Here are your upcoming events:
3/26/18 Sasha Turner PhD on the Tom Ficklin Radio Show 10am –
Tune in to Sasha Turner, PhD, Associate Professor, History Quinnipiac University (On Sabbatical 2017-2018), during the Tom Ficklin Radio Show:WNHH-LP 103.5 FM on WNHH Community Radio, WNHH radio player http://www.newhavenindependent.org/asse…/inc/playerooney.php
Facebook Live https://www.facebook.com/NewHavenIndependent/ Karaine Smith-Holness
3/26/18 Break the Prison-to-Deportation Pipeline: Presser+Public Hearing 1pm – 2pm
On Monday, March 26 the Connecticut Immigrant Rights Alliance (CIRA) will officially launch an ongoing grassroots campaign to fight Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Connecticut. This movement includes policy advocacy in the Connecticut General Assembly (CGA) to disentangle state and local government from ICE. House Bill 5543: An Act Concerning the TRUST Act updates the current TRUST Act to prohibit the honoring of all detainers from ICE to state and local law enforcement agencies, absent a valid federal judicial warrant. The updated TRUST Act will also add provisions regarding transparency regarding state/local interactions with ICE, and protections for incarcerated community members. PUBLIC HEARING: MONDAY, MARCH 26 @ 10:00AM, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, LOB ROOM 2C.House Bill 5544: An Act Concerning the Recommendations of the Connecticut Sentencing Commission with Respect to Misdemeanor Sentences will reduce the maximum sentence of all misdemeanors in the State of Connecticut to 364 days, which enables individuals with certain misdemeanor convictions to avert ICE detention following release from state custody PUBLIC HEARING: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28 @ 10:00AM, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, LOB ROOM 2C.
3/26/18 New Haven Board of Education Meeting 5:30pm – 7:30pm
The New Haven Board of Education will be meeting at Celentano School, 400 Canner Street, New Haven CT. See the agenda herehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1TKabfsLEoR-y8LxjCuuxWmVvl4G-ynfZ/view
3/27/18 Screening of Marley - Story of Bob Marley 6pm – 9pm
Happening at the Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street New Haven, this is a community collaboration with the Black Law Students of Yale Law School.
3/28/18 Paved With Good Intentions: White Saviorism & the NPIC 6:30pm – 8:30pm
The U.S. Health Justice Collaborative is hosting a panel event titled "Paved with Good Intentions: White Saviorism and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex." This event aims to explore themes of power, privilege, and financial incentive within the non-profit industry that inhibit the achievement of equity and structural reform in the United States. Location: Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, 211 Park St.
Panelists include:
Jordan Flaherty, Critically acclaimed journalist and author of No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality
Barbara Tinney, Executive Director, New Haven Family Alliance
Kica Matos, Director of Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice, Center for Community Change
Erin Livensparger, Clinical Services Applications Manager, Planned Parenthood of Southern New England
3/29/18 New Haven: Meeting & Phonebank for Institutional Aid Bill 5pm – 7pm
Happening at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE), 345 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06511. Come down for an informational session/phone banking event to reach out to state legislators, demanding that they support the HB 5031, which would equalize access to higher education for undocumented youth in CT!
3/29/18 Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence 6pm – 8:30pm
Happening at Trinity College, Washington Room, 300 Summit Street Hartford, readers include Reverend Henry Brown, Po Murray, Bill Begg, Lee Keylock, Abbey Clements, Yvonne Crasso, Sharbari Ahmed, Martin Espada, Jacquelyn Santiago, Janet Rice, King Obayiga Marley and Tyler Suarez. Focused on the crisis of gun violence in America, Bullets into Bells brings together poems by dozens of the country’s best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Martín Espada, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ocean Vuong, and Juan Felipe Herrera. Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist. The names of all participants will be added in the coming days. The result is a persuasive and moving testament to the urgent need for gun control.
3/31/18 FAIR COMPENSATION FOR ALFONSO!!! 2pm – 3pm
For 15 years, Alfonso worked tirelessly at Zane’s cycles warehouse located at 182 Cedar St, Branford, CT 06405. He proudly provided a high quality work by solving countless high-tech bicycle problems. On September of 2015, the workers at Zane’s voted to organize a union and won! Yet Zane’s never negotiated in good faith. Immediately after the union vote, Christopher Zane cut workers’ salaries by almost 30% and laid off 3 of Alfonso’s co-workers.
On October 13th, 2017, Alfonso was laid off by his manager without any other reason than “Christopher does not want you here.” Stand in solidarity with Alfonso in front of Zane’s Cycles as he fights for fair compensation.
4/11/18 15th Annual Builders of Hope Breakfast 7:30am – 9am
Come Hear From ROSIE KING, star of My Autism and Me (BBC) "My autism affects my ability to socialize. I have a lot of anxieties and become paranoid about saying the wrong thing. Other people without Asperger's Syndrome do not seem to get this so much, and are able to relax in social situations."-- Rosie King. More info via https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ef2jm1jpe8823137&oseq=&c=&ch= Registration closes 4/3/18.
4/21/18 Operation Love-A-Fair 12pm – 5pm
For the sixth year, Jesse J-Hop Hardy and KMAD presents Operation Love-A-Fair which will be held at 139 Ashmun Street New Haven. The kids are getting involved in serving the homeless and need your help and support! Donations are welcomed for water, juice packs, chips, desserts and lightly used clothing. Donate a party size pizza from Legends (ask for Sal 203-230-8800) and feed 4-5 people!
4/28/18 CAIR-CT's Annual Banquet and Fundraiser 6pm – 9pm
Since last presidential elections, the lives of American Muslims and of all Americans have changed. Join CAIR Connecticut at Radisson Hotel Cromwell, 100 Berlin Road, Cromwell, CT 06416in celebrating our accomplishments and to support our working in making a better future for our families, our community and our country. RSVP via https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cair-ct-annual-banquet-fundraiser-living-our-faith-defending-freedom-tickets-43144497353
“The Convict Lease System and Lynch Law are twin infamies which flourish hand in hand in many of the United States. They are the two great outgrowths and results of the class legislation under which our people suffer to-day. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington claim to be too poor to maintain state convicts within prison walls. Hence the convicts are leased out to work for railway contractors, mining companies and those who farm large plantations. These companies assume charge of the convicts, work them as cheap labor and pay the states a handsome revenue for their labor. Ninetenths of these convicts are Negroes. There are two reasons for this. (1) The religious, moral and philanthropic forces of the country — all the agencies which tend to uplift and reclaim the degraded and ignorant, are in the hands of the Anglo-Saxon. Not only has very little effort been made by these forces to reclaim the Negro from the ignorance, immorality and shiftlessness with which he is charged, but he has always been and is now rigidly excluded from the enjoyment of those elevating influences toward which he felt voluntarily drawn…(2) The second reason our race furnishes so large a share of the convicts is that the judges, juries and other officials of the courts are white men who share these prejudices. They also make the laws. It is wholly in their power to extend clemency to white criminals and mete severe punishment to black criminals for the same or lesser crimes. The Negro criminals are mostly ignorant, poor and friendless. Possessing neither money to employ lawyers nor influential friends, they are sentenced in large numbers to long terms of imprisonment for petty crimes.” Frederick Douglass (The Convict Lease System)
Remember - The People United Will Never Be Defeated – you can achieve anything, change anything, be anything, do anything you put your mind to – you are power – united we stand, divided we fall.
Fist up, smile on,
CJ
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