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SUMMARY:Progressive Mass 2025 Annual Member Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Progressive Mass 2025 Annual Member Meeting\nJoin us for our 2025 annual member meeting! \nWe’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.
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/progressive-mass-2025-annual-member-meeting/
LOCATION:DeWitt Hall\, Lasell University\, 80 Maple Street\, Newton\, MA\, 02466
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SUMMARY:MEJA Education Budget Update
DESCRIPTION:MEJA Education Budget Update\nOn 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. \nRegister here! → bit.ly/edbudgetwinter24
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/meja-education-budget-update/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Clean Slate MA Legislative Briefing and Advocacy Afternoon
DESCRIPTION:Clean Slate Legislative Briefing and Afternoon of Advocacy \nWednesday\, February 5 @ 10 am  \nClean Slate MA is a statewide coalition working to pass state legislation that will require automated CORI sealing when individuals become eligible. \nRSVP here. 
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/clean-slate-ma-legislative-briefing-and-advocacy-afternoon/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250210T190000
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SUMMARY:Visitation Bill - Legislative Launch Event
DESCRIPTION:Visitation Bill – Legislative Launch Event\nKeeping 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 behind bars. We’ll talk about the bill\, the road to improving visitation\, and what we can do now. Please share far and wide!
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/visitation-bill-legislative-launch-event/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T120000
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SUMMARY:Keep Families Connected Lobby Day
DESCRIPTION:Keep Families Connected Lobby Day\nJoin 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.
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/keep-families-connected-lobby-day/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250213T130000
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SUMMARY:FreeHer MA State House Galentine's Day Rally
DESCRIPTION:FreeHer MA State House Galentine’s Day Rally\nJoin 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 we are going to remind our leaders that their solidarity must extend to incarcerated women. We do not need a new women’s prison! We need a moratorium on prison construction. We need new ways to let women out of prison and ensure they are not incarcerated in the first place. We need to reimagine our communities so there is less harm and more abundance. \n 
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/freeher-ma-state-house-galentines-day-rally/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250214T143000
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SUMMARY:Stop the Coup: Our Love is Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Stop the Coup: Our Love is Resistance\nFriday\, Feb. 14th – 12pm \nLocation: Bandstand\, Boston Common \nRSVP\, INFO CLICK HERE \nInvite your congregation/local groups to Co-Sponsor the event: Fill out this form \nWe are showing up together to Stop the Coup. We aim to demonstrate our resistance\, root our movement in love for justice\, and be visible and inspiring.
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/stop-the-coup-our-love-is-resistance/
LOCATION:Boston Common Bandstand\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA\, 021111\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250219T203000
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SUMMARY:Transparency Action Hour
DESCRIPTION:Transparency Action Hour\n\nVoters 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. \nSenate President Karen Spilka and Speaker Ron Mariano have both promised to take up rules reform to make for a more transparent and efficient legislative process. Last month\, 30+ organizations laid out a set of pro-transparency\, pro-participation\, pro-democracy reforms that would boost public confidence in the legislative process. \nWith the Senate rules behind us and the House rules being taken up later this month\, where does the campaign stand? Join us for a campaign update and an opportunity to make some calls to make sure that state legislators are hearing from us\, their constituents.
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/transparency-action-hour/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250220T180000
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SUMMARY:Let's Make Polluters Pay! An Actionar (Virtual)
DESCRIPTION:Let’s Make Polluters Pay! An Actionar (Virtual)\nJoin the Massachusetts Campaign to Make Polluters Pay! \nWe’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. \nThe Make Polluters Pay Bill – HD. 3369/SD.1674\, “An Act establishing a climate change superfund” – is a bill in the MA legislature introduced by Sen. Jamie Eldridge\, Rep. Steve Owens\, and Rep. Jack Lewis\, that requires the worst carbon emitters to contribute to a Superfund to pay for climate-related damages in Massachusetts. Fossil fuel companies have knowingly endangered our world for decades\, putting our lives and livelihoods at risk – they should be responsible for the damages. The Climate Change Superfund will provide funding for projects across the Commonwealth that keep our communities safe from the impacts of climate change. \nLearn more with our Fact Sheet and FAQ’s. \nRSVP here
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/lets-make-polluters-pay-an-actionar-virtual/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:IDSH 2025: Immigrant Rights Conference
DESCRIPTION:IDSH 2025: Immigrant Rights Conference\nPreparing 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. \nWe will be providing an overview of the immigrant rights landscape on both a federal and state level\, discussing our legislative priorities\, and mobilizing to advocate for them at the State House on Wednesday\, March 19\, 2025. The conference will feature workshops including how to speak to your legislators\, a fundraising panel\, rapid response networks\, wellness\, and more. \nIf you are interested in sponsoring this event\, please reach out to Ana Cristina via email at achavezandonie@miracoalition.org.  \nFor general questions\, contact Dawn at dmiller@miracoalition.org \n✨Get your tickets below✨ \nSpring Conference Tickets
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/idsh-2025-immigrant-rights-conference/
LOCATION:Multicultural Arts Center\, 41 Second Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02141
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250223T140000
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SUMMARY:Progressive Mass Activist Afternoons: 2/23
DESCRIPTION:Progressive Mass Activist Afternoons: 2/23\n\nJoin Progressive Mass as we kick off a series of Activist Afternoons phone banks. \nEach week\, we will be calling voters about important progressive legislation and encouraging them to contact their state legislators. \nThis week\, our focus will be on the Corporate Fair Share bill\, which would make large global mega-corporations pay the state’s existing corporate tax rate on a higher share of the excess profits they conceal offshore\, raising hundreds of millions of dollars in new annual revenues.
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/progressive-mass-activist-afternoons-2-23/
LOCATION:Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250225T130000
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SUMMARY:Care\, Not Cuts Rally
DESCRIPTION:Care\, Not Cuts Rally\nJoin patients\, families\, and workers at the State House \nTo tell elected officials that you: \n\nOPPOSE closing Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children\nOPPOSE closing Pocasset Mental Health Center\nOPPOSE reducing DMH Case Managers by 50%\nOPPOSE raising healthcare costs for state workers and retirees\n\nFollowing the rally\, we will head into the State House to meet with legislators.
URL:https://www.progressivemass.com/event/care-not-cuts-rally/
LOCATION:Massachusetts State House
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