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>Zorro ranch while he was in Albuquerque?
Maine Commies playing word games to try and avoid defunding by Potus
UMaine Caches “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” DEI Office with Name-Change
Seamus OthotBy Seamus OthotMarch 19, 2025Updated:March 19, 202516 Comments4 Mins Read2K Views
As Maine faces a potentially substantial loss of federal education funding for refusing to comply with one of President Donald Trump’s executive orders, the University of Maine has quietly changed the name of its Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI) in an attempt to avoid a funding loss.
On January 20, President Trump signed an executive order aimed at halting federally-funded Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
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“My words to people are ‘Try not focusing so much on the words, and focus on the work.’ That is not changing,” said UMaine Interim Dean of Students Andrea Gifford addressing students.
The taxpayer-funded school rebranded its ODI to the new “Office of Community and Culture” (OCC) on March 5, in response to President Trump’s executive orders calling for an end to discriminatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies in schools, according to the student newspaper Maine Campus.
According to an email sent by the school’s Student Life, and reviewed by the student paper, the OCC is presented as though it is an entirely new initiative rather than simply a name change of the ODI.
“The Division of Student Life is pleased to announce the launch of the Office of Community and Connections (OCC), a new initiative designed to broaden and integrate essential resources for members of the UMaine and UMaine Machias communities,” said the student life email.
Despite that suggestion, the OCC appears to remain largely the same as its previous incarnation, maintaining the Rainbow Resource Center, the Intersectional Feminist Resource Center, and the Multicultural Student Center.
In addition to maintaining the same resource centers, the “new” office largely has the same staff as the ODI and is headed by the same woman, Anila Karunakar.
The primary difference between the old and new versions of the office appears to be a slight change in phrasing, moving away from language that references specific groups in a way that could be seen as discrimination posing as “equity.”
The old description of the multicultural community center claimed that it would provide “a community that embraces diverse backgrounds and appreciates the intersection of multiple cultural identities.”
That language has been replaced with the very similar claim that it will provide “a community that embraces all backgrounds and appreciates all identities,” in an apparent attempt to make it appear that the center is not discriminating on the basis of race, gender, or sexual orientation.
The Rainbow Resource Center underwent a similar transformation.
The old version reads: “The Rainbow Resource Center (RRC) empowers and increases the visibility of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) people by promoting equality and inclusiveness at the University of Maine. The RRC strives to maintain an open, safe, and supportive environment for all students, staff, faculty, and alumni and provide educational opportunities, information, and advocacy services.”
The updated OCC says: “The Rainbow Resource Center (RRC) strives to maintain an open, affirming, and supportive environment for students, staff, faculty, and alumni and provide educational opportunities, information, and advocacy services.”
Nothing on the new page indicates that there will be any substantial change in how the office operates or how it conducts its activities. The updated site did, however, remove its link to a page for reporting bias incidents.
Providing more evidence that the change is just a token shift to avoid drawing attention from the Trump Administration, Interim Dean of Students Andrea Gifford essentially admitted that there will be no substantial change during a March 6 address explaining the change to students, as reported by the Maine Campus.
She admitted that the office has only changed its wording, and that its day-to-day operations, along with its overall purpose and mission, remain the same.
>Maine Commies playing word games to try and avoid defunding by Potus
“The Division of Student Life is pleased to announce thelaunch of the Office of Community and Connections (OCC), a new initiative designed to broaden and integrate essential resources for members of the UMaine and UMaine Machias communities,
“The three lounge areas that we have that are student lounges in the Union, their names have not changed, their purpose has not changed. The office, and the staff and the students that are dedicated to working there, their day-to-day work has not changed,” said Gifford.
She claimed that the school had been considering changes to its diversity office even before Trump won the election but admitted that his orders influenced the decision.
It remains to be seen whether UMaine’s gambit will deflect the scrutiny of the Trump Administration. The Maine Department of Education and the Maine Principals’ Association have already been found to be in violation of Title IX anti-discrimination rules.
The administration appears intent on continuing its efforts until it can root out Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices across Maine, leaving a very real possibility that UMaine’s recently renamed OCC could prompt its own investigation.
https://www.themainewire.com/2025/03/umaine-caches-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei-office-with-name-change/
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Tesla Incitement Protests being organized by college professor??
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>Tesla Incitement Protests being organized by college professor??
>Down with Musk, DOGE, and Tesla!
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Waterville protesters target Elon Musk at Tesla charging station
Amy Calder, Morning Sentinel, Waterville, Maine
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Feb. 5—WATERVILLE — About 15 people stood in frigid temperatures Wednesday at one of the city's busiest intersections to protest the government granting the Department of Government Efficiency access to the computer system of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. DOGE, as the department is called, is led by tech billionaire and Tesla owner Elon Musk.
The protesters, set up next to a Tesla charging station at the entrance to Elm Plaza off Main Street, carried signs with messages including "Democracy, not Dictators," and "Arrest Musk."
Beth Schiller of Waterville said she fears for the country since Musk, whom President Donald Trump named to lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, sent people into offices to access basic computer systems of the federal government. That data includes Americans' Social Security numbers, banking information, tax payments and other documents. DOGE is tasked with finding wasteful government spending.
"It makes no sense to have an unelected billionaire, the richest man in the world and the greediest man in the world, Elon Musk, running the payment system of our treasury," said Schiller, 68. "He has no authority or qualifications for doing that. It's completely illegal and it removes Congress from having the financial control that is constitutionally theirs."
Schiller's fears and concerns include those for her family, she said.
"My niece works for USAID in Washington and her husband works for the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, both of which are being wiped out, it seems," Schiller said.
She was referring to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which provides humanitarian assistance across the globe and has been targeted for elimination by Musk.
Protest organizer Elizabeth Leonard, 68, of Waterville, was holding a sign that said, "Senators! What are you doing now to stop the coup and restore the constitution, democracy and rule of law?"
An author, historian and professor emeritus of history at Colby College, Leonard said Musk's actions essentially amount to a coup against the government by someone who has no legal right to take it over. And Musk's actions are being allowed, according to Leonard.
"Any American who cares about the government, their privacy, their standing, their future, blackmail — they should be standing up against this unelected, unvetted monster," she said.
Retired teacher Linda Woods, 73, of Waterville, said she is concerned for people on the margins who are severely impacted by Trump and Musk's actions.
"I thought our country was more humane, and watching this government is scary," Woods said. "We have a clear path of checks and balances that's not being followed. One person is coming in with his buddy and taking over."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/waterville-protesters-target-elon-musk-045900539.html
>Tesla Incitement Protests being organized by college professor??
>Down with Musk, DOGE, and Tesla!
>An author, historian and professor emeritus of history at Colby College, Leonard said Musk's actions essentially amount to a coup against the government by someone who has no legal right to take it over. And Musk's actions are being allowed, according to Leonard.
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Support pours in for Maine bookstore’s drag queen story hour after mayor’s attack
Cara DeRose May 15, 2019
Community members are pushing back against hateful rhetoric targeting Children’s Book Cellar, a locally owned bookstore in Waterville, which in partnership with Central Maine Pride is holding a Drag Story Hour intended to celebrate gender diversity in the state.
Elizabeth Leonard, who’s been a Waterville resident for over 30 years and often brought her own kids to Children’s Book Cellar,is organizing a rally on June 1, hoping to drown out a protest of the inclusive story hour by anti-LGBTQ activists, who say it’s a form of “indoctrination.”
Currently the pro-bookstore event has eight times as many planned attendees on Facebook.
“My own kids had a variety of role models in their regular lives to figure out who they were,” Leonard told Beacon. “I think they would be delighted to know now that this story hour is happening in Waterville, even though they don’t live here anymore, and would certainly come out in support.”
Drag Queen Story Hour was first established in 2015 by San Francisco author Michelle Tea, who organized the event after noticing the lack of diverse readers at the story times she brought her son to.
Designed to show children that sexuality and gender expression are not necessarily set in stone, hundreds of Drag Story Hours have taken place across the country, including one held in Portland in 2017, one in Lewiston in 2018, and another scheduled for June 1 in South Portland.
Support for the Waterville event grew after the town’s mayor, Nick Isgro, who has a history of bigoted statements and social media posts, claimed the story hour is an attempt at “scandalizing the children in our community.”
https://mainebeacon.com/support-pours-in-for-maine-bookstores-drag-queen-story-hour-after-mayors-attack/
>Tesla Incitement Protests being organized by college professor??
bitch apparently started it along with fat pig Joan Donovan.
How a BU professor helped spark nationwide Tesla protests
‘Take a few friends to a Tesla dealership,’ Joan Donovan wrote in a social media post
By Aaron Pressman Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2025, 2:27 p.m.
Protesters outside a Tesla dealership at the Prudential Center earlier this month.
Protesters outside a Tesla dealership at the Prudential Center earlier this month.Joan Donovan
Disinformation researcher and Boston University professor Joan Donovan wasreading the news a few weeks ago when she came across the story of a grassroots protest at a Tesla charging station in Waterville, Maine.
About 15 people had gathered to show their opposition to Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s efforts on behalf of the Trump administration to slash staffing at federal agencies without first seeking congressional approval. The protesters carried signs reading, “Democracy, not dictators,” and, “Arrest Musk,” according to a report in the Waterville Morning Sentinel that Donovan saw.
The anti-Musk protest that frozen morning in Maine had been organized by another scholar —Colby emeritus history professor Elizabeth Leonard. “I was thinking it would be good to do something making it clear there’s a problem with this person being in our government and doing all this mischief,” Leonard told the Globe on Tuesday. “I said to a friend, ‘It’s kind of a shame we don’t have a Tesla dealership here,’ and she said, ‘We do have a charging station.’”
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Donovan, who had been growing increasingly concerned about the Trump administration, said the idea of using a Tesla backdrop to protest Musk appealed to her, and so she decided to organize a similar action in Boston.
“Get inspired by these folks in Maine,” she wrote in a late evening Feb. 8 post on the social network Bluesky. “Take a few friends to a Tesla dealership and picket on the sidewalk. All social change starts small and snowballs over time.”
The post took off and in follow-up posts, Donovan added a flyer promoting a picket line on Feb. 15 at Tesla’s Back Bay showroom and coining the hashtag #TeslaTakeover. She also cited the inspiration of the successful 2014 consumer boycott of supermarket chain Market Basket over the treatment of workers.
The posts got the attention of film director and activist Alex Winter, who has more than 170,000 followers on Bluesky. He contacted Donovan, and with her approval, started spreading the message to a wider audience and building online tools to organize more protests. Winter’s site — teslatakedown.com — currently lists about 60 upcoming protests at Tesla facilities from California to Florida and even spreading abroad to London and Lisbon, Portugal.
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.
Musk’s high-profile advocacy for Trump’s policies and his extreme political posts on X, the social network he owns, have already been hurting Tesla sales, analysts said. Last week, Musk stirred more controversy by vowing to fire federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished.
Sales of Tesla vehicles dropped 45 percent in Europe in January, even as sales of all brands of electric cars jumped 37 percent, according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers Association. Data are not available for the US market yet.
But in the United States, the problem for Tesla is that Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to buy an electric vehicle, according to analyst Stephen Gengaro at brokerage firm Stifel. Tesla’s favorability rating among consumers is close to an all-time low in survey data going back to 2018, Gengaro noted in a report this month.
And Tesla’s stock price has dropped more than 25 percent over the past month, amid growing concern over the company’s sales slump. Tesla automotive sales declined 8 percent in the fourth quarter and operating income dropped 23 percent.
Donovan said she will be out protesting again on Saturday.
“It was important to me to show federal workers that the rest of us are paying attention,” said Donovan, who works at Boston University but said she is protesting as a private citizen. “The grievances really do come through at the protests, where people share information about what is happening in Gaza, Ukraine, to the rights of LGBTQ people, the rollback of civil rights in the form of policies against DEI, and so much more.”
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>How a BU professor helped spark nationwide Tesla protests
of course she does.
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>>22789393 Tesla Takedown organzing call on Wed Mar 19
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>>22789414 Jasmine Crocket involved
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>>22789532 Fake News shilling for Valeria Costa
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>>22789681 Here are the five radical leftist groups protesting Elon Musk – one of which received $7.6M from George Soros
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>>22794469, >>22794581 Jasmine Crockett Sick Birthday Wish: “All I Want On My Birthday is for Elon to be Taken Down!”
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>>22794671, >>22794654 SLC vandalism lead Tesla stores, vehicles and chargers face continued vandalism and protests
>>22794723, >>22795041, >>22795050, >>22795069 Laura recorded the Tesla Takedown event yesterday.
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>>22795277 TeslaTakeDown Boston Organizer Paula Oakes
>>22795283 A live visit with our Principal Trumpet, Dana Oakes, and his wife Paula Oakes, our Principal Second Violin, from their home in Maine
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>>22794581 ASTROTURF: Rep Jasmine Crockett is working with the Soros-backed paid protest group 'Indivisible' to organize canned protests at Tesla stores across the US. Here the Democrat congresswoman is asking for Elon to be 'taken down' for her birthday.
>>22799682 Tesla Incitement Protests being organized by college professor Elizabeth Leonard.Down with Musk, DOGE, and Tesla!
>>22799694 Protest organizer Elizabeth Leonard, 68, of Waterville. An author, historian and professor emeritus of history at Colby College. Schiller shilling for USAID cuz his niece works there
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>>22799749 Joan Donovan wasreading the news a few weeks ago when she came across the story of a grassroots protest at a Tesla charging station in Waterville, Maine.
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