International Affairs Working Group
The International Working Group spearheads Connecticut DSA’s international solidarity work. Currently, the working group focuses on ending the Cuban embargo, normalizing relations between the United States and Cuba, supporting Palestinian liberation, and ending the zionist occupation as the two key campaign issues.
The working group takes on the responsibility of organizing and leading campaigns to shift material support for Cuba and Palestine, developing coalitional relationships with other organizations within and outside of the U.S., showing public support for nations and peoples in the struggle, organizing political education events; and advising other working groups on issues that intersect with our internationalist work.
International Working Group News
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.
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.
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...
No Appetite for Apartheid Campaign
No Appetite for Apartheid is a national boycott campaign launched by the DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity Working Group on Nakba Day 2022, in commemoration of the Nakba or Catastrophe of 1948 and the ongoing Nakba Palestinians experience every day. We are turning up...
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.
CT Media Deliberately Ignoring Palestine
Connecticut media outlets ignored widespread demonstrations for ending the apartheid of the Palestinian people. This was due in no small part to Connecticut’s arms industries and the lucrative contracts they have with the state of Israel.