Erika Uyterhoeven

A massive congratulations to the newest members of UFCW Local 1445 at Theory Wellness who just won their union election! Workers spoke about the issues that led them to form a union and the power they have built in their shop.

Since 2020, the Unafraid Somerville Scholarship has supported 30 Somerville High graduates who are shut out of most college aid because of their immigration status. If you can give, the link is tinyurl.com/2yend7tk and if you can't, please share this post!

This year it is supporting 7 students, including one who chose nursing because of the courage he saw during the pandemic and another who wants to be a dental technician since her junior year, and all 7 are the first in their families to go to college in the United States.

Last week I had the honor of speaking at the Cambridge for Palestine rally outside Cambridge city hall in support of their boycott and divestment ordinance.

Truly such an inspiring conversation to hear from Mahmoud Khalil and Valeria Luiselli. It was powerful to learn about his lived experience and his deep commitment to render visible the horrific inhumanity of detention centers.

Today I had the honor of presenting Jovana Calvillo w the 2026 Latino Excellence on The Hill award for her years of community organizing. Jojo is a daughter of Mexican immigrants, she has spent years organizing alongside various communities, including our immigrant and Palestinian communities.

As a leader with Somerville for Palestine, she helped organize the historic Yes on Question 3, the first boycott and divestment ballot initiative passed by popular vote in US history. Her advocacy spans immigrant rights, Palestinian solidarity, LGBTQ+ rights, housing justice, and workers' rights.

Today we celebrate the completion of Waterworks II: 21 new permanently affordable homes for seniors and young disabled residents and the final piece of a 15-year buildout that turned an obsolete 64-unit property and a closed school into 240 units of independent, supportive, and assisted living.

TY to the residents, the Somerville Housing Authority, the Visiting Nurses Association of Somerville and their incredible staff who take immense pride in their work, the city of Somerville, Mass Housing, the advocates and the neighbors who pushed for decades to make today’s accomplishment possible.

Today we celebrate the completion of Waterworks II: 21 new permanently affordable homes for seniors and young disabled residents and the final piece of a 15-year buildout that turned an obsolete 64-unit property and a closed school into 240 units of independent, supportive, and assisted living.

Beautiful Labor Day march in downtown Boston. Thrilled to match alongside our amazing labor movement in Massachusetts. ✊🔥🌹

Tufts facilities workers rally with community & vote to authorize a strike!!! 📢 After months of negotiations, management refuses to budge and there is no agreement on the contract.

32BJ workers demand: 1. Close the widening gap between the lowest and highest wage earners. 2. Lower disproportionately large percentage of healthcare costs 3. Allow access to legal assistance for civil and immigration issues

This week in late stage capitalism: the same tech billionaires bankrolling MAGA want to build data centers across MA. Nobody on Beacon Hill has written a single rule stopping those servers from powering ICE deportations or Flock camera stops of innocent drivers over a misread plate.

The Governor's office floated a juicy tax break for data centers and only pulled it after Erika raised the alarm on the state's AI contracts, which is exactly the kind of pressure this district needs in the State Senate.

This week in late stage capitalism: the same tech billionaires bankrolling MAGA want to build data centers across MA. Nobody on Beacon Hill has written a single rule stopping those servers from powering ICE deportations or Flock camera stops of innocent drivers over a misread plate.

For decades, most votes on Beacon Hill happened behind closed doors, and I led the fight to change that by putting every committee vote on the record. Transparency is how we fought to lower your energy bills, protected immigrants from ICE.

Here's how to find a guy who can afford rent in MA: ⚡ Utility company execs charging us the highest rates in the US 💻 Largest corporations with offshore assets getting a 95% tax exemption 🏥 Health insurers charging us the highest premiums and out of pocket costs in the country

We can build 100,000 permanently affordable homes in Massachusetts, and I'll show you exactly how while teaching how to cook Haemul Sundubu Jjigae! 😋

💰 $500M = Transfer fee for sales of homes >$1M 💰 $30M = Repeal private jet sales tax exemption

We can build 100,000 permanently affordable homes in Massachusetts, and I'll show you exactly how while teaching how to cook Haemul Sundubu Jjigae! 😋

At 55 Hudson Street in Chinatown, 110 permanently affordable homes are going above a new public library, and they prove the other model works: a one-time developer fee written into the budget, union labor with real pensions, buildings that don't burn gas, and rents around $2,100 instead of $4,000.

We can build 100,000 permanently affordable homes in Massachusetts, and I'll show you exactly how while teaching how to cook Haemul Sundubu Jjigae! 😋

MA is now the most expensive state in the country to grow old. In Somerville, older neighbors on fixed incomes of about $30,000 a year face costs over $37,000 just to stay in the community they built. 60% of our residents over 65 who live alone cannot cover their basic needs.

Medicare for All is needed to help ensure everyone can afford to live in MA. It will include dental, vision, hearing, and long-term care that Medicare leaves out, with no premiums, no deductibles, and no copays, and it saves Massachusetts nearly 30 billion dollars a year.

I’m so deeply humbled and proud to have the support of educators and the largest union in New England since we launched my State Senate campaign. Thank you to Megan from the Somerville Educators Union for your beautiful speech.