DSA officially has 100,000 members nationwide!
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A message from your DSA Co-chairs:
“We are honored to be just two of 100,000 proud DSA members in this moment. We urge all of you to take another step today…”
Emergency Mass Meeting — Abolish ICE 🚨 ICE is tearing families apart and terrorizing our communities. We’re coming together to organize, share updates, and take collective action to fight back. 📍 First Presbyterian Church, Hartford 🗓 Saturday, February 7 ⏰ 4–7 PM This is a moment for solidarity, strategy, and showing up for our neighbors. All are welcome. 🔗 RSVP: link.ctdsa.org/abolishicemeeting
Emergency Mass Meeting — Abolish ICE 🚨
ICE is tearing families apart and terrorizing our communities. We’re coming together to organize, share updates, and take collective action to fight back.
📍 First Presbyterian Church, Hartford
🗓 Saturday, February 7
⏰ 4–7 PM
This is a moment for solidarity.
Two comrades in keffiyehs before shoveling two foot deep snow six feet from the bench
Path to the bench cleared, comrades posing with shovels
Comrade pointing at one corner of bench with the rest covered in snow
Two comrades selfie with half excavated bench with TRUCT logo visible
Grab a shovel, meet your neighbors, make a transit rider's day.
two comrades shoveling snow off wooden bench on the curb
comrade shoveling a path to the crosswalk
two comrades before shoveling the hospital crosswalk
three comrades wearing keffiyehs after shoveling a path to the crosswalk!
No more ICE kidnapping neighbors, no more ice blocking public transit infrastructure.
The Transit Riders Union of CT did some Zohran-style bench excavation today while flyering for our Abolish ICE letter campaign. link.ctdsa.org/abolishiceletter
Snowed in today? Take this time to demand your representatives ABOLISH ICE! Send them emails using our tool. Then, call five friends and ask them to do the same.
Solidarity keeps us warm. Solidarity can melt ice! ❄️🌨️ link.ctdsa.org/abolishicele...
Connecticut Democratic Socialists of America is proud to stand with a broad coalition of organizations and unions in solidarity with Minnesotans on a historic general strike to resist ICE’s brutal repression. www.ctinsider.com/news/article...
They also don't like the Democratic party.
No Copy City! Hands off Venezuela! Abolish ice! Tortuguita was a venezuelan forest defender who was killed by police in Atlanta on january 18 2023. We will gather to honor the memory of Tortuguita and all victims of police violence. Saturday january 17 at 1pm, danbury Courthouse
For Tortuguita, for Venezuela, for Renee Good and all victims of policing and imperial violence. For the trees and for the water! Join us in Danbury on Saturday at 1pm for the global Day of the Forest Defender. Details: actionnetwork.org/events/day-o...
Hands off Venezuela and fuck ICE too! Connecticut actions 11:30am new haven green. 12pm Hartford Capitol front lawn, Bridgeport train station, Stamford government center. Protest against Trump's illegal war Saturday January 10!
NO War, NO ICE, NO Fascist USA! Rallies have been organized in four cities in Connecticut this Saturday: New Haven, Hartford, Stamford and Bridgeport.
Light rain expected, dress accordingly.
VICTORY: AVELO AIRLINES IS ENDING ITS DEPORTATION FLIGHTS We made the Avelo brand synonymous with deportation, and passengers voted with their wallets Avelo Airlines to stop deportation flights after months of backlash The Houston-based budget airline will focus on building its commercial business after a controversial stint operating ICE charters. January 7, 2026 at 7:12 p.m. EST avelo avelo avelo JOIN US DSAIC.org/MigrantRights Key airline used by Trump for deportations cuts ties with ICE A Jason Laljoo OUR FIGHT DOES NOT END HERE. Our government continues to terrorize our communities with the threat ofmass deportations, and they will only become more sophisticated and secretive in finding partners to carry out this policy. We will continue to challenge these injustices and demand accountability from corporations and government officials alike. @dsainternationalcommittee dsausa.org
Via @dsainternational.bsky.social:
BREAKING NEWS: Exactly 9 months after the New Haven Immigrant Coalition announced a boycott of Avelo Airlines, the company has announced it will close its Mesa, AZ base and stop flying ICE deportation flights on January 27.🧵
Anyone who has read Copaganda knows that we are in the crucial early moments of virality after an extra-judicial police murder. It's extremely important for ICE that the media plays along with the idea that what happened is contested and there are multiple perspectives.
Don't fly Avelo: when we fight, we win! From new Haven to Minneapolis stop ice terror. Avelo boycott press conference & rally against ICE violence. Thursday 1/8 4pm 121 elm st. Many cosponsor organizations.
While we mourn Renee Good, let us also acknowledge the progress our movement is making against ICE terror. Today in New Haven, a press conference with huge updates about our Avelo Airlines boycott
We are gathering in New London as well
Today in Hartford: JUSTICE FOR RENEE GOOD! actionnetwork.org/events/justi...
Mobilize this Saturday, January 10th to fight Trump's war against Venezuela!
Keep an eye on this page in the coming days to find an event near you: dsausa.us/vz-day-of-action
This week - on the heels of Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in NYC’s mayoral election -I’m talking to Maya Meredith, a Brooklyn-based leader in the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America’s Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus.
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🌹 🕯 The final CT DSA general assembly of 2025 is coming up on Sunday! Join us to celebrate our growth & accomplishments this year in the company of comrades. RSVP: link.ctdsa.org/ga2025
Baristas on ULP strike in Austin, TX holding picket signs that say "Don't cross our picket line. ULP strike"
3⃣0⃣ days on strike - this is officially the longest national ULP strike in Starbucks' history.
Listen to our striking baristas in Austin, TX: Don't cross our picket line! Stop buying Starbucks. #NoContractNoCoffee
Just Say No! To highway expansion. link.ctdsa.org/truct95
Let's finish the year strong with a GA Celebration! RSVP here: link.ctdsa.org/ga2025 #DemSocialists
No War on Venezuela - Sat Dec 6 - Stop the war before it starts
The majority in the US oppose a war on Venezuela. We’re joining the call to mobilize against the Trump administration's push toward a catastrophic war against Venezuela this Saturday, December 6. (1/2)
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Hey Connecticut, did you know that avelo uses their unmarked ice deportation planes to fly commercial passengers at Tweed New Haven Airport? Photo of unmarked avelo plane at Tweed on 11/29/25.
First reported in July 2025, avelo has been flying customers at Tweed Airport on the same planes they use to fly their dangerous and sloppy ice flights
Avelos customers fly in the same seats where ice shackles our neighbors and transports them to concentration camps. If avelos customers looked carefully, are they able to see the blood and tear stains leftover from the ice flights? Illustration of bloody plane seat.
But wait there's more... facing pressure from investors and ice itself, avelo appears to be cutting corners wherever they can, leading to all sorts of issues. In November one of avelos deportation planes had a mid flight emergency. There was a loss of cabin pressure that left six people injured.
Boycott Avelo!
Avelo is a weak cog in the deportation machine and they are feeling the pressure from a growing national movement. Their ICE flights have recently been described as “a disorganized mess”. Is this an airline you would trust to keep you safe?
#boycottAvelo
#DSA
Join us for a conversation on the role of mutual aid as both a survival tactic and an organizing strategy. We'll hold a panel led by local mutual aid organizers, and a discussion about how we can strengthen and expand our mutual aid networks across Hartford.
actionnetwork.org/events/hartf...
Winter is cold, socialism is hot! 🍵 🍪
Join Hartford area comrades on Thursday to enjoy tea, snacks, and local organizing conversation! RSVP for address: link.ctdsa.org/socsnack
It’s undeniable, more and more working class people are waking up to the extreme inequalities and injustices around us.
More and more are realizing that we aren’t powerless. When we strategize, decide, and work together, we can make serious positive change.
Join us. dsausa.org/join 🚩
This Republican-sponsored resolution is a distraction from the very real horrors of capitalism in America, where hundreds of millions of lives are destroyed by those taking advantage of working-class people. Rep. Himes continues to fight for the billionaire class and an economic system that is keeping working-class folks from receiving Medicare for all, environmental protections, a living wage, affordable housing, affordable childcare, and good union jobs for all.
We denounce this red-baiting propaganda that continues to prevent working-class people from gaining collective power to spread wealth and decrease inequality across the country. CT DSA will continue to fight for what we have been working towards for years: affordability, workers’ rights, and protections for working-class families.
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Connecticut dsas response to the house resolution condemning socialism. CT dsa logo of a red whate with a rose for a tail
The Connecticut Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America denounces the US Congress's frivolous, fear-mongering resolution condemning Socialism. The resolution is yet another attempt to divide us, the workers, who keep our country alive and moving. While Connecticut's working families struggle to put food on the table, members of Congress do nothing but engage in political grandstanding meant to divide us and distract us from our deteriorating conditions.
We particularly condemn our own Representative Jim Himes, a former Goldman Sachs executive, for supporting the resolution. Socialism is about building an economy that works for all and ensuring that everyday people have a say in their livelihoods. Under capitalism, corrupt elected officials can take ownership stakes in, and profit from, the very corporations they are elected to regulate. This resolution is a distraction from the very real horrors of capitalism, from the growing housing crisis to food insecurity to skyrocketing grocery prices.
Rep. Himes is not fighting for working people, but instead, fighting for deregulations that hand corporations even more power to exploit us. By conflating Socialism with Donald Trump’s accelerating fascism and dissolution of democracy, Rep. Himes is helping Trump achieve his goal. He continues to support the MAGA agenda by siding with Republicans and Donald Trump with this vote. He would rather side with fascism to protect the system he used to amass his wealth, rather than side with the working class and their struggle for liberation under capitalism.
Rep. Himes has an estimated net worth of $14 million and holds $175,000 of individual stocks. Rep. Himes is a member of the Financial Services Committee. Yet, his 2024 campaign received $340,000 from 63 Corporate PACs...(1/2)
