Urgent: One Last Push for Clean Slate (S.B.1019)!

May 25, 2021

Action Alert

Urgent: One Last Push for Clean Slate (S.B.1019)!

The Issue The Clean Slate criminal justice reform bill (S.B.1019) that we support is coming up for a vote in the state House any day now. Last week it successfully made it out of the Senate. This is the final push before it makes it to Governor Lamont’s desk and, […]

March 2, 2021

Action Alert, Environmental Justice

Your voice is needed to advance bills to build a more just, sustainable CT!

Action Alert Your voice is needed to advance 4 bills to build a more just, sustainable Connecticut! The Collaborative Center for Justice has been actively involved in CT Renews, a coalition of environmental justice, faith, labor, and community groups working on supporting legislation to build a more just, equitable, and […]

February 9, 2021

Uncategorized

Webinar: “Transportation, Climate, & Racial Justice: How We Can Address Health Inequities & Promote the Common Good”

Transportation accounts for 38% of Connecticut’s climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions, and 69% of our nitrogen oxide emission, a leading driver of asthma rates. States across the region are banding together to cut our contribution to climate change, air pollution, and to reinvest in overburdened communities through the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI). Join us for a lunchtime discussion on Wednesday, February 17, at […]

February 5, 2021

Action Alert

A Strong Clean Slate Bill Must Include Felony Convictions

The Issue The consequences of having a criminal record, especially a felony conviction, impacts the entire nation because of the way it drains the economy, and how it disproportionately targets communities of color. According to the FBI, 30% of American adults have some sort of criminal record. By age 23, 50% […]

January 12, 2021

Action Alert, Environmental Justice

Your voice is needed to halt fossil fuel expansion in CT!

More public input is needed to stop additional permits for the proposed fracked-gas power plant in Killingly! (And 2 other locations in CT – see more details below on how to comment) The CT Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has tentatively approved another permit related to building a new fracked-gas […]

November 11, 2020

Action Alert

Participate in November 18 #FreeThemNowCT Actions!

The Issue: In Connecticut, as of November 6, 2020, over 400 Department of Corrections staff, and 1,670 incarcerated people have contracted the coronavirus. There are 9,354 people incarcerated in Connecticut’s jails and prisons. The nonpartisan Marshall Project ranks Connecticut among the worst in the nation in per capita COVID-19 transmission in its correctional facilities. Even as the pandemic […]

October 2, 2020

Action Alert

Three Ways to Get Involved in October!

The first two opportunities mark the kickoff of our Public Theology Conversation Series. For each conversation, we will be joined by intellectuals, organizers, and public figures to discuss the challenges (and opportunities) that face our nation, and how our values might spur us into action in pursuit of justice. Each […]

September 25, 2020

Action Alert

Speak Up against the Fracked-gas Power Plant!

There is still time to speak up against the proposed fracked-gas power plant in Killingly! Your input is needed by October 9th On October 1st, a public hearing will be held on the permit application to allow NTE Connecticut to dump waste water associated with the power plant into public […]

September 18, 2020

Action Alert

Healthcare for Immigrants in Connecticut

Please see the action alert below from leaders at CT Students for a Dream. While details haven’t yet been released about a September special legislative session in CT, we have read this report about a possible session on September 29 and 30. We will keep you updated as we learn […]

July 17, 2020

Action Alert, Uncategorized

CGA Special Session

Special Session Information After months of talking about convening a special legislative session this summer, a date has finally been set. Governor Lamont plans to issue the official call on Friday. The House of Representatives plans to be in session next Thursday, July 23, and the Senate will take up the bills sometime […]