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Wednesday, May 23:
A DAY OF ACTIVISM FOR JUSTICE & PEACE

Protest Bush in New London, May 23rd, 9 AM

Join A.N.S.W.E.R CT in demanding: US Out of Iraq Now!

The Bush administration has done everything to try to prevent mass assembly and protest at the US Coast Guard Academy. Join A.N.S.W.E.R. in rallying directly in front of the USCGA grounds, to express the rising tidal wave of anti-war sentiment in the country.

If people do not go directly to the main gate by 9 am, it is possible you will not be able to join the Protest Bush Rally at the Coast Guard Academy. Roads from the north and west used to go from Connecticut College to the USCGA and several others will be shut down mid-morning.

People will begin gathering for the Protest Bush rally as early as 7 am.

Progressive CT Tax Legislation, Press Conference, May 23rd, 1 PM

Support a 20% State Earned Income Tax Credit for Working-Poor People!

Hear Chris Update You On The Coming Week

Marriage Equality Rally
State Supreme Court Steps
May 23rd, 10 - 11 AM

Civil Rights - Equality -- Justice -- Human Dignity

It's Now or Never!

This will be the ONLY rally at the Supreme Court before a decision is handed down!

There will be a simultaneous rally AGAINST Marriage at the State Capitol.

The Supreme Court Must Hear Our Voices for Equality!

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ANIMAL RIGHTS

Ban Elephant Bull-Hooks in CT

Photo: Kathy Hucks

Animal rights activists protest the use of bull-hooks on elephants outside the Ringling Brothers Circus at the Hartford Civic Center, May 10-13.

Watch the Undercurrents' Video interview with several of the activists.

Call or email your state legislators TODAY and tell them to support:

* HB-7017: banning bullhooks

* HB-6071: restraining orders protecting pets from human-on-pet domestic violence

* Spaying/neutering of feral cats

* Tell your legislators to oppose Sunday hunting

ACTION ALERT

Lost/Stolen Firearms Bill

From CT Against Gun Violence:

SB 903 requiring gun owners to report any lost or stolen firearms to local authorities, is due for a vote very soon.

We know that the NRA and other groups who oppose this sensible legislation going to make every effort to stop this bill from coming up for a vote. We cannot let that happen!

Call and Email your legislators TODAY!

ACTION ALERT!

Palliative Marijuana Reform

From A Better Way Foundation:

Identified as this year's priority issue A Better Way Foundation is dismayed that this legislation has been referred back to the appropriations committee at this late date in the legislative process.

Call and Email your legislators TODAY!

Racial Justice Day at the State Capitol, May 30

SPIRITUALITY

"Too often the price exacted by society for security and respectability is that the Christian movement in its formal expression must be on the side of the strong against the weak. This is a matter of tremendous significance, for it reveals to what extent a religion that was born of a people acquainted with persecution and suffering has become the cornerstone of a civilization and of nations whose very position in modern life has too often been secured by a ruthless use of power applied to weak and defenseless people. "

Rev. Howard Thurman (1900-1981) Theologian, Civil Rights Leader

IMMIGRANT RIGHTS

New Haven City ID Campaign

Photo & Story by Melissa Bailey, New Haven Independent

The City ID program unanimously passed the New Haven Finance Committee on May 17 and goes before the Board of Aldermen on June 4th. Immigrant rights activists plan to bring the 200-plus people who attended the finance committee back for the final vote.

"We all deserve an opportunity," said Javier, who moved here from Mexico three years ago. "We're not hurting anyone. We're good people."