Statewide No Kings Rallies
Across CT, folks are coming out to protest peacefully against the violence enacted upon our families, neighbors, and fellow working people across the world.
Email us at ct.cld2025@pm.me to join a local contingent near you and find out more about volunteer tasks to help build this movement in your community and bring out your signs demanding:
Stop the War on Iran Now
Abolish ICE
Bodily Autonomy Now
Hands off Our Right to Speak & Vote
Stop the Billionaire Agenda
Find your local action here: nokings.org
Building Meeting for No Kings March 28th
Parking: Street parking is available, if it’s paid parking it may require the ParkMobile app
Howe/Dwight Garage: 2-18 Howe St., easiest and closest option, 1-2 minute (0.2mi) walk to meeting
LAZ Parking: 150 York St., Garage, 6 minute (0.3mi) walk to meeting
Public Parking at 255 Crown St: Parking lot, 10 minute (0.4mi) walk to meeting
Crown St Garage: 213 Crown St., Garage, 10 minute (0.4mi) walk to meeting
New Haven People’s Center
37 Howe St.
A CALL TO ALL: COME LEND A HELPING HAND TO BUILD TURNOUT FOR NO KINGS 3/28, MAYDAY 2026, AND BUILD A DEEPER ORGANIZING NETWORK TO PREPARE FOR THE ROAD AHEAD!
On March 8th at the New Haven People’s Center, join Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA), Stamford-Norwalk Unites for Immigrants (SNUI), CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee, and more folks from across CT to build organized contingents (a group of people within a protest sharing common demands) to attend No Kings Rallies across CT on March 28th and May Day actions on May 1st.
Speakers include:
Alyce Coleman, The REACH Fund
Seth Freeman, President of SEIU 4Cs
Takeira Bell, Sunrise New Haven
Nan Becker, Westfield Indivisible
John Lugo, Unidad Latina en Acción
Val Jaddo, Justice for Steven Barrier
Rosalie, New Haven Artist
Eric Weiner, Campaign to DeFlock Windsor
Why build contingents? The giant demonstrations of millions in the last year have been essential for building a mass movement capable of responding to the Trump offensive. They have helped to give millions confidence and clearly express the opposition of the great majority to the government’s attacks on working and oppressed people. To exercise our real latent power, these actions must move beyond very large collections of individuals who individually respond to invites on social media, to mobilizations of organized groups which have working relationships and which are capable of taking deliberate common political action. This progression will be necessary if aspirations for durable general strikes are to become real practical possibilities. Consciously and collectively organizing contingents to build 3/28 and 5/1 will help us to take a modest but important step in this direction.
Why a building meeting? To build more dense networks of organized solidarity, we need boots on the ground and practiced communication. We need groups of folks volunteering to go out in their communities and talk to their neighbors, co-workers, community groups. We need organizations and individuals who will poster, flyer, and door-knock in their neighborhoods and towns all over CT and check back in with each other to see what ground has been covered so far. We need folks who can organize carpools for students and people living outside of accessible public transit. If you can put up a flyer in your local coffee shop, grocery store, library, local college campus, community center, etc., you can help build this movement! Come out on March 8th to sign up for volunteer commitments, make local and statewide connections, and take on responsibility for turning out all the layers of our communities that will stand against the repression and attacks we see barring down on our families and neighbors.
What could we demand? Our proposal for unified demands that contingents can bring to their local No Kings Rallies are:
Stop the War on Iran Now
Abolish ICE
Bodily Autonomy Now
Hands off our right to Speak and Vote
Stop the Billionaire Agenda
Bring your ideas and suggestions to March 8th and help develop the demands of this growing movement!
What to expect at the March 8th Building Meeting? You’ll hear from community leaders who have been speaking out and organizing in their corner of CT for trans rights, ending state surveillance, justice for victims of police brutality, prison abolition, union power, increased access to reproductive healthcare, and more. You’ll meet and talk with organizers and activists who have been in movement building for decades and folks who are showing up for the first time this year to find out more about volunteer opportunities in your corner of CT or your layer of community (such as labor, faith, education, etc.) with specific, do-able asks to help build turn out for No Kings 3/28.
If you’re a supporter of the movement or a long time activist, come out on March 8th to take the next step in to help build a bigger, broader, more successful movement to win and defend our rights.
Virtual option: sorry no virtual option will be available for this meeting - we strongly encourage all those who can to attend in person to benefit from the conversations and planning that will take place during breakout time and following this meeting
February Statewide Meeting: Reportback from Minneapolis & Labor’s Fight for Democratic Rights & Against Trump-ICE Repression
Educational forum & Planning Meeting to discuss and vote on upcoming actions to build the fightback to defend our rights in CT - open to all who value democratic norms!
Virtual option available: click here for zoom link
Hear reports from community leaders who were on the ground bearing witness to the Federal Government's onslaught and people's heroice resistance in Minneapolis!
Speakers to include:
Hamilton Nolan - Prominent labor journalist with by-lines including In These Times, The Guardian, and others!
Rev. Sierra-Marie Gerfao - Connecticut Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Ministry, Interfaith Family Ministry for Detained Families, and Danbury Unites for Immigrants. Recently participated in a faith delegation to Minneapolis.
Off street parking available
Monthly New Haven Community Meeting
Where: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT, off street parking available
Join in on New Haven-Hamden’s community meeting to get organized and meet community members who are building the fight back to defend our rights. Meet local organizers, discuss current events, and vote democratically on what to do next. Open to all who value democratic rights!
Hartford Community Meeting
Directions: PDF Map of UHart Campus (#17 Fuller Music Center), free visitor parking in Lot D
View from Lot D, follow the sidewalk to the courtyard area, then enter doors on your right marked with CL DC signs!
We will keep someone outside at the building entrance (seen in the above photo) to help folks find the reserved room until 6:15, if arriving later, look for CL DC signs posted with directions to room.
Join in on a community meeting to discuss the current political moment, plan local actions, and get connected within the larger movement to defend our rights happening in CT. Learn about upcoming statewide actions and new ways to get involved!
Email ct.cld2025@pm.me with any questions!
Rally to Free Abdus
PLEASE READ: As we prepare for our upcoming rally, we want to make sure our message is clear, visible, and powerful. One of the ways we can do that is through posters and signs that reflect the heart of our campaign—truth, justice, and freedom. We are asking for your help in creating posters for the rally. These can include messages such as:
- *End Wrongful Convictions*
- *Free Abdus*
- *The Biggest Concern of Any State Should Be Ending Wrongful Convictions*
- *Justice Requires Truth*
- *Family Connection Is Public Safety*
Join this action to demand freedom and release from detainment for Abdus. Mr. Isma’il Abdus Sabur is a father, son, husband, and hard-working community member whose life was upended by a wrongful conviction in 2014. #FreeAbdus
Come out to show support for the The Wrongful Conviction Relief Act.
Purpose of the Bill:
This bill removes the “newly discovered evidence” requirement from Connecticut law, allowing courts to consider all credible evidence of actual innocence—whether it was available at trial or not. This ensures that wrongful convictions can be challenged even if prior defense strategies or errors prevented evidence from being introduced.
The Problem:
● Current Connecticut law only permits claims of actual innocence based on “newly discovered evidence.”
● If a defense lawyer knew about evidence but chose not to use it, the law blocks later consideration of that evidence.
● Innocent people remain incarcerated due to procedural technicalities, not the merits of their case.
● DNA evidence is limited; not all wrongful convictions involve DNA, and other types of credible evidence (like confessions or recantations) are often excluded.
Solution Provided by the Bill:
● Eliminates the “newly discovered” requirement.
● Allows any credible, material, and corroborated evidence to be considered, including:
○ Scientific evidence (DNA or other testing)
○ Voluntary confessions or admissions by the true perpetrator
○ Witness recantations supported by corroborating evidence
○ Documentary, physical, or testimonial evidence not previously considered
● Introduces credibility safeguards: courts evaluate reliability, corroboration, and overall weight of the evidence.
Expected Impact:
● Strengthens Connecticut’s criminal justice system by prioritizing actual innocence over procedural barriers.
● Provides relief to wrongfully convicted individuals who previously had no legal avenue to present available evidence.
● Maintains judicial discretion to prevent frivolous or unreliable claims from succeeding.
Why Now:
● Growing awareness of wrongful convictions highlights the need for legal reforms that ensure justice is served.
● Connecticut should join other progressive states in removing procedural barriers that block evidence of actual innocence.
Call to Action:
Support this legislation to ensure no innocent person remains imprisoned because of outdated procedural restrictions. Allow courts to consider all credible evidence when determining actual innocence.
Monthly Statewide Meeting
Where: Elmwood Community Center - Laurel Hall, 1106 New Britain Ave. West Hartford, CT, off street parking available, bus stop close by
When: Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 2PM
Attend virtually thru zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/6442176845?omn=88304962332
At a moment when U.S. imperial power is escalating its reach across Latin America and beyond, the fight to defend civil liberties here at home is inseparable from the struggle against repression abroad. The same week that the U.S. government kidnapped Nicolás Maduro, the President of Venezuela, I.C.E. escalated its public violence, murdering a mother of three, Renee Good, in broad daylight, while neighbors recorded the crime on their phones. From escalating U.S. aggression toward Venezuela to the continued expansion of surveillance, policing, and political repression inside the U.S., we are facing a coordinated project: an imperialist, capitalist system that protects wealth and power by criminalizing resistance, manufacturing consent, and suppressing organizing.
This project is not new; and neither are the narratives used to justify it. Claims of “democracy,” “security,” and “self-determination” have long been deployed to legitimate U.S. interventions and violence. These stories are recycled because they work. They are designed to exploit the genuine solidarity working-class people feel with oppressed communities, while obscuring a deeper reality: an imperialist system that protects wealth and power at the expense of people and democracy.
The banks raising interest rates on your mortgage and student loans are also strangling countries like Venezuela through debt and austerity. The tech companies building massive data centers are also extracting lithium, cobalt, and other critical resources across the Global South. When politicians claim to defend freedom abroad, they are silent when police harass people without warrants, when private equity firms buy up housing and raise rents, and when corporations cut wages and benefits in the name of profit. This system does not serve working people anywhere. It depends on repression everywhere.
That is why our work matters now more than ever. We must build real solidarity across borders while also fighting the growing repression of civil liberties at home. When people resist U.S. intervention abroad, they are not only fighting for themselves; they are also fighting for us. An injury to one truly is an injury to all.
This is why we ask that you join the upcoming Statewide CTCLDC Forum and Meeting on Saturday, January 24 at 2:00 PM at the Elmwood Community Center (virtual option available). Please see the attached flyer or visit our website for more details.
The meeting will kick off with a discussion led by Fatema Ahmad (she/her), Executive Director of Muslim Justice League. Fatema will ground us in an analysis of Islamophobia, the War on Terror, and how national security frameworks are used to criminalize, surveil, and repress marginalized communities. Following this, we will discuss and vote on ongoing defense campaigns and upcoming organizing actions, such as local door-to-door canvassing across Connecticut.
This is the work: building working-class solidarity, countering state lies and media propaganda, defending the right to organize, and growing a movement capable of meeting this moment.
Statewide Meeting and Lecture: Johnny Eric Williams
*The program will be followed by a business meeting of the CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee.
Why are tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel obsessed with babies, IQ, gender and race? How has an ideological system as disgraced as Eugenics returned to mainstream discourse? What role does it play in the rise of authoritarianism? How far does it go, and how do we fight it?
Join us for a presentation by professor Johnny Eric Williams, followed by a discussion and then a monthly statewide meeting of the CT civil liberties defense committee where we will plan organizing to defend our rights and oppose the rise of authoritarianism.
Speaker: Johnny Eric Williams is a professor of sociology at Trinity College and author of Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics (Lexington Books 2016). Which investigates the complex role racialized culture plays in delimiting how genome researchers think about human genetic variation. He is the author of numerous articles examining culture’s role in politics, social movement mobilization and scientific knowledge production.
New Haven/Hamden Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
Join New Haven community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and future educational conferences.
New Haven/Hamden meetings are held every other Wednesday.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Hartford Community Meeting
Meeting Address: HFT Union Hall - 85 Buckingham St. Hartford, CT - free off street parking
Join Hartford community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing the current political landscape and building local mass actions and our future educational conferences.
Hartford community meetings are held on the 4th Tuesday of every month.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
New London Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Washington Street Coffee House, 13 Washington St. New London, CT
Join community activists & union members in New London for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
New Haven/Hamden Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
Join New Haven community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and future educational conferences.
New Haven/Hamden meetings are held every third Wednesday of the month.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Hartford Community Meeting
This meeting was cancelled due to us reworking the community meeting schedules following our conference on Nov. 8th! Stay tuned for updates.
Meeting Address: HFT Union Hall - 85 Buckingham St. Hartford, CT - free off street parking
Join Hartford community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing the current political landscape and building local mass actions and future educational conferences.
Hartford community meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Our Power: A Working People’s Conference on Civil Liberties and Resistance
RSVP here: https://ourpowerworkingpeoplesconference.eventbrite.com
Join local union workers, community groups, and activists for the Civil Liberties Fall Education Conference where we’ll come together to discuss historic victories in the struggle for our rights and how to apply these lessons to today’s problems.
Listen to speakers with knowledge and experience including Kathy Manley from Coalition for Civil Freedoms, who has led multiple successful legal cases and social movements to defend activists targeted by the FBI.
Attend workshops led by local activists and discuss current events and how we can move forward strategically and successfully. Discuss and vote on action proposals to continue to build and broaden our movement. Food and off street parking will be available.
New Haven/Hamden Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
Join New Haven community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on November 8.
New Haven/Hamden meetings are held every other Wednesday.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
New Haven/Hamden Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
Join New Haven community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on November 8.
New Haven/Hamden meetings are held every other Wednesday.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Freedom Under Fire: a Forum on Defending Our Rights, Past and Present - New London
Address: Washington Street Coffee House, 13 Washington St. New London
Our rights as Americans are under attack. We will be hearing from movement historian and activist, Christine Marie, about how we can learn from past movements and apply similar methods to today’s struggles.
Email ct.cld2025@pm.me for further details.
Hartford Community Meeting
Meeting Address: HFT Union Hall - 85 Buckingham St. Hartford, CT - free off street parking
Join Hartford community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing the current political landscape and building local mass actions and our Fall Educational Conference.
Hartford community meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
No Kings Hartford
Come out on Saturday, October 18th for the No Kings Rally 2.0
We are gathering not just as individuals, but as collectives from our workplaces, religious organizations, and community groups.
Join us for upcoming planning meetings to discuss and vote on demands that we will bring forward at the No Kings Rally (aka ‘Down with the King’) at the CT State Capitol on October 18th. Email ct.cld2025@pm.me to learn how you can get involved with organized contingents that will be attending the mass rally as a group to bring forward specific, key demands. Current contingents include trans rights and labor rights!
Hartford Community Meeting
UPDATED Meeting Address: Mather Hall Parking Semi-Circle at Trinity College - meet up for flyering event
Shifting this meeting from the union hall to an active flyering meeting! We’ll meet at Trinity college at 5PM and then if we have enough people send a group down to CCSU to flyer the campus at 5:30PM. See you there!
Hartford community meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
New Haven/Hamden Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
Join New Haven community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on November 8.
New Haven/Hamden meetings are held every other Wednesday.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
New London Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Washington Street Coffee House, 13 Washington St. New London, CT
Join community activists & union members in New London for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on November 8.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Hartford Forum @ CCSU
Lessons for Today from the Civil Liberties Movement - How People Have Fought Back and Won
Join the Hartford membership of CLDC and our speakers to learn about moments in history where workers and citizens used their collective power, and discuss how these strategies can inform the tactics of today.
Our featured speakers include:
Christine Marle, Movement historian and activist
Juan Fonseca Tapia, Immigrant rights activist and Leader in Danbury Unites for Immigrants
New Haven/Hamden Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
Join New Haven community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on November 8.
New Haven/Hamden meetings are held every other Wednesday.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Hartford Community Meeting
Meeting switched to meet up at CCSU Student Center Entrance!
Change of plans for this week! To continue to promote and build our forum coming up on Thursday at CCSU campus, we’ll be meeting up at the doors of the CCSU Student Center (look for pink baseball hat and queer pride flags) and then spreading out to flyer and poster on campus with approved flyers.
Hartford community meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
New Haven/Hamden Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Whitneyville Cultural Commons, 1253 Whitney Ave. Hamden, CT
Join New Haven community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on September 20th.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Hartford Community Meeting
Meeting Address: HFT Union Hall - 85 Buckingham St. Hartford, CT - free off street parking
Join Hartford community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing the current political landscape and building local mass actions and our Fall Educational Conference.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
New London Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Washington Street Coffee House, 13 Washington St. New London, CT
Join community activists & union members in New London for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on September 20th.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.
Hartford Workers Over Billionaires Labor Day Rally
Join the movement on September 1st, Labor Day at the State Capitol in Hartford from 12pm to 3pm to defend against attacks on our communities and workplaces!
Labor and community are planning more than a barbecue on Labor Day this year because we have to stop the billionaire takeover. Billionaires are converting the government into their private slush fund and just passed the largest wealth giveaway in the history of the US. The money they take from working families, they put in billionaires’ pockets and set aside to fund a private army of ICE agents.
Just like any bad boss, the way we stop the takeover is with collective action. We are working people rising up to stop the billionaire takeover–not just through the ballot box or the courts, but through building a bigger and stronger movement. We are growing our movement and fighting for a country that is more fair, just, equitable, and free for all of us—and not just a chosen few.
On September 1st we will continue the movement we launched together on May 1st, 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.
Willimantic Community Meeting
Meeting Address: Willimantic Library, 905 Main St. Willimantic, CT
Join Willi community activists & union members for a discussion and organizing meeting on building a grassroots defense of our democratic rights. How can we best defend our right to free speech, to defend our unions, and to organize and protest. We’ll be discussing building local mass actions and an educational conference on September 20th.
Contact ct.cld2025@pm.me for more details.