Written Testimony Submitted to the Connecticut General Assembly Labor and Public
Employees Committee in Support of S.B. 312: An Act Concerning the Expansion of
Connecticut Paid Sick Days.
Dear Friends, It has been an exciting year here at the Collaborative Center for Justice! Since our last appeal, your support helped fuel our contributions to two statewide legislative victories that will improve the lives of hundreds of thousands of Connecticut residents! With municipal election season here, many of us […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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% […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]