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 Connecticut residents. But in Governor Malloy’s budget...
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 is a demand for Solidarity. This May Day there is an urgent need to press...
“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 Newhallville leaders proudly stood together as partners...
“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 and center, we’re finally turning the tide in New Haven. Support...
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 inner city residents in the August primary. This fall the CVP will...
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 people during the SustiNet Cabinet’s last scheduled meeting. Thank you everyone for coming...
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1,000 rally against inequality; demand good jobs, end to violence
On December 6th CCNE joined forces with local union members, clergy, community activists and the Occupy New Haven movement at a rally to demand good jobs and an end to…
“Grassroots Agenda Starts with Jobs” at Dec. 3 City-Wide Community Leaders meeting
Hundreds of residents came together December 3rd at the City-Wide Community Leaders meeting to identify and find collective solutions to New Haven’s most pressing problems. In a packed school cafeteria,…
CCNE and Muslim leaders speak at Connecticut AFL-CIO convention
On September 14th Muslim Leaders met with the AFL-CIO at their biennial convention to discuss the American Muslim Experience in Connecticut. CCNE’s Executive Director Renae Reese introduced the panelists: Kashif Abdul-Karim…
Victory! Senate Passes Historic Health Reform Legislation
At last!! On June 6th, 2011 the Senate passed an historic piece of health reform legislation: HB 6308 – including SustiNet! The bill will now go to Governor Malloy for…
Public Hearing on the state Basic Health Program (SBHP)