Thank you so much to everyone who joined us today! We are doing another “Spring Forward” webinar next Wednesday about opting out of Trump’s regressive corporate tax cuts. Learn more and RSVP here.
Watch last night’s event here:
Find Laura Rotolo’s slides here.
Some links Laura mentioned:
- https://www.nokings.org/
- https://www.lucemass.org/
- For interest in working with the ACLU on local issues, reach out to municipal@aclum.org.
PROTECT Act Hearing (3/18)
- The Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security will hold a public hearing on the PROTECT Act (H.5158) on Wednesday, March 18th, from 9:00 AM–12:00 PM, in Hearing Room A-2 at the State House and virtually (hybrid).
- To testify (in-person or virtually): Register here. To submit written testimony: Email JointCmte-PublicSafety@malegislature.gov and reference H. 5158 in the subject line.
- Fact sheet on the bill; testimony guidance from the Protecting Massachusetts Communities coalition
- Next Wednesday is also Immigrants’ Day at the State House.
Email Your Legislators / Gov. Healey
- Legislature: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ma-needs-to-rein-in-ice-terrorism/
- Healey: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-gov-healey-no-collaboration-with-ice/
Call Your Legislators
- Find your legislators’ numbers at https://scorecard.progressivemass.com/.
- Quick phone script: “Please take urgent action to protect Massachusetts communities from ICE. We need to join other states in banning 287(g) collaboration agreements that deputize state and local law enforcement as ICE and ban informal collaboration between state and local law enforcement and ICE.”
Call Gov. Healey
- Phone Number: (617) 725-4005 (only available 9 to 5)
- Quick phone script: “Please tell Gov. Healey MA needs to stop collaborating with ICE. I appreciated that she signed an executive order to ban new 287(g) agreements with state agencies, but we need to ban all such agreements, including the existing one with the Department of Correction.”
