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Jun 24, 2020

Divestment from policing is close to reality for a lot of people in our state. It should be reality for everyone.

Policing

It’s about bigger towns and cities, especially those where policing most harms Black and Latinx people, getting the same chance to do what other Connecticut towns have long done: investing hard-earned...

By Claudine Constant, Melvin Medina

It’s about bigger towns and cities, especially those where policing most harms Black and Latinx people, getting the same chance to do what other Connecticut towns have long done: investing hard-earned...

By Claudine Constant, Melvin Medina
Red tent with white sign. Sign reads: Divest from policing / invest in2 community
Red tent with white sign. Sign reads: Divest from policing / invest in2 community
Jun 17, 2020

Policymakers need to listen to activists on the solutions to police violence and racism

Racial Justice

This movement has been around since the early days of policing and has always been led by activists and organizers from communities that have been harmed by the police. It’s time people in power listen.

By Kelly McConney Moore

This movement has been around since the early days of policing and has always been led by activists and organizers from communities that have been harmed by the police. It’s time people in power listen.

By Kelly McConney Moore
Red tent with white sign. Sign reads: Divest from policing / invest in2 community
Red tent with white sign. Sign reads: Divest from policing / invest in2 community
May 21, 2020

Lamont’s “re”opening runs the risk of widening inequities in our state

To understand what Lamont’s choice to add more businesses to the lists of those that have been open could mean for Connecticut, it’s useful to look at what his actions so far have meant for vulnerable...

By David McGuire

To understand what Lamont’s choice to add more businesses to the lists of those that have been open could mean for Connecticut, it’s useful to look at what his actions so far have meant for vulnerable...

By David McGuire
undraw illustration of three people in blue shirts walking 6 feet apart in white masks and white gloves, with blue trees in background
undraw illustration of three people in blue shirts walking 6 feet apart in white masks and white gloves, with blue trees in background
May 13, 2020

Protecting Public Health and the Right to Vote Means Expanding Vote-by-Mail

Voting Rights

Expanding absentee voting for widespread illness in the state is a simple and important part of protecting voting rights.

By Kelly McConney Moore

Expanding absentee voting for widespread illness in the state is a simple and important part of protecting voting rights.

By Kelly McConney Moore
a white envelope against wood background. written on the envelope: LET PEOPLE VOTE
a white envelope against wood background. written on the envelope: LET PEOPLE VOTE
May 11, 2020

What’s actually happening with Connecticut’s discretionary releases from prisons and jails?

The numbers don’t reflect an unprecedented response to save incarcerated lives, especially Black and Latinx lives.

By Melvin Medina, Meghan Holden

The numbers don’t reflect an unprecedented response to save incarcerated lives, especially Black and Latinx lives.

By Melvin Medina, Meghan Holden
blue aclu of connecticut people not prisons poster in front of Connecticut governor's mansion
blue aclu of connecticut people not prisons poster in front of Connecticut governor's mansion
Apr 21, 2020

If CT prisons and jails were a town, they’d have the highest COVID-19 infection rate in the state.

Even if Lamont and the DOC continue to ignore the people who they should have been listening to all along, they should pay attention to the numbers, which show that the DOC’s reactionary, backward-looking...

By David McGuire, Melvin Medina

Even if Lamont and the DOC continue to ignore the people who they should have been listening to all along, they should pay attention to the numbers, which show that the DOC’s reactionary, backward-looking...

By David McGuire, Melvin Medina
blue aclu of connecticut people not prisons poster in front of Connecticut governor's mansion
blue aclu of connecticut people not prisons poster in front of Connecticut governor's mansion