Your data should be nobody's business. 

This Thursday, the Massachusetts Senate will vote on comprehensive privacy legislation known as the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (S.2608). Strong data privacy legislation must ban the sale of our sensitive data, limit how companies handle our data, and provide a strong enforcement mechanism. 



The Massachusetts Data Privacy Act, as written, achieves many of these goals, including a complete ban on the sale of sensitive data. But there are critical protections missing from the bill, and Big Tech lobbyists will be hard at work this week trying to keep them out and to weaken the bill. 

Your legislators will be hearing from the Big Tech lobbyists who have spent the whole year cozying up to Donald Trump. They need to be hearing even louder from you. 



Email your state senator in support of strong data privacy legislation.

 

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Here are the key amendments that civil liberties advocates are rallying behind and that your senator needs to hear from you about: 

#52 (Rausch) – Closing Loophole to Prevent All Sales of Sensitive Data, which eliminates broad carveouts for industries that are regulated (but in a much more general way) on the federal level

#25 (Friedman) and #4 (Creem) – Preventing Location Tracking for People Traveling to Massachusetts,which ensure that people who come to our state for reproductive and gender affirming care have all the protections we can offer

#55 and #56 (Rausch) – Strong Enforcement, which ensure that people are able to seek redress in court when their rights are violated. To put it simply, a law without a strong enforcement mechanism is just a recommendation.

9/30: MA Fights Back Forum on Climate Action 

Every week, we hear in the news about new assaults on environmental protection from the Trump administration. Blocking clean energy projects. Opening up new areas for drilling and mining. Throwing money at fossil fuel companies and executives while eliminating resources for renewables and energy efficiency. Censoring and defunding environmental justice research. Canceling grants. The list goes on. 

Trump's actions are causing and will continue to cause harm. But climate denialism doesn't change the reality of the climate crisis. What can we do at the city and state level to fight back? Join us for a virtual forum on Tuesday, September 30, at 7:00 pm.

RSVP HERE 

It's Election Season in MA's Cities! 

If you live in one of MA's cities (as opposed to towns), it's election season. 

Our Elections Committee has been collecting informational questionnaires from candidates across the state. 

Don't see your city on the list? Reach out. Some cities have late filing deadline, so candidates haven't been reached out to yet.

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Protect Our Care with Corporate Fair Share Town Halls 

It’s time to Protect Our Care with Corporate Fair Share. The Trump administration is taking away healthcare from working families and seniors so they can put more money into the pockets of billionaires and big corporations. Here in Massachusetts, we could lose as much as $3.5 billion in federal aid that pays for health care, education, and food access for hundreds of thousands of people. We simply can’t afford the harm that will cause.

That's why the Raise Up Mass coalition is holding a series of regional Protect Our Care Town Halls across the state to tell our legislators: it’s time to make big corporations pay their fair share in taxes—and stop the cuts. Chances are we’re holding one near you! Can you join us?

Find a Town hall near you

Here’s what’s at stake. Up to 350,000 people in MA could lose their health care and/or food assistance because of cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. More than one million students could be hurt by cuts to PreK-12, colleges, and child care. The money from these cuts to state funding is flowing directly to big corporations and billionaires, while our communities are stuck with the cost of hospital closures, hungry students, and long ER lines.

Progressive Mass's "Power Lunch" Series 

What comes after calling your state rep and state senator? Getting others to do so as well.

Join Progressive Mass for our "Power Lunch" phone bank series (Thursdays at noon), where we will be building our collective power in service of a better Commonwealth for all. 

No prior phone banking experience required! Each phone bank starts with a fun ice breaker question and a training.