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Please submit copy to PAR’s e-mail address: parnewhaven.com. 350 word limit. Questions? Call Paula at 203-562-2798. The next issue is our summer issue. Let us know what events your group has pl...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/next-deadline-for-newsletter-articles-friday-may-17-2024/

Yale Daily News, April 23, 2024 Yale police arrested 47 pro-Palestine student protesters on Monday morning. Shortly after 6 a.m., officers arrived at Beinecke Plaza, where protesters demanding th...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/yale-police-arrest-47-student-protesters-for-trespassing-on-beinecke-plaza/

by Nora Moses, Ariela Lopez, & Yolanda Wang, Yale Daily News, April 17, 2024 On the second day of the organizers’ sit-in on Beinecke Plaza, students and faculty members hosted over 12 hours of...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/occupy-beinecke-holds-teach-ins-displays-artwork/

by Melinda Tuhus and Allie Perry, Community Activists A coalition of community activists is organizing a Walk for Gaza in CT over three days, Thursday, May 23 – Saturday, May 25. Inspired by a ...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/walk-for-gaza-may-23-25/

by Stanley Heller, Middle East Crisis Committee [U.S. Representatives Rosa DeLauro and Jahana Hayes were among 56 members of Congress who signed Rep. Mark Pocan’s letter, calling on Pres. Biden...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/both-hayes-and-delauro-go-back-on-pocan-letter-and-vote-billions-for-israeli-military/

José Luis Martínez, CT Mirror, March 31, 2024 Some businesses employ creative tactics to avoid paying their employees. They write bad checks, misclassify workers, falsify work hours or simply...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/a-plan-to-fight-wage-theft-is-taking-shape-in-new-haven/

HazWaste Central is co-sponsored by the Regional Water Authority and the South Central Regional Council of Governments. Visiting HazWaste Central is convenient and easy because visitors never hav...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/hazwaste-central-at-90-sargent-drive-opens-for-the-season-on-may-18-2024/

by Frank Panzarella, former board member of West River Neighborhood Services Corporation For decades, West River residents of New Haven have worked to reconnect the neighborhood cut in half by th...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/long-awaited-change-in-the-west-river-neighborhood/

CT Public Radio www.npr.org/podcasts/organizations/s546 It’s a history lesson many of us didn’t get in school: Slavery has deep roots in Connecticut and across New England. Enslaved people he...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/unforgotten-connecticuts-hidden-history-of-slavery/

by Francisco Uranga, CT Examiner, April 19, 2024 Connecticut customers will pay significantly higher electric bills starting July 1, after a rate hike of more than 12 percent to pay for a doublin...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/a-steep-rate-hike-for-electricity-due-to-increased-cost-of-government-mandates/

Celebrating its 15th year in 2024, The Great Give returns on May 1-2. This 36-hour, online, community-wide giving event was created by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven to raise visi...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/the-great-give-giving-event-may-1-2/

by Andy Piascik and Steve Thornton Radical Connecticut tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. … Unlike a trad...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/a-new-book-of-interest-radical-connecticut-peoples-history-in-the-constitution-state/

Join Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut, Access to Resources for Climate Change (ARCC), and the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, 6-7 p.m. Thursday, May 9, at the Q House, 197 Dixw...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/workshop-on-climate-change-may-9/

by Ginny Monk, Housing & Children’s Issues, CT Mirror, April 19, 2024 On Wednesday, a bill allowing the state attorney general to bring civil action against people who violate fair housing law...

https://par-newhaven.org/2024/04/28/fair-housing-bill-advances-through-house/