Mission Statement

Boston Mobilization is a progressive community organization that educates, empowers, and organizes students and local residents to engage in grassroots campaigns for peace, economic justice, and genuine democracy.

About Mobe

Boston Mobilization is a non-profit community organization that works to engage young people on different social issues. Since its founding in 1977, Mobe has worked specifically with college students, empowering them to engage in their communities. Youth find their voices as agents for constructive change, utilizing direct action, community education and local legislative efforts to run grassroots campaigns for peace, racial equality, economic justice and genuine democracy.   We use Martin Luther King's theory of the Triple Evils of Racism, Militarism and Materialism as a lens for choosing and understanding our struggles. The main areas of the organization's interests are youth education, which involves facilitating discussions in local high school classrooms promoting peace and anti-racism, campus organizing, which includes educating and organizing a new generation of activists to work for peace and justice, and community empowerment, which uses vigils, actions, and educational forums to build a diverse, wide-spread peace movement.

History

Boston Mobilization (Mobe) has been an active part of the Greater Boston peace and justice movement since its inception in 1977 as a local chapter of the nation-wide anti-nuclear organization Mobilization for Survival. From 1999-2000, Mobilization led the Campaign for the Iraqi People, which included a successful international media campaign against UN sanctions on Iraq. In 2001, Mobe organized BU students into BUYAH, the Boston University Youth Alliance for Affordable Housing, and helped the Save Fenway campaign against Kenmore gentrification.

Boston Mobilization is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.