Branch member, Allan Schram, is helping organize a training on how to work effectively with your elected officials. The focus is criminal justice reform, but the skills taught in the training are generally applicable. The training is September 18 from 7-9p.m. at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist of Arlington. If you're interested email end-mass-incarceration@firstparish.info. Here's a full description: Would you like to interact with legislators more skillfully and persuasively? This year will probably give us the best chance yet for comprehensive reform of the court, prison, probation, and parole systems in Massachusetts. If all goes well, we will need all hands on deck to convince l