Hundreds March to Protect Our Future

Marches, rallies and protests filled the streets in Connecticut this week as the resistance to Trump's Project 2025 expands.

The Hillhouse High School marching band led hundreds of members of the New Haven Federation of Teachers, students and families from Gateway Community College to the New Haven Green in a march to “Protect Our Kids” and demand fully funded schools, not tax cuts to billionaires.

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten joined the march as Trump installed Linda McMahon as Education Secretary with the goal of dismantling the Department of Education.

“Let's fill the streets with a clear message - When public education is under attack, what do we do? Stand up fight back!” said NHFT president Leslie Blatteau.

A nationally coordinated protest to stop the attack on democracy by Trump and Musk was held at the State Capitol and in Willimantic. A march to expand TRUST Act protections for immigrant families in Connecticut proceeded from Hartford City Hall to the State Capitol.

A rally at the West Haven VA to stop the attacks on federal workers and communities was called by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the CT AFL CIO. Rep Rosa DeLauro and US Sen. Richard Blumenthal vowed to stop the layoffs of federal workers and cuts to services.

“It's not just the workers who are under assault from an unelected billionaire. It's the services our communities count on. And everyone who relies on federal funding,” said the CT AFL-CIO.

“Make no mistake: this is all part of a Project 2025 strategy to exhaust and overwhelm working people from all angles as quickly as possible so we can't fight back. We will not let Donald Trump and Elon Musk cut Medicare, reduce Social Security benefits, eliminate federal funding for our schools, layoff and fire critical workers, cut services and staff for our veterans, and so much more,” their statement concluded.

A rally with Rep. John Larson in Hartford and retiree and senior organizations demanded an end to threats to dismantle or privatize Social Security.