Green Justice
Investment in green jobs and energy efficiency programs has emerged as a strategy for reviving the economy while protecting the environment. With federal stimulus funds now being distributed to state and local governments for these programs, it is crucial that low-income people have a voice in how this money is allocated in their communities. N2N-MA is working with other members of the Massachusetts Green Justice Coalition to ensure that new efforts to green the state economy benefit low-income people and communities of color.
Our vision is to build the power necessary to create new economic policies that promote green economic justice, including community-controlled green jobs and worker-owned cooperatives.
N2N-MA members have formed a statewide campaign committee with representation from each chapter, and have begun an internal planning process to shape the long-term vision, goals and strategy of N2N-MA’s organizing work for green justice.
Check out our Working Family Agenda Legislative Rankings to see how your legislator voted on this and other issues.
In 2009, we won adoption of a $1.4 billion state plan that will cut greenhouse gas emissions, create high-quality jobs in the state’s highest-unemployment communities, and provide up-front financing so low-to-moderate income residents can do energy efficiency retrofits on their homes.
In 2010, we are working to develop and file a Sector Based Workforce Development Legislative Proposal that expands funding for green jobs programs, and regulates allocation of funds to ensure that the jobs and services go to the communities that need them the most.
For more information or to get involved please contact Wilnelia Rivera at (617) 723-6866 or wilnelia@n2nma.org
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