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Diversity
To learn about efforts to fight disinformation on DEI, explore the USC Race and Equity Center’s National DEI Defense Coalition’s information and resources.
The Environment
Why We Need to Fight for Healthy Air and Water – and for the EPA! In this week’s IndivisiBlog, author Sharon Wilke spotlights the Trump EPA’s push to unleash the chemical companies, power plants, and other polluters.
Interested in Climate Change? Carbon Countdown 2025, sponsored by Sustainable Middlesex and several partnering organizations, included presentations on innovative state climate programs. You can watch a video of the event here.
Former employees of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have launched a new website! Climate.us fills the void left when the Trump administration shut down a government-run climate information site.
Healthcare
Learn more about the Health Crisis in America. Visit the IndivisiBlog series with author and physician activist Kim Bergner. Part 3 spotlights the challenges to medical research and one of its greatest achievements over the last century: vaccines.
Bergner highlights how we can resist this assault on our health care system and find reliable sources of health and medical information for ourselves.
The Health Crisis in America Part 4: Children’s Health and Elder Care on the Brink. In Part 4 of her IndivisiBlog series on the crisis in American healthcare, activist and physician Kim Bergner examines the impact of Trump regime cuts to children’s healthcare and care for the elderly.
Learn, Act, and Celebrate with the Indivisible Mass Coalition (IMC) LGBTQ+ Action Team.
Immigration
The Trump regime’s attack on immigrants and immigration is hurting the Massachusetts economy, as detailed in a new report from Boston Indicators titled An Uncertain Future. According to this report, immigration to MA fell by more than half in the first six months of Trump’s second term, harming the state in multiple ways.
The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) has released Iced In: The Actions and Impacts of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts in 2025. This report found patterns of unnecessary violence and suppression of basic rights, fear and instability taking hold in Massachusetts, destabilization of entire institutions and communities.
Massachusetts Services/Budget
Learn how the Trump administration and Republican Congress has negatively impacted services for Mass residents and what we can do to support our residents. See Cape Ann Indivisible’s presentation.
Learn a little about the legislative process and what it means to “lobby” your legislator.
Let Your Voice be Heard!
Take Action as a Consumer
Resist and Unsubscribe. Learn how you can take action against the businesses supporting Trump and ICE here.
Boycott Starbucks
Starbucks is racking up more federal labor law violations than any other corporation in U.S. history. Don’t cross the picket line and pledge not to buy Starbucks while workers are on strike.
Boycott Citizens Bank
Indivisible groups across Massachusetts are trying to De-ICE Citizens Bank. We are urging them to stop financing Core Civic and Geo Group, two groups contracting with ICE to operate detention facilities. More information is found here.
Every Wednesday, 12:15-1pm. De-ICE Citizens Bank: Coalition Lunch & Learn Series. Register here.
Email Bruce Van Saun, CEO of Citizens Bank, who feels good about his company’s share prices rising while the bank finances the GEO run facility in Newark, NJ where immigrants detained at there have launched a labor and hunger strike to bring attention to inhumane living and work conditions (NJ Monitor, 5/22/26). Ask Mr. Van Saun how he can feel great when his profits come at people’s pain.
Email Kristin Silberberg, head of investor relations at Citizens Bank, and urge Citizens Bank to sever ties with ICE prison companies. Go here for a script you can copy and paste.
Take Action On a Local Level
Data Centers
Mansfield residents approved a data center zoning bylaw at their annual Town Meeting on May 5. It creates strict limits on where and how data centers can operate in Mansfield. The measure effectively bars the kinds of large-scale facilities increasingly appearing across the country, while leaving a narrow pathway for smaller operations under close municipal oversight.
July 21, 7pm at Attleboro City Hall. Joint Public Hearing with the Attleboro Municipal Council and Planning Board regarding an amendment to the City of Attleboro’s Zoning Ordinance by adding a new section entitled Temporary Moratorium on Data Centers. Any person interested or wishing to be heard on the matter may attend this joint public hearing.
Flock Cameras
GOOD NEWS!! At a recent Sharon Select Board meeting, they voted unanimously to direct the town administrator and the police department to end the contract with Flock, i.e. not renew in September 2026, commit to holding public hearings should police wish to utilize any other surveillance equipment, and designate a town representative to meet with the citizen group (a.k.a. US) to work on a bylaw that would regulate surveillance equipment and be presented to voters at the 2027 spring town meeting.
Home Depot and Lowes use Flock cameras and share your data. Learn more here and share concerns with others.
Take Action On a State Level
Contact your state legislators NOW about 2 important issues we need to get across the finish line.
1. Protect Our Immigrant Communities. Tell them to ask Legislative Leadership to ensure that the final version of the PROTECT Act (H.5305) contains a clean ban on new 287(g) agreements, without exception; contains strong and clear limitations on communication and collaboration with ICE; and bans courthouse arrests, including on courthouse grounds.
2. 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 Progressive Mass’s 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 Informaton
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.
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.
Take Action on a National Level
Download the 5 Calls App to make contacting your US Representatives and Senators easy!
Campaign Finance
Stop Taking Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) Donations
Tell Representative Auchincloss to reject all Palantir Technologies contributions and donate his existing Palantir funding of $25,000 to local nonprofits. Palantir’s surveillance and data collection tools are used in large-scale raids on immigrant communities and in the war in Iran.
Civil Rights
Say No to Warrantless Mass Surveillance
Tell or email Representative Jake Auchincloss not to authorize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 surveillance authority without serious privacy guardrails.
Contact Senators Warren and Markey with the same message.
Disabilities
Protect the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) & Defend Disability Rights Against DOJ’s Attack
The Trump administration cut Medicaid funding of home and community-based services supporting people with disabilities living at home. A recent DOJ memo hints at the desire to not enforce the ADA and not prosecute states that institutionalize those with disabilities against their will.
Urge Representative Jake Auchincloss, and Senators Warren and Markey to support Senator Duckworth’s resolution to reverse Medicaid cuts, rescind the DOJ memo, and reaffirm support for the ADA.
Federal Grants
Stop Trump’s Harmful Changes to the Federal Grant Process - Massachusetts Federal Funding is at Risk
Public Comments due by July 13. The Trump Administration’s OMB has proposed a rule, docket OMB-2026-0034, that would give White House appointees unchecked power to approve or cancel any federal grant — overriding Congress, with no appeal or explanation required. Over $1.1 trillion/year in funding is at stake, including rural hospitals, Head Start, Meals on Wheels, public works, and substance abuse treatment. Tell your personal story about how federal funding affects your community. Info on the proposal and tips on drafting your comment here. You don’t have to be an expert!
Email Representative Auchincloss, and Senators Warren and Markey, to express your concern.
Foreign Affairs
End the Illegal Blockade on Cuba
Tell Representative Jake Auchincloss to oppose any unauthorized military action against Cuba, push to end sanctions, and demand diplomacy, humanitarian relief, and respect for Cuban sovereignty.
Immigration
Protect Haitians and Syrians with TPS protections
This week, the Supreme Court ruled to strip TPS protections from Haitian and Syrian families living and working in our communities. Congress is the last line of defense. The House already passed a bill (H.1689) to protect them. The Senate just needs to vote. These are people who are home health aides and construction workers. Thank Senator Markey for leading this effort in the Senate and ask Senator Warren to join him.
Stop the Warehousing of Humans
Urge Representative Jake Auchincloss and Senators Warren and Markey to investigate ICE’s detention facilities and expose the conditions that immigrants are facing and reject the violence and atrocities taking place at Delaney Detention Center in NJ.
Trump Nominee
Oppose Trump’s Unqualified Nominee for Director of National Intelligence
Email Senators Warren and Markey to oppose new nominee, Jay Clayton, who has almost no experience tackling intelligence issues and does have alleged ties to Venezuela and Epstein.
End the Illegal Blockade on Cuba
Tell Representative Jake Auchincloss to oppose any unauthorized military action against Cuba, push to end sanctions, and demand diplomacy, humanitarian relief, and respect for Cuban sovereignty.
Take Action to Impact Elections!
Important Election Year Deadlines in Massachusetts
For the Primaries
- August 22 - Voter registration deadline. If you are not yet registered, if you need to make changes to your name, address, or political party, or if you want to make sure you’re registered, go here.
- August 25 - Vote by mail application deadline
- August 22-28 - Early Voting Period
For the November Election
- October 24 - Voter registration deadline
- October 27 - Vote by mail application deadline
- October 17-30 - Early Voting Period
Get involved in protecting and expanding the vote in Massachusetts
- Connect with these organizations.
- OR Join IMC Safeguard Elections Action Team meeting every Wednesday at 4:30pm. Register here.
At June’s IMAB meeting, we voted to support Lisa Field’s (Taunton/Easton) and Thomas Melville’s (Plainville) candidacy for Massachusetts State Representatives. While there may be other campaigns we support, we chose these two either because their seat is most at risk of turning red or we have a real chance of turning a red seat blue. These campaigns need your support.
Please consider donating and volunteering. You can get more information about their candidacy at Field’s and Melville’s website. In addition, IMAB sent questionnaires to all state rep and senate candidates and received responses from Field, Hawkins, and Melville. To see their responses, go here.
Push for Stipend Reform
The ballot question for stipend reform was quashed by a ruling from the SJC, but there are ways to press forward on this issue of reforming loyalty pay. Ask your legislative candidate where they stand on stipend reform. If you are interested in collecting signatures to put a non-binding public policy question on the ballot in state representative’s or senator’s districts, you just need to collect 200 signatures for a state rep district and 1,200 for a senate district to be collected by July 8 If interested in collecting these signature, contact IMAB’s CD-4 coordinato.
Know These Candidates
- If you missed IMC’s session with Jason Poulos, candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives (CD-4), you can watch that here.
- Help Roy Cooper in North Carolina**. Sign up to phone bank every Sunday starting on June 14 from 6-8pm. Register here.
- Democratic candidates in New Hampshire for US House of Representatives and Senate will need help too. Contact Indivisible Somerville if interested.
Write Postcards to Voters in Swing States
You can now write postcards to get out the vote for the November 2026 midterm elections! If you can’t join us for one of our in-person postcard writing sessions, sign up here to receive your postcards and write your postcards at home.
Learn more about the research on postcards to swing states! Some super interesting data here! Postcards to Swing States/Progressive Turnout Project wants to send 14.5M postcards to voters in 12 states in 2026. Research shows that these postcards increase turnout by 1.3%. This may not sound like much, but in 2024 control of six state legislative houses was decided by only 4,000 votes. In 2024, Democrats lost the House of Reps by only 7,310 votes.
Write postcards to encourage people across the country to register to vote. Contact Field Team 6.
Louisiana v. Callais Ruling Gutting the Voting Rights Act
- Go here for a social media tool kit with ready-to-go messages.
- Check out Indivisible’s toolkit on the Louisiana v. Callais decision that gutted the Voting Right Acts.
- Racism is at the core of the assaults on democracy and there have been long-term efforts to erode our tools to fight it. Jasmine Crocket held a live panel Tuesday night right after the ruling. It does an amazing break-down of the impacts, implications and what needs to happen – watch the video.
Until Democrats can enact much-needed court reforms to counter the Supreme Court’s gutting the Voter Rights Act, if you can, please donate to the organizations that will be working overtime to counteract this decision:
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.
WEAR A PAPER CLIP!!!
From Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse, September 20, 2025
On Thursday, E. Jean Carroll started it: Paper Clip Protest.
“Comely Reader! I suggest we all start wearing the paper clip. Subtler than a red hat, more powerful as a CONNECTION,” she wrote, explaining they were also worn during World War II as a sign of resistance against the Nazis.
Norwegian teachers and students wore paper clips to signal their opposition to Nazi occupation. They attached them to their lapels and wore them as jewelry, a symbol of solidarity binding them together as paper clips did with papers. It was a quiet act of defiance, expressing that Norwegians remained united against Nazi rule.
