Featured Events

  • We Choose Love! Holiday Fete & Fundraiser

    Saturday, December 21st, 2024 at 7:00pm
    Park City Music Hall
    2926 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport CT 06605
    Bridgeport Generation Now and Bridgeport Generation Now Votes invite you to celebrate with us at our end-of-year holiday fête and fundraiser!

    This year's theme is "We Choose Love." We believe that love is the foundation of our movement for change. Over the next four years, it will be up to all of us to lead with the courage and conviction needed to build the beloved community we all deserve.

    Join us as we celebrate 8 years of our grassroots organizing! We will toast to our wins, our members, and community partners and recommit to the movement for a just, equitable, democratic and livable Bridgeport.

    Come for drinks, cocktails, food and stay for a lot of dancing! Vibes by DJ Dana
  • November Member Meeting

    Wednesday, November 13th at 7:00pm
    1119 Main Street, Bridgeport CT 06604
    Bridgeport, CT 06604
    Join us for our November Member Meeting! The election is over, but the work continues. We choose to center our core values of love, ethics, collective action and more. We'll create space to debrief the election, discuss the results of the ballot referendum, and more. Food and drink provided.
  • Save The Date! Gen Now's Holiday Party

    Saturday, December 21st
    7:00pm - 10:00pm
    Park City Music Hall
    Events this year have demonstrated just how important our movement for democracy, equity, and justice in Bridgeport is. So let's gather to sweat it out, work it out, dance it out! Together, we will celebrate our organizing wins, toast to our 8 years of building our grassroots movement for change, and honor our members and community partners. We are in this fight together for the just, equitable, democratic, and livable Bridgeport we know is possible!
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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

 

Featured Videos

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Police Chief Search Press Conference
Public Art with Liz Squillace

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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