Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice
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Boston, MA 02110
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Recent News
- Day of Action: Urge Your Representatives to Support An Act to Create Access to Justice! September 20, 2021
- Day of Action: Urge Your Representatives to Support Language Access for All! September 9, 2021
- Four Centers Within the Appleseed Network File Public Comments with the U.S. Department of Education on the State of School Discipline in America July 26, 2021
- 2021 Good Apple Reception Announcement July 21, 2021
Appleseed Network
Day of Action: Urge Your Representatives to Support An Act to Create Access to Justice!
The Massachusetts legislative session is in full swing, and we have an unprecedented opportunity to advance civil rights for Massachusetts residents. Join us TODAY for a Day of Action! Contact your legislators and tell them: Civil rights protections at the federal level have been systematically gutted. We need legislation to restore critical protections in Massachusetts […]
Day of Action: Urge Your Representatives to Support Language Access for All!
Exciting news: the Language Access and Inclusion Act is scheduled for a hearing before the legislature next week! But before that happens, we need to consolidate as much support behind this bill as we can. This is an unprecedented opportunity to dismantle barriers to access, stability, and basic needs that have gone unaddressed for too long, […]
Four Centers Within the Appleseed Network File Public Comments with the U.S. Department of Education on the State of School Discipline in America
Advocacy Organizations Urge Biden Administration to Ramp Up Enforcement of Federal Civil Rights Laws in Schools Across the United States WASHINGTON – Four member organizations of Appleseed, a network of justice centers, submitted public comments to the United States Department of Education on Thursday, July 22, concerning the national state of school discipline. By focusing on four questions posed […]
2021 Good Apple Reception Announcement
Save the Date! October 14, 2021 6:00 PM Virtual Following an extraordinarily difficult year and in the wake of unprecedented challenges, it’s thanks to our community of support that we’ve been able to expand our work to end the systemic injustices and inequities harming our most vulnerable families and youth. Now, it’s time to come […]
Limited English Proficient Families File Discrimination Complaint Against The Massachusetts Department of Children And Families
Boston, MA, July 14, 2021 – Today, Haitian-Americans United, the Greater Boston Latino Network, and Jane Doe, a mother and immigrant with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), filed a civil rights complaint under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act against the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) in response to the agency’s failure to provide federally mandated language access to the LEP […]
Celebrating and Commemorating Juneteenth
Massachusetts Appleseed’s office is closed today in observance of Juneteenth, the annual holiday marking the day that federal troops marched into Galveston, Texas and freed those who remained enslaved more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. This act reminds us that freedom and justice are never easily given but must be fought for, and […]