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CT DSA Calendar

Connecticut DSA Public Events and Meetings

Wed Mar 27
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Just Cause Phone Bank

We got the Just Cause bill voted out of the Housing Committee but now we need to build support across the whole legislature so we can get it passed. Join us for a phone bank as we call CT DSA members to ask them to email their legislators to support Just Cause. No experience is necessary – we’ll do a training and give you a script.. RSVP: Just Cause Phonebank – March 27 – Action Network

Wed Mar 27
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Uncommitted phonebank

Join us in the final week before the CT Democratic Primary on April 2nd as we phonebank Democratic voters to pledge to vote Uncommitted in the primary! 

RSVP for Zoom link: bit.ly/PhonebanksUncommittedCT

Thu Mar 28
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
CT DSA Labor Working Group: Organizing Conversations Training

Hartford

Join CT DSA’s Labor Working Group for an Organizing Conversations training with labor organizers in our chapter! Learn and practice how you can agitate, educate, and organize your fellow worker, union member, or whoever else you are trying to bring into your organizing effort.

While we encourage everyone who can make it to join us in-person in Hartford, we are also providing a virtual option on Zoom, although the availability is contingent on how many people sign up.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/ct-dsa-labor-working-group-presents-organizing-conversations-training-march-28?clear_id=true

Thu Mar 28
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Uncommitted phonebank

Join us in the final week before the CT Democratic Primary on April 2nd as we phonebank Democratic voters to pledge to vote Uncommitted in the primary! 

RSVP for Zoom link: bit.ly/PhonebanksUncommittedCT

Fri Mar 29
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Uncommitted phonebank

Join us in the final week before the CT Democratic Primary on April 2nd as we phonebank Democratic voters to pledge to vote Uncommitted in the primary! 

RSVP for Zoom link: bit.ly/PhonebanksUncommittedCT

Mon Apr 1
11:00 pm – 11:59 pm
DSA Sweatshirts Order

Virtual

CT DSA is exploring interest to join in a grassroots effort by our West Coast comrades with East Bay DSA and DSA San Francisco to order some sweatshirts! If we reach a minimum of 10 sweatshirts, we will put in the order.

Deadline to submit form: April 1, 2024

Order DSA sweatshirts at the link below:
https://forms.gle/Gy9ab9iL8yH7aruw9

Tue Apr 2
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Reproductive Justice Working Group Meeting

Virtual, via Zoom

Join CT DSAs Repro Justice Working Group for their biweekly meetings!
Reproductive Justice | Connecticut DSA (ctdsa.org)

In 2023, the Reproductive Justice Working Group of Connecticut DSA prioritized fighting crisis pregnancy centers: fake clinics that work to dissuade pregnant people from getting abortion care. Our main focus has been organizing to get Connecticut 211, a social services hotline and website that receives funding from the state of Connecticut and is administered by United Way, to stop advertising crisis pregnancy centers to vulnerable pregnant people as a source of pregnancy counseling and health care. 

Thu Apr 4
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
EcoSocialist Working Group Meeting

Virtual, via Zoom

Join CT DSAs EcoSocialist Working Group for their biweekly meeting!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ecosocialism-interest-form?source=direct_link&

CT DSA’s EcoSocialist Working group is fighting for climate justice in Connecticut. We are working to build a Transit Rider Union to win better bus and train service for the state, develop community-centered equitable solutions to flooding issues in Stratford and Bridgeport, and organize in solidarity with the Stop Cop City movement of Atlanta, Georgia.

Sun Apr 7
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Hartford Spring Potluck

West End of Hartford

Join the Hartford branch for a potluck afternoon meal! Springtime comradeship and comestibles! DSA members and friends are welcome. Bring something to share and we’ll eat and hang out.

RSVP here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/hartford-branch-potluck-spring-2024?source=direct_link&

Sign up to bring food here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p60__4uA9N4EiyFsto0qQ62ZwMDEIfxDjYkNIR7-e88/edit

Mon Apr 8
8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Internationalism Working Group

Virtual, via Zoom

Join CT DSAs Internationalism Working Group for their monthly meeting!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/international-working-group-interest-form?source=direct_link&

The International Working Group leads Connecticut DSA’s international efforts. Our focus is on ending the Cuban embargo, normalizing US-Cuba relations, supporting Palestinian liberation, and ending the Zionist occupation of Palestine. We organize campaigns, build coalitions, show public support, hold education events, and advise other groups on related issues. Get involved with the International Working Group.

Tue Apr 16
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Reproductive Justice Working Group Meeting

Virtual, via Zoom

Join CT DSAs Repro Justice Working Group for their biweekly meetings!
Reproductive Justice | Connecticut DSA (ctdsa.org)

In 2023, the Reproductive Justice Working Group of Connecticut DSA prioritized fighting crisis pregnancy centers: fake clinics that work to dissuade pregnant people from getting abortion care. Our main focus has been organizing to get Connecticut 211, a social services hotline and website that receives funding from the state of Connecticut and is administered by United Way, to stop advertising crisis pregnancy centers to vulnerable pregnant people as a source of pregnancy counseling and health care. 

Thu Apr 18
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
EcoSocialist Working Group Meeting

Virtual, via Zoom

Join CT DSAs EcoSocialist Working Group for their biweekly meeting!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ecosocialism-interest-form?source=direct_link&

CT DSA’s EcoSocialist Working group is fighting for climate justice in Connecticut. We are working to build a Transit Rider Union to win better bus and train service for the state, develop community-centered equitable solutions to flooding issues in Stratford and Bridgeport, and organize in solidarity with the Stop Cop City movement of Atlanta, Georgia.

Latest Campaigns

Vote Uncommitted CT

Vote Uncommitted CT

Connecticut voters like you can demonstrate your unequivocal solidarity with Palestine by pledging to vote ‘Uncommitted’ so long as President Biden continues to fund the genocide in Palestine! On April 2nd, Connecticut voters have the opportunity to send a message to the Democratic Party and President Biden that we will not remain silent while he aids and abets Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Vote Uncommitted CT

Vote Uncommitted CT

Connecticut voters like you can demonstrate your unequivocal solidarity with Palestine by pledging to vote ‘Uncommitted’ so long as President Biden continues to fund the genocide in Palestine! On April 2nd, Connecticut voters have the opportunity to send a message to the Democratic Party and President Biden that we will not remain silent while he aids and abets Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

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CT DSA Endorses Laurie Sweet and Abdul Osmanu in Democratic Primary for Hamden Legislative Council

CT DSA Endorses Laurie Sweet and Abdul Osmanu in Democratic Primary for Hamden Legislative Council

CT DSA is proud to endorse Abdul Osmanu and Laurie Sweet for Hamden Legislative Council in the upcoming Democratic primary!
As incumbent legislative council members, Laurie and Abdul have worked tirelessly to represent tenants and working people. CT DSA endorsed Abdul’s candidacy in 2021 as part of the JAM slate for Council and Board of Education. Elected in the same year, Laurie joined DSA through her work with us while on the council, and has become a valued member of our chapter.
Although their colleague and our comrade Justin Farmer will be retiring from the council this year, we want to send them back to build on their work transforming Hamden in to a base of working class and tenant power.
Stay tuned for canvassing dates as we gear up for the September 12th primary!

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EcoSocialists Say: No Cop City Anywhere!

EcoSocialists Say: No Cop City Anywhere!

How do you build a $90 million police training complex and bulldoze 85 acres of vulnerable forest in Atlanta? By using Connecticut logistics, investments, and insurance. 

The fight to Stop Cop City, now an international struggle over the sanctity of the Georgia metropolis’ Weelaunee Forest, came to Connecticut last week for the National Week of Action.

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