Anne Arundel Connecting Together

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

Happy Passover to all who celebrate!

Eid Mubarak to all who celebrate! Wishing you and your family peace and blessings throughout the year.

⚖️ Yesterday, ten of our leaders met with state legislators and attended a hearing in support of the Data Privacy Act. This bill would close loopholes to protect personal data in state databases like driver’s license records from being shared with ICE. 👏Great work, team!

@mdjustpower @CASAforall

🎉 We are excited to celebrate the passage of emergency legislation this week (SB245) ending 287(g) agreements, which sent local police to do the work of ICE. thebanner.com/.../wes-moore-… Congrats to @CASAforall and our other coalition partners for your leadership!

🙌 Thanks to ACT's organizing with Arundel Middle School Students, new sidewalks are coming for a safer walk to school. After speaking at the District 4 town hall and meeting with County Executive Pittman, students secured his commitment for new sidewalks. 🎉 Great work!

🏘️ We support the Starter & Silver Homes Act (SB36) to provide smaller, starter homes for young families, seniors, teachers, and healthcare workers to be able to stay in our communities. Read more here: mdjustpoweralliance.org/our-work/suppo…

We wish a blessed Ramadan to all who observe!

🏘️ We need more smaller, starter homes so that young families, seniors, teachers, and healthcare workers aren't priced out of our communities. That's why we're showing up in Annapolis today to support the Starter & Silver Homes Act (SB36), introduced by @MDHousing.

🚀On Thursday night, 250 of us gathered to publicly launch our listening campaign! Together as ACT, AIM, and PATH, we committed to listening to over 3,500 people over the next 3 months! We'll develop new leaders and create our “People’s Agenda” for the 2026 elections and beyond.

Congratulations, team!

🎉 Our 2025 Legislative Report is here! This year, we had more people advocating in Annapolis than ever before, and we helped pass 3 impactful state bills! ➡️ Read the report to see our impact, stories from leaders, and photos: actaaco.org/wp-content/upl… @mdjustpower

.@Willcsmithjr @jwaldstreicher @SenBillFerg We're calling on you to pass a clean version of Good Cause Eviction, without any compromises that would weaken the bill.

Today, we testified in favor of the Sen. Henson's pre-K expansion bill (SB057) in the Maryland Senate! This bill would reduce barriers to pre-K expansion in community-based settings. @ShanekaHenson @BrianJFeldman @CherylKagan

Pastor Tyrone Jones testifying on behalf of the Maryland Just Power Alliance (PATH, AIM, and ACT) in support of the Housing for Jobs Act at the House hearing!

🏘️Today, we're at the Maryland Senate and House hearings to support the Housing for Jobs Act. This would help our counties address our housing shortage and affordability crisis by ensuring permitting rules are followed consistently. @GovWesMoore

🔑We support Good Cause Eviction (HB709, SB651) in the Maryland General Assembly! Good Cause would require landlords to have a good reason to evict tenants at the end of their lease. Learn more here: ggwash.org/view/98385/its…

Yesterday, over 100 of us met with our state legislators again with the Maryland Just Power Alliance and @IPLdmv! We asked them to support our priorities: 🏘️The Housing for Jobs Act, 🗝️Good Cause Eviction, 🛡️Immigrant protections, 📚Pre-K expansion, and 🔄ReNEW. @mdjustpower

Tomorrow (Feb 17) is our second Annapolis Advocacy Day with the Maryland Just Power Alliance (ACT, AIM, and PATH)! We will meet with our legislators on our priorities for climate, housing, pre-K, and immigrants' rights. We're looking forward to making our voices heard!

More photos from today’s Advocacy Day in Annapolis with the Maryland Just Power Alliance (ACT, AIM, and PATH)! We showed our legislators that their everyday constituents care about climate, housing, tenants’ rights, pre-K, and immigrant protections. @mdjustpower