New Mainers Alliance Aims to Get Out Immigrant, Refugee Vote

Maine Public | By Fred Bever

Published September 29, 2016 at 5:15 PM EDT

Immigrant and refugee groups from around Maine are banding together to form a coalition that aims to get out the community’s vote, and to lobby at the local and state level.

Somali, Iraqi, Congolese and several other community organizations are part of the New Mainers Alliance, which was announced at Portland’s City Hall Thursday.

Alliance Chairman Abdifatah Ahmed, a pharmacist who emigrated from Somalia 25 years ago, spoke about how the alliance will achieve its goals.

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Fred Bever

A Columbia University graduate, Fred began his journalism career as a print reporter in Vermont, then came to Maine Public in 2001 as its political reporter, as well as serving as a host for a variety of Maine Public Radio and Maine Public Television programs. Fred later went on to become news director for New England Public Radio in Western Massachusetts and worked as a freelancer for National Public Radio and a number of regional public radio stations, including WBUR in Boston and NHPR in New Hampshire.

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