January 2024: Ring in the New Year with These Events

Attend our 2024 Activist Afternoons launch party on Sunday, January 7th, 4-6 pm at St. James’s Episcopal Church in Porter Square.
Join 350 Mass and the Make Polluters Pay Campaign on Sunday, January 7th, 1-3 PM at the Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge, for an afternoon of strategizing and socializing.
Join Mass Progressive Action Organizing Committee (MPAOC)’s Mass. Housing Crisis Forum on Wednesday, January 10th, 7-9pm (online) where you will learn more about the multifaceted housing crisis and two new programs that provide practical solutions to some of our biggest challenges.
RSVP for Progressive Mass’s 2024 Annual Meeting on Saturday, January 27th, 1-5pm at Lasell University in Newton. We’re excited to see you in person this year.

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My Top Five Favorite Songs about Data Privacy

May 18, 2026 / Action Alerts

Today, technology has far outpaced privacy law. Data brokers and Big Tech are free to do almost anything they want with our personal information, including selling our cellphone location data

50+ human rights groups sign letter opposing MA “age verification” bills, hold press conference at State House with Rep Mike Connolly

May 17, 2026 / Blog

BOSTON, MA—A growing coalition of human rights, LGBTQ+, civil liberties, racial justice, and environmental advocacy groups will release a letter signed by more than 50 organizations on Wednesday, May 13th,

Follow-up from webinar “The Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Fair Share. Here’s How to Fight Back.”

May 14, 2026 / Action Alerts, Events

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us last night for our webinar “The Tech Billionaires Are Coming for Fair Share. Here’s How to Fight Back.”! You can watch the

PM in the News: “A ballot question to eliminate party primaries in Massachusetts is dividing state Democrats”

May 11, 2026 / PM in the News

Chris VanBuskirk, “A ballot question to eliminate party primaries in Massachusetts is dividing state Democrats,” Boston Globe, May 11, 2026. Jonathan Cohn, policy director for Progressive Massachusetts and a former

Brookline.News: “Younger candidates push out some of Brookline’s political old guard in progressive sweep”

May 11, 2026 / PM in the News

Sam Mintz and Vivi Smilgius, “Younger candidates push out some of Brookline’s political old guard in progressive sweep,” Brookline.News, May 6, 2026. “This was an election about getting people to

NEW LETTER: Massachusetts social media ban will help Trump and will not keep kids safe from Big Tech

May 11, 2026 / Blog, Testimony

See the original at https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05-11-new-letter-massachusetts-social-media-ban-will-help-trump-and-will-not-keep-kids-safe-from-big-tech/ The Massachusetts House has advanced H. 5349 (now H. 5366), a draconian and unconstitutional bill that would ban minors from social media, force social media platforms to

MA Senate Votes 37 to 3 for the PROTECT Act

May 7, 2026 / Roll Call

The MA Senate today voted 37 to 3 to pass the PROTECT Act, which takes important steps to protect immigrant communities in Massachusetts, such as banning new 287(g) agreements, preventing

Support & Strengthen the PROTECT Act

May 6, 2026 / Action Alerts

he MA Senate is voting tomorrow on the PROTECT Act (S.3072), which takes important steps to protect immigrant communities in Massachusetts, such as banning new 287(g) agreements, preventing law enforcement

“‘The bloodless murder of legislation.’ After promising more transparency, Mass. Legislature still killing bills without votes.” | Boston Globe

May 5, 2026 / OpEds & LTEs

Kelly Garrity, “‘The bloodless murder of legislation.’ After promising more transparency, Mass. Legislature still killing bills without votes.,” Boston Globe, May 5, 2026. Public committee votes are a form of

This Thursday at the State House: Our Annual Lobby Day

May 4, 2026 / Events

This Thursday is a big day. The MA Senate will be voting on their draft of the PROTECT Act, and it’s our annual lobby day. We have just three months left in the