ORGANIZING NOTES
March 24, 2026
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Getting Dark Money out of Primaries
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Somerville’s Democratic City Committee unanimously passed a motion calling on Senator Ed Markey and his primary challenger, Representative Seth Moulton, to renounce the use of dark money in their campaigns.The motion calls on the candidates to take the People’s Pledge to refuse corporate and PAC money, as Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown did in their 2012 race.Platform in Action, the people who fought for the 2021 platform at the September 2025 Democratic State Convention, have called on all Democratic Town and Ward Committees to pass similar motions. Given sufficient support, a resolution will be brought to the Democratic Convention in May, calling for the party to end the use of dark money in all primaries. The New Mexico Party has taken this step. Please RSVP to let us know if you agree with pursuing DTC and Ward Committee endorsements with a possible future decision to bring Resolutions to the Convention.
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IN AMERICA, WE HAVE NO KINGS.
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We are calling on every member of Congress to to publicly oppose ay unauthorized military action and pass a binding War Powers resolution prohibitung was with Iran without explicit approval. Add your name now and tell Congress: No war with Iran. Not in our name.
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Local Visibilities Schedule
Watch for weather and wind chill cancellations here! But another good way to keep up with day to day and weekly changes is to join a Signal Group
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Folks can sign up for De-ICE Hanscom’s contact list at this link.
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Company One Theatre is a Boston-based arts organization with the mission to build community at the intersection of art and social change, and their current production “You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World” is a fantasia on grief, incorporating climate and ecological themes including the military industrial complex’s relationship with the crisis, species extinction, and the tension between individual action and the awareness of its comparatively small impact. The play is running at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square through March 28, and tickets are pay-what-you-will, starting at $0.
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Master Plan: The Kingmakers, uncovers the decades-long plot to build an all-powerful American presidency. From Richard Nixon’s downfall to Ronald Reagan’s legal revolution, Dick Cheney’s post-9/11 power grab to the the radical blueprint of Project 2025, the series traces how a fringe legal theory — the unitary executive — has been used to manipulate the machinery of the U.S. government. Listen and subscribe to Master Plan right now on the podcast player of your choice Click here for more podcast subscription options.
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Middle East Crisis Accelerating Energy Transition
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Soaring oil and gas prices as a result of the war in the Middle East have added fresh momentum to the renewable energy transition.
South Korea’s president Lee Jae Myung said this week that the crisis offered an “opportunity to swiftly and extensively transition to renewable energy”, local media reports.
Teresa Ribera, the executive vice-president of the European Commission, agreed. “The real risk is not moving too fast on clean energy, but too slowly,” she said. “The clean transition is Europe’s shield against volatility.”
Meanwhile, economic ministers from south-east Asian nations pledged to accelerate the transition towards renewables to “strengthen regional energy security and resilience”, the Financial Times reports. And Kenya’s foreign minister Musalia Mudavadi asked: “If Africa were powered by clean energy… would the Middle East crisis carry the same distressing impact?”
Offering an answer was UN secretary-general António Guterres. “The resources of the clean-energy era cannot be blockaded or weaponised,” he said. “There are no price spikes for sunlight and no embargoes on the wind. The fastest path to energy security, economic security and national security is clear: speed up a just transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.”
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