Other great opportunities to get involved - locally and nationwide
Photo: April 2025 Hands-Off Boston. Credit: BoxfordDems.
Zoe Finch Totten and others have provided us with some useful links to some organizers whom you should consider joining. Click the images to go their websites and check them out!
By Christian Schoenberg, Last Update: August 17, 2026.
Haverhill Mutual Aid is a community of neighbors organizing fast, direct support for folks in Haverhill facing urgent challenges during times of hardship. In Haverhill, we take care of each other.
LUCE Immigrant Justice Network in Mass. Hotline numbers in New England!
See ICE? Spread info, not panic!
Size: How many agents/officers?
Activity: What are they doing?
Location: Address or intersection/neighborhood?
Uniform: Letters, patches visible?
Time: When did you witness them?
Equipment: What did they have with them?
Massachusetts number: (617) 370-5023
MIRA (Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition) advocates for the rights and integration of immigrants and builds a diverse, member-driven coalition to advance the interests of all foreign-born people.
Check out their helpful know-your-rights resources for printing.
The ACLU is there for us! Abortion care, trans people's right to live freely, people's right to vote — our freedoms are at stake. Donate today to help fuel their fights in courts, statehouses, and nationwide on our behalf!
5 Calls makes it easy for you to reach your members of Congress and make your voice heard. They research issues, write clearly articulated scripts, figure out the most influential decision-makers, and collect phone numbers for their offices. All you have to do is call.
Force Multiplier, an independent, all-volunteer organization, can help you maximize the impact of your political investments of time and money. They guarantee that 100% of donations goes directly to the candidates and groups you choose to support.
Democracy Action Center is not an organization – it's a website created by pro-democracy leaders to help individuals, content creators, and organizations across the country unite to take coordinated collective action.
For those who want something super easy, resistbot lets you consider and sign multiple petitions a day. It is a free and easy way to send petition emails (rather than faxes or snail mail). Also available as a free app in your Apple Store.
Let us know if you have a favorite organization that is missing from this list by writing us at mailchimp@boxforddems.org!
This week’s issue
GENERAL
BoxDems Meeting Thursday, Voting, Delectable Drinks with Dems, Another Ballot Double Hitter, Editorial: Murraytown (link)
Past week’s comments (link)
BOXFORDDEMS BALLOT-MEASURE SERIES
This week’s ballot measures
Q2: Collective Bargaining for CPCS Employees (Christina Eckert) (link)
Q8: Sale of Adult Recreational Use Marijuana (Adam Steiner) (link)
Last weeks’ ballot measures
Overview of ballot-initiative process (Christina Eckert) (link)
Q1: Public Records Requirements (Ellen Mandel) (link)
Q3: State Primary Elections (Terri Teleen) (link)
Q4: Same-Day Voter Registration (Eleanor Grigg Schoenberg) (link)
Q6: Establish Nature-for-All Fund (Jessica Grigg) (link)
GET INVOLVED INITIATIVES
Drinks with Dems: Meet fellow Tri-Town Dems at Alfalfa Farm Cellars (link)
Distribute 47 doorhangers and get a BoxfordDems swag bag (link)
We’re getting out the Boxford vote with Blue Rides (link)
Democrats and democracy-leaning organizations sharing regional calendar (link)
Other great opportunities to get involved - nationwide (link)
CAMPAIGNS
