Joelle Fishman
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Connecticut union health care workers conduct civil disobedience ‘die-in’ – People's World
Holding signs that said “Keep Your Commitment,” twelve Personal Care Assistants (PCAs), acting on behalf of themselves and 11,000 union co-workers, laid down on the floor in a civil disobedience action at the state’s Legislative Office Building Wednesday to demand that the health care and paid... → Read More
Yale graduate teachers and researchers vote to unionize
NEW HAVEN, Conn — An historic 30 year organizing effort was victorious this week adding 3,000 new union members at Yale University as graduate teachers and researchers voted in a landslide to unionize as Local 33–UNITE HERE. → Read More
‘Georgia On My Mind: The Third Reconstruction’: Connecticut Black history event planned
“Georgia on My Mind: The Third Reconstruction,” is the theme of a series of scheduled events including a Black History Month Youth March / car caravan, a virtual event, and an arts and writing competition highlighting the 47th People's World African American History Celebration in Connecticut. → Read More
Connecticut activists take up Hiroshima mayor’s call: “Unite against all threats”
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Civil society must reject self-centered nationalism and unite against all threats, warned Mayor Kazumi Matsui of Hiroshima, Japan on the 75th commemoration of the horrific devastation of its people when the atomic bomb was dropped on the city and three days later on the city of... → Read More
People’s World Black history event in Connecticut: Voting rights worth the fight
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—As the 55th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., brings the historic fight for voting rights to the fore, a movement is sweeping the country today to overcome white supremacist laws aimed at suppressing the Black vote and votes of people of color and low-income people in t... → Read More
Sanctuary exhibit builds solidarity of “Communities Fighting for Freedom”
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Nelson Pinos Gonzalez has changed New Haven forever with his courage, quiet determination, and absolute refusal to be separated from the family that he loves. → Read More
Solidarity is strong for Stop & Shop strikers
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—From the moment workers at Stop & Shop started walking the picket line at 43 stores on April 11, there was a spontaneous outpouring of support from other unions, elected officials, customers, and the community. → Read More
Connecticut Poor People’s Campaign marches on state capitol
HARTFORD, Conn.—If you don't have health, you don't have anything, exclaimed Stephanie Johnson, president of AFT CT local 5051 at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London. She is also chair of her union's Social Justice Committee. → Read More
Connecticut May Day rally inspires unity for justice, equality, and peace
HARTFORD, Conn.—A spirit of resolve and determination filled the King-Davis Labor Center on Sunday, May 6, as everyone joined in with vocalist Jill Marks to sing, Ain't gonna let nobody turn us around. → Read More
Connecticut: Solidarity postcards support Nelson Pinos in sanctuary
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—One day postcards started arriving from all over the country, many handwritten by children, wishing Nelson Pinos Gonzalez well. One came from as far away as South Africa to lift his spirits. → Read More
Hundreds rally in Connecticut to “Defend Our Immigrant Communities”
HARTFORD, Conn.—Local rallies to “Defend Our Immigrant Communities” took place across the country this week in conjunction with a national action by immigrant students and their allies in the nation’s capital to demand passage of a Clean Dream Act before the end of the year. → Read More
Black unionists in St. Louis lead battles for worker and civil rights
ST. LOUIS, MO -- Stand up for health care! Stand up for union jobs! Stand up for living wages! Stand up for civil rights! Stand up St. Louis! called out Rev. Terry Melvin, bringing hundreds of participants at the 31st annual St. → Read More
Conn. AFL-CIO convention: Members commit to “Move Forward Together”
MASHANTUCKET, Conn.—Solidarity and organizing were at the top of the agenda at the Connecticut AFL-CIO convention last week. Turning anger into an action plan, the delegates geared up to move forward together, and reverse the assault on public sector unions and all workers. → Read More
New Haven neighborhood’s response to killing: unity and demand for jobs
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A tragedy has given rise to unity and hope in the Newhallville neighborhood where 14-year old Tyriek B. Keyes was killed just blocks from his home this summer. → Read More
Connecticut mayor: We won’t help deport law-abiding citizens
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Marco Antonio Reyes Alvarez took sanctuary at the First and Summerfield United Methodist Church in New Haven this week instead of deporting back to Ecuador where his life would be endangered and where he would be separated from his wife and children for at least ten years. → Read More
Cities mark Hiroshima Day with urgent calls to abolish nuclear weapons
Cities across the country and the world are stepping up their calls for abolition of nuclear weapons in commemoration of the 72nd anniversary of the horrific bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. → Read More
Communities demand ICE stop separating families
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—A planned protest march turned into a victory march for Nury Chavarria when she was granted an emergency stay of deportation six days after taking sanctuary at Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal. → Read More
Support mounts for mother in sanctuary in New Haven church
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Support and solidarity has been overwhelming for Nury Chavarria, who took sanctuary at the Iglesia de Dios Pentacostal church on July 20 rather than be deported and separated from her four dependent children, all U.S. citizens, one with cerebral palsy. → Read More
Uprising over healthcare spills onto the Senate floor
HARTFORD, Conn. -- The message of the standing room only crowd at Sen. Richard Blumenthal's emergency field hearing on health care at the State Capitol on Monday morning was clear: Do not repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and do not allow the Senate Republican version of the American Health Care... → Read More
Resistance at Yale inspires unity for worker rights
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The fast by Yale graduate teachers in Unite Here Local 33 will enter its 27th day as Yale's Commencement processional wends its way through the New Haven Green on Monday, May 22. → Read More