KnowYour Rights and Solidarity Summit Organizing Underway

 

As the fights heat up to protect democratic rights and people's needs in Congress and at the State Legislature, dozens of know your rights trainings by the ACLU, Indivisible and other groups are engaging activists across the state, preparing for what the Trump administration might bring. At the city level whole communities are being organized to protect each other and stand up for their needs.

This is especailly so in New Haven. Tthree days before Trump's inauguration, the City released a Resource Guide for New Residents, prepared along with immigrant rights, legal aid and community groups. The guide affirms New Haven as a welcoming city with information about government and nonprofit resources and services including know your rights, legal services, public safety, family preparedness and emergency planning, schools and education, health and wellness, housing and shelter, among other critical services, available at newhavenct.gov/welcome

At the same time, New Haven Rising is organizing for a Solidarity Summit on Tuesday February 4 at Trinity Temple on 285 Dixwell Ave, saying “We must not give in to feaer and division. We must prepare to stand up together and build a bolder vision of a just future for all the residents of our city and beyond.”

The Summit will address the fact that at the same time many families are struggling to get by, $2.5 billion is being invested in luxury apartments and biotech companies while Yale receives $100 million in tax breaks. The call to the Summit says, “As the right-wing enacts a program based on fear and division that is designed to benefit the wealthy, we must stand together and demand a different vision for our city, state, and country. We must fight to ensure that New Haven is a city that protects all of our rights, particularly those who Trump’s regime is likely to target, while providing opportunity to working families.

The Solidarity Summit is being held “to demand that jood union jobs be availaboe to more of our residents, that housing be safe and affordable, and that our city is fully-funded to support our residents' needs and ensure a just future here for youth and for all.”