The Road to a Green New Deal, an eight-city nationwide tour, launched Thursday as U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley and others addressed a 1,400-person audience at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester about the urgency of climate change and how the Green New Deal plans to address it.

Approximately 40 people gathered at the Strand Theatre Tuesday for a panel discussion regarding criminal justice reform in Massachusetts and the fight to end youth criminalization. The panel was organized...