Six Religious Communities Send Letter

March 6, 2012

Death Penalty

Six Religious Communities Send Letter

On February 29th, the leadership teams of the six religious congregations who sponsor The Collaborative Center for Justice sent a letter (attached to this posting) to the Connecticut General Assembly expressing their support for the bill to abolish the death penalty that will be taken up during this legislative session. […]

February 29, 2012

Death Penalty

Take Action to Repeal the Death Penalty

Call/Write:Your Senator and Representative Message: Ask them to support Raised S.B. 280 that would replace the death penalty with a penalty of life imprisonment without the possibility of release. Time frame: Before March 9th Raised S. B. 280 AN ACT REVISING THE PENALTY FOR CAPITAL FELONIES.To replace the death penalty […]

February 17, 2012

Women, Children, & Families

The Protect Our Kids Act

More than seven children die from abuse and neglect every day in America – some 2,500 a year – reflecting the estimated 50 percent undercounting in the officially estimated figure of 1,537. A child is abused or neglected every 36 seconds in the United States, yet only 40 percent of […]

February 16, 2012

Elections Resources

Common Good 2012

The 2012 election comes at a time when the U.S. faces the highest poverty rates in decades, when the wealth gap has reached historic levels and income disparities are high, and when government officials face stark choices about who will benefit and who will suffer as a result of the […]

February 9, 2012

Budget & Taxes

Update on Unemployment Insurance

Update: Unemployment Insurance/Payroll Tax On Friday, February 17, both the House and the Senate passed H.R. 3630, the bill to extend, until December 31, 2012: unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed, the payroll tax reduction for workers, elimination of the drastic cut in the repayment rate to doctors who treat […]

February 9, 2012

Human Rights Issues, Immigration, Women, Children, & Families

Children of Immigrants Targeted by Tax Warfare in Congress

Children of Immigrants Targeted by Tax Warfare in Congress by Michelle Chen The fundamental injustice of the tax system grows clearer as tax day looms ominously over working people and a few horde more and more of the nation’s wealth. Short of a total collapse of capitalism, the primary redistributive […]

February 7, 2012

Action Alert, Environmental Justice

Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It

Released by: Environment America Release date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 > Download Report (PDF) Executive Summary For decades, the Clean Water Act protected the Nation’s surface water bodies from unregulated pollution and rescued them from the crisis status they were in during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now these […]

February 7, 2012

Death Penalty, Events

Press Conference and Lobby Day 2-29-2012

Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty February 29th at 10:00a.m. Old Judiciary Room of the State Capitol Join us Wednesday February 29th at 10:00 a.m. in the Old Judiciary Room of the State Capitol for a press conference featuring murder victims’ families speaking out against the death penalty. To date, over 115 […]

January 10, 2012

Death Penalty

Corporate Stance Against the Death Penalty

Six religious communities of women, serving in Connecticut, representing over 1,000 Sisters and Associates in their respective communities have taken a strong corporate stance against the Death Penalty: In a combined statement they write: “We declare our solidarity with all concerned persons throughout the world who reverence the value and […]

January 10, 2012

Death Penalty

Repeal of the Death Penalty in Connecticut Update

The Connecticut legislature decided to postpone repealing the death penalty until 2012. That means one more year of failing victims’ families, risking sentencing innocent people to death, and wasting taxpayer dollars. All the ingredients were there to make repeal a reality this year. There was support in the Senate. There […]