Category — Hartford

Your voice(s) would be incredibly important to add to our chorus of support.  We just need to have written testimony submitted by this Sunday at 5pm and it takes no time at all to write. That’s tomorrow, so please jot something down if you can.

Here is a link to the Be an Advocate! page with hints on how to craft testimony, talking points for the bill, etc. http://www.ctequality.com/talk-to-lawmakers/

You can contact Pat directly through facebook or email: patrickcomerford1050@gmail.com (please put ctEQUALITY in the subject header).

This is such a crucial time for us, and we know that the Family Institute of CT will be our there at the hearing, so every voice counts…

Our monthly QWB meeting will be held Sunday August 2nd, 5pm-ish at Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave in Hartford. Everyone is invited! <3

From “Notes From Hel,” by Helen Ubinas

Be sure to read the comments for a more thorough, but still incomplete, fleshing out of the issue. The flag was raised again yesterday, June 24th.

If you were at Thursday night’s LGBT event at city hall, I hope you got a good shot of the pride flag.

Because it was abruptly taken down Friday afternoon.

Want to know who to thank, city hall sources said?

Find the rest of the entry here. *For “allies” and “advocates” (and apologists): how to avoid screwed up conversations like that in the comments section here.

Updates here and here.

And, on a related note, check out the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays here.

Join Mitch M. from the Workers Solidarity Alliance (http://workersolidarity.org/), Skip from NEFAC (http://www.nefac.net/), and Roger from Wrench in the Works Collective (http://www.wrenchintheworks.org/) for a discussion on the purposes and uses of anarchist specific organizations. How can we create a fighting working class movement? What role does the organization play in maintaining that movement?

We’re meeting in the large Gallery (downstairs) at Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford (21 Charter Oak Ave) at 5pm.

See you there!!

On a local level QWB is quite a little phenomenon. We’ve had some startling successes and the character of the organization has remained uniquely positive since before we even took up the banner. As an amateur organizer, one thing I know is that success needs to be capitalized upon, otherwise the point becomes somewhat academic, though certainly not without value. So I have some arguments I’d like to make in favor of some directions for QWB to move in; I apologize in advance for making declarative statements, that’s just how I write oftentimes, and should be read as only my opinion and totally open to criticism.
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For more information please contact Patricia Miles at 860-808-8746, Dr. Emmett  E. Wilson at 860-727-8146, Leslie Perry at 860-306-1693, or Dr. Marvin Douglas at 860-830-9333

Hartford is facing one of the most difficult challenges in many years in formulating its municipal budget.  Administrators, elected officials, and the community must answer difficult questions and make hard choices.

• What services are most important?
• What needs should City Government address?
• What is the price we are willing to pay?

Hartford residents, property owners, and business people are invited to participate in a 3-hour workshop that will educate, engage, and enlighten you about the City Budget.  You will be provided with simplified but accurate information about City services and funding and will work in small groups to create a balanced budget for Hartford City Government.  The priorities you set and the choices you make will be provided to City officials as input to their decision-making process.

Please let us know, by March 27th, that you will attend by calling 547-1663 X21 or by emailing Htfd2000@aol.com.