Guilty of Crimes Were Maine Companies Judged by Their Peers today

The Message to the State of Maine Was Clear: This is an Emergency.

Luke, 16, of Community Water Justice, Lives in Fryeburg, Spoke on City Hall Steps.

Some of the Students Lying-Down in City Hall Plaza Just After Noon at Climate Change Rally.

Anthony Marvin, an Organizer and Member of Sunrise Portland,, at Rally Today.

Declared guilty by a jury of peers were a number of  Maine companies charged with offenses against the people of Maine at a climate change rally today on the steps of city hall.  Bath Iron Works, Central Maine Power, Monsanto, Nestle and Maine Department of Environmental Protection were among those found guilty of pollution and other crimes against Mainers.   The guilty were led away, blindfolded, by their jailers to serve their sentences.

Following that unusually well planned and impactful drama, about 300 students and adults participated in a ten (10) minute lie down representing the extension of the human race that will occur if government and press do nothing to reverse the current path of self-destruction we are on.

“We are lying here for ten minutes because it represents the ten years we have left,” said Anthony Marvin, an organizer of the rally today. (See below photo).

Among the numerous lead off speakers at the rally asking the state of Maine to declare a state-wide climate emergency, was Luke, 16, of the Community Water Justice, a non-profit working for better stewardship of our groundwater through education, policy and action.  Luke said in part:

“Poland Spring bottled water…owned by Nestle,…is taking the water from our aquifiers out of our ecosystem to not only expand their profits, but create a dependency on their brand with little benefit to our communities.”

“The manufacturing of billions of plastic bottles that don’t get recycled while inflating the price by 1,000 times to sell back to us and others across the country, is a scam we can’t afford to support.

“…Nestle is using the same tactics of misleading the public, manipulating their way into government, and making empty promises to communities they see as prospects.  How we treat water is how we show respect for life…what does it say about our culture?”, Luke added.

“This strike is the kick-off for the effort to have Maine declare a climate emergency in the state,” said Anna Siegel, an area leader in the youth movement for climate change.

Today’s rally was part of a young people’s rally around the globe to call upon the political and media establishment to take action on the greatest existential threat of our time.

The rally was hosted by a number of non-profits including:  Maine Youth Climate Strikers, Maine Youth for Climate Justice, Sunrise Portland, Community Water Justice and Extinction Rebellion Maine.

Please see previous posts herein dated May 29, 2019 and September 20, 2019.