Standing Up For Democracy!

Featured Events

  • The 8th Annual Civics 101 Workshop: Registration Is Open!

    Saturday, October 18th: 9:00am - 4:00pm
    Sunday, October 19th: 12:00pm - 5:00pm
    This year, we're focused on "organizing the resistance" with partners across the country and here at home here in Bridgeport! Click the RSVP button below to register!
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  • An Evening With Tamika Mallory

    Saturday, October 18th: 7:00pm
    Tamika Mallory is an award-winning social justice activist, National Co-Chair of the 2017 Women's March, Co-Founder of Until Freedom and most recently, the author of "I Lived To Tell The Story." After Day 1 of Civics 101, join us for a fireside chat on grassroots organizing, strengthening national networks, and building the resistance! Click the link below to buy tickets!
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  • September Member Meeting

    Wednesday, September 17th at 7:00pm
    1119 Main Street, Bridgeport CT 06604
    Join us for our September Member Meeting! Local resistance organizing, public education funding, city council and BOE elections, and maybe even a legislative special session will be on the agenda! Food and drink provided.

  • Whose City? Our City! Voter Outreach Training

    Saturdays: September 6th, 13th, 27th, and October 4th
    1119 Main Street, Bridgeport CT 06604
    “Whose City? Our City!” is a 2025 voter engagement campaign designed to educate and mobilize Bridgeport voters around key local issues and to take the power back for our communities! We are looking for volunteers who are passionate about democracy, voting, politics, and the city of Bridgeport - and want to get your neighbors to be passionate too! Join us for this training to learn the skills related to door-knocking, phone banking, and more. And then sign up for volunteer hours! Food, drink, and paid stipend will be included. It's time to DO SOMETHING!!!
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  • Bridgeport Anti-Racism Collective

    Wednesday, October 1st at 6:00pm
    BPT Creates, 1001 Main Street, Suite 14, Bridgeport CT
    The Bridgeport Anti-Racism Collective is a community and container to hold people as they deepen their anti-racist analysis and commitment. We meet monthly to discuss our anti-racist awareness, research, vision, and action as individuals, within our groups/organizations, and in society at large. Our meetings are open to individuals who have completed our annual “Undoing Racism” training. For more information, please email undoingracismbpt@gmail.com.
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Monthly Member Meetings

We meet the third Wednesday of every month at 7:00pm at our office at 1119 Main Street in downtown Bridgeport. Food and drink is provided. All Members and new Members are welcome!
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Our Mission and Core Values

Bridgeport Generation Now is a movement!

We build collective power by strengthening civic engagement in ourselves and our communities. As a grassroots, member-based organization, Bridgeport Generation Now uses the tools of community organizing to dismantle systemic racism and systemic corruption and build a just, equitable, democratic, and livable city!

OUR PRIORITIES

  • Good Governance
  • Democratic Empowerment
  • Justice & Equity
  • Livability

WE VALUE

  • Intersectionality
  • Collective Action
  • Openness
  • Ethics
  • and above all, Love

OUR WORK GUIDES US TO

  • Be together, not the same
  • Foster creativity
  • Maintain vision through relationships
  • Allow for mistakes
  • Choose curiosity over fear

 

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Membership

Membership

Join as a Member of Bridgeport Generation Now – and be part of the movement for a more just, equitable, democratic and livable Bridgeport!

AS A MEMBER, YOU WILL:

  • Attend monthly meetings and meet fellow Bridgeporters committed to social change
  • Engage in civic and political education
  • Do policy and issue research
  • Plan and organize events and projects
  • Take on leadership roles within our organizing campaigns
  • Commit to annual dues of a minimum of $5 and a maximum of $100. Dues and donations are tax deductible.
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Our Story

Our Story

Over the past forty years, entrenched systemic injustices in Bridgeport broke our civic institutions, our grassroots leadership, and our people power. Decades of corruption and systemic racism are directly tied to economic inequality in Bridgeport. Community power continues to be closely held in the hands of a few, and distributed by politically motivated gatekeepers.

So, in the early winter of 2016, a diverse group of ten people came together and started meeting to form Bridgeport Generation Now, with the simple vision and commitment that we needed to take some kind of positive action if we wanted to be the change we wished to see in our city.

Are you inspired by our movement? Click below to learn more about the history of Bridgeport Generation Now, who we are, and why for the past 7 years, we’ve led an organized movement for change here in Bridgeport!

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Public mural artwork by local artist Liz Squillace

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