VIEW ON THE WEB WITH FULL MEDIA CONTENTGET IT DONEFinal Push for Universal Health Care!Governor Rell and the Democratic leadership are each trying to fine tune our broken health care system instead of eliminating obscene corporate profits and supporting a single-payer solution.
The legislative session ends Wednesday, June 6. Phone and Email elected officials today: Gov. Rell: 860-566-4840, 1-800-406-1527 Speaker of the House Jim Amman, D-Milford 860-240-8500, 1-800-842-1902 Senate President Donald Williams, D-Brooklyn 860-240-8600, 1-800-842-1420 ACTION ALERTSupport Affordable HousingFrom Partnership for Strong Communities
We need your help NOW to ensure that HOMEConnecticut's legislative proposal to increase the supply of affordable housing in Connecticut is passed this legislative session: * Will help create 60,000 units of modest and affordable housing units over 15 years. * Provides incentives to towns that voluntarily create zoning that allows for mixed-income housing including reimbursement for any additional school costs from children living in the new housing units. * Provides technical assistance funding for non-profit developers and for municipalities to create such zones. * Includes incentives (through project-based subsidies) for developers to create rental housing for households below 50% of the area median income. * Pays for itself by keeping workers and jobs in Connecticut. In addition, for every $1 it invests in this plan, the State will gain over $2 in revenue. Email your state legislators. HEAR CHRIS UPDATE YOU ON THE COMING WEEKPhoto Courtesy of CT News Junkie
Flash Movie of Marriage Equality Rally at the Connecticut Supreme Court
Click Image to watch movie on the People of Faith
website.
Love Requires Acceptance"It is unbecoming of people of faith to spend so much time and energy entrenched in such hatred, bigotry, intolerance, and homophobia. It is unbecoming and insulting to God who favors justice, mercy and love and lives on the side of the oppressed."
-- Rev. Joshua M. Pawelek Read the FaithCT Blog Demanding Equal Rights"Though the technical definition of the term "Civil Union" may include all of the rights and privileges the state of Connecticut can grant to married couples, the actual definition of the term is a system under which same-sex relationships aren't as important or valuable as straight relationships, and therefore neither are gay, lesbian, and transgendered people." -- Becca Lewis, ISO
Read the FaithCT Blog ACTION ALERTTransgender Anti-DiscriminationFrom CT TransAdvocacy Coalition:
SB 1044, An Act Concerning Discrimination has just been placed on the House GO List, which means it could be voted on Monday, June 4th. However, with the budget and other priority bills, your Emails are needed today to assure it is raised for a VOTE and passed without any House Amendments! Click here to email your legislator to raise the bill for a House vote and to vote in favor of SB 1044 as passed by the Senate. Email your state representative. Call your state representative. Talking Points (.pdf) PALESTINIAN RIGHTSBook Your Bus Seat Today!
Bus will leave New Haven at 11:45 p.m. on Sat. June 9 and leave from DC June 10 at 6 p.m. 40 Years of Occupation And 60 Years of War: Enough"For a real road map to peace, all we need is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and to implement all relevant UN resolutions starting with UNGA 194 of 1949. Many churches, unions, and student groups heeded the Palestinian civil society call that focuses on non-violent actions including boycotts, divestments, and sanctions similar to what was applied on South Africa."
-- Mazin Qumsiyeh More View Confirmed Speakers including Connecticut's Mazin Qumsiyeh.
You can buy $50 tickets online at The Struggle. We will also have some tickets for people with low incomes at low cost or no cost. View Cable Ad (57 sec.)
View Confirmed Speakers including CT's Mazin Qumsiyeh. View Schedule of Events
Help Re-build every Palestinian House the Israeli Government Demolishes for the Next Year.
Support the Israeli Committe Against House Demolitions - USA. NEXT STEPS FOR THE PEACE MOVEMENTA Proposal from the ANSWER Coalition"A mobilization of one million people marching on Washington DC would be the best possible trigger for an avalanche of grassroots organizing throughout the country and among service members and their families and veterans. It is time for something bold and broad. Something that sends an unmistakable message to the powers that be that the people of the United States have entered the field of politics in such a way as to become an irresistible force." More Cindy Sheehan's Disgust With Democratic Party"So, Democratic Congress, with the current daily death toll of 3.72 troops per day, you have condemned 473 more to these early graves. 473 more lives wasted for your political greed: Thousands of broken hearts because of your cowardice and avarice. How can you even go to sleep at night or look at yourselves in a mirror? How do you put behind you the screaming mothers on both sides of the conflict? How does the agony you have created escape you?"
More Democrats' Funding of the Iraq War Divides Washington from an Anti-war Nation.
Listen to the interview with journalist and author Anthony Arnove, conducted by Scott Harris of
Between The Lines (7 min. Real Audio).
SPIRITUALITY"But you rise up against my people as an enemy;
you strip the robe from the peaceful,
from those who pass by trustingly
with no thought of war.
The women of my people you drive out
from their pleasant houses;
from their young children you take away
the honor I gave them."
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