These are some of the main organizations I currently work with or have worked with in recent years. Check them out - they all do great work!
PHENOM (Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts)
PHENOM unites students, faculty, staff, alumni, and others from community colleges, state universities, the UMass campuses, and the broader community to advocate for better funded, affordable, accessible, and ultimately free public higher education in Massachusetts.
Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution
Emerging out of the Bernie Sanders for President campaign, CPR is a county-wide membership organization with Bernie-like principles that focuses on the kinds of issues raised in Bernie's campaign, both electorally and through action on a local level.
Massachusetts Teachers Association
It is the largest union in the state. I chair its Investment Committee - with the goal of divesting from fossil fuels (and more). I also help coordinate the MTA Climate Action Network that helps promote and coordinate work around curriculum, bargaining and supporting student climate activists.
Educators for a Democratic Union
This is the progressive caucus in the Massachusetts Teachers Association, successfully pushing it in a more activist, bottom-up direction. I have been particularly active organizing retirees to support progressive candidates for office in the MTA.
Professional Staff Union (PSU/MTA/NEA)..
The union I worked for 1989-2004 and again (2017-2021) as an organizer. It represents workers ranging from nurses to network specialists, child care teachers to engineers, admissions staff to scientists on the UMass Amherst and Boston campuses. It has been one of the most progressive locals in the Mass. Teachers Association.
North American Tiddlywinks Association (NATwA)
In 2016 I celebrated 50 years of playing the greatest game in the world that perfectly combines dexterity and strategy, and is oh-so-much fun. I won the NATwA pairs championship in 1970, 1971, 2002, 2015 and 2016. This site tells all.
Links in Solidarity with Labor (LISL)
Named after my mother, and using some of the money I inherited from her, this fund helped numerous excellent organizations between 2000 and 2013. See all the grants by clicking on the link.
Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
JwJ unites unions, community groups and others in the fight for social justice, linking issues, practicing solidarity, and fighting for working class power.