Cosecha Massachusetts in 2021
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The fight for driver’s licenses in Massachusetts continued in 2021! Cosecha marched through the streets of Worcester and held demonstrations in front of the Registry of Motor Vehicles and City Hall.
Together, we demand Licenses for All.
Licenses, not promises!
The MA State House has been closed to the public this year due the pandemic, so we cannot directly pressure legislators in person. The transportation committee conducts the public hearing on the Licenses bill by Zoom. But we showed up outside the statehouse in person to make our presence known!
Throughout 2021, Cosecha MA also continued to raise tens of thousands of dollars for mutual aid in Massachusetts and to distribute support funds, food and information to hundreds of immigrant families in need.
Cosecha MA, the immigrant community with allies, mobilized at the state house a second time to demand Licenses for All with hundreds of letters from children from all over the state. We printed these letters onto the sculpture of a car. Children wrote to their representatives, asking why their families should have to continue driving with fear. As legislators settled in to enjoy the holidays with their families, children wrote:
Won’t you hear us? Don’t they see us? Stop turning around! Give our family access to driver’s licenses… to take us to school, to the grocery store to buy food and clothes, to doctors when one of us is sick and to allow them to drive to work and return home safely.
In 2022, we plan to continue the fight for licenses in Massachusetts and the national movement for permanent protection, dignity, and respect. We will depend on the support of the community to continue this work!
