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Campaigns
Make the Road Connecticut (MRCT) is an intergenerational member-led community-based organization working to build power in immigrant, Latine, and working-class communities in Connecticut to achieve dignity and justice. We do this through community organizing, legal and survival services, transformative education, and policy innovation.
Major Initiatives
Immigration
Ensure that immigrant families can live with dignity and justice by working for policy change to protect immigrant families on a local, statewide and federal level, providing Know Your Rights trainings, and supporting and defending individual community members facing detention or deportation
Education
We build the leadership of immigrant parents in Bridgeport and Hartford and push for policies that ensure immigrant students are getting a quality education and that school and city officials are responsive to families’ needs
Housing
Organizing tenants to know their rights, build community power and fight back against unjust evictions and unsafe housing conditions
Healthcare
Fighting for access to equitable and quality healthcare for black and brown immigrant community members in Bridgeport and Hartford and expanding access to Husky Health Insurance across the state.
Youth
We build youth leadership and push for changes to the school system and city that allow youth to feel safe and have access to the resources that they need.
Worker's Rights
We build worker power and push for changes in labor laws and workplace conditions that ensure workers are treated with dignity, paid fairly, and have access to the protections they need.