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Alexandra Thorn

For residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts and surrounding communities, on June 2, 2025, Cambridge City Council is holding a hearing reviewing the city's use of #ShotSpotter audio surveillance technology.

This technology claims to use AI to specifically identify the sounds of gunshots, but in fact is highly unreliable, and primarily results in higher policing of the disproportionately black and brown neighborhoods where the devices are deployed.

#stopshotspotter#CambridgeMA#MAPoli
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knizer

#BostonWeekend 44/x

#SomervilleMA Neighborhood meeting of #BostonDSA (at the foundry in Cambridge, yes, I know) - you don't have to be a member to join the meeting (very happy to meet new neighbors, and just learn about what we're doing in Somerville/Boston and get plugged in to local organizing).

actionnetwork.org/events/somer
#DSA #Somerpol #MApol

actionnetwork.orgSomerville February Monthly Meeting Join us for our monthly neighborhood group meeting! This will be a hybrid meeting using zoom. Accommodations available on request.
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Voting is Your POWER

By VOTING for DEMOCRATS, WE PROTECT OUR FREEDOM

The Healey-Driscoll Administration in Massachusetts has implemented two standing orders allowing approximately 500,000 eligible Massachusetts residents to obtain free over-the-counter birth control pills and prenatal vitamins. #uspol #uspolitics #freedom #birthcontrol #health #massachusetts #mapol #mapoli

wgbh.org/news/health/2025-03-0

GBH · State orders open access to free prenatal vitamins, birth controlBy Sam Drysdale | State House News Service
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DoomsdaysCW

Folks in #Massachusetts who care about #ImmigrantRights. Check out this post regarding three pending bills!

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#ResistICE #MAPol

kolektiva.socialAIF-Massachusetts (@AIF_Massachusetts@kolektiva.social)📣 Hey Massachusetts residents! Here's an easy action you can take this weekend to protect immigrants in our state. There are three pending bills in our state legislature that specifically help protect immigrants and refugees from the feds. They are listed below. Check if your state rep and senator are already listed as co-sponsors for each bill. If they aren't, please call their offices and urge them to co-sponsor. If they are already a co-sponsor, you could still call and express support for the bill, but it's less urgent. Find your legislators contact info here: https://malegislature.gov/Search/FindMyLegislator Bill 1: Dignity Not Deportations Act - to ban ICE detention beds and end voluntary ICE contracts in Mass. House: HD.3596 list of co-sponsors: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/HD3596 Senate: SD.1107 list of co-sponsors: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/SD1107 Bill 2: Safe Communities Act - limits police collaboration with federal immigration agents and ensures due process protection. House: HD.3816 list of co-sponsors: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/HD3816 Senate: SD.1670 list of co-sponsors: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/SD1670 Bill 3: Immigrant Legal Defense Act - creates a funded program for legal defense of immigrants facing deportation proceedings House: HD.4072 list of co-sponsors: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/HD4072 Senate: SD.2057 list of co-sponsors: https://malegislature.gov/Bills/194/SD2057 #MAPoli #Massachusetts #ImmigrantRights
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rednikki

The law in Massachusetts is that minor children need the signature of one parent in order to change their gender marker. The form has only one signature slot. But, contrary to the law and the form, the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics is rejecting forms that don’t have signatures from two parents. (Where does the second parent put their signature? Unclear.)

The policy isn’t on their website and the form doesn’t have a spot for a second signature. Applicants don’t get the form back and are required to go through the process of compiling all their information again.

Seems like something that a large media organization ought to cover.

Also, if you want a role model for how one person in government can delay or destroy implementation of a law, this is a great example.

#massachusetts #MAPol #mapoli #transrights

blog.erikashira.com/2024/12/ma

blog.erikashira.comMassachusetts has a sudden secret policy for rejecting sex marker changes for trans minorsAs anyone who is paying attention should know, trans folks are being urged to get all of their paperwork correct and matching before the inc...
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knizer

#USpol #MApol

The #Massachusetts primary is on Tuesday, September 3rd - the day after Labor Day Monday, and there are some important races - a win in the primary will all but guarantee a win for the candidate in November.

Are you choosing to be a voter ☑️ this year?
#GOTV

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