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Categories Archives: Current Campaigns

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Aug15

Sanctuary and Solidarity Network for Immigration Justice

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  • Current Campaigns, Sanctuary and Solidarity Network for Immigration Justice

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...

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Aug16

Other Economic Justice Issues

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  • Current Campaigns

Fight 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...

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Aug16

Ending Mass Incarceration

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  • Current Campaigns, Ending Mass Incarceration

The 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...

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Sep16

Fair Share Campaign

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  • Current Campaigns, Progressive Revenue

About 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. ...

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Jan30

Safe Communities Act (#No.Ban.No.Wall)

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  • BIC, Current Campaigns, ECCO, Featured, MCAN, News & Updates, PVP

Massachusetts 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...

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Feb16

A Response to the “Criminal Justice Reform” suggested by Massachusetts

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  • ECCO, Ending Mass Incarceration, Featured, News & Updates

FACTS — 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...

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Mar1

IHAF- Youth Jobs Rally

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  • Current Campaigns, Featured, IHAF, MCAN, News & Updates, YJC

Train 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...

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Mar2

Each Red Dot Represents An Incarcerated Life

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  • Ending Mass Incarceration, Featured, MCAN, News & Updates

THE 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...

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Jun7

The Jobs NOT Jails coalition could not be ignored

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  • BIC, Current Campaigns, ECCO, Ending Mass Incarceration, Featured, MCAN, News & Updates, PVP, UIA, WI, YJC

BILL: (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...

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Aug4

Raise Up Massachusetts aiming to load up ballot

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  • Current Campaigns, ECCO Media, Featured, MCAN, News & Updates

Leave | 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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