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Our Coalitions

Fighting for a Progressive Agenda Together

We believe that fighting for and winning a progressive agenda requires working in coalition with groups across the Commonwealth. We all do better when we all do better: that’s not just true for policy; it’s also true for the advocacy to achieve them. No one group or person can win game-changing victories alone.

Advancing Our Shared Prosperity Agenda

Raise Up Massachusetts

Fairness for Farmworkers

Common Start Coalition

Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance (MEJA)
  • Purpose: Achieving the vision that all students, regardless of income, race, gender, identity, religion, birthplace, or abilities, have access to high-quality, equitable, and democratically controlled public education that addresses the educational needs of the whole student and where every student thrives to reach their full potential.
  • Website: https://www.massedjustice.org/
  • Facebook: massedjustice
  • Twitter: @massedjustice
Statewide Thrive Act Coalition
  • Purpose: To create a better system of assessment, support, accountability, and improvement that considers the whole child, and focuses on giving students and educators the tools and resources they need to succeed and thrive, replacing the harmful and failed state takeover policy
  • Website: https://www.massedjustice.org/thriveact
Coalition for Anti-Racism in Education
  • Purpose:  To ensure that instruction in K-12 education shall include the teaching of accurate histories, writings, and contributions of racial and ethnic groups that have been historically underrepresented or marginalized
  • Website: https://www.care4eduequity.org/
  • Twitter: @care4eduequity

Higher Ed for All

  •  Purpose: To expand access to Massachusetts public colleges and universities and to ensuring that learning and working conditions are equitably meeting the needs of all students and workers

Mass-Care

Bay State Birth Coalition

  • Purpose: To fight for legalization, licensure, and integration for Certified Professional Midwives to practice to the full scope of their training; support for birth centers including financial investments and removal of regulatory barriers; Medicaid coverage for out-of-hospital births; and equitable reimbursement for midwives in all care settings
  • Website: https://baystatebirth.org/
  • Facebook: BayStateBirth
Massachusetts for Overdose Prevention Centers
  • Purpose: To advocate for the legalization of overdose prevention centers as a harm reduction approach to the opioid crisis
  • Website: https://ma4opc.org/

Transfer Fee Coalition

HERO Coalition

  • Purpose: To increase the deeds excise tax in order to create funding streams for affordable housing and climate resilience
  • Website: https://www.mahousingclimate.org/

HOMES Act Coalition

  • Purpose: To pass legislation to seal/allow for the sealing of eviction records (An Act Promoting Housing Opportunity and Mobility Through Eviction Sealing)
  • Website: https://www.passthehomesact.org/

Advancing Our All Means All: Racial and Social Justice Agenda

Safe Communities Coalition

Dignity Not Deportations

  • Purpose: To end 287(g) agreements and ICE detention in Massachusetts

Criminal Justice Reform Working Group

  • Purpose: To convene organizations working on criminal justice reform and fighting to end mass incarceration

Massachusetts Coalition for Juvenile Justice Reform

Keeping Families Connected Coalition
  • Purpose: To establish free phone calls and other forms of communication for people in prison and jail, including people incarcerated on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
  • Website: https://nocostcallsma.org/

Massachusetts Against Solitary Confinement

Prison Moratorium Coalition

Ending Life without Parole (LWOP) Coalition

  • Purpose: To ensure the possibility of parole for all

Clean Slate

  • Purpose:  To pass and implement a law that would automate the sealing of criminal offender record information (CORIs) for people as soon as they are eligible
  • Website: https://www.cleanslatema.org/
  • Facebook: Clean Slate MA

Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence

Location Shield Act Coalition

  • Purpose: To ban the purchase and sale of cell phone location data

Advancing Our Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment Agenda

Mass Power Forward

Make Polluters Pay MA

Plastic Free Massachusetts

  • Purpose: To support legislation, policies, and programs that: (1) phase out and avoid the production and use of any unnecessary single-use plastics, (2) reduce and eliminate plastic whenever possible, (3) modernize our state’s beverage container deposit system to include refill targets, and (4) promote sustainable reuse

Advancing Our Good Government and Strong Democracy Agenda

Democracy Behind Bars Coalition

  • Purpose: To protect the voting rights of those currently incarcerated
  • Facebook: dbbcma
  • Twitter: @dbbc_ma
Democracy Renovators
  • Purpose: To support a healthier democracy with broader and more equitable political participation, transparency, representation, and responsiveness

Creating a Strong and Unified Progressive Movement

Mass Alliance

Massachusetts Progressive Action Organizing Table

  • Purpose: To Increase progressive unity and improve channels of communication between progressive groups