2025 People's World Amistad Awards
Start: Saturday, December 13, 2025•04:00 PM
End: Saturday, December 13, 2025•06:30 PM
Location: First & Summerfield United Methodist Church•425 College Street, New Haven, CT 06511 US
Host Contact Info: ct-pww@pobox.com

"WORKING CLASS UNITY!"
To Defend Our Rights And Fight for Our Future
People's World is honored to present the Amistad Award to four wonderful allies and working class champions. Together they represent the kind of unity, solidarity and vision needed to build a movement to defend our rights against vicious corporate assault and transform our country to put people, peace and planet before profits.
- Tabitha Sookdeo director of Connecticut Students for a Dream tirelessly defends immigrant youth and families across the state, organizing to end systemic oppression and dehumanization, while also building the movement for climate justice.
- Wayne McCarthy, president of International Association of Machinists Local 700, stood united on strike against Pratt& Whitney to win a strong union contract that has uplifted all working people at a time of all-out assault on the labor movement.
- Norma Martinez-HoSang and Constanza Segovia, Connecticut for All Director and Director of Organizing, leada multi-racial labor community coalition united to end systemic inequalities and build power for racial and economic justice in CT.
A narrated concert of multi-cultural freedom songs directed by Brian Jarawa Gray with Luis Luna will highlight the event.
The event will stand “IN SOLIDARITY” with Esdras Zabaleta-Ramirez and all the classmates and teachers whose courage won his freedom from ICE deportation.
This annual event is hosted on the occasion of the 106th anniversary of the Communist Party USA, in the spirit of building unity against racism, red baiting and all forms of bigotry for workers' rights, equality, peace, democracy, and a better world.
Please purchase with a credit card below. For scholarship ticket information, or to purchase by check or other means, e-mail ct-pww@pobox.com.
- $10 Standard Ticket
- $25 Solidarity Ticket, list your name in our program book.
- Deadline November 20, 2025. For information email ct-pww@pobox.com or leave a message at (203) 624-8664
Former Awardees: Seth Freeman, Maribel Rodriguez, Teresa Quintana, Stacie Harris-Byrdsong, Luis Luna, Sen. Gary Winfield, Mustafa Salahuddin, Salwa Mogadded, Leslie Blatteau, Pastor Rodney Wade, Azucena Santiago, Barbara Vereen, Rob Baril, Jan Hochadel, Wildaliz Bermudez, Rochelle Palache, John Humphries, Ken Suzuki, Shellye Davis, Louise Simmons, Eva Bermudez Zimmerman, Peggy Buchanan, Robyn Porter, Camila Bortoletto, Carolina Bortoletto, Jeanette Morrison, Dan Livingston, Juan Brito, Ciro Gutierrez, Cindy Harrity, Jill Marks, Alberto Bernardez, Dan Durant, Meg Riccio, Laurie Kennington, Edwin Vargas, Ed Gomes, Fatima Rojas, Toni Harp, Kurt Westby, Delphine Clyburn, Renae Reese, Abraham Hernandez, John Olsen, Carmen Boudier, Juan Figueroa, Anna Montalvo, Art Perry, Gwen Mills, Alfred L. Marder, Juan Hernandez, Kathleen Cooper, Carrie Saxon Perry, Kica Matos, Mary Johnson, Roger Vann, Merrilee Milstein, Emilio Hernandez, George C Springer, Jorge Perez, Lois O'Connor, Rev Scott Marks, Sharon Palmer, Americo Santiago, Dolores Colon, Migdalia Castro, John Harrity, Joyce Hamilton, Blair Bertaccini, Teresa Younger, Pearl Granat, Evelyn Mantilla |