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Meet virtually with friends and neighbors to discuss issues affecting rural communities in Massachusetts. New Mass Dems Chair will be in attendance. To register for the event, use this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErfu6tqzIpEtCRQImRGpDyP3sbNrmv7X_H If you’d like more information about the Committee, please email Lee Harrison, original chair of the Rural Affairs Committee, at lights.on@twc.com. All are welcome to join the Round Table discussion!

The Feminist Action Team will host the next IMC State Wide Call with State Senator Becca Rausch to discuss the harmful presence of Anti-Abortion Centers (otherwise known as Crisis Pregnancy Centers) here in MA and what can be done about them. Register for the call using bit.ly/IMCcall4-25

Join via Zoom for the monthly statewide meeting, where the chapter will discuss how we can engage Massachusetts companies to address gun violence prevention. Register for this event online; go to https://momsdemandaction.org/about/chapters/ and click on the link "Apr 25 MA-Chapter-April Membership Meeting".

Join local activists to engage in advocacy work especially related to immigration, re-imagining policing, and health care disparities. This committee meets virtually; email justice@grassrootscentralmass.org to request the Zoom link.

Join local activists to learn about and protect our environment in a multiplicity of innovative ways. At this meeting we'll review the successful Trees Are Treasures event we hosted last month and then discuss our next projects. This committee meets virtually; email climate@grassrootscentralmass.org to request the Zoom link.

Join us to learn the history of the Massachusetts flag and seal and hear about the effort to create a new flag and seal which will represent peace, justice, equality, and inclusion for the Commonwealth. For over 40 years, Indigenous leaders have been calling for the flag and seal of Massachusetts to be changed. To many, the imagery of a white arm holding a sword over the head of an Indigenous person, and the Latin motto, "By the Sword She Seeks Peace, but Peace with Liberty," speaks of a history of violent colonization and conquest. On January 6th, 2021, the…

Join us to plan future actions, hear committee reports, and discuss issues of importance to the organization. The Leadership Group meets virtually via Zoom. Please email Jeana, justice@grassrootscentralmass.org, to receive the Zoom link.

Join us to plan future actions, hear committee reports, and discuss issues of importance to the organization. The Leadership Group meets virtually via Zoom. Please email Jeana, justice@grassrootscentralmass.org, to receive the Zoom link.

Join us to plan future actions, hear committee reports, and discuss issues of importance to the organization. The Leadership Group meets virtually via Zoom. Please email Jeana, justice@grassrootscentralmass.org, to receive the Zoom link.

Brookfield’s longtime resident historian, the late Robert Wilder (1933-2015) spent decades mapping early Brookfield and other towns of the original Quaboag Plantation. To coincide with celebrations of Brookfield’s 350th anniversary, Wilder’s friends and collaborators organized this program to remember his legacy and to continue the conversation of how to recognize Brookfield’s Native American story. Through live presentations, film clips, maps, and a display of artifacts, the program will focus on Brookfield’s past, present and future through the lens of its first inhabitants, including the Quaboag and Nipmuc peoples. Featured speakers include Donald Duffy, Tom Silver Fox Morse, and Ted Timreck.…

In response to the recent dissemination of hate literature in West Brookfield by Goyim, a Neo-Nazi hate group, Brookfields Fight Fear is holding a Hate Has No Home Here standout on the town common. Park in local parking lots and on side streets, not on Route 9.

Organizers are mobilizing tens of thousands of people across the country to participate in the End Fossil Fuels march! The march will take place on Sunday, Sept 17, in New York City during the UN Climate Ambition Summit. The purpose is to send a clear message to world leaders – especially President Biden – that it's time to end the era of fossil fuels and invest in a clean and sustainable future for all. The all day trip will be from 6:30 am - 10:30 pm. To purchase tickets for a bus that departs from and returns to Worcester, use…