On November 9, 2011, over 40 of our Boston Senior Home Care staff joined the more than 2,000 elderly and disabled individuals and others at the Wang Center (in Boston) in a mass protest against proposed cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Sponsored by Mass Senior Action, AARP, Mass Home Care and several dozen elderly rights and labor groups, the full intent of the crowd’s roaring energy and resounding chants of “Hands Off!” and “No Cuts!” was to send this clear message to members of the Congressional Super Committee, tasked with developing specific proposals to cut the federal deficit.

The November 9th turnout was described as historic, coming roughly two weeks before the Super Committee is scheduled to submit its findings to the full Congress. The rally began at the Wang Theatre, and was followed by a “rolling march” and caravan through Downtown Crossing towards the offices of Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Scott Brown near City Hall Plaza in Boston. Seniors took a large envelope stuffed with postcards from elders to the Boston office of U.S. Senator John Kerry, the only New England lawmaker on the 12-person Deficit Reduction Committee. (Click Here to Read More)