Denise Fillion, School Crossing Guard Supervisor for the Hartford Police Department (HPD) Traffic Division, sent a letter to the Milner School office dated August 22, 2017, informing the school that two crossing guard posts associated with the school would be closing.

Resident leaders continue to make progress organizing for decent, safe, and sanitary living conditions in their apartments owned by slumlord Emmanuel Ku. Ku receives $1.6 million a year from the federal government and enjoys a $266,000 a year tax break from the City of Hartford in exchange for providing quality housing. However, residents continue to live in rat, mice, and mold infested apartments.

After several months of intense organizing, tenant leaders of the Clay Arsenal Renaissance Apartments (CARA) have won some major victories!  On December 14, 2017, over 100 people, including Mayor Bronin, filled the fellowship hall of Union Baptist Church for the second public

In collaboration with the South Marshall Street Interfaith Coalition and Immanuel Congregational Church, United Church of Christ, CAC has hired Tieasha Gayle as a Community Organizer with an initial focus on South Marshall Street.

“Racism is not a failure of the system; it is the design of the system.” –People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond From October 17-19, 2017, the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) conducted

Major health and safety deficiencies found during federal inspection. Owner Issued Notice of Default on HUD contract.

Imagine that your daughter is afraid to go to sleep at night.  Afraid not because of a boogieman under her bed or shadow monsters dancing on the wall, but afraid because mice constantly run

Imagine what life in our greater Hartford region could be like if our religious institutions actually possessed the moral force to make it a more just and equitable place? For one year, CAC’s staff