About CCAG

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Mission: CCAG is a statewide membership-based organization dedicated to actively engaging the residents of CT to alter the relations of power in order to build a more just society.

Through its history CCAG has utilized a variety of strategies towards this end. It has included community organizing, mass canvasses, legislative advocacy, direct action, political endorsements, trainings, research, and coalition building. This experience can not be matched in Connecticut or arguably in any other state. The staff and leaders who have participated in these efforts continue to play significant roles in Connecticut and across the country in the fight to build a more just and sustainable society.

Values that drive our work: Since its inception on the First Earth Day as Earth Action, CCAG has been committed to building a more sustainable, just Connecticut. We are based on the belief:

that democracy is not a spectator sport and that an accountable government plays a vital role in any just society;
that it is imperative for people to be willing to challenge powerful interests;
that all people deserve an equal opportunity and to achieve this we must overcome our legacy of discrimination based upon race, gender, sexuality and ability;
that as a society we must work to end poverty and exploitation, guarantee health security for all of families and equal access to a quality public education, and
that we have a responsibility to leave future generations with a more sustainable and just place to live.