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Page last updated: June 2nd, 2026
Emergency Actions for Rent Control by July 1
We have a REAL CHANCE of passing rent control by July 1. Housing advocates and real estate groups have come together with a compromise proposal for a bill that we are advocating passes in the State House before July. Even Governor Healey said she "would support a legislative compromise on rent control." We are gaining real momentum for this campaign!
Now is our chance to go all out to let our legislative leaders know that we want them to act by this deadline to pass a rent control bill.
Here's how you can take action:
Call your legislators using this action guide
Even more important - ask others to call their legislators! You can see a sample outreach email under Action 2 here. Personal outreach to your own contacts is super effective!
Join a phone bank to call the public to urge their support on this.
You can join City Life Vida Urbana's phone bank *TODAY* between 11-2 at this link! (You can join late if needed if you can stay for 1-2 hours)
You can join our friends at APIs CAN and AARW Tuesday, June 23 from 12-1pm by RSVPing here.
Whether we rent or own, live in a city or a small town, are just starting out or are rooted for decades, we all deserve a safe, stable place to call home. Everyone benefits when Massachusetts residents have stable housing they can afford.
#FreeHer: Critical Actions to Stop Women's Prison Construction and More!
Sign and share the petition to STOP SUFFOLK CONSTRUCTION from profiting off prison construction! bit.ly/StopSuffolk
Suffolk Construction is a national company with a headquarters right in Roxbury. Suffolk was selected as the construction manager for the massive, expensive women's prison construction project in Framingham, estimating over $380 million in costs. Despite calls from the community to withdraw from the bid process, Suffolk Construction is moving ahead.
Incarcerated women, formerly incarcerated women, and residents across the state know a new prison will not lead to more healing, safety, or wellbeing. Spending hundreds of millions on prison construction during an affordability crisis and federal cuts is wrong for Massachusetts.
Other ways to take action:
Town Hall on Monday June 29 at 6pm, Sign up here! Learn more about the Governor's prison construction plan which is now expected to cost OVER $380 MILLION.
Action Hour to STOP SUFFOLK: Tuesday June 30 at 12pm. RSVP here!
Contact your legislators! Use our toolkit to contact your legislators and demand POLICY CHANGE BEFORE PRISON CONSTRUCTION! We are still pushing to pass Elder and Medical Parole and the MA Survivors Act.
Phonebank and Canvass! RSVP here! Sign up for a phonebank or canvass to help spread the word about how to STOP SUFFOLK and the women's prison project! Phonebank on 6/ 24 and/or canvass in on 6/27.
Action: No More Deaths in Prisons
We have a crisis in our prisons and jails. Over 140 people have died in our prisons and jails since 2022. None of these deaths were inevitable. They are the result of policy failures. Policies that warehouse people with mental illness in solitary-like units, policies that restrict basic familial and community connection, and policies that leave the elderly and the infirm to die “expected” deaths, shackled to a bed.
Together, we can dismantle systems that cause harm and build systems that create healing.
Join our partners at Prisoner's Legal Services to take action before the legislative session ends on July 31 to demand our legislators take action to support people who are incarcerated and their families.
Learn more and take action:
An open letter to Massachusetts Residents about deaths in custody and urgent legislation we need to help change things.
The sign on letter where over 110 organizations endorsed needed legislation.
Take action: Please reach out to your State Senator in support of EA, HomeBASE, and RAFT amendments to the FY27 Senate budget
We are pushing to gather more cosponsors on key amendments to the Senate version of the FY27 state budget. In particular, we hope you can join us in reaching out to your State Senator and Senate leaders this week/early next week in support of these amendments (also outlined in our fuller overview).
We have a new one-minute online action that allows you to contact your State Senator, Senate President Spilka, and Senate Ways and Means Chair Rodrigues to support these amendments alongside other key homelessness prevention, housing, and cash assistance priorities in the FY27 Senate budget. Please sign and share the action today.
You can also call or email your Senator to encourage them to cosponsor and support these amendments. Their contact information can be found here.
TIME SENSITIVE: Support Lino's Fight to Stay Home!
TIME SENSITIVE: Support Lino's Fight to Stay Home! Take action now!
Lino has called Massachusetts home for nearly 30 years. He survived a devastating 2002 house fire that left him with severe burns and took his sister's life. Despite everything, he's built a life here by running a construction business, raising his daughters, and showing up for his community.
Take Action to Support Family and Community Connections!
The Keeping Families Connected Coalition is advocating for H.2591: The Visitation Bill which would make critical changes support vital connections between people who are incarcerated and the people who love and support them. We are working to pass this bill through a MA House budget amendments . Take action to support this amendment here!
Petition for Emmanuel Damas
Emmanuel Damas was a beloved son, brother, and member of the Dorchester community. He immigrated from Haiti to the US to reunite with his brothers and mother, and had an asylum claim in process. Emmanuel died on March 2, 2026 in ICE custody after repeatedly reporting a toothache to detention staff but received no medical care until he collapsed and fell into a coma. The Damas family and LUCE join together with people of conscience to demand justice. You can support this by signing this petition.
Take Action to Support Decarceration!
Prisoners' Legal Services, Families for Justice as Healing, and 100 others wrote a letter our leaders urging them to prioritize a package of six critical bills this session. Now we need the help of individuals to ask their legislators to make this a priority. Please contact your legislators with a copy of the letter via email, phone, or the form below and ask them to express their support to the Committee on Ways and Means as well as House or Senate leadership. Email your legislators using this link.
Support Medical Aid in Dying
Senate President Karen Spilka needs to hear from senators in support of moving the End of Life Options Act (S.1486) forward. This would allow a terminally ill person to be prescribed medications that they could take to peacefully end their life at a time of their choosing. There are many safeguards on this legislation to prevent any exploitation and with over 40 years of cumulative experience in other states there has never been a verified instance of abuse of this type of legislation. Please contact your senator as soon as possible and urge them to contact President Spilka with their support moving this forward this session.
Petition: Protect our communities from ICE in Massachusetts courts
Concerned community members have witnessed escalating numbers of violent ICE arrests at MA courts. This is one of many ways in which our state’s public institutions are being used as deportation traps. Our state government has a responsibility to do everything in its power to stop its courts from being used as staging grounds for detaining our community members.
The BIJAN Bond Fund needs your help
BIJAN is reaching out again now because our funds are dangerously depleted due to ICE’s violence in our state, which has impacted unprecedented numbers of people. Please donate today!
So far in 2025, the Beyond/BIJAN Bond fund has more than DOUBLED the amount we paid in bonds in 2024. To date this year, we have paid
$965,000 in bonds, freeing 123 people.
$62,055 in commissary ($20/month) to directly support people in Massachusetts snatched from their communities and caged by ICE. This allows them to make phone calls, buy soap, clothes and needed supplies, send mail and try to get by while detained.
$79,345.50 in emergency crisis response funds for families impacted by a detention or deportation.
Despite the current administration’s efforts to end immigration bond and keep people in “mandatory detention,” lawyers are fighting back, filing habeas petitions and challenging court rulings . So we are paying more bonds, allowing people to pursue their immigration cases from the community instead of facing deportation. Without your donations, we will soon have to pause paying commissary and bonds. Please donate today, and consider becoming a monthly donor to increase your impact!
Since we are an all-volunteer network, we have no staff to pay, no rent for an office, and no overhead. This means that every dollar of your donation goes directly to help our immigrant friends and neighbors in this moment of trauma and crisis. Thank you for being part of this essential work and for choosing freedom!
Opportunities to Stop Private Jet Expansion
Expanding private jet emissions will be devastating to our climate. See below for opportunities to take action!
Resolution: We are calling on Unitarian Universalist congregations in MA to adopt a Resolution urging Gov. Healey to stop private jet expansion at Hanscom Field airport or anywhere. Learn more here! For questions, contact: faith@stopprivatejetexpansion.org In the meantime, please take action as an individual by signing this petition to the Governor.
Petition: Sign this petition to the Governor!