support-access-to-diplomas-and-transcripts?source=UNE&

Seen in today’s Portland Press Herald: a piece by our very own Samantha Donley!

Sam shares her own transcript withholding story and calls on our elected officials to pass LD 1838 - which will make it so students and graduates don’t have to jump through as many hoops to access their transcripts or diplomas due to unpaid bills.

Read what Sam has to say here:

Maine Voices: Bill could help college students graduate, ease Maine’s worker shortage By reining in the withholding of transcripts over unpaid bills, L.D. 1838 will let Mainers get their degrees and jobs.

Join us for a week-long online action to raise awareness of the urgent need for more affordable housing in Maine and why we need Gov. Mills and the legislature to act now.

Share a photo online with the hashtag .

Learn more and download our toolkit here: http://bit.ly/20KHomes4ME

Your time is worth a living wage.

Workers at one Maine Dollar General quit with a splash, 'speak truth to power' Three workers at the Dollar General in Eliot, Maine decided this week that they had had enough. They walked off the job together, leaving the store with only one employee. But before they locked up after their last shift on Monday, they tendered their resignations and taped them to the glass door.