Establish a master list of all state and local resources for those in need:

Collate/digitize/make publicly accessible and easy to navigate.

•Identify all homeless shelters in NE

•Identify all food drives/pantries/clothing drives in NE

•Identify all resources available for low income people in NE (subsidized phones, subsidized housing, health insurance)

•Identify recovery/mental health resources available

•Identify resources for new mothers

•Identify all businesses that accept WIC

•Identify all businesses that accept EBT

•Identify all locally owned and operated businesses in NE

•Identify all clinics and Hospitals in NE

*For all of the above, include how to apply and where they are located.

Unions:

Work with unions and other orgs to lobby for these at a state/local level.

Arrange interviews with the leaders of all regional union assemblies, start in MA, 10 individual Assemblies. Determine what their interactions are with the NLRB and what they would like to see in an ideal future. What they expect to see in the short term.

•Look into expanding the PRO act to cover both Private and Public sectors, mirror Vermont.

•Look into expanding the Department of Labor Relations in MA (and other NE states) to cover both Private and Public sectors, replacing the NLRB

•Look into creating union projects, off shore wind farms, Hydro-electric facilities, and rail lines.

Regional-based advisory service:

A Large Language Model that is trained on all the laws and regulations within each of the NE states. The idea would be that people can ask it a question like "Is it legal for my landlord to keep the temperature of the apartment at 59 degrees" and the LLM will find any relevant laws, summarize them, then link them.

Locally owned and operated businesses

Create a service where we show all the local businesses/organizations within New England on a GIS map (Businesses/Orgs/Shelters present in New England)

Rail lines

Identify abandoned rail lines that fall within high traffic or cargo areas, look into reactivating them using unions to boost local economies and reduce traffic.

  • Prioritize zones that don't have direct access to the Ocean or existing trade hubs.

Media/Newspapers

•Identify all media in the NE area to include print and broadcast, both independent and corporate owned.

•Arrange interviews with local and regional radio and other broadcast stations.

•Look into creating our own digital newspaper/podcast station