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  • Election Day is coming up and Mass Alliance candidates across the state are starting up their campaigns. Every day is important and every event can make a huge difference, especially in local races. We need your help to ensure that progressive candidates can get out the vote. Join us and help fight for the issues you care about by volunteering in your local community and beyond.

    Below is a list of candidate events and volunteer opportunities for July. Please take a moment to look through and try to sign up for an event near you. With your help we can move one step closer to a more progressive Massachusetts!

    Wednesday July 18th
    Michael Armano Volunteer Kickoff Canvassing
    8:30am
    Relief’s In, 1 Market St., Lawrence, MA 01843

    Segun Idowu- Bingo and Board Games
    1pm
    Blake Estates Community Room
    For more information reach out to: talk@segunforma.com

    Saturday July 21st
    Phone Banking for Sabrina Heisey
    Sign up at https://www.sabrinaheisey.com/volunteer
    Email the campaign directly at Heiseycampaign@gmail.com.

    Canvassing for Maria Robinson
    B. Sisters 680 Worcester Rd, Framingham, MA 01702
    10:30 am
    Email the campaign at info@votemariarobinson.com for more details

    Canvassing for Natalie Higgins
    Canvassing in Leominster
    Contact Natalie Higgins at (978-602-3772)/NatalieMarieHiggins@gmail.com or Isabelle Alera (978-833-3358)/ialera98@gmail.com for more information

    Canvassing for Michael Armano
    11am
    Relief’s In, 1 Market St., Lawrence, MA 01843

    Canvassing for Jason Lewis
    1:00-4:30 pm, Location TBA
    Contact Field Director Nick Lennox for more information at nick@electjasonlewis.com

    Phone Banking for Sabrina Heisey
    1:00-3:00pm
    Contact heiseycampaign@gmail.com for more information

    Door Knocking for Steve Leibowitz
    1:00-4:00 pm
    Contact stevenforstaterep@gmail.com to sign up

    Sunday July 22nd
    Canvassing for Maria Robinson
    B. Sisters 680 Worcester Rd, Framingham, MA 01702
    1 pm
    Email the campaign at info@votemariarobinson.com for more details

    Canvassing for Natalie Higgins
    Canvassing in Leominster
    Contact Natalie Higgins at (978-602-3772)/NatalieMarieHiggins@gmail.com or Isabelle Alera (978-833-3358)/ialera98@gmail.com for more information

    Canvassing for Michael Armano
    11:00am
    Relief’s In, 1 Market St., Lawrence, MA 01843

    Lindsey Sabadosa- Southampton Dems 2nd Annual Family and Friends Picnic
    1pm to 4pm
    Conant Park Pavilion, 30 East St., Southampton
    Facebook event

    Tuesday July 24th
    Lindsay Sabadosa- 1st Hampshire Candidates Radio Forum
    Tune to WHMP 101.5 // 7-10am

    Wednesday July 25th
    Michael Armano Canvass/Phonebank
    9:00 am-Canvass  4:00pm Phonebank
    Relief’s In, 1 Market St, Lawrence, MA

    Lindsay Sabadosa-1st Hampshire Candidates Forum on Food Insecurity
    6:30-8:30pm
    World War II Club, 50 Conz St, Northampton

    Thursday July 26th
    Segun Idowu- Bingo and Board Games
    1pm
    Blake Estates Community Room
    For more information reach out to: talk@segunforma.com

    Saturday July 28th
    Door Knocking for Steve Leibowitz
    1:00-4:00pm
    Contact stevenforstaterep@gmail.com to sign up

    Canvass and Phonebank for Jason Lewis
    1:00-4:30 pm, Location TBA
    Contact Field Director Nick Lennox for more information at nick@electjasonlewis.com

    Sunday July 29th
    Michael Armano Canvass
    11:00 am
    Relief’s In, 1 Market St, Lawrence, MA

    Monday July 30th
    Lindsay Sabadosa- 1st Hampshire Candidates Forum
    6:30-8:30pm
    JFK  Middle School

    General 
    Canvassing for Chelsea Kline
    Join our enthusiastic team as we canvass everyday in July and August in the Pioneer Valley
    Text or call Field Director Carolyn at 413-559-9933 to get involved

    Canvassing for Sarah Hewins
    Help canvass Wareham, Middleboro and Carver for Sarah Hewins! Contact Sarah at sgh@sarahhewins.com or at 508-866-2342

    Canvass for Steven Leibowitz
    Contact us at this email to sign up for canvassing!
    stevenforstaterep@gmail.com

    Phone banking for Jason Lewis
    Every TuesdayThursday from 5:30-8:30pm at 137 Pleasant St, Malden
    Email the Field Director at nick@electjasonlewis.com for more information

    Canvassing for Lindsay Sabadosa
    Come stand out with us every Saturday from 10-11am and then canvass with us after!
    We meet at the office at 76 Gothic Street
    Can’t make a Saturday? Email info@linsaysabadosa.com for training, information and weekly assignments!

    Door Knocking for Segun Idowu
    Sign up to volunteer at volunteer@segunforma..com
    Every Monday5:30-8:00pm (meeting at Dunkin Donuts)
    Every Tuesday to Friday5:30-8:00 pm (meeting at ZAZ Restaurant)
    Every Saturday10:30am-2:00pm (meeting at ZAZ Restaurant)
    Every Sunday4:00-6:30pm (meeting at Dunkin Donuts)

     See you there!

    Democratic Socialist of America, Local Working Group Meetings

    JUNE 30: SHUT DOWN ICE

    Wellington Common, 4:00 pm—-

    Hosted by FIRE – Fight for Im/migrants and Refugees 

    On Saturday, June 30th, we will shut down South Bay County Jail and Detention Center to demand an end to any and all cooperation with ICE. Sign up here –> https://goo.gl/forms/vRKjZJ9Q9ejg5y5Y2

    At the border, we have seen the real face of hate. Children are being lost and abused, parents are committing suicide and through all this the perpetrators are bragging about their atrocities. Families being ripped apart has been the only reality that the undocumented people have known. For many years undocumented people have had to endure all the different forms of separation, all because of the sentiment that somehow we are lesser people, or not people according to Trump.

    In many ways, Massachusetts claims to be supportive of undocumented people, but they are nothing but empty words. In Massachusetts,
    – We still have 287g contract which allow cops to work highly with Immigration Customs Enforcement.
    – We have secure communities act
    – Still there is heavy tracking/surveilling/criminalizing immigrant and other communities of color
    – Recently there was shared information between schools and ICE

    We owe it to our children and families to confront the inhumane system which has detained, deported, and degraded immigrants for years and is now using our families and wellbeing as political pawns.

    We need you to be on the right side of history and fight with us. On Saturday, June 30th, we will shut down South Bay County Jail and Detention Center to demand an end to any and all cooperation with ICE. We will meet at 4pm at Wellington Common Park across from the Mass Ave. T Station to march to South Bay. Join us. Sign up here –> https://goo.gl/forms/vRKjZJ9Q9ejg5y5Y2

     

    Vigil to condemn Human Rights Violations at US Border

    Centro Presente VIGIL to condemn human rights violations at the US border.

    This vigil is Friday, June 29th at 6:00 PM in front of the Massachussets State House, 24 Beacon Street, Boston

    https://www.facebook.com/events/1786183004795031

    Together & Free: Rally Against Family Separation

    The Boston Mayday Committee invites you to attend

    Sat. June 30th
    Meeting at Boston City Hall at 11 a.m. and marching to Boston Common
    Rally will start on the Common at 12:30 p.m

    From the border to Boston and all over the country, families are being torn apart by a government that criminalizes, detains, and deports them. Recently, the Trump administration escalated its racist attacks on immigrants by separating children from their parents at the border and putting them in cages. After public outcry, their “solution” was to keep families together… in detention centers. Jailing families is not a solution.

    We know that families belong together and free, but this administration isn’t stopping there. Trump is also keeping people from majority Muslim countries from being reunited with their families in the United States. He is still fighting to keep the Muslim Ban in place. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the ban this week, and we need to let them know they have to overturn it once and for all.

    This goes beyond Trump. Deportation is part of a system that targets and profits off of immigrants and people of color. Now is the time to be clear: this is about putting an end to criminalization, detention, and deportations in our communities. NO ONE should be kept from the place they choose to call home and the people they choose to call family.

    Here in Massachusetts, we’re calling on elected officials to protect community members by passing basic protections included in our state budget: YES to due process for detained immigrants, NO to local police acting as ICE agents and asking about immigration status.

    Join us on June 30th to stand against family separation.

    Let us know if your group or organization would like to co-sponsor and support on this action!

    Hosted by March Forward Massachusetts and Cosponsors include: ACLU Massachusetts, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), AFT Massachusetts (American Federation of Teachers), ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), Anti Racism Collaborative, Asian American Resource Workshop (AARW), Boston Interpreters Collective, Boston Mayday Committee, Boston Teachers Union (BTU), Boston Workmen’s Circle, Brazilian Women’s Group, Brazilian Worker Center, Cambridge Area Stronger Together, Chelsea Collaborative, Chelsea Uniting Against the War, EBECC, Grassroots International, Indivisible Massachusetts, International Socialist Organization (ISO), Justice4siham, La Comunidad, March for our Lives, March Forward Massachusetts, Mass Peace Action, Massachusetts Interfaith Worker Justice, Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, Massachusetts Nurses Association (MNA), Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), Massachusetts TPS Coalition, MataHari Women’s Worker Center, MIRA Coalition, Muslim Justice League, NARAL Pro Choice Massachusetts, New Bedford Worker Center/ centro comunitario de trabajadores, Our Revolution- Massachusetts, PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts), Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), Pioneer Valley Worker Center, Queer South Asian Collective, Revere Youth in Action (RIYA), SEIU 32BJ, Student Immigrant Movement (SIM), Unite Here Local 26, UU Mass Action, Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment, Young Democrats of Boston

    https://www.facebook.com/events/249291692492398

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