A progressive organization based in Franklin County, Mass.
April 4, 2019
by Mike Jackson
GREENFIELD— “These are moderate reforms,” Sheila Gilmour said, kicking off the municipal socialism conference on Saturday by laying out its basic premise. “They’re things that even the most conservative of our neighbors should be able to get behind.”
Continue reading “Montague Reporter ‘Out of the Streets and Into the Sewers’”
Monday, April 1, Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution’s Education Task Force and public school teachers from Greenfield to Amherst to Westfield State discuss “Fund Our Future” and other important education issues with our terrific legislators, Senators Jo Comerford and Adam Hinds and Representative Natalie Blais.
Part 2 of FCCPR’s March 30 Municipal Socialism Conference is focusing on worker cooperatives, public banking, and solar power. Great energy! What’s next? We’ll see.
Well over a hundred people attended FCCPR’s Municipal Socialism Conference at Greenfield Community College today. Workshops and discussions ranged from affordable housing to broadband to public education.
In Democracy Here, Ep. 14, host Maryelen Calderwood interviews Senator Jo Comerford about running for the Massachusetts Senate, current education legislation and many other topics.
[FCCPR’s] David Greenberg, a member of the new [CD-1 Progressive] Coalition, said he’s not sure how vulnerable Neal is at this point…For now, the coalition aims to keep a focus on what Neal is getting done. “To make it easier to know what he’s doing or not doing. There will be a lot of people watching,” Greenberg said.
Though progressives stir, Neal’s hold firm on Democratic center
The CD-1 Progressive Coalition, which includes FCCPR, announced Tuesday that it will convene an evening town-hall-style event at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center.
Organizers said they have asked Neal to take part in the event, which will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Feb. 22, at 100 Bigelow St., but have yet to hear back from his office.
Source: Progressive Coalition invites US Rep. Richard Neal to Friday town hall in Holyoke | masslive.com
More than 60 people came out to the Greenfield Common Monday, Feb. 18, at a noon rally called by FCCPR in conjunction with a national call to protest Trump’s state of emergency. Trump’s declaration of a state of emergency is another attempt to do an end run around Congress and the majority of people who see Trump’s action for what it is: racism plain and simple.
Source: The Recorder – Local activists go up against ‘the wall’
