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‘It’s going to ruin our lives’: New Bedford residents march to stop Parallel Products expansion

Sep 3, 2019

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 and a...

CSJ Endorses Ed Markey for 2020 U.S. Senate

Aug 16, 2019

“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...

Southcoast Residents Talk Immigrants’ Rights at Capitol

Jul 25, 2019

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....

Residents stand up for immigrants with ‘Lights for Liberty’

Jul 19, 2019

This article originally appeared in the Standard Times By Aimee Chiavaroli FAIRHAVEN — By a peace pole outside of the Unitarian Memorial Church, more than 40 people, with candles and some umbrellas in hand, began singing “We shall overcome.” The rain came down harder,...

Coalition working to significantly increase welfare benefits to ‘lift kids out of deep poverty’

Jul 17, 2019

This article originally appeared on MassLive By Shira Schoenberg | sschoenberg@repub.com New Bedford resident Tanisha Ferrer has received welfare benefits for the last year. Her 7-year-old son, who has social and emotional problems, was expelled from school, and she...