Joelle Fishman

 
 
Joelle Fishman

Joelle Fishman chairs the Connecticut Communist Party USA. She is a Commissioner on the City of New Haven Peace Commission, serves on the executive board of the Alliance of Retired Americans in Connecticut and is an active member of many economic rights and social justice organizations. She was a candidate for Congress from 1973 to 1982, maintaining minor-party ballot status for the Communist Party in Connecticut's Third Congressional District. As chair of the CPUSA Political Action Commission, she has played an active role in the broad labor and people's alliance that defeated the ultra-right in the 2008 elections and continues to mobilize for health care, worker rights and peace.

 

 

The people are fired up and ready to go!

The people are fired up and ready to go!

The shout of joy for a giant people's victory was also the realization that we can't miss a beat in the ongoing battle to wrest the country from the grip...

BY:Joelle Fishman| November 26, 2012
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UNITY: Political Action Newsletter: November 2012

UNITY: Political Action Newsletter: November 2012

Special note: Our thoughts go out to the millions of people affected by Hurricane Sandy throughout the East Coast especially those who have lost loved ones, homes, or businesses. A...

BY:Joelle Fishman| November 3, 2012
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UNITY: Political Action Newsletter: October

UNITY: Political Action Newsletter: October

This gigantic election battle is about our future. It is about building the broad, all peoples' movement standing up for democratic rights against the ruthless greed, racism and hate of...

BY:Joelle Fishman| October 6, 2012
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UNITY Political Action Newsletter: September 2012

UNITY Political Action Newsletter: September 2012

Over the course of three nights last week Americans had a chance to see and hear the Republicans in Convention assembled. What was their message? Simply put it was to...

BY:Joelle Fishman| September 4, 2012
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CPUSA UNITY Political Action Newsletter: August 2012

CPUSA UNITY Political Action Newsletter: August 2012

Earlier this year tea party right-wing extremists illuminated who their enemies were. Public employees topped the list,  closely followed by those who survive through so-called 'entitlement programs'. Simply put, the tea party...

BY:Joelle Fishman| August 21, 2012
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