In June, Congress passed the S.2 reconciliation bill that provides ICE and Border Patrol with $70 billion in new funding for mass detention and deportation on top of last year’s unprecedented funds. Now Congress is debating whether to give these same agencies an additional $30 billion to carry out the administration's anti-immigrant agenda through the Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations process.

We support Detention Watch Network's demands that Congress:

Provide NO funding for ICE and Border Patrol in Fiscal Year 2027 appropriations.

Redirect taxpayer dollars away from the bloated budgets of ICE and Border Patrol to fund health care and other human needs.

Restrict the use of funds for further ICE detention expansion, including the use of funds to construct or renovate warehouse detention facilities.

Send a letter now!

The Massachusetts Senate just released a bill that will impact families, workers and the planet. We are asking you to help make the dream of a renewable, accessible energy future a reality by encouraging your Senator to co-sponsor these key policies. 

Contact your Senator now. 

Our Priorities include: 

-Halting the expansion of the gas system and protecting workers

-Stopping utilities from charging us, their customers for advertising

-Removing subsidies for burning trees to make electricity

-Protections from Data Centers

-And more!

With your action, we can turn these policy goals into concrete action. Thanks to your grassroots activism, we were able to stop a climate bill that would’ve reversed years of progress in November and take steps towards energy affordability in February. Now, we need your help one more time to bring it past the finish line.  Here is the full action guide.

Join us in pushing for clean, affordable energy and send your Senator the Mass Power Forward Priorities today. 

RSVP for a Phone Bank!

Our rent stabilization bill has moved to the Ways and Means Committee! That doesn't happen without pressure. That doesn't happen without 157,000 signatures. That doesn't happen without people like you showing up.

The MA Supreme Judicial Court barred rent control from going forward to the November general election ballot, but the legislature still has time to pass rent control.  And this movement is exactly where it needs to be inside the building, with momentum, with legislators watching to see if we're serious. Now we have to show them we are serious.

We are organizing phone banks where volunteers will call constituents in key legislative districts and ask them to contact their elected officials. You will be trained. You will have a script. You will not be alone!  (If you can't phone bank, you can still use this action guide to take action on your own time!)

Can you join a phone bank below? Phone banks need at least 10 people to be effective - every attendee matters! 

• Tuesday, July 7th from 12pm - 2pm

• Wednesday, July 8th from 1pm - 4pm

• Wednesday, July 8th from 3pm - 7pm

• Thursday, July 9th from 3pm - 7pm

• Tuesday, July 14th from 12pm - 2pm

• Wednesday, July 15th from 1pm - 4pm

• Tuesday, July 21st from 12pm - 2pm

• Tuesday, July 28th from 12pm - 2pm

Call to Action from Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless: 

Please take action with us today to help pass the Everyone Needs ID bill to expand access to Mass IDs for people experiencing homelessness. A state-issued ID is often the gateway to housing, employment, healthcare, benefits, and financial stability. For many people experiencing homelessness, obtaining an ID is extremely difficult because they lack the required proof of residency, have lost important documents, and/or are unable to afford the $25 fee.

Learn more and take action here!

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. 

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.

Read more about our amendment requests here.

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. 

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!

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.

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.

MA legislature, and while it has been legalized in 14 jurisdictions, it has not gone as far as a floor vote in this state. It is currently in the Senate Ways and Means Committee and the legislature is only active until July 31st. Please call your senator and urge them to contact leadership to advocate in support of the End of Life Options act, S. 1486. https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator

Medical Aid in Dying would allow a person with a prognosis of less than 6 months to be prescribed a medication that they could take when their quality of life was such that their suffering overcame their desire to continue living, so they could ensure a peaceful death.

The bill includes multiple safeguards: two health care provides have to agree on the prognosis of less than six months, a mental health provider has to certify that the person is mentally competent, there is a waiting period and a requirement for both written and oral request and the person has to self ingest the medication. With over 40 year of cumulative experience in other jurisdictions, this option hasn’t had a single verified instance of abuse.

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. 

Take Action and sign this petition from LUCE here!

Donate here!

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!

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!

Expanding private jet emissions will be devastating to our climate. See below for opportunities to take action!

1. 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.

2. Petition: Sign this petition to the Governor!