CSJ has been hard at work helping to make sure the communities in our base areas had a say on future state and federal districts. We want districts where people with common interests can vote together and have representation that understands their experience and shares priorities. Here is is some of the media coverage of the conversations and...

Read the article at: https://thepublicsradio.org/article/new-bedford-voting-districts-redrawn-to-shift-power-toward-black-and-hispanic-voters CSJ has been working on helping to draw more equitable districts and the ideas is gaining traction. New Bedford is served by five members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. All of them are...

The Coalition for Social Justice's Summer 2021 interns recently had a lesson on using art to communicate about issues we have been working on and wrote the following poems. On housing (adapted) There once was a renter named Emily Whose landlord had no accountability He raised up the rent, by one hundred percent And he never did fix the...