🧵PLEASE SHARE: In response to the mass firings of probationary federal employees, AFGE has developed FAQs to provide probationary employees with the best guidance we can.
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📢Know Your Rights!
Communities across the country are dealing with the fear and threat of immigration raids.
To our immigrant neighbors and families, I am so sorry you are facing this cruelty and targeting, and our office is here as a resource.
Everyone deserves access to high-quality mental health services & wraparound care, including our immigrant neighbors.
I'm proud to deliver $1.1M in federal funding to support @MassGeneralNews' efforts to provide comprehensive, culturally congruent care to vulnerable communities.
As the number of people living with #LongCOVID grows, we must be intentional in our vaccine outreach efforts.
I'm holding a panel with @HHSGov, Boston Black COVID Coalition, & experts at @MattapanCHC to discuss the latest booster & available resources.
https://t.co/o8ZOaSjJFf
We are thrilled to have our Congresswoman and champion of workers @AyannaPressley to kick us off! Thank you @RepPressley for standing with New England’s 12,000 essential commercial cleaners at this critical moment in our fight for a fair and just contract! #BuildingJustice
Maternal health justice is a racial justice issue and a matter of life & death.
I introduced the MOMMIES Act with @SenBooker to tackle the Black maternal morbidity crisis & make comprehensive, culturally-congruent reproductive care a reality for all.
The FDA is banning the harmful chemicals in hair relaxing products because Black women in Congress called the question.
When you have a diversity of lived experiences in the halls of power, our policy is more responsive & reflective of the people we serve.
Three in five teen girls report feeling persistently sad or hopeless. There is no doubt: girls are facing a mental health crisis.
Yesterday, we were proud to host an important shadow hearing on supporting these young women - and why it's no time to cut mental health funding.
U.S. citizens and their immediate family members in Israel and Gaza who need assistance should contact @StateDept using this crisis intake form: https://t.co/E4jMeLosal. Family members can also submit information on behalf of a U.S. citizen family member through their Rep.
Honored to host @StevenHorsford, @KamalaHarris, & our @CBCInstitute colleagues in Roxbury, the heart of Black Boston.
Discussions like these are necessary to confront the layered crises facing our communities. #DFTP
📢PSA: @CBCInstitute’s Democracy for the People tour is coming to Boston.
This Saturday 7/29 at 3pm, join me, @StevenHorsford & members of @TheBlackCaucus for a community town hall at Roxbury Community College.
RSVP here ➡️ https://t.co/bzlv6UBLRD
Our Freedom to Move Act would help deliver the safe, reliable, fare-free public transportation the people deserve & demand.
TY @EdMarkey, @wutrain & the advocates & organizers at the forefront of the fight for transit justice for your partnership on this transformational policy.
Our $4M expansion of tuition free community college in Boston will cover:
— Costs for associate degree or short-term certificate program regardless of resident age, income or immigration status
— Up to 3 years of college for eligible residents
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“We honor women like Shirley. We follow in their footsteps. And we continue running, winning, leading, legislating & taking up all the space with our full authentic selves – just as Shirley taught us.”
Incredible #WomensHistoryMonth tribute to Shirley Chisholm from @RepPressley:
Thank you to everyone who joined Mayor @katjballantyne & I for our community coffee in Somerville!
Always grateful for the opportunity to be in community, hear your concerns, and update you on our work to support folks in Somerville & across the #MA7.
This week’s guest on @JHillUnbothered is Congresswoman @AyannaPressley. We discuss the State of the Union shenanigans, the Democratic agenda going forward, why she made her private battle with alopecia public, and being tasked as a Democrat with progressivism and harm reduction.
With our Post Disaster Mental Health Response Act, we worked with survivors to develop & pass real policy responsive to their trauma.
Now, more survivors can access the resources they need to heal.
That's what it means to keep those closest to the pain closest to the power.
When @AyannaPressley says she keeps those closest to the pain closest to the power, she means it.
And that style of governing is delivering real results for her district. #mapoli