Protect current residents from displacement and exploitation

Stabilize rents by lifting the statewide ban on rent control

Build new affordable housing and ensure compliance of the MBTA communities law

Invest, repair, and expand public housing and social housing

Expand and protect access to abortion, contraception, and IVF

Fully fund reproductive healthcare and gender affirming care

Improve maternal health outcomes and eliminate racial disparities by investing in community-based, holistic maternity and post-partum care

Fund high quality K-12 education with small class sizes and fully resourced programs for special education and English Language Learners

Guarantee universal access to high-quality Pre-K education

Ensure all students of public universities graduate debt-free

Expand MassHealth to universal healthcare coverage, in a modern and moral society, no one is too poor to access healthcare

Close loopholes that allow pharmaceutical companies to increase the cost of medication

Regulate privately owned hospitals and healthcare providers to prioritize the wellbeing of patients and frontline healthcare workers over cutting costs

Pass a MA Green New Deal and commit to 100% renewable energy by 2030

Retrofit and construct buildings that are carbon neutral

Prioritize environmental justice communities and workers most harmed by climate change to lead the transition to a green economy

Fully fund the MBTA and make the T free—to create a safe, frequent, and reliable transportation system. Public transportation is more than a system of transit, it is a resource that grants access to employment, education, health care, and culture.

Invest in our infrastructure including roads, bridges, water and sewers.

Work with fellow state legislators to make the rules of the State House more transparent so voters know how their representatives are voting

Apply open meeting law and public records law to the legislature

Lower barriers to accessing and understanding information on votes, bills, and amendments, provide more opportunities to participate in hearings

Push for debate about meaningful issues on the floor of the State House

Establish supervised consumption sites in Somerville and across the state

Fund comprehensive and free care to anyone suffering substance use

Treat addiction as a public health issue and eliminate involvement with the criminal legal system by decriminalizing personal use and possession of drugs

Pass the Safe Communities Act, ensuring that local police do not support federal immigration enforcement efforts

Ensure equal opportunity to higher education for all high school graduates, regardless of documentation status, including in-state tuition and financial aid

Mobility is a human right, we must ensure that all people can earn a driver’s license, regardless of their immigration status

Fostering welcoming and inclusive schools for young LGBTQ+ people

Ending the criminalization and policing of LGBTQIA+ people, especially transgender people and queer People of Color

Guaranteeing access to healthcare, including for mental health, addiction, and STIs, including HIV, to all people

Ensure access to safe and affordable housing, free of discrimination, for all

Lower out-of-pocket costs, eliminate coverage gaps and other barriers for older adults accessing healthcare. Massachusetts ranks worst in the nation for elder economic security due to high healthcare and housing costs

Fully fund supportive services that help older adults remain safe and independent in their living setting of choice, including Somerville Cambridge Elder Services and the Somerville Council on Aging

Increase wages of the elder care workforce and hold all assisted living, nursing homes, and other long-term residential care facilities to a high standard of care

Protect everyone’s right to remain in the community by developing accessible public infrastructure and housing

Fund and expand special education so that our public schools remain inclusive for all students

Increase wages for the community attendants workforce

Close the Judge Rotenberg Center in Canton, MA and end the physical abuse of people with disabilities

Pass PRO (Protecting the Right to Organize) legislation in Massachusetts, which would ensure that workers understand their rights,  and preventing employers from delaying, interfering, or retaliating against workers involved in concerted activity

Guarantee fair pay and a truly liveable minimum wage for all workers, regardless of immigration status 

Eliminate corporate greed by taxing companies whose executives make significantly greater than the median salary of their employees, and by implementing the millionaire’s fair share amendment - requiring corporations and wealthy individuals are taxed appropriately

Protect the Massachusetts Prevailing Wage Law

Directly and explicitly addressing the legacies of racist policies and structural racism by equitably funding our public schools, implementing Medicare for All, ending the affordable housing crisis, and closing the wealth, income, and power gap between communities of color and white communities 

Decriminalizing poverty and stopping racist law enforcement by ending the war on drugs and mass incarceration in Massachusetts

Defunding the police. Reduce the role of law enforcement in mental health and trauma related services, and reallocate funding to non-police solutions, such as housing, healthcare, and public education.

End life without parole sentencing and joint venture

Decriminalize poverty, end racist, classist, and ableist law enforcement, and decarcerate to reunite neighbors back to our community

End the war on drugs, substance abuse is a public health crisis and we need public health-centered solutions

End mass incarceration, by eliminating cash bail, exploitation of prison labor, and mandatory minimum sentencing

Ensure everyone can exercise their right to vote by systematically removing barriers to participating in elections

Make elections in Massachusetts freer and fairer with ranked choice voting and ending gerrymandering

Get big money out of politics by passing the We The People Act

Support campaign finance reform that removes barriers to running for office and creates a framework of public funding for elections

Uplift and support culture-building institutions that create, foster, and expand community, especially among residents living in the margin

Provide funding for local artists and community-based organizations to build culture and create art

Youth-focused programs that celebrate art and our diverse and vibrant culture and heritage

Ensure funding from the Fair Share Amendment goes to public education and transportation. Reform our upside-down tax code so that the wealthy pay a higher share of their income than working families 

Stop the accumulation of economic and political power by corporations and the wealthy by raising taxes on wealth, C-corps and the financial elite

Build a vision for a just economy founded on collective bargaining, a truly livable minimum wage and cooperative ownership