So much of 2020 is going to be about Election Day. Over the next 12 months, you are going to be getting a lot of emails from a lot of candidates asking for your time and your money.
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Join a phone bank to take collective action to pass An Act Relative to Work and Family Mobility H.3012 (Farley-Bouvier and Barber) and S.2061 (Crighton) This bill would enable all qualified state residents to apply for a standard Massachusettsdriver’s license, regardless of immigration status, while keeping our Commonwealth in fullcompliance with REAL ID requirements.
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The MTA now has GRAPHICS (sized for Facebook) and FLIERS (downloadable and printable) on the FOF site. These are for all districts, except the 9 who for complicated reasons do not get an increase under the Promise Act.
Read MoreNew England Public Radio, September 5, 2019
As Massachusetts lawmakers continue to debate how to change a 26-year-old school funding formula, one local parent feels there is no time to sit and wait.
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The Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance has spent this past summer asking the question “how long must our students wait for fully funded schools?
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Last week we thought that the Labor Day weekend would be a quiet weekend, however, it turned out that in addition to the Labor Day March and Rally on Monday, the Joint Committee on Transportation scheduled the hearing for the Work and Family Mobility Act (H.3012 and S.2061) on Wednesday, September 4. The coalition on very short notice was able to mobilize more than 800 supporters who packed the hearing room from across Massachusetts to testify and show solidarity and support for the bill.
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Last weekend Jobs with Justice hosted a 3-day training in Auburn, MA. National Jobs with Justice and Massachusetts Jobs With Justice leaders, leared and shared insight on Jobs With Justice coalitions’ experiences, campaigns, and lessons, and broadened our consciousness and practice of being part of a statewide and national network and movement.
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Congressman Lynch finally held a real town hall where constituents were allowed to ask question in Braintree on Thursday.
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Next week, ECCO is doing a Solidarity Walk for Immigrant Justice all week. There's a Work and Family Mobility Phone Bank on Thursday, and on Sunday, it's the Second Anniversary of TPS dinner Sunday evening. In-district Town Halls for Lynch on Thursday and Clark on Wednesday.
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ICE is carrying out immigration raids across the country and has threatened to ramp up coordinated mass raids as a show of force for the Trump Administrations anti-immigrant political agenda and to instill fear in immigrant communities. But immigrant detention facilities are already catastrophically overcrowded due to this administration’s zealous and dangerous priorities. As a result, ICE is planning to use hotels as temporary detention centers for immigrants it detains in upcoming raids.
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