We really wanted to come together and get all the folks from these communities talking to each other.

We are trying to raise awareness. We have been networking with grass-roots organizations across the state. This is one part of a huge problem facing the state of Maine.

We have tried every other path and decided something more dramatic and vocal and visible was needed to raise public awareness of what the bill is really about.

Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.

This tends to create a self-fulfilling prophecy.