To start off their Community Organizing Fellowship year, the new Fellows participate in a 5 day long orientation retreat. This year, they took action together and were part of a a voter registration drive with the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition. On August 26th, there was a big naturalization ceremony at Faneuil Hall and the Fellows were there to greet the new citizens and help them register to vote. In total we registered . . . → Read More: Orientation Retreat Voter Registration Drive
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Dan Gelbtuch (JOI 07-08) and the teens he works with as part of Youth Force at the Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation have been working hard on the issue of youth jobs for months. Click here to read recent coverage of the issue in the New York Times and check out the picture taken at a rally they organized in . . . → Read More: Importance of alumnus work highlighted in New York Times As this article shows, members of interfaith organizing efforts in Boston are having a national impact as they fight not just to save their own houses but to make sure that policies are put in place to prevent foreclosure on a much wider basis. JOI alumni Lauren Jacobson and Dan Lesser, both JOI ’09, are working with the organizations highlighted in this article (the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization and United Interfaith Action which is . . . → Read More: Alumni Organize Interfaith Efforts in Foreclosure Crisis |
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