Featured Events

  • City Council's Budget Vote: Fund Our Schools!

    Monday, May 12, 2025 at 6:30pm
    45 Lyon Terrace, Bridgeport CT 06604
    Bridgeport, CT 06604
    City Council Votes On The Budget!! Come to Council Chambers at 6:30pm on Monday, 5/12 to support our more funding for our schools!
  • May Member Meeting!

    Wednesday, May 21st at 7:00pm
    1119 Main Street, Bridgeport CT 06604
    Join us for our May Member Meeting - celebrating 9 years of grassroots organizing for democracy, equity, justice, and livability in Bridgeport! We'll recap the city's budget, touch base on the state's legislative session, discuss issues at the federal level and plan some summer events/volunteering! Food and drink provided.
  • Bridgeport Anti-Racism Collective

    Wednesday, June 4th 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

 

Featured Videos

We Are In This Together!
Protecting Voting Rights in Bridgeport!
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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