Hundreds of immigrants, long-term health care workers, teachers and students from across the state surrounded the steps of the state Capitol Monday evening — a sea of red, green, blue and purple union shirts — chanting “Governor Lamont, do your job,” as a demand for the state to invest in workers and communities.
The Tax Day rally, hosted by the coalition Recovery for All, called for Connecticut legislators to address systemic racial and economic inequality through changes to the tax structure and investment in struggling communities.
State Reps. Anne Hughes, Geraldo Reyes, Bobby Gibson and Sen. John Fonfara joined the crowd of workers calling for the state to address historical disparities they said were exacerbated by the pandemic, but have long existed.