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Join us for a weekly conversation beginning Thursday September 10th about all things related to the upcoming general election. We will talk from the broad national strategy to the very local around absentee ballots and everything in between. MMCT & CTBW is partnering with the League of Women Voters of CT for this very important weekly check in, offering of up to date information and support as we move to November 3rd and beyond.
Here’s the link again to join https://zoom.us/j/97342694348
CT Black Women
CT Black Women was founded in 2019 by Pamela Selders who called together 5 passionate and powerful Black Women to do the work of racial justice and Black liberation for Black women and girls.
We are Black women of conscience working together in supporting and building ourselves and our community through activism, advocacy, education and creativity.
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has emerged from more than a decade of work by grassroots community and religious leaders, organizations and movements across the nation. We are united together to fight systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy, and to shift the nation’s distorted moral narrative. The Campaign aims to build a broad and deep moral movement – rooted in the leadership of poor people and moral leaders, and reflecting our deepest constitutional and faith traditions – to put before the nation a moral agenda.
50 years ago, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others called for a “revolution of values” in America, inviting people who had been divided to stand together against the “triplets of evil”–militarism, racism, and economic injustice–to insist that people need not die from poverty in the richest nation to ever exist. Together with poor people in communities across America–black, white, brown and Native–they responded by building a Poor People’s Campaign. We draw on the history, vision and unfinished work of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign and take as our task reigniting that campaign to unite the poor, disenfranchised, and marginalized to take action together and become what Dr. King called “a new and unsettling force in our complacent national life.”
The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival will necessarily be a multi-year undertaking. This spring, the Campaign has launched and will engage in 40 Days of Moral Action here in CT and across the nation. By engaging in highly publicized, non-violent moral fusion direct action, over a 6-week period in at least 40 states and the District of Columbia between May 13th and June 23rd, the Campaign will force a serious national and statewide examination of the enmeshed evils of systemic racism, systemic poverty, ecological devastation and the war economy during a key election year while strengthening and connecting informed and committed grassroots leadership in every state, increasing their power to continue this fight long after the campaign ends. During these 40 days of Moral Action, the Campaign will push forward a concrete moral agenda, and draw on art, music, popular education and religious traditions to challenge the nation’s distorted moral narrative.
Each week during the 40 days will focus on different themes:
and Poverty: Voting Rights and ImmigrationOur Connecticut Coordinating Committee is led by Tri Chairs, Bishop John Selders, Lady Pamela Selders (Moral Monday CT) and Ms. Jackie Allen Doucot (Hartford Catholic Worker). Please join us in standing together as we make the demands of the poor and dispossessed known to our failing leaders everywhere. We anticipate that this season of moral action can be used by all of us to send a clear and powerful message that the destruction and degradation of this system knows no boundaries and that the poor of the world are coming together to stand against it and build something new and better.
Moral Monday CT will be the lead organization for the CT Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival in collaboration with CT’s Fight for $15, The New Haven Peoples Center and a host of other grassroots organizations and individuals from across the state. The campaign’s leadership in CT will be facilitated by a Coordinating Committee under the guidance of our tri-chairs, Bishop John Selders, Lady Pamela Selders (of MMCT) and Ms. Jackie Allen-Doucet (of Hartford Catholic Worker).
Weekly themes:
Week One (May 13-19) – SOMEBODY’S HURTING OUR PEOPLE: Children, Women, LGBTQIA Community, and People with Disabilities in Poverty
Week Two (May 20-26) – LINKING SYSTEMIC RACISM AND POVERTY: Voting Rights, Immigration, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Mistreatment of Indigenous Communities
Week Three (May 27-June 2) – THE WAR ECONOMY: Militarism and the Proliferation of Gun Violence
Week Four (June 3-9) – THE RIGHT TO HEALTH AND A HEALTHY PLANET: Ecological Devastation and Health Care
Week Five (June 10-16) – EVERYBODY’S GOT THE RIGHT TO LIVE: Education, Living Wage Jobs, Income, Housing
Week Six (June 17-22) – A NEW AND UNSETTLING FORCE: Confronting the Distorted Moral Narrative
CT Poor People’s Campaign is being supported by a number of committed partner organizations to include:
Amistad United Church of Christ, Moral Monday CT, Hartford Catholic Worker, The Unitarian Universalist Society:East, The Universalist Church of West Hartford, The DUE Justice Coalition, CT Fight for $15, Mt. Aery Baptist Church-Bridgeport, AFT-Connecticut, SEIU 1199 – CT, ACLU-CT, CT Chapter – Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, NARAL Pro-Choice CT, CT-CORE Organize Now, CT Citizen Action Group, The Women’s March – CT, NOW-CT, CT Bail Fund, New London Chapter-NAACP, Central Christian Church of Danbury, New Haven People’s Center, Answer CT, Women of Justice-Northeast Region, War Resisters-CT, 32BJ SEIU-CT and a host of individual justice seeking freedom fighters!
