Closing The Environmental Voting Gap in 2020!

Many people who say they care about the #environment don't get out to #vote. It is fact that over 15 million individually identifiable environmentalists stayed at home on Election Day during recent nationwide elections. These are our neighbors, colleagues, friends...maybe even family members. On March 10th, the Boston Area Sustainability Group will host an evening to discuss this top, what the Environmental Voter Project is doing to address it, and ideas for how we can all help close that gap.

JP Conversation with Marty Walsh

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ayor Walsh is running for re-election in November 2017, and JP Progressives invites you to join us in an in-depth one-on-one conversation with Mayor Walsh on July 20th at 7:30pm (which will be preceded by an open JPP monthly meeting at 6:30pm to get involved in neighborhood activism). City Councilor Tito Jackson will join JP Progressives for a similar conversation with our community members on July 18th at 7:00pm.. RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-progressives-community-conversation-with-mayor-marty-walsh-tickets-35714531124

JP Conversation with Tito Jackson

City Councilor Tito Jackson is running for Mayor in November 2017, and JP Progressives invites you to join us in an in-depth one-on-one conversation with Councilor Jackson on July 18th at 7:00pm. Mayor Walsh will join JP Progressives for a similar conversation with our community members on July 20th at 7:30pm (which will be preceded by an open JPP monthly meeting at 6:30pm to get involved in neighborhood activism). RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-progressives-community-conversation-with-city-councilor-and-candidate-for-mayor-tito-jackson-tickets-35715046666

JP Votes 80 Percent For Coakley, 15 Percent for Baker

A look at the precinct-by-precinct results shows Jamaica Plain went heavier for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley than the rest of the city did. While Boston as a whole went 66 percent to 30 percent for Coakley over Governor-elect Charlie Baker, JP voters chose Coakley by an 80-15 margin. Independent Evan Falchuk made a slightly stronger showing in JP than in Boston: 3.5 percent in the neighborhood and 2.8 percent city-wide. But while JP was overwhelmingly for Coakley, there were differences among precincts. Residents of Moss Hill, with its suburban feel, also voted more like suburbanites.

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Grassroots Volunteers in JP Small Business Canvass for Earned Sick Time Ballot Question

On Tuesday evening, State Senator Sonia Chang-Diaz and Boston City Councilors Matt O’Malley and Ayanna Pressley joined workers, business owners, community leaders and grassroots volunteers at Bella Luna restaurant on Amory Street in a canvass launch in support of Question 4 on the November ballot. Currently a million workers in Massachusetts don’t have access to paid sick time. During the canvass, hosted by Bella Luna owners Kathie Mainzer and Carol Downs, volunteers knocked doors, and talked to voters about the importance of Question 4. Chang-Diaz spoke about a business owner who was incredulous that there are businesses that don’t provide sick time, while O’Malley called Question 4 a matter of “family values.”

“Earned Sick Time is good for business,” said Mainzer. “It is a moral crime that people have to make a choice between their job and their health,” said Pressley.

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