by csjadmin | Jan 13, 2020 | News, Story of The Month
We Need to Invest in Transportation Across Massachusetts, and It’s Time for Large, Profitable Corporations to Pay Their Fair Share! After years of underinvestment, Massachusetts’ transportation systems are at a crisis point. Because of the failures of our...
by csjadmin | Oct 1, 2019 | News, Story of The Month
Last year, we passed one of the most comprehensive Paid Family and Medical Leave laws in the entire country. We could not have done it without the support of grassroots activists and volunteers going out, collecting over 177,000 signatures, and making over 50,000...
by csjadmin | Sep 3, 2019 | Environmental Justice, News, Story of The Month
Thank you to the folks who came out to the march against Parallel Products expansion and to all the work of Southcoast Neighbors United’s new Citizens Against Parallel Products Committee (CAPP). NEW BEDFORD — Eighty-eight year-old Mary Myers wouldn’t let a one...
by csjadmin | Aug 16, 2019 | News, Story of The Month
“The Coalition for Social Justice (CSJ), Massachusetts’ leading grassroots organization to bring together people affected by and concerned about poverty to advocate for economic opportunity, has endorsed Ed Markey for U.S. Senate in 2020. “Senator Markey has been a...
by csjadmin | Jul 25, 2019 | Justice for Immigrants, News, Story of The Month
CSJ’s Immigrants’ Rights Day at the State House This originally appeared in the Standard Times on July 24, 2019 Boston- Wednesday, dozens of Southcoast and Brockton residents attended the Coalition for Social Justice’s Immigrant’s Rights Day at the State House....