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ACTION ALERT: Save HUSKY-A! Rally & lobby day to protect health care for low-income families
Save HUSKY-A! Don’t balance the budget on the backs of CT’s poor & working families! The Affordable Care Act will make health coverage available to hundreds of thousands of…
ACTION ALERT: Mass May Day Mobilization! 5/1 stand up for immigration reform
~ Immigrants’ rights are Workers’ rights! We are ONE ~ May 1st is International Workers’ Day or “May Day”! May Day is a time for hope and change. May Day…
“Achievement First and Newhallville are showing our city how development can benefit everyone”
CCNE is delighted to report that a Community Benefits Agreement has been reached between Achievement First and the Newhallville community! On December 17, after two months of negotiations, Achievement First and…
“New Haven Works” Pipeline to connect unemployed residents to jobs advances
Good jobs make for strong communities. And New Haven is rising! After years of door-knocking, leadership training, and organizing around an agenda that puts the needs of our communities front…
Through 2012 Community Voter Project, hundreds of Hartford residents become concerned community voters
Hartford Community Voter Project 2012 With the help of 5 college interns and 70 volunteers we surveyed and organized hundreds of residents in struggling neighborhoods and amplified the voice of…
Interfaith Fellowship, “red shirt army” press SustiNet Cabinet on Public Option
On Tuesday June 12th the “red shirt army” took to the state Capitol in full force to bear witness and testify to the need for real health care for real…
CT passes progressive reforms amidst right-wing attacks on voting across the U.S.
During the 2012 legislative session, Connecticut became the tenth state to enact Election Day voter registration beginning in 2013, and the tenth state to enact an online voter registration option…
2,000 join “Let’s Get to Work” march for Jobs Pipeline, good jobs at Yale
On April 25th nearly 2,000 came together to fight for good jobs and strong communities for all at the “Let’s Get to Work” march and rally. Students, union and non-union workers, unemployed…
CCNE Activists Speak Out for Workers’ Right to Organize
Home health care workers (or “Personal Care Attendants”) and child care workers provide essential care to some of our most vulnerable residents: children, seniors, and the disabled. These low-wage workers…
At SustiNet Health Care Cabinet meeting, faith leaders pray for the dead and dying
As they have for the past four months, Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care leaders and their allies held a prayer vigil at the monthly SustiNet Cabinet meeting. On March…
May Day 2013: March for Immigrants' & Workers' rights