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SUMMARY:Progressive Mass 2019 Lobby Day
DESCRIPTION:Join progressives from around the state as we lobby for our agenda of shared prosperity\, racial and social justice\, good government and strong democracy\, and sustainable infrastructure and environmental protection. \nSee our 191st session priority bills here: https://www.progressivemass.com/191legislativeagenda. \nWe will be meeting in Room 428 of the State House. Stay tuned for info about speakers\, etc.! \nhttps://www.progressivemass.com/2019-lobby-day
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/progressive-mass-2019-lobby-day/
CATEGORIES:State
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T203000
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SUMMARY:Where's My Health Care? - A Forum to Change Our Health Insurance
DESCRIPTION:Let’s improve the health care system to save money and time without sacrificing medical care. \nMassachusetts is one of the best states for health care\, yet we have not escaped the inflated prices. Learn how we can change our policies and make an impact. We did it as a state in 2006 with Romneycare and we can do even better. \nWe all have experienced or know someone who has:\n• put off going to a doctor or treatment due to a copay or high deductible\n• struggled to pay for their necessary medication\n• spent hours battling with the insurance company going from one representative to another\n• had a doctor spend only 5 minuted with them to move onto another patient\n• waited for hours for their appointment\n• turned to GoFundMe to pay for medical bills & treatment\n• traveled to another country for medicine or surgery\n• and even more \nWe are one of the wealthiest countries in the world\, yet pay almost twice what the average is for similar countries ($10\,224 vs the average of $5\,280). \nWe can do better. \nAnd we want to do better. About 70% of Americans state health care as their primary concern at elections. \nYet\, little has changed. \nLet’s start having a dialogue to improve the system. \nWe need to know our options\, talk to others about them\, and start putting pressure on our legislators. \nJoin us on Wednesday\, April 10th at 7pm at the Maynard Public Library for a forum composed of medical professionals\, legislators\, business owners\, and average people who want to save money and create a better health care system. \nThe Panel is composed of:\n• Jamie Eldridge (State Senator and author of Medicare for All S.683 bill)\n• Bill Taylor\, MD (Public Health doctor\, formerly of the CDC)\n• Kate Murphy\, RN (Staff nurse at Brigham and Women’s Hospital)\n• Eliot Prisby (local business owner)\n• Kimberley Connors (patient rights) \nPlease bring your questions. \nHealth shouldn’t be a luxury. \nInvite your friends and let’s improve health care together.\nIf you can’t come\, but want to learn more\, get a More Info ticket to receive a slide show and learn about future events. \n********* \nThree Rivers Affinity Groups is a Chapter of Progressive Massachusetts.
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/wheres-my-health-care-a-forum-to-change-our-health-insurance/
CATEGORIES:State
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T100000
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SUMMARY:Annual Progressive Legislative Breakfast
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URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/annual-progressive-legislative-breakfast-2/
CATEGORIES:State
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T150000
DTSTAMP:20190417T105211Z
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SUMMARY:Tell the Truth! Ring the Alarm on Climate Emergency
DESCRIPTION:One out of three people in the Boston Metro area remain unaware of the most basic fact that global warming is caused mostly by human activities (Yale Climate Opinion Maps\, Dec 2018). \n~~ TELL THE TRUTH ~~\nExtinction Rebellion is here to tell the truth\, and act with the urgency that the truth demands. \nOn April 17th at noon\, XR Boston begins its non-violent uprising against the long-standing criminal inaction on our planet’s ecological breakdown. Our governments and the media have failed to tell the full truth about the climate crisis and local environmental emergencies\, and failed to wholly communicate the need for drastic action in order to save life on our planet. \nWe will gather at the site of the Boston Massacre at noon and present a call to action to the Boston Globe\, urging them to help us bring about the transformational change needed to face the ecological crisis. We will then take publicly disruptive\, non-violent action to declare what we know to be true\, and upend the repressive silence around the climate emergency. \n~~ PLEASE BRING BELLS ~~\nIf you have any\, please bring bells or chimes so that we can sound the alarm together and summon our communities into action. Bells have a multiplicity of meanings across cultural and spiritual traditions. We invite you to hold those at the action as appropriate. \n~~ OFFSITE ACTION ~~\nWe hope we’ll see you there\, but if you can’t make it\, help us from afar\, starting at 1PM:\nhttps://xrmass.org/boston-globe-plan \n~~ HASHTAGS ~~\n#ExtinctionRebellion\, #InternationalRebellion\, #xrus\, #xrmass \n<– FAQ –>\n1. I love the Globe — and they do report on climate change! Why not make a call to action at a media outlet that denies climate change? \nWe need help informing the public on the climate emergency and we think the Boston Globe is the best placed organization to do it. They already know that climate change is a problem\, it’s in their mission to “expose the truth\, even in defiance of powerful interests” (and their history lives up to this — think Spotlight)\, and they have several excellent writers who have devoted themselves to reporting on the environment. We are asking Globe Editor Brian McGrory to prioritize the work of those writers so that the Globe’s reporting is commensurate with the scale of this existential crisis. \nWe are making a constructive call to action for the Globe to lead on fixing systemic issues. The whole media system has shortcomings when it comes to the climate crisis\, and we don’t blame the Globe for this. We are approaching this in the hopes of building a constructive relationship\, which is why we contacted Editor Brian McGrory several times with a request to speak together. We will continue to do so\, even after we present our call to action. Extinction Rebellion hopes that writers and other staff at the Globe understand that we are coming from a place of deeply appreciating their work and seeing this as an opportunity for leadership. \nWe aren’t spending our limited energy to ask those media outlets that deny the climate crisis to shape up their act. The problem is far too urgent to spend a lot of time convincing deniers that they should change their minds. Extinction Rebellion hopes to get 3.5% of the population involved in our actions\, which has been shown by Harvard professor Erica Chenoweth to be an effective way to promote change. \n2. But\, it’s not the Globe’s problems\, it’s the system! \nWe agree that the climate and ecological crises are systemic in nature and that systemic change is needed to address them. However\, systemic change only follows those brave enough to push for it. Historically\, the Globe has contributed crucial and intrepid reporting to oust other kinds of systemic failures. Now\, we respectfully ask that they take up that mantle again with regards to the climate crisis. We recognize that this is a difficult task and that many institutional barriers exist which block effective reporting — not least of which is the fact that the public has not historically been interested in reading about the environment. But at a time when young peoples’ futures are being crushed in front of their eyes; when fossil fuel companies put out greenwashing advertisements\, all the while spending hundreds of millions on lobbying to secure billions in continued subsidies; and when the arctic is melting far faster than predicted\, institutions like the Globe need to cover this escalating collapse as they would a third world war. There is a story here that people will want to hear—we know\, because we have been constantly surprised by the number of people desperate for the truth which Extinction Rebellion is committed to telling.
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/tell-the-truth-ring-the-alarm-on-climate-emergency/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T163000
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SUMMARY:Our Taxes\, Our Choices: Tax Day Demonstration
DESCRIPTION:Wars\, Military Spending and Tax Cuts for the Rich Are Hurting Our Communities – And Destroying the Planet! \nAt least 60% of annual US “Discretionary Spending” goes directly to the Pentagon to finance wars and military spending; the Trump tax cuts overwhelmingly favor the wealthy and Corporations while limiting potential spending that will benefit our communities. \nWe say: \nNO to excessive military spending\nNO to tax cuts for the rich\nNO to nuclear weapons\nNO to military bases all over the world\nNO to war \nYES to HOUSING\nYES to EDUCATION\nYES to HEALTH CARE\nYES to JOBS\nYES to COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE \n4:30 pm Gather at Uphams Corner Health Center\n5:30 pm March Columbia Rd.\n6:30 Meal and Meeting at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church \nSponsors: Dorchester People for Peace\, Mass People’s Budget Campaign\, Massachusetts Peace Action\, Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants\, City Life/Vida Urbana\, Boston Teachers Union\, MassCare\, 350 Mass Boston\, DSA Dorchester — and more organizations!
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/our-taxes-our-choices-tax-day-demonstration/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190418T183000
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SUMMARY:he Green New Deal w/ Ed Markey and Ayanna Pressley
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Tour Launch of the Road to a Green New Deal! At this Tour Stop\, we’ll explore what the pain of the climate crisis looks like for Boston and the nation\, and what the promise of the Green New Deal will look like\, too. We’ll hear from political champions\, including Senator Markey and Representative Pressley\, and community and movement leaders\, including Reverend Mariama White Hammond and the students who led the Boston Youth Climate Strike. We’ll set the roadmap to 2021 and beyond\, discovering what the GND means for each of us– and what action we’ll take to make it happen.\n\nTickets from $5 up. If you have questions about the event\, or require financial assistance\, email gndtour.boston@gmail.com.
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/he-green-new-deal-w-ed-markey-and-ayanna-pressley/
CATEGORIES:State
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T100000
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SUMMARY:Progressive Mass Breaking Barriers Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE\nProgressive Mass\nBreaking Barriers Breakfast\nWith special guest Rachael Rollins\, Suffolk County DA\nWednesday\, April 24th\n8:30am-10:00am at Carrie Nation in Boston\nHost Committee in formation\nTicket levels:\nHost $500 or more\nAdvocate $250\nSupporter $125\nFriend $75\nFor tickets or for more information please contact: jdimauro@progressivemass.com
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/progressive-mass-breaking-barriers-breakfast/
CATEGORIES:State
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190424T113000
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SUMMARY:Boston Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday April 24th\, 8:30am-11:30am at Carrie Nation in Boston.
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/boston-breakfast/
CATEGORIES:State
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190425T213000
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SUMMARY:Suitcase Stories | DPE x IINE
DESCRIPTION:Delta Phi Epsilon\, in partnership with the International Institute of New England (IINE)\, welcomes you to Suitcase Stories®! A showcase featuring foreign and U.S.-born residents from the Boston University community sharing powerful tales of their personal refugee and immigrant experiences. By giving community members a platform to share their experiences alongside refugee and immigrant clients from IINE\, the audience shares in the complexity of immigration issues. Proceeds from the performance will help support refugees and immigrants participating in IINE’s resettlement\, education\, employment\, and citizenship programs. \nWe are excited to announce our storytellers:\n– Zainab Abdo (IINE)\n– Theresa Okokon (IINE)\n– Augustine Jimenez (BU)\n– Sofia Colombo-Abdullah (BU)\n– Luisana Henriquez (BU)\n– Lia Valdez (BU)\n– Nicholas Stenseng (BU)\n– Ezgi Toper (BU)
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/suitcase-stories-dpe-x-iine/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190429T190000
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SUMMARY:What is a Progressive Position on Housing?
DESCRIPTION:Join JP Progressives for a community conversation with housing and policy experts on What is a Progressive Housing Policy \nThe City of Boston is rapidly becoming more unequal and segregated than at any time in its recent history. Boston is one of the least affordable major housing markets in the world\, and Massachusetts is one of the most unequal states in the country. Our community in Jamaica Plain is at the forefront of this crisis. In JPP’s first community conversation dedicated to housing we will bring together policymakers\, local activists\, and housing researchers to address some of the basic problems in housing policy and discuss possible solutions. We hope that this conversation will be one of many that are dedicated to better defining: “what is a progressive housing policy? \nPanelists:\nLydia Edwards\nNathalie Janson\nLisa Owens\nBarry Bluestone \nModerated by: qainat khan\, WBUR/GroundTruth Journalist who has reported extensively on housing in Boston \n****Post your questions at www.slido.com/Q133 (or enter event #Q133)**** \n*****PLEASE NOTE TICKETS DO NOT GUARANTEE ENTRANCE BUT TICKET HOLDERS WILL BE GIVEN PRIORITY*****
URL:https://solidaritylowell.com/event/what-is-a-progressive-position-on-housing/
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