CT DSA and
@CTWFP
🔥 are proud to co-sponsor this CAMPAIGN RALLY and canvass launch for our endorsed candidates, Abdul Osmanu and Laurie Sweet for State Representative! 🌹💪
HAPPENING NOW: protesters have SHUT DOWN Colt's arms manufacturing plant in West Hartford, CT for their role in supplying weapons to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
#ShutItDown4Palestine
✊️🇵🇸
BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts by the majority white jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Rittenhouse claimed that he acted in self-defense when he shot three people at racial justice protests last summer and killed two of them.
BREAKING: Palestine Solidarity Activists Protest Fundraiser for US Senator
@ChrisMurphyCT
in Avon, CT
CT residents held a block party outside Murphy’s re-election fundraiser, demanding he join US Senators Jeff Merkeley & Jim Welch in calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The first socialist slate in Connecticut in 60 years has WON!! 🌹🐳
Hamden is sending three incredible
@DemSocialists
organizers to fight for working people in the city's legislative council and board of education. JAM is heading to office! 🗳🌹
Yesterday, the Palestinian resistance launched an unprecedented anti-colonial struggle. Despite 75 years of occupation, Palestinians are standing tall against apartheid. On Indigenous Peoples Day, we are gathering in solidarity on the New Haven Green. No peace on stolen land! 🇵🇸
We know what the police are capable of when they feel "threatened." The fascists which stormed DC today did so with barely any resistence form "law enforcement."
The protest has ended. All four gates and an entire shift were shut down for several hours. Protesters then marched down the street. They had this to say:
"We'll be back!"
Join DSA and the CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition to fight for our liberation:
HAPPENING NOW: protesters have SHUT DOWN Colt's arms manufacturing plant in West Hartford, CT for their role in supplying weapons to Israel's genocidal war on Gaza.
#ShutItDown4Palestine
✊️🇵🇸
The protest has ended. All four gates and an entire shift were shut down for several hours. Protesters then marched down the street. They had this to say:
"We'll be back!"
Join DSA and the CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition to fight for our liberation:
Today, 60+ people gathered for CT DSA’s FIRST EVER Organizing Intensive! 🌹🎉
Comrades came from all types of work: Palestine 🇵🇸 housing 🏠 labor 💪 ecosocialism 🚌 education justice 🎓
In 2024. CT DSA is ready to ORGANIZE, FIGHT, and WIN!
The THIRD college encampment in Connecticut has LAUNCHED at Wesleyan University tonight.✊
CT DSA Steering member and
@wes_ydsa
alum Bryan C., is seen below addressing the crowd. Across the state, CT DSA has students’ backs for DIVESTMENT and a Free Palestine 🌹🇵🇸
You may have noticed our new Twitter handle already, but it's finally official: the National Political Committee of DSA has officially approved our statewide merger! 🥳🌹🐋
Thank you to all our members for doing the work that has made this a reality. Solidarity forever! ✊✊✊
DSA member and our endorsed
candidate Mariam Khan for Hamden Board of Education finished FIRST in 6 of 9 districts and was FIRST in votes of any candidate on the ballot citywide. Justin for 5th, Abdul for 3rd, and Mariam for BOE all advance to November 2! 🌹🐳
CT DSA members just supported Trinity College students in launching the FOURTH college encampment in Connecticut, demanding DIVESTMENT from Israel. 🌹
Across the state, we socialists have students’ back in our shared movement for a free Palestine 🇵🇸
HAPPENING NOW: Students WALK OUT of the rivalry Yale/Harvard game over their schools support for apartheid and the genocidal war on Gaza
#CeasefireNOW
#ShutItDown4Palestine
🇵🇸
Energy remains high as arrests continue, as students are standing strong chanting at officers.
They are now naming each officer in attendance and calling out “You’re on the wrong side of history!”
Several of the officers seem phased.
We've seen enough, and we're calling it: Hamden's Socialist Slate has WON! 🌹🗳️
Congratulations to our endorsed members Laurie Sweet, Abdul Osmanu and Rhonda Caldwell for their victories tonight. We look forward to fighting alongside you for worker & tenant power in Hamden! ✊❤️
mood when a pro-genocide speaker tries redbaiting the local socialist city councilor and… we send them back to their seat drowning in our cheers after they shout out “Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America” for us 🌹🇵🇸
Mariam Khan has been elected to Hamden's Board of Education as the youngest member in the town's history! We will be alongside her every step of the way in the struggle for a Green New Deal for Public Schools and rights for school workers in Connecticut.
Abdul Osmanu
@abdulyo13
has been elected to Hamden's 3rd district as the youngest legislator in town history at 19, also with the most votes in his district. We can't wait to support him in office as he fights for the multiracial and multigenerational working class!
While Senator Murphy has made strengthening gun laws a core campaign pledge, protestors decried as hypocritical the Senator’s continued support for military aid to Israel.
@JustinForCT
has been reelected to Hamden's 5th district and is the longest serving Democrat (and DSA endorsed candidate!) on the Legislative Council, and was the highest vote getter in the district. We're proud to have him as a leader in the socialist movement in Connecticut!
From CT DSA's own councilman Abdul Osmanu at today's 🇵🇸 rally, the largest in Connecticut's history:
"As a socialist elected, I stand w/ all oppressed peoples, I stand w/ the working class, workers of the world & all who suffer under the murderous capitalist death machine." 🌹
Activists shut down Pratt and Whitney's facility in CT for an A15 action in response to the manufacturer supplying Israel w/ military aircrafts for the illegal occupation beginning in 1947, & they’re currently sustaining the Israeli Air Force's fleet of F100-PW-229 engines. 🌹🇵🇸
Last night, Bridgeport became the FIRST city in CT to call for a
#CeasefireNOW
in Palestine🇵🇸
Led by city councilor Jazmarie Melendez, Bpt’s Muslim & Jewish communities made their voices heard.
CT DSA congratulates this win, & is excited to support ceasefire resos across CT🌹✊
Tenants are ON STRIKE at Putnam's historic Cargill Mill! The former cotton mill which was once the site of a textile workers strike is organized once again, this time by union tenants demanding lead remediation and recognition from their negligent landlord. Solidarity! ✊🏘️🌹
Today, comrades with the CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition demanded that Sen. Blumenthal reverse his stance on Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza. We demand a
#CeasefireNOW
and no further funding for apartheid! 🇵🇸✊
We unequivocally stand with our fellow DSA comrade Rashida Tlaib against this Islamophobic censure by the US House of Representatives. From the river to the sea, Palestine WILL be free. 🇵🇸✊🌹
BREAKING: The House votes 234-188 to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib for “promoting false narratives” about the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and for her use of the phrase "from the river to the sea," which is considered by some as a call for ending Israel's existence.
BREAKING: Starbucks management called police on CT DSA members & Danbury Starbucks Workers United
@SBWU47021
peacefully leafleting customers about Starbucks’ union busting for the nationwide
#RedCupRebellion
🥤☕️
See what Danbury SBWU leader & DSA member Theresa B had to say ✊🌹
FEATURED: The action protesting US Sen.
@ChrisMurphyCT
that CT DSA organizers were involved in, pressuring Murphy to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, aired on
@WTNH
this morning. 🇵🇸
BREAKING: Palestine Solidarity Activists Protest Fundraiser for US Senator
@ChrisMurphyCT
in Avon, CT
CT residents held a block party outside Murphy’s re-election fundraiser, demanding he join US Senators Jeff Merkeley & Jim Welch in calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
We are proud to announce the formation of the Millbrook Village Tenant Union in Windsor! With the support of Hartford DSA branch members, resident organizers were able to collect 30+ signatures from their fellow tenants. Their demands include repairs, an end to discrimination,1/2
We mourn the loss of State Rep Q Williams, who was tragically killed last night in a car accident. He was our ally, a champion for tenant rights & for expanding fair rent commissions across Connecticut. Our condolences go out to his family and loved ones.
Today, CT DSA members and CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition disrupted the first day of the state legislative session, calling on
@GovNedLamont
and CT General Assembly to support a
#ceasefireNOW
. 🌹🇵🇸
“Divest from Death, Invest in Life!” 🕊️❤️
RENT STRIKES WORK. ✊ We celebrate this momentous achievement of Cargill Tenants Union’s militant collective action in bringing *federal* attention to Quiet Corner, Connecticut.
Today the EPA announced they are issuing an administrative order against our landlord. Every development towards enforcement and tenants' protection has been directly won by our tenant union and the risk we took to go on RENT STRIKE:
Today, over 1200 people marched on the offices of US Senators Blumenthal and Murphy to demand
#CeasefireNOW
and an end to the occupation & genocide in Palestine.
We appreciate anti-Zionist rabbi May Ye, organizers, and many DSA members who volunteered to marshal 🌹🇵🇸✊
in 1986, students at Yale University occupied Beinecke Plaza with a shanty town to demand their school divest from companies doing business in apartheid South Africa. Four years later, they witnessed apartheid fall. Nearly 40 years later, their fellow Yalies continue the fight.
Orcas, workers, tenants & all life share the same enemy: capitalism. CT DSA stands with militant orcanizers in their direct action campaign against ecocidal vessels, including but not limited to yachts.
#OrcaUprising
🐬✊
#Pride2023
🏳️🌈🌹
CT DSA condemns the arrest on Monday morning, 4/22/2024, of over 40 protesters by the New Haven Police Department (NHPD) at Yale University’s Gaza solidarity camp in Beinecke Plaza. Read our full statement on our website, or in the 🧵 below.
Shame on
@ChrisMurphyCT
! The Senator can have all the “deep reservations” in the world, but his words mean NOTHING as his inaction continues to aid and abet genocide. When is the right time for you to speak up, Senator Murphy?
HAPPENING NOW: CT DSA-endorsed councilman Abdul Osmanu is joined by Hartford councilman Josh Michtom, and New Britain alderman Nate Simpson, at a press conference to announce the coalition ENDORSING Vote Uncommitted CT 🌹🇵🇸🗳️
At yesterday's rally in New Haven protesting the Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights, one of our members spoke about the need to build a mass socialist feminist movement against Christo-fascism in the United States. Watch here w/ captions:
Yesterday, CT DSA began canvasses in Bridgeport to form a statewide CT transit riders union & fight for fair public transit, which is suffering from reducing services and increasing fares.
Sign our petition linked below, & stay tuned for the next canvass! 🚌🚏🌹✊
Last night at Wesleyan’s encampment, from CT DSA Steering & Wes alum Bryan C:
“We raise our fists to mourn. We raise our fists for love. We raise our fists in solidarity with every person who dares to dream that a better world is possible. We will not stop until Wes divests!”
The THIRD college encampment in Connecticut has LAUNCHED at Wesleyan University tonight.✊
CT DSA Steering member and
@wes_ydsa
alum Bryan C., is seen below addressing the crowd. Across the state, CT DSA has students’ backs for DIVESTMENT and a Free Palestine 🌹🇵🇸
Using the memory of anti-apartheid leaders like Nelson Mandela to support an apartheid state is shameful. In Mandela’s words, "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Israel is on the verge of committing genocide in Gaza.
CT DSA is proud to support our members engaged in militant tenant struggle against landlords, fulfilling our historic task as socialists to rebuild class organization and mass protagonism. 🌹✊
I honestly waited as long as possible to make this ask of friends and supporters. We’ve escalated a local class struggle to a historic level on a $1k pilot grant from CTDSA. No paid staff, just tenants with jobs.
CT DSA is all out for Palestine today in New Haven! We stand in solidarity with the student-led protest movement across the country, from Yale to Berkeley. 🌹
Disclose, Divest,
We will not stop,
We will not rest! 🇵🇸
Solidarity Forever!
Tonight, I feel mostly regret at what could have been.
Tax reform is an issue that is ripe for bipartisan compromise. There is a sincere desire on this side of the aisle to work with the GOP, particularly on tax reform, but we have been rebuffed, time & time again
25+ Democratic Socialists committed to fighting for housing liberation at our organizer retreat this afternoon!✊🏘️
Fight for a better tomorrow with us today🌹
Today, 70 CT DSA members gathered for our hybrid General Assembly and end of year social!🌹🎉
Comrades engaged in lively, democratic debate on multiple resolutions directing the strategic organizing of CT DSA in 2024.
We are prepared to keep organizing, fighting, and winning ✊
Today, tenant organizers with
@cttenantsunion
were proud to be there at city hall in New Haven for the signing of a law that recognizes collective complaints from tenant unions in the Fair Rent Commission process. This is just the first step toward dismantling landlord power ✊🌹
On this day in 1982, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the New American Movement (NAM) merged to form the Democratic Socialists of America. Happy DSA Day to all who struggle for the liberation of the working class and oppressed people everywhere 🌹✊
Now at 1 am there are still roughly 400 students at the encampment, and organizers have promised a pizza delivery in the near future (to loud cheers)
Thought I would take the opportunity to share some of the signs around camp as the threat of arrest looms overhead.
Image description:
US Senator Chris Murphy appears displeased by Palestine solidarity activists peacefully calling on him to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and questioning his continued support for the genocidal occupation of Palestinians.
CT DSA is proud to announce that we have ENDORSED Abdul Osmanu and Laurie Sweet for State Representative, respectively in Districts 94 and 91, for the August 13 Democratic primary election.🌹💪
Message delivered! DSA members helped
@Listen2Michigan
organizers make over half a million phone calls in just three weeks, and today Michigan voters told Joe Biden in no uncertain terms: if you want the votes,
#CeasefireNOW
🚨CT DSA endorses UNCOMMITTED in the April 2nd Democratic Primary🇵🇸🌹
We are proud to join
@DemSocialists
and the CT Palestine Solidarity Coalition in endorsing "Uncommitted" in the April 2nd Democratic primary. Read our thread below, and join the fight:
Happy Birthday to comrade Lex,
@YaleYDSA
leader and CT DSA member! 🎉🎂 Lex is seen below as our chapter speaker on Indigenous Peoples’ Day last year.
We celebrate all your organizing, especially during Yale’s encampment. Your next DSA chapter will be lucky to have you! 🌹
@DemSocialists
chapters can do so much to support this moment of student revolution.
Get yours into the streets TODAY! Reach out to your local YDSA chapters and/or coalitions to see how you can stand in solidarity! 🌹🇵🇸
A big win for tenants in Connecticut, and a big loss for far right state senator Rob Sampson ✊️
Congratulations to everyone in the coalition that made this possible, we'll see you at the statehouse!
As of today, JAM is inaugurated! ✊🌹
@JustinForCT
,
@abdulyo13
and
@mariamforboe
are looking forward to continuing the fight for working class power in Hamden, now from office!
last night, the Hamden town council passed the Tenant Rights Ordinance, which will recognize & empower tenant unions, allow consolidated tenant complaints, & strengthen the power of the Fair Rent Commission to hold landlords accountable & address their systemic neglect. [1/2]
'Abdul Osmanu, a member of Hamden Legislative Council... said uncommitted voters are "more than just a fringe group, but a sizable segment of the Democratic electorate... that our votes must be earned with actual concrete policy changes."' 🌹🇵🇸✊️
The Aye's have it! Hamden has passed councilman Farmer's Fair Rent Resolution to strengthen Hamden's fair rent commission and other protections for tenants against practices like predatory towing! 🌹✊🏘️
20 hours, an internet outage, and hundreds of speakers later, the historical
#CapTheRentCT
public hearing is over. Look how many of us stuck through the night to see it to the end! ✊🌹🌆
The polls are OPEN for the Connecticut Democratic Presidential Primary! Join us and
#VoteUncommittedCT
to send a message to Joe Biden: we will NOT be complicit in Israel's genocide ✊️🌹🇵🇸
Four tenant canvasses in four Connecticut cities, with over twenty five canvassers! 🏘️🌹
Join us next weekend as we hit the doors again to talk to tenants about their rights, and how they can organize against landlord power in their building, neighborhood, city and state! ✊❤️
This holiday season, give the gift ot solidarity! Our Housing Justice Project is organizing to distribute free COVID tests to tenants we work with through
@cttenantsunion
. Support this vital mutual aid today so we can keep organizing tomorrow!
Today, CT DSA was proud to march in West Hartford with our Palestinian solidarity comrades, one of the first statewide rallies of 2024!🌹🇵🇸
CT DSA members came from Danbury, New Haven, Bridgeport and more — including Hamden city councilor Abdul O.
@abdulyo13
✊
With 11:30 now here, the crowd has more than tripled in the last hour, with likely well over 500 student in the plaza.
Police presence seems to have decreased as more students have arrived at the encampment.
As energy grows, students continue singing.
🧵 Today, Central Connecticut DSA is proud to endorse the JAM slate for Hamden. Justin Farmer for Council District 5, Abdul Osmanu for Council District 3, and Mariam Khan for Board of Ed are dedicated DSA members ready to fight for working people! 👩🏿🌾👨🏽🏫👩🔧🧕🏾(1/4)
It's the last weekend before the primary on April 2nd. "Uncommitted" will be on your ballot in Connecticut, and we're asking you to
#VoteUncommitted
with us. Use your vote to tell Biden that we will not be complicit in genocide. 🇵🇸🌹
Pledge to vote here:
CT DSA members stopped by
@wes_ydsa
’s very own tent at Wesleyan University’s encampment, going strong on Day 5 🌹
Today, in just 10 minutes, 10% of all Wesleyan students signed a petition, successfully initiating a student REFERENDUM on DIVESTMENT for Monday, May 6 🇵🇸