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Current calls to action with UU Mass Action or our partners:
Page last updated: Nov 3, 2025
Note: many of the actions below, and more, can be found on our most recent Action Hour Guide!
Help Get Rent Stabilization on the Ballot!
We are so excited to let you all know that we broke 75k signatures to get rent stabilization on the 2026 ballot. That means we are 56% of the way to 125k with just around ONE WEEK LEFT! If you haven't collected yet, it's not too late! If you can do a final push, this is the week to go all out! Let's goooooo!
UU Mass Action has a goal of 2000 signatures, and we are just over 700. Help us reach our UU goal!
Here are ways to get involved in this final week:
Join us TOMORROW on election day! We are hoping this will be our biggest day yet. Email tsmookler@uumassaction.org for more info, and/or if you are set to go just go to a polling place near you for a few hours!
Join the volunteer push in Framingham/Metrowest this Thursday-Sunday! UU Mass Action staff plan to join Friday!
Sign up for a shift in Greater Boston!
Sign up for an election shift in Western MA
Can’t make an official shift? Create your own! Grab a petition, hit your local grocery store, coffee hour, farmers market, standout, or community event, and collect signatures from your neighbors — every single one counts. Sign up here to get everything you need to get started on your own!
Are you in another part of the state and want to get involved? Email tsmookler@uumassaction.org to connect with local opportunities!
Take climate action!
Several of our climate priorities have had hearings and need your support! Take action below.
1. The Make Polluters Pay / Climate Superfund bill (H.1014 / S.588) had a hearing on Tuesday, September 2. Use this toolkit to submit written testimony!
2. The committee deadline to report the INDOOR air quality bill (H.2427 / S.1546) favorably is fast approaching. Please send a message to your representatives urging them to advocate for its passage out of committee.
3. The OUTDOOR air quality bill (H.2369 / S.1548) had its hearing. Submit written testimony as an organization or individual using this toolkit
Support Access to Visitation for Incarcerated People with the Keep Families Connected Coalition!
The Keeping Families Connected Coalition just filed an updated bill with sponsors Sen. Miranda and Rep. Decker, “An Act to Build Restorative Family and Community Connection” (S.1720/H.2591) to protect access to daily visits, eliminate draconian caps on the number of visitors someone can see, create child-friendly spaces, and reduce discrimination, especially regarding alleged dress code violations.TAKE ACTION!
Stop the Prison Moratorium November Opportunities!
Support Families for Healing to Stop the New Women's Prison! These are critical steps in the larger movement to end the incarceration of women and girls. By following the vision of formerly incarcerated women, Massachusetts can truly be a model for what different looks like!
November is full of important opportunities to get involved - join us! Some upcoming events include:
FreeHer MA Town Hall--Policy Priorities of 2025
November 3, 2025 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
Learn about our mission, values, history, and legislative priorities for 2025. See how you can plug in to the FreeHer Campaign in MA. We will share our vision for decarceration and reimagining communities on the way to abolition, and make space for Q&A!No New $360m Women's Prison Project Framingham Town Hall
November 22, 2025 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM ET
McAuliffe Branch of the FPL or Zoom, 746 Water St, Framingham, MA 01701
Join a hybrid town hall in Framingham to hear from women who served time in MCI-Framingham, meet local residents involved in organizing, learn what we know about the project strategies to pause construction, and vision together how else the state should invest our tax dollars for the wellbeing of our communities.
Justice for 13 y/o Arthur - Bring Him Home Now
On October 9, 2025, a 13-year-old Everett child, Arthur, was arrested by the Everett Police Department. ICE abducted and transferred him—first to Burlington, Massachusetts within 5 hours, then over 500 miles away to a juvenile detention center in Virginia, all before 72 hours had passed.
This is not an isolated incident. In Everett, ICE continues to operate freely with the cooperation of local law enforcement, creating fear and trauma in our communities. Our tax dollars should fund schools and healthcare, not child detentions and deportations.
We demand:
The immediate return of Arthur to Massachusetts and his family
An end to all ICE-police collaboration in Everett and across the Commonwealth
Protection for all children and families from unlawful detentions and transfers
An END to ICE raids and kidnappings terrorizing our communities
Municipal Leadership to take Immediate action to establish clear policies ensuring tax dollars fund education and healthcare — not ICE and local law enforcement collaborations
New ICE Hotline & Fundraisers
Last week, we saw ICE in several communities across our state. As we work to keep each other safe, if you suspect ICE is in your community, please call this hotline: 617 - 370 - 5023
We also invite you to contribute to:
Emergency Fundraisers for Families Affected by ICE Enforcement,
Fundraiser to support a much beloved BIJAN community member has just lost his asylum case
We will continue to show up for each other and side with love. If you are interested in leading a hub, becoming a verifier, or being a hotline answerer (multilingual requirement), please email Tali for more info.
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.
Youth Involvement: SPJE (Stop Private Jet Expansion) (SPJE.org) is launching a campaign by and for youth, where they can engage in climate activism. There are a variety of ways that youth can get involved, including joining the Youth Campaign Advisory Board, tabling at events, planning actions, and more. For questions, contact: faith@stopprivatejetexpansion.org.
Petition: Sign this petition to the Governor!
Medical Aid in Dying
Medical Aid in Dying is a practice that allows a person with a prognosis of less than six months to live to be prescribed an medication that they can take at the time of their choosing to allow a peaceful painless death. The law has multiple safeguards, such as the requirement that two doctors agree on the prognosis, and that there be a written witnessed request and a waiting period, and that the person has to take the medication themself. This practice has been legal for many years in 12 jurisdictions and there has not been a single credible case of this law being abused.
Both the Senate bill (S.1486) and the House bill (H.2505) have passed the Joint Committee on Public Health and are now with the Joint Committee on Healthcare Financing. If it passes this committee there are several steps before a final vote, so it’s important that it move forward from this committee as quickly as possible.
Please consider contacting your legislators and urging them to support H.2505 and S.1486. Calls to members of the Joint Committee on Health Care Finance are especially impactful if you are on of their constituents. Senate: Cindy Friedman, Chair, John Cronin, Vice Chair, Julian Cyr, William Driscoll Jr. Paul Feedy, Panel Payano, Kelly Dooner.
House: John Lawn Jr, Chair, Meghan Kilcoyne, Vice Chair, Dawne Shane, John Francis Moran, Tommy Vitolo, Judith Garcia, Kip Diggs, Lindsay Sabadosa, Chyna Tyler, Christopher Markey, Hannah Kane, David Muradian, Paul Frost.
Please contact Molly Walsh with any questions