Joelle Fishman

Joelle Fishman chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She is an active member of many local economic rights and social justice organizations. As chair of the national CPUSA Political Action Commission, she plays an active role in the broad labor and people's alliance and continues to mobilize for health care, worker rights, and peace. Joelle Fishman preside el Partido Comunista de Connecticut USA. Es miembro activo de muchas organizaciones locales de derechos económicos y justicia social. Como presidenta de la Comisión Nacional de Acción Política del CPUSA, desempeña un papel activo en la amplia alianza laboral y popular y continúa movilizándose por la atención médica, los derechos de los trabajadores y la paz.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joelle Fishman

Labor

1,700 Connecticut caregivers facing poverty go on strike at six group homes
May 26, 2023 By Joelle Fishman
Their demands: $25-an-hour wages, affordable health insurance, and a pension they can count on in retirement.
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U.S.

Rally at Connecticut State Capitol demands ‘Equity Can’t Wait’
May 22, 2023 By Joelle Fishman And Mariano Rivera
Mass rally calls on lawmakers to pass a “moral” budget funding living wages and human needs.
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Labor

Connecticut union health care workers conduct civil disobedience ‘die-in’
March 3, 2023 By Joelle Fishman
Rejecting the idea that personal care workers should live in poverty, they laid down on the floor and took arrest in the state’s Legislative Office Building.
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U.S.

Yale graduate teachers and researchers vote to unionize
January 13, 2023 By Joelle Fishman
A 30-year organizing effort results in victory this week.
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En español

Las elecciones son un momento crítico en la resistencia contra el fascismo
October 27, 2022 By Joelle Fishman

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Politics

The elections are a critical moment in the resistance against fascism
October 27, 2022 By Joelle Fishman
These struggles are connected to the movement for socialism because people, especially youth, realize capitalism is responsible for what they’re experiencing.
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Labor

Day of action demands ‘$15 and a union’ from McDonald’s
May 20, 2021 By Joelle Fishman
Protests were held across the country prior to the corporation's annual shareholders meeting, including strikes by workers in Connecticut.
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News

‘Georgia On My Mind: The Third Reconstruction’: Connecticut Black history event planned
February 17, 2021 By Joelle Fishman
The event is a fundraiser for People's World, which has suffered a severe income loss due to the pandemic. Throughout the decades of struggle for civil rights, peace, and economic justice, People's World has reported and...
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