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MA Legislature looks at Police Accountability

Police accountability needs to move from the streets to the State House. Symbolic gestures are not enough when Black and Brown lives are on the line. It's time for real limits on police powers and systemic reforms to hold police accountable for violence and abuse. The NAACP New Bedford Branch is supporting two urgent police accountability measures now before Beacon Hill legislators. Ask your organization to sign this Google form indicating their support for the two bills and please share this request with others. To build power behind these bills quickly, we have to show our strength in numbers. Our...

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Support MA Infrastructure and COVID-19 legislation

The NAACP New Bedford Branch urges support for the following state legislation: Senate Vote on Thursday, July 2nd - call today An Act making appropriations for the fiscal year 2020 to authorize certain COVID-19 spending in anticipation of federal reimbursement (H4808) - would create a pathway for undocumented immigrants to get Massachusetts driver's licenses. Senate Infrastructure Funding (S2790) - to provide for a program of capital investments for public safety, governmental infrastructure, information technology and data and cyber-security improvements to various state programs, services, agencies, institutions and properties and to fund technology infrastructure; of special important to NB Schools...

Addressing structural racism and police abuse

While solutions to structural racism and police abuse go much deeper than laws punishing individual misconduct, we welcome efforts to address them. These are some of the bills that are now working their way through the Massachusetts Legislature: H1440 (Rep. Holmes) An Act establishing a special commission on structural racism H2141 / S1386 (Rep. Tyler) An Act improving juvenile justice data collection H2146 (Rep. Vieira) Resolve providing for a “Special Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training” to study and make recommendations concerning the implementation of a Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST) system. H2292 (Rep. Holmes) An Act...

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DC Statehood bill advances

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday advanced legislation to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, marking the first vote in Congress in nearly 30 years to grant full congressional representation for residents of the nation's capital. Eleanor Holmes Norton, DC non-voting delegate who has pushed for statehood since she began serving in Congress in 1991, said: “Congress has two choices: It can continue to exercise undemocratic authority over 700,000 American citizens who live in the nation's capital, treating them in the words of Frederick Douglass, as ‘aliens, not citizens, but subjects.’ Or it can live up to the...