Our Communities, Our Water

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Contact Jonathan Leavitt to arrange a screening of the award-winning documentary, Thirst.

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Corporations and Militarism

See our project website.

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Taking on Coca-Cola

See our page on the campaign.

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Jobs and the Economy

MGA's core work is analyzing and acting on critical challenges facing the Massachusetts economy – particularly the ongoing conversion of good jobs into bad jobs (or no jobs at all). Given that, MGA focuses on providing useful information on these topics to our members and the general public from a progressive perspective, and developing a strategy for action. MGA encourages people to join us in various activist campaigns to improve the state's economy and job outlook for the benefit of all Massachusetts residents. These actions will take various forms—from simple letters to the media on key issues to to public forums to full-blown demonstrations and civil disobedience—but whatever MGA does cannot succeed without the constant participation of our members and allies.

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Immigration and Globalization

One key feature of the rise of corporate globalization has been multi-national corporations' bad habits of destroying the economies of entire countries in the service of increasing their profit margins. One way corporations have done this is by forcing countries into competition with each to provide workers with the least legal protections and the worst wages. To simplify a complex story: When a country no longer has jobs for most of its citizens then their citizens start to migrate in large numbers to wealthier countries that still have jobs; countries like the U.S. Even though there are still many available jobs in the low-wage sectors that most immigrants find work in, many American workers—finding their own economic fortunes on the downswing thanks to corporate globalization—feel immigrants are directly competing with them for jobs. This fuels a rising nativist movement against all immigration, and an increasing scapegoating and criminalization of immigrants. The solutions to this situation include pressuring the U.S. government to enact humane immigration policies, sign and uphold international treaties on global labor standards and migration. In Massachusetts, MGA builds support for pro-immigrant policies among citizen voters and politicians through our Urban-Suburban Dialogues. We act in favor of good jobs for all workers, including protecting those whose jobs come under threat from employers pitting workers against one another based on citizenship status.

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Legislation

See the Our Communities, Our Water project site.

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