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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