MCAN launched a bold campaign for immigration justice to proclaim that No One Stands Alone. Our tactics include: 1) Accompaniment – including attending ICE appointments with immigrants, raising money for bail to get the family -members out of detent...
Continue ReadingFight for $15: This campaign for $15/hr for employees of big box retail and fast food chains is both a legislative campaign and a “street heat” campaign directed at low-wage employers. We are working closely with labor unions and community groups in R...
Continue ReadingThe incarceration rate in MA has tripled since the 1980’s, now on par with Kazakhstan. Our prisons are filled with those suffering from drug addiction or trauma, serving long sentences that ignore the underlying problem. We have been working on this iss...
Continue ReadingAbout the Fair Share Campaign To help working families and build a stronger economy for all of us, we need good public schools for our children, affordable higher education and a transportation system that gets people to work and customers to businesses. ...
Continue ReadingMassachusetts Safe Communities Act The Safe Communities Act would protect the civil rights of all state residents by making sure our tax dollars are not used to help the Trump administration deport immigrant families or to create a Muslim registry. Summar...
Continue ReadingFACTS — 43% of Inmates in ESSEX COUNTY Jails have not been convicted of any crime (about 450 people) On February 16th, ECCO led a criminal justice reform meeting addressing a range of issues affecting Massachusetts on a state-level. This meeting...
Continue ReadingTrain up a child in the way he/she should; even when they are old they will not depart from it ~Proverbs 22:6 On Thursday, February 23rd, the Youth Jobs Coalition/I have a future organization held a rally in Boston where 800 youth activists from a...
Continue ReadingTHE RED DOT RESISTANCE On February 23rd, MCAN Organizer Danielle Williams hosted a Roxbury watch party where area residents got together to view a segment of the critically acclaimed Ava Duvernay film, “the 13th.” After, the segment was played parti...
Continue ReadingBILL: (S. 791) Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz | (H.2308) Rep. Mary S. Keefe (There is) ” No one policy change alone that would right the wrongs that have been done to our residents, to our high-crime neighborhoods, to our taxpayers, by a failing systemR...
Continue ReadingLeave | Fair Share Amendment | Fight for $15 Paid Leave: BILL# H.2172 – Rep. Ken Gordon | BILL# S.1048 – Sen. Karen Spilka Fair Share Amendment: RaiseUp Massachusetts | Fact Sheet Fight for $15: BILL# H.2365 – Rep. Dan Donahue ...
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