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Tell Governor Healey and your state legislators](https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-gov-healey-and-beacon-hill-protect-snap-benefits) to fully fund the Department of Transitional Assistance so the state can help people get the nutritional assistance they need.

The Massachusetts Legislature passed, and the Governor signed into law, the PROTECT Act , “the most comprehensive legislation to protect undocumented immigrants in the nation.” See the Massachusetts Immigration & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) for information about the Protect Act.

Contact your state legislators NOW about an important issue we need to get across the finish line.

Protect Our Privacy Rights. Tell them to ask Legislative Leadership to ensure that the final version of the Data Privacy Bill (S.2619) completely bans the sale of sensitive data and location data, creates strong statutory limits on data collection and processing, and includes a private right of action to hold companies accountable.

Don’t know who your state representative or senator is? Find out here!

Learn more about the Progressive Mass legislative agenda. See how progressive your state Representative and Senator are here .

Budget

Stop a Ballot Question that Could Lead to Devastating Budget Cuts

There is a corporate-backed ballot initiative headed for Massachusetts voters this fall that would rewrite Chapter 62F to trigger tax refunds far more often and in much larger amounts which would lead to devastating budget cuts. To prevent this from happening and prevent the question from appearing on the ballot, urge your state legislators to repeal 62F.

Data Privacy & Data Centers

Oppose the Expansion of AI Data Centers

Call Governor Healey and your state representatives to oppose the construction of these centers.

Don’t Let Big Tech Companies Get Your Biometric Information

H.5366 and Governor Healey’s “complementary” proposal, Requires Online ID Checks

  • These measures mandate that everyone in the state verify their age to post online, forcing all of us to hand over our government IDs or biometric info to untrustworthy Big Tech companies and third party “ID check” vendors. These mandates won’t keep kids safe and they put us all at risk. Here are 25 reasons to oppose these proposals.
  • The House passed this bill. It is expected to go to a conference committee, where the Senate will determine its stance on the social media aspects.
  • Tell your state legislators to say no to H.5366 and Gov. Healey’s proposal.

Impose Guardrails on Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs), i.e., Flock Cameras

H.3755, A Bill Establishing Driver Privacy Protections

  • This bill limits how government entities can collect, retain, and use data from technologies such as ALPRs. It specifically requires that ALPR data be deleted after 14 days unless connected to a specific criminal investigation and prohibits law enforcement agencies from accessing this data without a valid search warrant.
  • This bill advanced out of the Transportation Committee and now awaits action in the House Ways and Means Committee.
  • Urge your state representative to support this bill and to tell the House Ways and Means Committee Chair Aaron Michlewitz to advance this bill out of committee.

Immigration

Send postcards to Massport and Governor Maura Healey demanding publicly viewable webcams at Hanscom Field, New England’s principal transfer point for ICE detention flights. Cameras could help attorneys determine whether clients have been placed on flights, help families locate loved ones, and bring transparency to transfers that now occur largely out of public view. Go to All Eyes on Hanscom for action details.

Reproductive Rights

Contact the Boston Marriott Newton and enVision Hotel in Mansfield and urge them NOT to host anti-abortion organizations that spread misinformation and put women’s lives at risk. For more information and email addresses contact the Indivisible Feminist Action Team.

Voting

Prevent Racial Gerrymandering in Massachusetts

After the Louisiana v. Callais ruling gutting the Voter Rights Act, we need our state to be proactive in protecting our rights and democracy.

  • Call Governor Healy at (617)725-4005 or email and urge her to commit that we will NOT have racist gerrymandering in our state.

REMEMBER

Things are NOT hopeless. This is a setback, NOT the end.

This decision is NOT final. This is a pivot point for what comes next.