This document summarizes recent victories and ongoing work of the Neighbor to Neighbor organization in Massachusetts. It discusses the passage of legislation to help people like Olga Pedraza find work after prison, and the successful campaign led by Rosa Gonzalez and Carmelo Diaz to shut down a coal plant in Holyoke and replace it with solar energy. It encourages donors to continue supporting N2N's efforts in building power through grassroots organizing and developing new community leaders.

1. Donors: We are your doorknockers, and grass-
roots lobbyists. Please give today so we can continue
building power for your world and your liberation.
Check out what you made possible:
Victory as We March Toward
Jobs Not Jails
⇒ Hot off the press! On March 30, the Governor
signed legislation to transform the lives of
7,200 people a year — beginning immediately
Without you, Olga Pedraza would be out of work and
facing a 2 hour night-time bus commute to her one
possible job prospect.
Olga was sentenced by a system that imprisons our
Black and Brown brothers and sisters at higher rates than
any other country in the world. That injustice is then
compounded by multiple barriers that stand in the way of
finding work, and supporting a family.
After a long search, Olga found work that plays to her
skills as a compassionate counselor. However, a license
is required for the job, and Olga faces fines of over $4,500 to renew her license. Olga
channeled her frustration into joining Neighbor to Neighbor members and our allies at EPOCA,
Voices From Inside, and MCAN in calling for removing this punitive policy.
With you by our side, we joined our allies in passing legislation through the State House that
would remove outrageous fees for people like Olga, who are reintegrating into the community
after serving time in prison or on probation. Together we take on transforming a system that
perpetuates injustice, and this victory brings us one key step closer to liberation.
Olga Pedraza celebrates with a
friend that the RMV bill will
enable her to get a job she loves.
A newsletter for special supporters like you who make all of this possible
The New Majority, Spring 2016 – Your world. Your power. Your liberation.
Neighbor to Neighbor—Massachusetts
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Boston, MA 02108
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2. All because of you …
⇒ Mount Tom plant to be
first in the nation to covert
from coal to solar on site
If you have met Rosa
Gonzalez and Carmelo Diaz,
you would know that they
have the strength of David
and are ready to take on
Goliath.
Rosa Gonzalez spent two
winters in and out of the
emergency room with respira-
tory problems, and realized it
was time to take action.
Carmelo Diaz’s sister
died of asthma complications
affected by the coal plant in
his hometown in Puerto Rico,
and he could not stand for this
injustice in his new home in
Holyoke.
Rosa and Carmelo knew
that we could not stand idly
by as a company that made
$80 Billion in profits last year
walked away from a derelict
coal plant in the poorest city
in the state.
That is when you stepped
in. Because of you, Carmelo
and Rosa were able to dedi-
cate the last four years to
spearheading the call to move
beyond coal to solar, as they
engaged hundreds of others in
holding bold actions to put
forward their demands.
Finally, on a cold Decem-
ber night last year, just three
days after Rosa organized one
final press conference at City
Hall, Mt. Tom coal plant own-
ers ceded to our demands to:
close the contaminating plant,
tear down the asbestos filled
smoke stack, and transition to
renewable energy!
Eager for more
stories of
what you make
possible?
Like us on Facebook!
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You’ll find photos and
videos of members in
action, and invitations to
N2N events in a city
near yours.
N2N members celebrate transition from coal to solar!
Rosa & Carmelo take on the 2nd Largest Energy
Company in the World, and Win
Your dollars at work: You are standing up to the exploitation of your
environment as you back activists like Rosa and Carmelo. Everything
we achieve depends on you. Please renew your support today! www.N2NMA.org
The New Majority, Spring 2016 – Your world. Your power. Your liberation.

3. Neighbor to Neighbor-Massachusetts Action Fund Report
Thanks to your
generous support:
N2N knocked
the ball out of
the park in 2015!
Your support last year
provided N2N with
the resources to knock
15,000 doors in just
3 months, and prepare
3,000 new and infre-
quent voters to vote
on Election Day.
Thanks to you, we in-
creased voter turn-
out by 160% over the
last comparable elec-
tion in Marven’s ward
in Lynn—preparing
the ground for 2017.
Join over 19,000 people following us on Twitter!
Do you want to be in the know? Stay tuned in @N2NMA_Education & @N2NMA_Action
⇒ N2N members, Maria Carrasco and Adam Gomez won
their campaigns for local office last fall, and Marven
Hyppolite secured 37% of the vote — launching him into
his 2017 bid for office
"I will not rest until the issues and the voices of
the people of this city are heard and addressed.
This is just the beginning!"
—- N2N member Marven Hyppolite
You have chosen to support Neighbor to Neighbor at a critical
time in history — when more and more power is going into the hands
of the few. A handful of people on Wall Street have power beyond
belief and are shaping the economy to work for the 1 percent.
Marven, Maria, and Adam know that the answer to turning these
trends around begins at home. As you join us in developing strong
leadership and putting forward a vision of a compassionate, just new
world, together we can take back our cities and govern from the
ground up. Just as the conservative Right built power starting with
school committees and town hall meetings, we can take back our
cities and govern beginning locally. We can bring to our purple state,
led by corporate Democrats, a political revolution.
Thanks to support from donors like you to the N2N-MA Action Fund:
N2N Members Govern From the Ground Up

4. The New Majority, Spring 2016 – Your world. Your power. Your liberation.
Donors like you join monthly giving program:
Mother-Daughter Invest In the Future —
One Monthly Gift at a Time
⇒ Charlotte and Alison are devout N2N
supporters, who shared with us what inspires
them to give to Neighbor to Neighbor
“I’m so excited about the Holyoke victory!”
Exclaimed Alison Watkins, who has been an
N2N monthly sustainer for three years.
“You can litigate against big companies, and
court order them to clean-up, but it’s never
enough to address the harm.”
“Neighbor to Neighbor’s coal plant victory
is bigger than any I’ve heard about. It went
beyond just closing to also transition to clean
energy and meet the needs of the workers.
The local community work that Neighbor to
Neighbor engages in is the key to real change.”
Alison’s mom, Charlotte Harrison, agreed:
“The issues that N2N supports are important to
me here and now - jobs not jails and the envi-
ronment. And the work to organize voters
means that more people have a voice in our
democracy.”
“Giving to N2N feels like the best
single investment I can make in the
long-term future of Massachusetts.”
— Charlotte Harrison,
N2N supporter for nearly 15 years
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Gloria and Carlos invite you to join
Neighbor to Neighbor members as monthly sustainers
Alison is a monthly
sustainer because she
can give to a cause she
believes in and not
break her budget by
spreading out her gift in
monthly installments.
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