Slingshot

09/04/2026

Join Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition and Maine Climate Action Now next Thursday (Sept. 10) for "Warming Welcome: Stories of Climate Migration and Growing Solidarity in Maine", a virtual gathering to hear New Mainers' stories and learn about opportunities for acts of solidarity between climate and immigrant movements in Maine. RSVP at https://shorturl.at/DjcVE

This event is part of Welcoming Week, an annual campaign and celebration of communities striving to be more welcoming places for all. More people than ever are on the move, displaced by climate and conflict and seeking opportunity and mobility. As climate migration reshapes communities, many places are unprepared and underinvested in the work needed to create welcoming infrastructure, and they’re unsure of where to start. Welcoming Week invites communities to take the first step toward creating an environment where everyone can truly thrive. In many ways, the initiative is an opportunity for communities to cultivate the awareness and energy that’s needed to sustain year-long welcoming efforts.

08/14/2026

Join the fight for environmental health and justice! We're hiring a community organizer to work with communities in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Learn more and apply: https://www.slingshot.org/positions/ma-ri-community-organizer

08/12/2026

We need to put the needs of communities ahead of data center profits! Writing in Commonwealth Beacon, co-Executive Director Mireille Bejjani and Clean Water Action MA director Cynthia Mendes share how communities, already overburdened by dirty energy facilities, highways, and other toxic infrastructure, should be at the center of decisions that affect their daily lives. Read and share: https://commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/massachusetts-must-put-communities-before-data-center-profits/

07/31/2026

Today is the last day of our fiscal year! Help us reach our $10,000 goal to support community organizing. Chip in: https://slingshot.org/donate

Most people only see the big moments... the packed hearing, the rally outside a decision-maker's office, the vote that finally goes our way.

What they don't see is the work that makes those moments possible.

Every day, our organizers are:

📞 Taking late-night strategy calls or running an organizing workshop with folks who just got off work, young parents, and brand-new activists

📝 Helping a frontline leader draft talking points so they walk into a hostile hearing with confidence

🔬 Pulling in trusted public health experts when families need clear answers

🤝 Stitching together coalitions across towns and states so no community fights alone

This is what it means to build people power. It's not flashy. It doesn't make headlines. But it's how communities win against polluters who are banking on residents staying isolated and overwhelmed.

Your support makes this daily work possible. We're raising $10,000 by July 31 to back the organizing behind every victory.

💚 Chip in: https://slingshot.org/donate

07/23/2026

Most people only see the big moments... the packed hearing, the rally outside a decision-maker's office, the vote that finally goes our way.

What they don't see is the work that makes those moments possible.

Every day, our organizers are:

📞 Taking late-night strategy calls or running an organizing workshop with folks who just got off work, young parents, and brand-new activists

📝 Helping a frontline leader draft talking points so they walk into a hostile hearing with confidence

🔬 Pulling in trusted public health experts when families need clear answers

🤝 Stitching together coalitions across towns and states so no community fights alone

This is what it means to build people power. It's not flashy. It doesn't make headlines. But it's how communities win against polluters who are banking on residents staying isolated and overwhelmed.

Your support makes this daily work possible. We're raising $10,000 by July 31 to back the organizing behind every victory.

💚 Chip in: https://slingshot.org/donate

07/22/2026

Join us tomorrow in Bangor to fight for environmental justice!

THE PUBLIC IS ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND the July 23rd hearing THIS Thursday, presenting oral arguments in Penobscot Nation v. Maine Department of Environmental Protection. Join us and please wear blue!

Penobscot Nation and Conservation Law Foundation are continuing their appeal of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s affirmative Public Benefit Determination for a proposed expansion of Juniper Ridge Landfill (JRL) in Old Town. JRL is a state-owned landfill, privately run by Casella subsidiary NEWSME, which is an intervenor with the state in this case.

On the health of the Penobscot people and communities impacted by the JRL leachate processed and dumped into the Penobscot River at the Nine Dragons facility and by Juniper Ridge Landfill on site gas emissions:

"Petitioners have repeatedly raised the presence of both legacy and non-legacy toxics in landfill leachate and gas, including specifically dioxins, furan, and PCBs, as well as VOCs such as toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes, and benzene....even with PFAS controls, other toxics in the increased leachate would continue to enter the Penobscot River..."

"...Similarly, the record reflects that landfill gas contains additional toxics, including VOCs, PFAS, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (“PAHs”), and methylmercury.

These risks are particularly significant given that the Penobscot Nation is in the 99th percentile in Maine for the toxic releases to air EJ index; this means that these exposure levels combined with demographic vulnerability are higher for the Penobscot Nation than nearly all communities in the state. Moreover, the Penobscot Nation has some of the highest lung cancer rates in the State, and EPA’s EJ Screen data show that Indian Island is in the 99th percentile nationally for asthma-related health indicators.."

"By ignoring the broader suite of contaminants and pathways at issue, DEP failed to evaluate the true scope of the cumulative environmental burden on the Nation, rendering its decision arbitrary, an abuse of discretion and unsupported by substantial evidence"

07/16/2026

It's 2026. We have the technology to power Boston's hospitals without poisoning the neighborhoods around them.

MATEP, a dirty energy plant in the heart of the Longwood Medical Area, pumps hundreds of tons of pollution a year into Mission Hill, Roxbury, and Jamaica Plain. Some of its oldest, dirtiest turbines only fire up on peak demand days. Those are exactly the ones we can replace with cleaner technologies, right now.

Alongside the Massachusetts Clean Peak Coalition, local organizations, and neighbors, we're organizing to change that.

Add your name: We want MATEP transitioned to clean energy! https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/transition-matep-to-clean-peak-energy?source=organic-social

07/09/2026

After neighbors won a one year data center moratorium in Lowell, leaders with Honest Future for Lowell showed up big last week. They turned out to the city’s public hearing on new zoning regulations for data centers. The Butler School auditorium was packed with neighbors who are determined to stop the expansion of the Markley Group, which owns one of the largest data centers in Massachusetts. The company has tried to install more diesel generators and fuel storage tanks that threaten neighbors’ health. When neighbors organize together, decision-makers have to listen. The city is now planning more public hearings to make sure everyone’s input can be taken into account for strong data center zoning. This is what community power looks like.

Are you facing a data center in your community? Reach out to our team for support!

07/07/2026

Join the fight for environmental health and justice! We're hiring community organizers to work with communities in Connecticut, and New Hampshire/Maine. Learn more about the positions at slingshot.org/careers.

06/30/2026

We're proud to be one of the sponsors for The Atlantic Across America tour in Burlington, Vermont, where Atlantic managing director Evan Smith will go behind the headlines with Atlantic journalists Megan Garber, Tyler Austin Harper, and Adam Harris, who cover culture, politics, tech, and higher education, to explore some of the year’s biggest stories. We hope you can join us! Register: https://www.theatlantic.com/atlantic-across-america/vermont/