CT DSA Working Groups
Most of CT DSA’s external-facing organizing is housed in many different Working Groups (WGs), supported by the Steering Committee to organize across Connecticut. Working Groups organize around specific issues or identity groups and seek to bring members together based on their passions. They usually have their own Organizing Committees, which may be elected positions.
EcoSocialist Working Group
Meeting every other Thursday at 7 pmCT 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.
Education Justice Working Group
Regular Meetings monthly on Wednesdays at 7 pmCT DSA’s Education Justice Working Group is a cohort of socialist educators – primarily in K-12 public education, but includes librarians, higher education workers, parents, students, and more – invested in establishing education justice organizing in CT through theory and practice.
Electoral Working Group
Check the chapter calendar for next meetingCT DSA’s Electoral Working Group primarily works to elect CT DSA-endorsed socialists to public office; and support the legislative and community work of CT DSA’s endorsed elected officials.
Housing Justice Working Group
Regular Meetings Third Monday of the Month, 7 pmThe Housing Justice Project, CT DSA’s housing working group, fights for a socialist understanding of housing. We organize tenant struggles to improve conditions, decrease rents, and move towards guaranteed housing for all. Our goal is to end the commodification of housing, ensuring democratic control and decarbonization while dismantling racism, policing, displacement, and extraction. Join the Housing Justice Working Group and get involved.
International Working Group
Regular Meetings Fourth Monday of the month, 8.30-9.30 pmThe 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.
Labor Working Group
Regular Meetings once monthly on Wednesday, 7 pmThrough collaborative training and political education, CT DSA’s Labor Working Group empowers workers to organize their workplaces — unionized or not — to the end of democratic, militant, worker-led vehicles for collective action. We also engage in solidarity organizing, turning out to picket lines across the state to support striking workers, from Starbucks Workers United to Amazon Teamsters and more.
Political Education Working Group
Regular Meetings Wednesdays, once a month, 7:00 pmCT DSA’s Political Education Working Group organizes meetings and education series to build shared political consciousness and organizing skills among members. We have monthly meetings where we read together and discuss our ongoing, in-person initiatives. Our in-person work includes one-off political education events, running the Socialist Night School series around the state, and the Socialist Literacy Corps in New Haven.
Reproductive Justice Working Group
Regular Meetings Biweekly on Tuesdays at 7 pmIn 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.