On September 1st, CT50501, CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee, Indivisible and more CT organizations, are answering the nationwide call to continue the movement launched on May 1st by MayDayStrong, standing in solidarity with all our communities under attack and fighting for real wins for all our people.
Thousands of communities across the country are taking a stand on Labor Day, join us! We will be in the streets, outside the offices of the corporate criminals who are behind the attacks on our freedoms, and at congressional offices. Together we will demand a country that puts workers over billionaires.
OUR DEMANDS TO BUILD THE SOCIETY WE ALL DESERVE:
Stop the billionaire takeover corrupting our government.
Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.
Fully funded schools, and healthcare and housing for all.
Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.
Invest in people not wars.
Join us in Hartford on September 1st at the CT State Capitol from 12-3pm. Bring a friend, a picket sign, and your voice!
Esdras is coming home!
New Haven 11th grader, Esdras was kidnapped from his place of work on July 21st and was taken over state borders, losing contact with his family and lawyers, then was moved to Louisiana. Esdras is a beloved member of his community and testified at the CT Legislature earlier this year to promote healthcare access for everyone in Connecticut.
On July 30th, at a press conference organized by CT Students for a Dream, over a hundred people representing immigrant rights groups, religious communities, unions, students, and teachers, gathered outside Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven to protest this kidnapping and demand Esdras be returned to New Haven.
On August 14th, the New Haven Register reported that Esdras has been brought back to New England, to Plymouth, MA and his deportation flight to Guatemala has been cancelled.
When we fight, we win! On August 31st, what would have been the first day of Esdras’s junior year of high school, a judge ruled that he could be released on bond.
Join our Civil Liberties Contingent at the September 1st ‘Workers Over Billionaires’ Protest at the CT State Capitol. Bring signs that call for defense of our civil liberties and solidarity with all our immigrant neighbors facing threats of deportation.
We Stand with Esdras!
Welcome home Esdras!
Stop the Deportations!
Defend Our Right to Protest!
Defend Free Speech!
Click here to donate to Esdras’ deportation defense fund
Now is the time to fight back and stand up for our rights.
In a mere 6 months the federal government has abducted, jailed and/or deported an unknown number of students for exercising free speech rights, begun confiscating passports held by trans, non-binary and intersex people, sent 238 immigrants - at least 50 of whom have visas - to an overseas concentration camp without trials, hearings or charges, openly discussed sending citizens to such camps, stripped unionization rights from over 1 million union workers, arrested a judge and a mayor, begun a direct challenge to birthright citizenship, requested 20,000 national guard troops to conduct mass deportations, and proposed suspending habeas corpus.
The Trump administration is waging an escalating war on our most basic rights in order to silence its critics and turn back more than a century of gains made by working and oppressed people.
We are at a crossroads. We can hunker down, watching as our neighbors and co-workers are terrorized into silence and inaction, hoping this will somehow be the wiser choice. Or we can take this moment to create new connections with each other and strengthen old ones to build a movement capable of turning back this wave of repression - a movement that draws on labor’s ageless maxim - AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL.