Join us for our 2025 annual member meeting!

We'll be talking about our legislative agenda for the new legislative session and how to take action. Stay tuned for information about speakers, breakout sessions, and more.

Our Agenda for 2/1

1:00 - 1:30 Registration & Socializing

1:30 - 2:00 Business Portion (Updates, New Legislative Agenda, etc.)

2:00 - 2:45 Panel Discussion: “Winning Our Wins”

Winning a policy by legislature or by ballot takes a lot of effort, but it is only step one. There’s a world of work afterwards focused on implementing, protecting, and messaging policy victories as well as capitalizing on them to build support for future ones.

Panelists:

• Harris Gruman, Executive Director, SEIU State Council
• Laura Rotolo, Field Director, ACLU of Massachusetts
• Vatsady Sivongxay, Executive Director, Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance

3:00 - 3:45 Breakout Sessions: Policies in Focus

• Achieving Housing for All

• Building Up People, Not Prisons

• Climate Action: What States & Cities Can Do  

• Protecting Our Immigrant Communities

• Public Health: The Fights Ahead

4:00 - 4:45 Breakout Sessions: Skills & Strategies

• Ballot Questions 101

• How to Build Support for Housing in Your community

• Progressive Communications in a Fractured Media Landscape

• What I Learned from Lobbying in Other States

• Why You Should Run for Local Office

Our Annual Meeting is open to everyone. However, you must be a member to vote for members up for election or re-election to the Board. You also must be a member to nominate yourself or someone else for election.

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