Local
Solidarity Lowell Holiday Party!
Sunday, December 17, 5-8pm, Lynne Lupien’s house (address to be emailed)
Lynne Lupien has graciously offered to host our first annual Solidarity Lowell Holiday and Anniversary Party! It’s the one-year anniversary of the group and we want to celebrate! This party will feature board games, a pie election to show how Ranked Choice Voting works, and a ring and sing! We’ll send an email with the address shortly before the event so if we don’t have your email, please let us know right away! See you there!
RSVP HERE: http://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080945a8af28a2f49-solidarity
Your Voice Matters Community Action Forum
Monday, December 11, 6-8pm, Lowell Senior Center, 276 Broadway Street, Lowell
Throughout the fall of 2017, community members, parents, teachers, school administrators and others met in a series of Community Circles around issues in education in Lowell. We heard their voices and opinions, and now it’s time to get to work! All are welcome to participate, and we will provide an overview of the project to everyone who wasn’t able to make one of the Community Circles. Food, interpreters, and child care will be provided.
More information and to register: https://www.yourvoicematterslowell.org/community-action-forum
Help Get Big Money Out of Politics!
Monday, December 11, 7-8:30pm, Pollard Memorial Library, ground floor meeting room, 401 Merrimack Street, Lowell
We the People Massachusetts supports a U.S. constitutional amendment to reaffirm that the rights protected by the Constitution are the rights of individual human beings ONLY (not corporations!), and that money spent to influence elections is not protected free speech and may be regulated! The We the People Act (no quotation marks) needs the support of Massachusetts state representatives from Lowell and beyond. Come to an educational presentation and make plans to meet with your state representatives.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/306770556491733/
Postcards for Progress – December edition
Saturday, December 16, 1-3pm, Sweet Journey, 30 Central Street, Lowell
NOTE NEW LOCATION! It’s time for postcards again! Our post-election break is over, and we have a lot of important issues to write about. A list of suggested topics will be prepared shortly before the event based on what’s the most timely. Postcards, stamps, and pens will be available for your use, but you are welcome to bring your own supplies. Contributions of ideas are welcome but not required.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/517372881973532/
A Rapid Response Rally if Mueller is Fired
If it happens before 2pm, the event will be held at 5pm the same day. If it happens after 2pm, the event will be held at noon the following day. Ladd and Whitney Memorial (the island outside City Hall), 309 Merrimack Street, Lowell
Nobody is above the law! Donald Trump is publicly considering firing special counsel Robert Mueller. This would be a constitutional crisis for our country. Our response in the minutes and hours following a power grab will dictate what happens next, which is why an immediate response is imperative.
Sign up to be notified: https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/14830
State
Boston Tea Party: Dump the GOP Tax Bill
Sunday, December 10th, noon, start at Boston Common and end at Boston Harbor
On Sunday, December 10th to join us to march from the Boston Common and fight for all those who will suffer under the GOP’s tax plan. There is time to beat this. Let’s stand together and send a message that we aren’t ready to back down.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/121924638591220
Support a Shared Leadership Model
Eileen Donoghue: 617-722-1630
Stanley Rosenberg’s leadership style of “shared leadership”—with its emphasis on engaging committee chairs and other Senate members in setting the body’s agenda—has helped the Senate produce stronger legislation than it might have in a top-down environment (according to the Boston Herald). We need Eileen Donoghue to pledge to continue that style of leadership, especially if she pursues the Senate Presidency.
Sample Script: “Hello, my name is _____ from _____, Massachusetts. Please pledge support for Stanley Rosenberg’s shared leadership style of engaging committee chairs and other Senate members in setting the body’s agenda. Thank you!”
More information: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_politics/2017/12/smelling_blood_in_water_lawmakers_jockey_for_senate_president_role
Federal
Protect Dreamers!
Edward Markey: 617-565-8519
Niki Tsongas: 978-459-0101
On Sept. 5, Trump announced that he was terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. This Obama-era program provides relief from deportation for an estimated 800,000 young immigrants. Because Trump terminated DACA, over 10,000 Dreamers are estimated to have already lost their protections, and nearly 1,000 more will lose DACA each week and become vulnerable to Trump’s deportation force. Currently, Senator Elizabeth Warren is our only member of Congress who has pledged to require that the spending bill includes protections for DACA recipients.
Sample Script: “Hello, my name is _____, from ______, Massachusetts. Please make a public commitment to stand with Dreamers. 27 members of the House and 5 Senators have already taken the Dreamer Pledge, and an additional 34 Republican Members of Congress signed a letter saying that “we must pass legislation that protects DACA recipients from deportation” by the end of this year. Thank you!”
More information: https://www.dreamerpledge.org/call-script/
Save Alabama from Roy Moore!
Phone bank to get out the vote in Alabama so that Roy Moore doesn’t get elected! This tool allows you to call registered Democrats to remind them to vote, right from the comfort of your own home (or wherever you want!). Or, sign up to text (don’t worry, it won’t share your phone number)!
Sign up to phone bank: https://facebook.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ddf4f662275a113eace693f3&id=532c28e16e&e=d7418dc73a
Sign up to text: http://bit.ly/R2B-Alabama and join this chat: https://openpr.gg/a/d8893ebc
For more information, email Lauren Young: lauren.young@gmail.com