Last week we brought you information on Project 2025 (900 pages). This week we bring you the official platforms of the two major parties.
Democratic Party Platform (49 pages):
https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTER-PLATFORM.pdf
Republican Party Platform (3 pages):
https://gop.com/press-release/icymi-rnc-platform-committee-adopts-2024-republican-party-platform/
This display of large posters was created for Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2024, and is on loan from Bridgewater State University. It will be in the Parish Hall from Sunday, October 13, (Yom Kippur) through Sunday, October 20. We chose posters that best illustrate the warning signs of fascistic thinking. Thank you, Lauren Haugh, for arranging for this display.
Massachusetts Trans Political Coalition (MTPC) writes that 30 schools in Massachusetts have been included in a lawsuit filed by Moms for Liberty seeking to erase the rights and existence of transgender and nonbinary youth in schools. The lawsuit has halted implementation of new Title IX rules that would protect trans, nonbinary, and LGBQ youth and were supposed to go into effect in August 2024.
Wednesdays: October 9,16, 23, 30 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Stand-out in Bridgewater Center, on the sidewalk in front of Walgreens, with BCCR (Bridgewater Communities for Civil RIghts). No signs for candidates please. (Issues are fine.) BCCR will probably have some extra signs with a generic GOTV message.
ROTARIANS, VETERANS AGENT, AND CONGREGATION DEDICATE NEW PEACE POLEMembers of the congregation gathered around the new Peace Pole on the church lawn early Sunday afternoon, September 15, with district and local Rotary Club officers and the Middleboro Veterans Agent, to dedicate the pole to the cause of peace. The Rotary Club graciously donated and installed the pole, which displays the words “May peace prevail on earth” in eight languages, including American Sign Language and Braille. Brief speeches were delivered by our Rev. Beau Rivers, Rotarian Kevin “Quack” Quackenbush who spearheaded the project for the Middleboro Rotary Club, Veterans Agent Stephen Adelman,
The Cash in the Plate for the first two weeks in October will be donated to the Salvation Army for Hurricane Helene Relief.
The Cash in the Plate for the last two weeks of October will be donated to the South Shore Resource and Advocacy Center (SSRAC). October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Members of the congregation gathered around the new Peace Pole on the church lawn early Sunday afternoon, September 15, with district and local Rotary Club officers and the Middleboro Veterans Agent, to dedicate the pole to the cause of peace.
It's a good idea to check your status, even if you feel sure you're all set. In battleground states, and states that have recently enacted restrictive measures, longtime voters are getting some ugly surprises. Our friend Phil Thayer in Concord forwarded a story by Joyce Vance. Vance's neighbor, a prominent voting-rights lawyer in Alabama, arrived at his polling place and was told he was on the Inactive voter list.
The Community Land and Water Coalition delivered a petition to Gov. Healey on August 20. The coalition is a network of SE Mass regional community groups and Wampanoag tribal leaders.
Their key demand is a moratorium, to stop mining while state and federal officials assess damage already incurred, and ensure protection of drinking water, rare pine barrens ecosystems, indigenous burial sites, and residential neighborhoods, from clearcutting, topsoil removal, and mining of carcinogenic silica sands over vast swatches of southeastern MA.
