PUBLIC AWARENESS
Public Downtown Marches
Finding Our Voices is getting louder by the day about the outrages around domestic violence including bailing out and releasing early from prison and jail the most dangerous members of our society. Look for us and join us in a Maine downtown hear YOU in 2025!
“Thank you for being the voice of the voiceless.” — resident of Sanford the evening of our our January 9 morning march in that town.
Sanford – January 9, 2025
Survivors gathered at a Finding Our Voices march in January 9 in the town whose newly-elected legislator Rep. Lucas Lanigan stands indicted for strangling his wife.
Read more at Seacoastonline.com.
Bangor – October 1, 2024
Our Bangor rally was in response to the strangling murder of 39-year-old mom Virginia Cookson, allegedly by Richard Thorpe who had been released early from prison seven months earlier on his sentence for almost killing his ex-wife.
Watch the WABI.TV coverage here.
Read the Bangor Daily News article here.
Posters
Your campaign stopped me dead in my tracks…I saw your posters in Belfast and for the first time truly recognized the abuse I endured. Thank you for validating my experience – I can’t tell you how much that acknowledgement meant to me.
Our groundbreaking posters feature named, Maine survivors of domestic abuse aged 18 to 85. In downtown business windows and public bathrooms in more than 100 Maine towns, they let women still trapped in domestic abuse know 'You are not alone' and ‘this is a pattern’, while alert and educating the public about how domestic abuse is all around them, and can happen to anyone.
As you travel across Maine, how many of us can you see and hear?
Bookmarks
Pocket-size versions of our posters with the part of the survivor’s customized Power and Control Wheel on the back!
High School Librarian Iris Eichenlaub
Old Town Police Chief Scott Wilcox
AIO is one of 30 food pantries distributing our bookmarks.
Nikki Maonis of the Camden Public Library said the first YES! to our bookmarks in 2020.
Let’s Talk About It Tour
Our “Let’s Talk About It” tour of survivors leading community conversations launched in the Scarborough Public Library in October 2022, and brought us to 60 towns since then. 2024 brought us to 20 communities, including three remote islands with Seacosast Mission, and at the Maine Irish Heritage Center in Portland, Botanical Gardens of Boothbay, and Community Center of Eastport. Look for us getting even louder across Maine in 2025.
Maine Irish Heritage Center
October, 2024
Blue Hill Library
May, 2024
More videos on the Finding Our Voices You Tube Channel
MORE SURVIVOR VOICES
Laura and Amanda, victims of Corey Faulkner, break their silence in a conversation with Patrisha.
Patrisha McLean with Amanda Close and Laura Biscula. Amanda needs to co-parent with domestic violence felon. Laura is the mother of Mikayla, who was Corey’s wife when she killed herself, and maintains that the system in Maine is showing preference to this domestic felon over her in regards to the safety of her grandson.
“Thank you again for making us feel safe while uplifting our voices. My gratitude is beyond words.” — Laura Biscula
Misogyny in Music
Misogyny runs through the Great American Songbook from the first page, and here is a shocking, infuriating selection in four hour-long radio programs put together by Resa Randolph. Resa is singer/songwriter who hosts The Orange Blossom Special bluegrass show on Belfast Community Radio