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Issue #2 |
10 February 2009 |
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This week a basic human rights campaign will commence at the Legislative
Office Building. This is the Campaign mandating Paid Sick Days for
full-time employees, a right long overdue for workers in CT.
The rights of Palestinians is the topic at 2 events at CCSU in New Britain.
Check out the Panel Discussion by Student Activists and the talk on State
Terrorism in the Middle East by Norman Finkelstein.
The International Socialist Organization sponsors a discussion on winning a
society free of War, Racism and Inequality in the Obama era at SCSU in New
Haven.
We also have 2 Action Alerts. The first is to restore AIDS funding eliminated
under Gov. Rell's budget proposal. We must not allow the budget to be balanced
on the backs of one of the most vulnerable groups in society.
Secondly, we must advocate for those who have no voice in the halls of power:
animals. We must begin to prohibit the cruel and inhumane practices of animal
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Paid
Sick Days Campaign Kick-Off, Hartford, Feb. 9 |
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Paid Sick Days Campaign Kick-Off
Monday, February 9
10:00 am
Legislative Office Building
2nd Floor Atrium
Turn-out for this event is important!
Please come by to support the Everyone Benefits campaign to pass paid sick days legislation this session!
More information here
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Alert: Fight Back AIDS Funding Cuts |
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From the CT AIDS Resource Coalition:
WHAT WE ARE ASKING YOU TO DO:
1. Call your state Representative and Senator, NOW! If you don't know who they are click here http://www.cga.ct.gov/maps/townlist.asp
2. Tell them to restore the $2.5 million to the AIDS Service line in the DPH budget (you can personalize what that loss would mean to you/your agency), people with AIDS are NOT expendable!
3. Get 5 people from your life/agency/church/staff/board to do the same!
4. Come to the DSS (February 18th, 4PM, Room 2C) and DPH budget hearings (February 20th, 3 PM, Room 2C). Wear your GOT AIDS? t-shirt. Let me know if you'd like to testify.
ACT UP FIGHT BACK!! ACTION = LIFE! SILENCE = DEATH!
More information here
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"There is no more revolutionary pressure in the world than that of a commitment to social transformation through nonviolent means. Trying to change the world through violence is not only non-revolutionary but passé and ineffective. Nonviolent direct action was the commitment of Jesus the Christ and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. here in the United States. . . .
Ours is a revolutionary movement that stops nothing short of world transformation. There is no greater revolution on Earth nor shall it ever be. While we may never see it completed, it remains both noble and ongoing."
-- Dr. Matthew V. Johnson |
| "Economic
Crisis And CT's Future," Hartford, Feb. 9 |
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How would public service cuts affect Connecticut's economy?
How will the federal stimulus package affect our state?
Monday, February 9th
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Legislative Office Building, Room 1C
Capitol Ave., Hartford
Panelists:
Robert H. Frank
Rep. Chris Murphy
State Senator Don Williams
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| Foreclosure
Prevention Workshop, Hartford, Feb. 14 |
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The Foreclosure Prevention Workshop will be held Saturday, February 14, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the CT Convention Center in Hartford. Borrowers can learn about the options that may be available to them, and ideally begin steps to improve their situation and avoid foreclosure. In addition to loan servicers, local housing counselors will be available to assist borrowers.
The workshop is free and open to all borrowers, including borrowers in central and western Massachusetts as well as Connecticut.
More information here
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| Action
Alert: Email Legislators on Animal Rights |
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| "Freedom
for Palestine" Panel Discussion, New Britain, Feb. 9 |
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CCSU Progressive Student Alliance and Young Socialists League are hosting a
panel discussion on
Monday Feb. 9, 5.30 pm
in the Carlton Room of the Student Center at Central Conn. State University on
"Freedom for Palestine" following the recent Israeli assault on Gaza.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=58476676017
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| "State
Terrorism in the Middle East" New Britain, Feb. 12 |
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Dr. Norman Finkelstein:
State Terrorism in the Middle East
Norman G. Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. For many years he taught political theory and the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He is a renowned expert on the Holocaust and its exploitation. He is currently an independent scholar. Finkelstein is the author of five books which have been translated into more than forty foreign editions. Among them are:
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A personal account of the Intifada years
A farewell to Israel: The coming break-up of American Zionism
Thursday, February 12, 2009
4:00 pm, Founders Hall
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
More
information here
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| People
of Faith CT articulates faith-based values as a foundation for progressive
politics and mobilizes constituents for social justice and peace activism. If
you would like to blog or post events, please visit http://faithCT.net |
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"War, Recession & Obama: Socialist Strategies for Winning Radical
Change, New Haven, Feb. 12 |
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War, Recession & Obama:
Socialist Strategies for Winning Radical Change
Sponsored by The International Socialist Organization
Thursday Feb 12
7:30 pm
Engleman B111
Southern Connecticut State University
After eight years of wars, widening class inequality, and crumbling social services, the vast majority of the population feel that they finally have a sympathetic ear in Washington.
But with the economic crisis still unfolding, and the material content of Obama's promises still undefined, we need, now more than ever, socialists and socialist politics to help lead the fights for the radical change we deserve.
How do we defend abortion rights, start redistributing the wealth in our favor,
and win gay marriage nationally?
More information here |
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Upcoming Events: February 9 - 15 |
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