June 18 Mass Poor People's & Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls

 

Dear Peoples Center Family and Friends,

The Peoples Center is excited to sponsor two buses and invite you to join the Mass Poor People’s & Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls, on June 18th 2022. We are partnering with the Poor Peoples Campaign and are called to assemble and march in the nation’s capital as a broad coalition in response to the pain caused to all of us when there are 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this country. We are called to join together to shift the moral narrative, build power, and demand a national agenda that can realize the nation we have yet to be for so many.

Click on this link to get detailed information and sign up for the Peoples Center buses - first come first served. Deadline to sign up is June 15:  https://forms.gle/ZVuHK5fjWSb3KHFG8.

Together, we must challenge the lies of scarcity and the notion that this is the best we can do. Today, America has to guarantee living wages and adequate income, healthcare, affordable housing, quality public education, expanded voting rights and access to democracy, fair taxation, debt relief, just immigration, a climate where we can all thrive, and a world committed to peace rather than violence and war. 

For far too long our people – poor people, people of color, Indigenous nations, immigrant families, women, children, the disabled, and LGBTQ communities – have been under attack, pitted against each other, and blamed for society’s problems. But we are building a movement that brings people together across race, gender and sexuality, ability, faith, region, and more to turn our pain, fear, and anger into a united force to reconstruct the nation from the bottom up. 

On June 18, we will put a face and voice on the shameful conditions confronting this nation. Together, we will build a massive stage for our people to speak and force the nation to hear the truth. From this stage, we will not simply curse the darkness, but demonstrate our compelling power to right the wrongs of society. 

We invite you to join us because we can’t and won’t be silent anymore. Rather than being demoralized by the crises of our times, we must intensify and embolden our agitation at the ballot box, through the courts, and in the streets. Forward Together!

Click on this link to get detailed information and sign up for the Peoples Center buses - first come first served. Deadline to sign up is June 15.:  https://forms.gle/ZVuHK5fjWSb3KHFG8. 

For those who cannot come to Washington DC, the Peoples Center will host a live stream of the event on Sat June 18th from 11 am to 2 pm at 37 Howe Street, New Haven.  If you would like to attend please reply to: peoplescenter@pobox.com.

Thank You for Your Support of the New Haven Peoples Center During Great Giv

 

Appreciation to the 43 contributors who participated in the Peoples Center Great Give which raised a total of $7686! (Donations at the Great Give page totaled $3936 and checks totaled $3750.)

Your contributions carry forward the social justice mission of the New Haven Peoples Center and are a tribute to Art Perlo's outstanding leadership over decades. Together we are making a collective response to the attacks underway on democratic rights by supporting the New Haven Peoples Center and its unity building role.

Support the New Haven Peoples Center during Great Give May 4-5, 2022

The Great Give will take place on May 4-5, 2022. This year the New Haven Peoples Center dedicates all contributions to carry forward the magnificent legacy of Art Perlo who was always in the fore of the Peoples Center social justice, workers' rights and equality mission.

Please visit the PERA d-b-a New Haven Peoples Center Great Give page on May 4-5 and contribute as generously as you can. https://www.thegreatgive.org/organizations/pera-d-b-a-new-haven-peoples-center

Our Story: 

 The New Haven Peoples Center has been an all volunteer beacon for social justice, labor organizing, education, culture and peace for 85 years. During the pandemic we have provided human solidarity to all generations and communities even while our building has only been open on a limited basis until it is safe. In this past year food distributions, N-95 masks, rapid COVID tests and other relief and mutual aid has been provided to the immigrant community by Unidad Latina en Accion, as well as women's health workshops and workers' rights education. Assistance navigating social service and rent relief has been offered through the Jobs and Unemployed Committee. Capoeira Esperanza expanded the Peoples Center cultural offerings with regular classes in the martial art with freedom struggle roots from Brazil. We have served as a union meeting hall for 32BJ SEIU and others. We have joined in coalitions for a just Recovery For All and mobilized for virtual and in-person rallies, events and on-line petitions with the many organizations that call the Peoples Center home, as we continued our partnerships with the CT Alliance for Retired Americans and New Haven Rising. We are committed to carry on the magnificent legacy of Art Perlo who contributed so greatly to the Peoples Center, and look forward to opening our doors for the full array of unique programming that serves New Haven and Connecticut once the pandemic has settled. The Peoples Center is a proud site on the Connecticut African American Freedom Trail.