ILPS x PAIR Project Intake Training & Detention Visit 
ILPS is helping organize volunteers for the PAIR detention visits! PAIR, a Boston immigration nonprofit, needs volunteers to help with intakes on their weekly visits to Plymouth County Correctional Facility, the only remaining ICE detention center in Massachusetts. With the new administration and new ICE units opening in Plymouth, PAIR is seeing an increased number of people in ICE detention and needs volunteers to assist with intakes. Volunteers do not need to have immigration or legal experience, but speaking a second language is highly preferred (especially Spanish, Portuguese, French, or Haitian Creole). Unfortunately, due to the nature of doing intakes in detention, there is no access to language lines or interpreters, so volunteers who are proficient in other languages are needed. Helping with intakes can be a great way to learn about immigration law and the immigration enforcement system, and gain experience speaking with clients.

PAIR will use the information you gather on intakes to decide whether they are able to take the case or pass the information on to pro bono attorneys who volunteer with PAIR. PAIR has a prepared intake sheet they use which you will be filling out during intakes. Sign up to volunteer here. Please email Kristen Cain (kmcain@bu.edu) if you have any questions! Note: In order to get clearance to visit the detention center, you will need to provide PAIR with a photo of your government ID and social security number. We will reach out to you before the date to coordinate sending this information. 

Also, please check out this fundraiser coordinated by the Immigrants' Rights Clinic.

Mutual Aid 101 Learning Series
"Join Shareable for a four-week mutual aid learning series to help build a network of care and resistance in your local community!" The 90-minute sessions are free, virtual, and open to all!" The second session will be tomorrow, February 26th at 7:00 pm, and it will focus on Building and Sustaining Projects. The next sessions in the series will be on March 5th and March 12th at 7:00 pm ET. For more information and to sign up, check out bit.ly/mutual-aid-101. You can also find more info here!

Know Your Rights with ICE
Join Boston City Councilor Enrique J. Pepén and many community groups on Thursday, February 27th for a Know Your Rights session at the Roslindale Branch Library from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. Find out more information here!

Socialism 101 Reading Group
New to socialism? Curious about DSA? Joing the Boston DSA for a free, three-part virtual reading series, Socialism 101! The next event in the series will take place on Zoom on Thursday, February 27th, from 7:00 to 9:00 pm. Feel free to attend even if you have not had a chance to do the reading ;) Find more information here! Register at bdsa.us/feb101! 

Jamaica Plain Organizing Meeting
Join Boston DSA on Friday, February 28th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm at 250 Centre St in Roxbury for our second official Jamaica Plain DSA Neighborhood Group organizing meeting! "For the past several months, we have been building relationships in the neighborhood and building connections with each other. At this meeting, we'll get report-backs from people who attended meetings of other groups in the neighborhood over the past month, and continue to discuss our goals and strategy for organizing in our community." Find out more information here!

Neighborhood Book Sale for Gaza
Somerville for Palestine is hosting a neighborhood book sale! "All funds raised will go to @thesameerproject, which has been providing life-sustaining support for displaced families in Gaza. If you any have gently-used (or new) books you would like to donate, please dm me. If you’re in the Boston/Cambridge/Somerville area, you can drop off your books at @narrativebookshop which is helping us collect donations. Book sale will take place on March 1 at Connexion Church, Somerville." Find more information here!

Unleash the Fury of Women
Join the Mass Feminist Struggle Committee at 3:00 pm on Saturday, March 8th, at the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common for a red and antifascist International Working Women's Day! "Unleash the fury of working women as a force for revolution! In the face of the Trump administration's ruthless attacks on the democratic rights of women, transgender people, migrants and the entire working class, we say: WORKING WOMEN, GIVE THEM HELL! IT IS RIGHT TO REBEL!" Find more information here!

Arts & Culture in the Movement Teach-In
Join the City Life/Vida Urbana arts and culture committee for a social movement history teach-in and strategic planning series. The event has been postponed to Monday, March 10th from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm in City Life's Jamaica Plain location (284 Amory St, Jamaica Plain). "Save the date for Part 2, on Monday, March 24th. Collectively, in this 2 part series, we will learn real-world examples of how arts and culture have fueled social movement history to inspire how our movement moves forward." RSVP here! Find out more information here!

MAURA HEALEY: MAKE MASSACHUSETTS A SANCTUARY STATE
"Gov. Maura Healy said in December that Mass. is 'not a sanctuary state.' She doubled down on these comments the week of Donald Trump’s Inauguration after intensified ICE raids had already begun across the country, including in Mass. Healey has done nothing but parrot Trump and his racist anti-immigrant agenda while cutting housing access for all working-class families. These are pro-billionaire attacks on the whole working class — and Healey is siding with the billionaires.

It is up to us, as working people of Massachusetts, immigrant and non-immigrant alike, to stand together to demand the governor does everything in her power to protect our communities.
We Demand:
❌ No state or local law enforcement collaboration with ICE!
❌ Stop the racist demonization of immigrants!
❌ No new restrictions on housing assistance!
❌ No ICE in Massachusetts public schools or other public institutions!
Add your name, or endorse as an organization.
SIGN THE PETITION: SanctuaryStateMA.org"