• Amendment #139 (Rep Elugardo) to H5150:  Providing for climate change adaptation infrastructure and affordable housing investments: increasing deeds excise fees to fund climate change resiliency and affordable housing production and access
• Amendment #231 (Donato): Emergency Paid Sick Time
• Amendment #524 (Sabadosa): Increase the Tax Rate on Corporate Profits
• Amendment #675 (Connolly): Increase the Tax Rate that Investors Pay on Unearned Income
• Amendment #719 (Gouveia): Tax Profits Shifted Overseas by Increasing the Tax Rate on 'GILTI' (global intangible low-taxed income)

• Amendment #194 (Straus): RTA Funding
• Amendment #418 (Fernandes): Authorizing Retirement Systems to Divest from Fossil Fuels.

Ballot Questions Report

Together with Act On Mass, 350 Mass put two nonbinding public policy questions on the ballot in many districts for last week's election. One of the questions asked representatives to vote in favor of a transition to 100% renewable energy in MA by 2040, and the other asked representatives to vote in favor of releasing committee votes within the MA State House publicly online.

We are still waiting on the final vote tallies, but from the data we have received, both measures seem to have passed with supermajority support! You can view our results tracking document here.

Webinar—Roadmaps and Roadblocks: Accelerating Passage of Climate Legislation

Our next webinar features a panel that includes Craig Altemose, Executive Director of 350 Mass and Better Future Project, Greg Nadeau, ed-tech innovator and grassroots activist, and State Representative Nika Elugardo, progressive climate champion with a history as an attorney and nonprofit director. Sign up here. Mon, Nov 16, 7-8:30 pm.

Other 350 Mass News

Next Solidarity Working Group Call: The next call will be on Thursday at 8 pm. We welcome everyone to join us! Here's the Zoom meeting link. Meeting ID: 704 373 255. Thu, Nov 12, 8 pm.

Keep Emergency Paid Sick Time Moving: The 350 Mass Solidarity Working Group is taking on Raise Up Mass' Emergency Paid Sick Time campaign. The EPST legislation is currently with the Ways and Means Committee, so now is the time to push to make sure that it's favorably voted out before the end of the session. If your node is interested in an in-district meeting with your legislator, writing a letter to the editor, or supporting the campaign in other ways, contact [email protected] or [email protected].

Key Climate Legislation is Stalling in Committee: Click here for background and for model scripts you can use for calling or emailing your Rep and Senator about the pending climate legislation.

Write a Letter to the Editor: There's never been a better time to take part in 350 Mass' Letters to the Editor (LTE) team. Want to join? Email Alan Palm, Director of Organizing, at [email protected] to find out more. Our members have a great success rate in getting letters published! Read some of them here:

• Christine Foot's letter in the Cape Cod Times: Young people eager for results on climate change
• Debora Hoffman's and Fred Hewett's letters in the Boston Globe: Readers overflowing with anti-Trump sentiment
• Marjorie Lee's letter in the Boston Globe: It takes resolve, not quick fixes, to tackle greenhouse gases

Other Climate Movement News

Mass Peace Action Conference—Where do we go from Here? Preparing our Movements for the Next Four Years: Joe Biden’s election victory is a relief. But it also means that we have to organize like never before. What does that organizing look like? Join Ed Markey, Bill McKibben, and other movement leaders us for a conference to help determine the next steps. Learn more and register here. Sat, Dec 5, 9 am - Sun, Dec 6, noon.

Stop the Springfield Biomass-burning Facility: Mothers Out Front is outraged at the environmental injustice of a proposed biomass-burning facility in Springfield, the "asthma capital of the United States". As reported in the Boston Globe, the East Springfield community has been fighting this plant for over 10 years. You can support them by writing a short personal note (email and/or tweet) to your state Rep and Senator.

Solidarity Opportunities

Help Win Housing Stability: Tens of thousands of families across the state face eviction following the October 17 expiration of our state's moratorium. Amendment #585 / #763 will prevent a massive surge of unjust evictions against tenants who fell behind on rent due to the pandemic, protect homeowners from foreclosure, and stabilize small-scale property owners by extending the right to mortgage forbearance and establishing a Housing Stability & Recovery Fund. Learn more and take action here.

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