Bridgeport Branch of Connecticut DSA
The Bridgeport Branch of Connecticut DSA works in the Greater Bridgeport Area, with members in Bridgeport, Fairfield, Stratford, Westport, Southport, Trumbull, and Shelton. Any DSA member who would like to join us in this work is welcome!
Our current projects include:
Mutual Aid:
- Grocery delivery to families in need in the Bridgeport area, in partnership with Bridgeport Mutual Aid
- Fridgeport, a new community fridge project
- Garden project
Ecosocialism:
- Campaign to Preserve Remington Woods
Right to Counsel Campaign:
- Mobilizing work around the Central Connecticut Chapter’s push for statewide legislation for Right to Counsel for Evictions.
Join us to get involved! The Bridgeport Branch meets monthly. Check our chapter calendar for upcoming meetings and events.
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Bridgeport Branch News
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.
Connecticut DSA’s Housing Agenda at the Statehouse
Our formation is growing, but so is the greed. As Connecticut DSA’s Housing Justice Project continues to build formidable tenant union groups across the state, we have met a statewide problem: the rent is too damn high! Predatory landlords have raised rent far higher than the rate of inflation or wages and tenants have no extra cash to spare. Tenants need a break.
CT DSA Supports DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group
We stand in solidarity with the DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group and reaffirm our commitment to the BDS Movement and Palestinians’ struggle for justice and liberation. We commend the decision by the DSA National Political Committee’s (NPC) to reverse their recent attempt to decharter the Working Group, but we stand with the Working Group in calling for the reinstatement of their Steering Committee.
Taking Charge of Our Fight: A Letter to our Comrades
Greetings from Francesca and Bryan, your newly elected CT DSA chapter co-chairs! We are honored and humbled by this responsibility, with the rest of our Steering Committee, to steward our chapter through our continued struggle for socialism in Connecticut.
The Communist Horizon of Social Housing
The term “social housing” has gained traction on the US Left today. Prominent political currents in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have become more comfortable using the term to gesture vaguely at some more just allocation of housing than what currently exists. For example, DSA’s “Building for Power” (B4P) campaign encourages DSA chapters to “…work with tenants and/or tenant unions as well as building trades unions to retrofit social or other tenant housing,” operating under the assumption that social housing is an existing thing that can be improved upon.
Agitating for Liberation: CT DSA’s Palestine Political Education Series
Tens of millions across the globe have stood up in opposition to the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the broader settler-colonial occupation and apartheid regime managed by the Israeli state across the historic lands of Palestine. As we write today, Israel is intent on completing a genocidal expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza. It appears that no one is safe from Israeli bloodlust. Indeed, as if to prove the point, on April 1, Israeli occupation forces murdered with impunity seven aid workers of the World Central Kitchen traveling in three clearly-marked vehicles. These killings added to the over 40,000 martyred Palestinians and hundreds of other slain humanitarian aid workers. An end to Zionism is the only viable political solution.
CT DSA statement in solidarity with Beinecke Protest at Yale
Connecticut DSA (CTDSA) condemns the arrest on Monday morning, 4/22/2024, of over 40 protesters by the Yale Police Department (YPD) and New Haven Police Department (NHPD) at Yale University’s Gaza solidarity camp in Beinecke Plaza. We stand in solidarity with those who were arrested and all students calling for Yale to divest from apartheid Israel and its genocidal actions in occupied Palestine. We celebrate the efforts and leadership of student organizers, including National Students for Justice in Palestine, SJP chapters and other Palestine solidarity formations, Yale YDSA, and National YDSA in the growing wave of college occupations.
Book Review: Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States Charisse Burden-Stelly
Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States unearths a material inventory of the American consciousness that is indispensable for understanding the contradictions of U.S. racial capitalism and “True Americanism” today.
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.
Connecticut DSA 2023 Mid-Year Review
A mid-year review of the projects and organizing of Connecticut DSA in the first six months of the 2023-2024 Steering Committee.
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!
End of Session Statement on Housing Legislation from CT Tenants Union and CT DSA
Connecticut tenants face a housing emergency. Already high rents have skyrocketed since 2020. Buildings in both the cities and suburbs are deteriorating under the management of negligent landlords speculating on our homes, posing health risks to adults and children....
International Apartheid Week 2023
March 13-27 marks Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2023, a period of global mobilization to raise awareness about Israeli apartheid and build support for the Palestinian struggle to end Israel’s brutal system of apartheid, settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing. The...