If you’re able, we invite you to make a donation to the Next Step Fund today. As a thank you, we’ll send you a 3-pack of greeting cards that helps to spread our message: all people deserve housing, healthcare, food, dignity and more.
Donate here: https://maineequaljustice.org/donate/merch/ (4/4)

This fall, we are raising funds to have enough to go around; not only to address increasing financial emergencies, but also to better compensate for historically undervalued expertise and contributions to social change work. We’re inviting people that support our work to help us do this! (3/4)

At MEJ we are always looking for ways to better support community leaders who volunteer their time to make Maine a better place. One way we do this is by providing direct cash through the Next Step Fund to 15 leaders who are deeply engaged in advocacy work with us. (2/4)

"Our message to elected leaders, state and federal, is simple: stand strong for health care, food, housing, and other essentials Maine people need. The wealthy and corporations don’t need any more champions. Better yet–reset the board so everyone can win." (4/4)

"...like fighting the release of SNAP benefits in court or cutting federal jobs and funds Congress approved in the past. People are asking us: if SNAP could be threatened–what else isn’t safe? We’re painfully aware that more deep cuts to Medicaid and SNAP are on the horizon thanks to H.R. 1." (3/4)

It’s no small relief to see the end of this chaotic round of the federal budget fight. But many of us in ME are angry and uneasy. The system is in so many ways rigged to reward the wealthy and corporations, and Republican leaders and the Trump administration are pushing more unfair changes..."(2/4)

For more about SNAP, see our food security site: https://maineequaljustice.org/help-is-available/food-security/

Doctors like Garrett know the SNAP disruption is having terrible consequences for Mainers.
⚠️ Email your state legislators to support "All Hands on Deck for SNAP": https://vist.ly/4d752 (2/2)

Please keep calling Senator Collins and King to ask them to apply pressure to the USDA to immediately release SNAP contingency funds so Mainers can afford their groceries next month: https://maineequaljustice.org/get-involved/take-action/

☎️ Can you take action to support SNAP today?? CALL Senator Collins and Senator King to ask for their support to "release contingency funds and ensure Mainers get their full SNAP benefit in November." https://maineequaljustice.org/get-involved/take-action/