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Connecticut DSA Public Events and Meetings
On May 1st, we are (virtually) packing a hearing of the New Haven Board of Alders to support the ceasefire resolution introduced by New Haven activists months ago.
Planning to give public comment? Nervous about public speaking? Come practice with us! We will go over best practices for public comments, help you craft your narrative, and practice in small groups.
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.
RSVP REQUIRED: To celebrate May Day — aka International Workers Day — join CT DSA’s Labor Working Group for a Book Talk of the newly published Radical Connecticut with labor historian Steve Thornton!
Steve is a former organizer with SEIU 1199NE and well-known for his work studying the Wobblies, or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), in Connecticut. Steve’s new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, was co-authored with CT DSA member Andy Piascik, and tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. These are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
This event will be in person at the Unitarian Society of Hartford, which can accommodate around 25 attendees at this time; if sufficient interest and logistics allows, we will provide a hybrid virtual option.
Join CT DSAs EcoSocialist Working Group for their biweekly meeting!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Join CT DSAs Housing Justice Project for their monthly Working Group meeting!
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/housing-justice-project-working-group-interest-form?source=direct_link&
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Following the labor of love and principled example from chapter secretary Jason R. in reviewing CT DSA’s organizing in 2021, it is my honor to reflect on our efforts this past year in building democratic socialism and working class power in Connecticut.
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.
This victory for tenants in Connecticut is not the first, and it will not be the last, but it is a monumental achievement for the Seramonte Tenants Union, built on a year of organizing and won by the tenants themselves. Solidarity forever for the tenants union makes...
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