SOMA Action

UPDATED: August 7 Community Forum Calling for Police Reform Postponed

Updated: The Community Forum originally scheduled for Monday, August 7, 2017, will be rescheduled for a future date. From the organizers: “In the meantime, our work…

SOMA Action Condems Police Treatment of Youth of Color, Calls for Cimino’s Firing

Statement from SOMA Action on the July 5th Maplewood Police events: On July 5th, 2016 after the Maplewood Fireworks, incidents in which police interacted with…

Maplewood Police: ‘Mission Has Not Been, Nor Will It Be, the Enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws’

On Saturday evening, Maplewood Police Chief Robert Cimino issued a Maplewood Police Department Operational Order to comply with an “Fair and Welcoming Community” ordinance passed…

SOMA Action: Maplewood ‘Welcoming Community’ Police Order Is Important Step, But Not Enough

From SOMA Action: The operational order released today by the Maplewood Police Department represents an important and necessary step toward making our community a safe…

VIDEO, PHOTOS: SOMA Action Protests at Trump International Golf Club

Nearly a dozen members of SOMA Action protested at President Trump’s Bedminster golf course on Sunday, July 16, as the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA)…

Rally for Pride at ‘The Equality March: SOMA’ June 11

From SOMA Action: On Sunday, June 11th at 10 a.m., in conjunction with The National Equality March for Unity and Pride planned in Washington, DC,…

PHOTOS, VIDEO: SOMA Action Pickets Summer White House in ‘March for Truth’

From SOMA Action: On Saturday, June 3rd, SOMA Action (a local Indivisible group), NJ Working Families Alliance, Action Together NJ, and We the People NJ-07,…

SOMA Action Spearheading Protest at ‘Summer White House’ Saturday, June 3

South Orange-Maplewood’s homegrown political acton group SOMA Action is organizing a protest this Saturday, June 3 around the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ…