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Articles by Rob Baril
CT’s fiscal roadblocks are a barrier to progress
While reviewing the Yankee Institute’s most recent opinion piece advocating for the protection and expansion of the fiscal roadblocks, it’s important to recognize the broader agenda at play. The Yankee Institute, alongside the Reason Foundation, is pushing forward the goals of Project 2025 into Connecticut, a vision funded by David and Charles Koch, who are also the largest backers of the Reason Foundation.
Pro-Blackness as a Way of Knowing and Being
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Linking Racial and Economic Justice: The Struggle of Our Time
Last month, Prosperity Now, a national economic and racial justice nonprofit, hosted its first national in-person conference since 2018. Held in Atlanta, Georgia, the conference attracted over 1,200 people, making it one of the largest gatherings of racial and economic justice advocates since the start of the pandemic.
To Fight for Equality in Connecticut, a New Coalition Takes Shape
This article is the sixth installment in our series co-produced by Bargaining for the Common Good and NPQ, titled Building a Movement for the Common Good. In this series, we learn how and why Bargaining for the Common Good (BCG) is the right strategy for our times of social crisis, featuring extreme wealth inequality and declining democracy as well as a renewed attention to labor organizing and mass uprisings for racial justice.
Our Current Moment of Increased Labor Organizing Could Become Something Much Bigger
The US labor movement seems to be stirring. Amazon workers at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse known as JFK8 won a shocking union election last fall. Starbucks workers are racking up victory after victory in their cross-country organizing drive.
Frontline services -- and frontline workers -- are forgotten by Lamont’s budget
Yehyun Kim :: CT Mirror A healthcare workers union, SEIU 1199, rallies outside the State Capitol last July as the pandemic raged. They asked for providing personal protection equipment to frontline workers, holding private sectors such as nursing homes accountable and strict social distancing. For the past year frontline health care workers stood in the way of danger, working throughout the pandemic in nursing homes, home care, substance-abuse counseling and helping children in need.
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