Events

Progressive Needham Social Sunday, January 26th at 4 pm to kick off the new 2025-26 legislative session with pizza and drinks.  The focus will be on socializing with a dose of current policy initiatives involving affordable housing, reproductive healthcare, climate, immigration and more.  Have a social justice issue you are working on?  Come and tell […]

FreeHer 2025 Campaign Kickoff  Monday, January 27 @ 6 pm  The kickoff will feature Families for Justice as Healing’s legislative partners Senator Comerford and Representative Tyler, our organizational partners Jane Doe Inc. and T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human rights, FJaH members recently released from MCI-Framingham, and FJaH’s Shifters leading Reimagining Communities work on the […]

Progressive West Roxbury / Roslindale Community Meeting with Councilor Weber & Councilor Pepén's chief of staff   We'll meet with City Councilor Ben Weber and Dianna Bronchuck, Councilor Pepén's Chief of Staff, about how Boston can deal with upcoming challenges from the state and especially the federal government. What might we need to block, build, […]

Progressive Mass 2025 Annual Member Meeting Join us for our 2025 annual member meeting! We'll be talking about our legislative agenda for the new legislative session and how to take action. Stay tuned for information about speakers, breakout sessions, and more.

MEJA Education Budget Update On February 3rd, MEJA and MassBudget will host a K-12 education budget update and conversation via Zoom. MassBudget will share about the State budget, and MEJA and our partners will facilitate smaller breakout discussions connecting the State budget to key local budgets. Register here! → bit.ly/edbudgetwinter24

Clean Slate Legislative Briefing and Afternoon of Advocacy  Wednesday, February 5 @ 10 am  Clean Slate MA is a statewide coalition working to pass state legislation that will require automated CORI sealing when individuals become eligible. RSVP here. 

Visitation Bill - Legislative Launch Event Keeping Families Connected (the No Cost Calls champions) would like to invite you, your directly impacted friends and family, and your organization (if you are part of an organization) to an online community meeting about a bill filed again this year, which if passed could improve visitation with people […]

Keep Families Connected Lobby Day Join the Keep Families Connected Coalition in asking legislators to co-sponsor legislation to improve visits in prisons, jails, and ICE detention units. If you are able, bring Valentine's Day cards for your Rep and Senator asking them to co-sponsor the bill. RSVP here.

FreeHer MA State House Galentine's Day Rally Join Families for Justice as Healing for their annual rally to send love to incarcerated women and advocate for their legislative priorities at the Massachusetts State House. Galentine's Day, the day before Valentine's Day, has become a celebration of women in leadership in the Massachusetts state government, and […]

Stop the Coup: Our Love is Resistance Friday, Feb. 14th - 12pm Location: Bandstand, Boston Common RSVP, INFO CLICK HERE Invite your congregation/local groups to Co-Sponsor the event: Fill out this form We are showing up together to Stop the Coup. We aim to demonstrate our resistance, root our movement in love for justice, and be […]

Transparency Action Hour Voters have said on the ballot countless times that they want to see a more transparent State Legislature, and we know that the top-down, closed-door nature of policymaking empowers the large corporations and special interests that can get their way in, leaving the rest of us out. Senate President Karen Spilka and […]

Let's Make Polluters Pay! An Actionar (Virtual) Join the Massachusetts Campaign to Make Polluters Pay! We're soft-launching our 2025-2026 campaign with an Actionar. Join us to learn about the campaign for a Climate Superfund, how it will help your community, and how YOU can make it a reality. The Make Polluters Pay Bill - HD. […]

IDSH 2025: Immigrant Rights Conference Preparing for Action: Join MIRA for our Immigrant Rights Conference on Tuesday, March 18, 2025! The conference is aimed at preparing our community and coalition members to advocate for our legislative priorities at Immigrants’ Day at the State House (IDSH) the following day. We will be providing an overview of […]

Progressive Mass Activist Afternoons: 2/23 Join Progressive Mass as we kick off a series of Activist Afternoons phone banks. Each week, we will be calling voters about important progressive legislation and encouraging them to contact their state legislators. This week, our focus will be on the Corporate Fair Share bill, which would make large global […]

Care, Not Cuts Rally Join patients, families, and workers at the State House To tell elected officials that you: OPPOSE closing Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children OPPOSE closing Pocasset Mental Health Center OPPOSE reducing DMH Case Managers by 50% OPPOSE raising healthcare costs for state workers and retirees Following the rally, we will head into […]