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

U.S.

Red Cross strikers win new contract
November 16, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
Striking workers at Red Cross won a tentative agreement on a new collective bargaining agreement.
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U.S.

Youth march calls for jobs and end to violence
November 7, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
The young people, mainly high school students who organized the event, marched in front, holding pictures of the 29 youth in New Haven killed by violence this year.
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Opinion

The power of the 99%
October 14, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
A new social movement is rising up in our country out of years of outrage, heartbreak, pain and anger at trying to make ends meet while CEOs and billionaires whistle all the way to the bank.
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U.S.

New Haven voters turn out for labor candidates
September 22, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
In an extraordinary Democratic primary election, New Haven voters overwhelmingly backed labor and grassroots community candidates for Board of Aldermen in 14 of 15 wards.
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Labor

New Haven candidates’ fight for jobs is “what we need”
August 29, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
Years of struggle for good jobs at the site of the former Winchester sporting arms factory, now Science Park at Yale, came together this week when Delphine Clyburn, candidate for Board of Aldermen in Ward 20,...
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U.S.

In Connecticut the fight for jobs is on
August 11, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
"Connecticut workers want Congress to act on the jobs crisis with the same urgency that was brought to the manufactured political crisis over the debt ceiling."
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Labor

“We’ll stand with Verizon workers, their fight is ours”
August 10, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
Solidarity is key to the victory of any strike, especially for the 45,000 Verizon workers fighting to save their jobs and benefits at the bargaining table.
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U.S.

Vote can save jobs, benefits, services
August 8, 2011 By Joelle Fishman
Connecticut state workers are now voting for the second time on a tentative agreement reached by their unions and Gov. Malloy to "save jobs, protect benefits and preserve services."
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