Turns out there was a bill around this that passed the state house a couple years ago but then died in the Senate. They were going to work on it again in 2019/2020 but then Covid hit and that was the primary focus-
There is now a new effort to get a bill through around the same issue and once I have the name of that bill and the ways that Massachusetts state residence can support it I will let you all know
Just going to gather all the info and ways people can get their reps to support in Mass
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Just went on the best date of my life tonight and couldn’t be happier.
College is fucking awesome
Not saying anything else cuz I like to keep that part of my life private but I just thought I would share that it’s not sways all doom and gloom and there are some good things in life.
I’ve spent a lot of time over the past near 4 years thinking about major obstacles I’ve noticed in progressive organizing currently and through out the 20th century (from research on social movements for my classes). Here are a few of the main ones
#1 The movement not taking care of itself and by that I mean the organizers not taking care of themselves. People acting as if a social movement is a campaign with a quick sprit and finish line and not an ultra marathon with no clear finish line.
#2 the orgs not having any hierarchy and being too horizontal resulting in attempts to make everyone happy ending up with no one being happy. The orgs that had a much more strict structure consistently outlasted the ones that didn’t in the 20th century.
In case you didn’t hear today it was confirmed the last US strike in the Afghanistan war killed an aid worker and his family- including up to 7 children
A horrific failure at every level that killed innocent civilians and children with a bomb we paid for.
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff “Declined to comment as to whether anyone will be disciplined over the strike, noting that the investigation is ongoing. "I have nothing for you now because that involves personnel issues," McKenzie said.”
I’m trying to figure out what triggers the IRA accounts- like if it’s just a word or phrase/phrases that triggers a response or if they have like some more sophisticated system with AI similar to GTP-3 or actual people
If you think vaccines are tyranny just wait until you hear about the thousands of in prison for selling a plant that’s now legal in some form in most states and also lose their voting rights as a result
Or the kids and adults that die because our government would rather protect guns than kids.
The biggest enemy of the progressive movement is itself and it’s infatuation with retributive justice. I am so fucking tired of people fighting each other more then fighting for true transformative and restorative justice.
What little we have of democracy is already in grave danger- we do not have the time to waist focused on petty drama and bullshit when future generations are count on us and in many ways we are counting on us.