Boston RISE for Climate, Jobs, Immigrant Rights & Justice

Today, I attended the Boston RISE for Climate, Jobs, Immigrant Rights & Justice rally, in East Boston. The objectives were two-fold: 1. To protest the proposed Eversource electric substation that threatens the low-income neighborhood, and 2) To build connections across social and environmental justice movements. So a coalition of over 20 faith, labor, racial justice, immigrant rights, youth, climate action, and environmental justice groups came together in East Boston Memorial Park. That includes some of us from the Climate Coalition of Somerville:

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