In this issue:
- Cultivating Justice
- Middletown Monthly Meeting
- Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call
- We’re Hiring a Community Organizer
- Quotes of the Week
Victory! Miller Bridge Community Farm was approved by the Economic Development Commission!
Our Cultivating Justice project has been building and growing power in Middletown. Last week, Cultivating Justice members held their monthly Cultivating justice meeting. During this meeting, they discussed The Miller Street community farm, testing soil project, and heard from different farmers about upcoming events.
After a long fight for a lease for the Miller Street Community Farm, we’ve got great news to share – the lease is moving forward! On Tuesday April 9th, The Miller Street Community Farm was up for vote at the Middletown Economic Development meeting – Cultivating Justice members turned out. We mobilized people to attend and share public testimony in support of the community farm, located in one of the most segregated parts of the city, Miller Street bridge community. People joined in person and via zoom and the lease was approved. The lease is now onto city hall for vote.
Check out an article about the project here. We created a petition to help support the community farm which continues to grow. Please sign and share! Follow cultivating justice on instagram here. To learn more about the Miller Street Bridge community, watch the video here.
Upcoming Bee and Soil Testing Event!
Join us on Sunday April 14th at 12pm at Miller Bridge Community Farm, 18 Miller Street, Middletown for bee hive installation and testing soil! Register here!
Middletown Monthly Meeting
Join us every Second Wednesday of the month at 6PM for a Middletown Community Meeting!The next Middletown Community Meeting will be held on May 8th at 6pm! Register here!
Connecticut Statewide Criminal Justice Reform Call – Thursday April 18th, 2024 – 11am.
Our next CT Statewide Criminal Justice Reform call will be next Thursday, April 18th at 11am. Please register for the call here.
We are less than a month away from the closure of the legislature on May 8th, 2024. On our call on April 18th, we’ll hear from the lobbyist about the budget, and how things are shaping up in the legislature for this session. And as always we’ll hear from organizers and advocates about campaigns that they’ve been working on. Please register to join us!
We’re hiring a community organizer
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| We’re hiring a community organizer in Connecticut. Full job details here. |
Please share this in your networks. And if you’re interested in applying, please do so asap — we’re reviewing applications immediately. More details can be found in the job posting on our website.
Katal Quotes of the Week
“A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.” –June Jordan
“Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what it is, and move to transform it.”–Ella Baker
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