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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CCNE co-founder Rev. Scott Marks leads rally
CCNE co-founder and longtime community activist Rev. Scott Marks leads chanting marchers across the green. Pastor Marks put his booming voice to work firing up the crowd of nearly 3,000…
Families from Church Street South demand safe, affordable housing
On March 30, 2011 children of Church Street South marched alongside their parents and thousands of others from all sectors and walks of life in New Haven’s “We Are One”…
Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care Rally
On December 14th, 2010 the Interfaith Fellowship for Universal Health Care (IFUHC) brought together over 500 clergy, elected officials, community activists, union members, health care providers, small business owners, student,…
Community Voter Project Volunteers Hit the Ground
From June through the November general election, the team of nearly 90 volunteers -including college undergraduate and graduate students, community members, retirees, union members, and neighborhood activists- knocked on over…
Public Hearing on the state Basic Health Program (SBHP)