New England United for Justice

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Building a People's Agenda, One Voice at a Time   New England United 4 Justice NEU4J: August 2024 Updates, News Community Informed Research Building out the Agenda! Click our online magazine to read more on our findings from over 1900 Boston Voices

Come on down please pass on to Brockton residents and networks!

Take a Walk with Us!
Community Informed Research, Guiding our Agenda
What does our Neighborhoods in Boston have to say about Housing, Transit, Childcare and the Workforce. Read more Here

Community Informed Solutions 2024 Read Community Informed Solutions 2024 by NEU4J on Issuu and browse thousands of other publications on our platform. Start here!

There is a housing crisis now and it is about to get worse. Pass this on, join an action, please email the core team coordinating this week. Our heart goes out the thousands of families about to be displaced. Reach out to your local shelters and see what support is needed.

Community Labor United has been a sister organization with us for well over 15 years. The power of bringing labor and community together, strategic research and policy efforts, coalition building and helping to change the narrative is a key part of the work we take on in Black and Brown Communities across the Region. Our team is looking for the next Executive Director, reach out and apply!

Careers – Community Labor United Community Labor United (CLU) seeks a seasoned grass-roots organizer who is a strategic, politically savvy leader and coalition builder to become the organization’s next Executive Director. This position is based in Boston, MA with potential for hybrid work.

Youth leadership coming together to take action in their community! For more information connect with Alternatives for Community and Environment and the REEP team!

When we bring community together, we show out in a big way!!!

until the summit! Make sure you register with us if you haven’t already.

Workshops gonna be FIRE 💪🏾
Food boutta be BUSSIN 🍗
Mcs gonna be MCin 🎤

It’s gonna be a great time yall. 27th year doing this, and it always gets better! 😤

Get ready to show love and support, Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition 2025!

Here it is!!

MFFC & Bikes not Bombs are hosting the 2025 Youth Bike Summit.

We were passed on the Golden Handlebars at the 2024 Summit and now we're excited to bring the Summit to Boston. So youth, it's now your time to be at the forefront of safe and accessible biking in Boston! Stay tuned for more information as we get closer to the event 🎉

Check it out https://buff.ly/3A8sqmb

On July 23rd, Governor Healey announced changes to the Emergency Assistance (EA) family shelter system that will force children and their families out with no safe place to sleep at night.

Families who are deemed eligible for shelter will now be forced to choose: wait in an unsafe place for a shelter placement or stay for 5 nights in a state-run overflow site but then wait at least 6 months to access EA shelter.

EA shelter is the last resort for families with no safe place to sleep. This change is going to leave families and children with no other options. Five days is not enough time to find housing or alternative temporary options. This is another step towards dismantling the EA shelter system that has been in place for over 40 years. This policy will increase unsheltered homelessness throughout Massachusetts.

Take Action with Community!!!
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🤔 where would you want to see $4 Million spent in our neighborhoods? The participatory budgeting process was fought for by residence and voters to build a stronger sense of community governance to the budgeting process. We are joining forces with Dorchester leaders on the ground to ensure Community has a voice and offer their vision to resources should be spent on the ground.

Join us, share your dream and let’s develop the future of our city together. Please register https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc9kCzZC482hDe5xzPAnSnBJ08iSVQxarjHSTNOS6hNmbyKow/viewform

As we think about all the changes, the city is moving through transit, housing, access to small businesses, access to childcare in our schools… community needs continue to be top-of-the-line for many of our residents.

Staying involved and having a seat at the table as changes are being proposed is a major part of our focus. We invite you to join in on a conversation around the redevelopment of Columbia Road and what the future holds for Transportation in our neighborhoods. Click this link https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrcOqpqjMjEtxAYJFUdNL-XDEaD6DLiGzX #/registration

See you there!

Please come out and support if you can! Chinese Progressive Association - CPA Boston and key labor / community allies are hosting this day to action for workers in our communities!

It’s that time a year again!!!!
Come out, have some back yard fun for Justice, while supporting organizations across the ecosystem in our region! This is a way for good food, networking, sharing, building…while also support a pooled fund for grassroots organizations doing the people’s work! Come on down! 🦞 🌽

https://resist.networkforgood.com/events/66043-11th-annual-celebration-of-grassroots-organizing?

* 11th Annual Celebration of Grassroots Organizing * 11th Annual Celebration of Grassroots Organizing in Boston / 11ª Celebración Anual de la Organización de Base en Boston

Carmen Feliciano, NEU4J Leader 👊🏽This rising star hits the highest in outreach through our phone bank program. She is now shifting to admin and logistics and is helping our team get kits ready as we kick off our Civic Action efforts. Thank you Carmen for all that you do and for helping us get the 411 out into our neighborhoods 🤎

A day with the Early Education and Care Department visiting with member leaders and voices from Boston-Brockton delivering hundreds of petitions in support of Friend, Family and Neighbor Care! Sign the petition and help caregivers become recognized for their work and for higher wages for FFN Caregivers! EEC needs to hear from us!

https://carethatworks.org/take-action

Brockton Organizing School has been a beautiful shower of power, unity and strength 👊🏽🔥🤎

Each One, Teach One
Collective action in training and developing member leaders. 2 more weeks 🖤

Brockton Workers Alliance
Center for Economic Democracy - CED
Mass Budget and Policy Center
City Life/Vida Urbana
True Alliance Center
Associação Caboverdiana De Brockton/Capeverdean Association of Brockton
IFSI - Immigrant Family Services Institute-USA
New England United for Justice

Click here to learn more about what has been moving in the community and how YOU can get involved!
April News Letter

Our Neighborhoods, Our Fight!   New England United 4 Justice NEU4J: April 2024 Updates, News, Take Action With Us! What's Moving in Our Neighborhoods? UJIMA Mattapan Food and Fitness Urban Farming Institute THRILL Greater Mattapan

Roller Skating and Bike Rides
Supporting Our Small Business Community
Uplifting Mattapan and Collective Power
Having fun, sharing space and building our Voice
RSVP for a set of activities in our City 🌸

https://facebook.com/events/s/mattapan-neighborhood-assembly/3717546151864251/

Let’s talk about climate resilience, our voice and future and build creative space through arts and music! Our own Kxng KO is preforming! Come on down. Must be registered here

http://Tinyurl.com/nucjap-meeting

Advocating, Organizing Brings Our Voice!
Senate Passed ☑️
Now we need the House ?

Sign now m, help us continue to move this issue forward! Family Friend and Neighbor Care is an underground, unseen workforce that must be respected 🌹🖤

We are talking about the mamas, aunties, uncles and others in our family or our personal networks…who step in to provide childcare when needed. Licensed and unlicensed exempt care givers DESERVE to be paid for their hard work, love and time.

At $9 to $23 a day… we say this is a slave wage and this issue MUST be addressed!

1) Raise voucher reimbursement rates to at least minimum wage 2) Make the voucher more flexible for parents 3) Give FFN providers and parents a voice

Sign the Petition - Care That Works

Over 200 Black Women have been recognized for their contributions in civil rights and organizing history in Boston. NEU4J's Board President, Maude Hurd, was among one of these women. We are proud to stand on the shoulders of women who have paved the way in this work, through out history and in our communities. March 9th the community will take the streets in honor of the women from our neighborhoods. Thank you and Congrats to all who have been honored and recognized for their love of our people!

Register NOW for the upcoming Housing Assembly in Boston March 16th. Development is changing in Boston and community voices are key in our planning, community informed solutions and how we want to see changes impact our neighborhoods. We will also have allies from the Better Budget Alliance, Labor Organizing efforts around Project Labor Agreements and our push for Good Jobs, the Intersections of Climate and Housing. Join Us for a day of learning, sharing, planning and organizing!

March People's Assembly // Asamblea del Pueblo en marzo // 三月活动大会 (星期六) 3 月 16 日, 上午

National Assembly with on Housing, Land and Climate Justice. Proud to know the history of Boston is embedded in the roots of RTTC history and the work we are building in community!

We want to make sure you know where to go in Boston for Free Tax Services across our Neighborhoods. Please feel free to pass this on!

Democracy Hub in Boston gearing up and creating space for reflections, planning and preparation for 2024! 🌹
learn more about our coalition with and
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Building the drum beat in grassroots strategies in our year round organizing and civic engagement!

Celebrating our transition, each other, our teams, this work! Last day with NEU4J, Community Labor United and Alternatives for Community and Environment. Now we are on break! Safe, healthy and joyful holidays! See you in 2024 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽🔥🙏🏽

Support tenants fighting for their homes in Mattapan! Join us on Monday!