Rebellions are built on Hope!
Joseph Perez-Caputo was born in Stamford, CT, to a Sicilian mother and a Puerto-Rican father. Their heritages and cultures helped shape Joe’s love for community and taught him about the world he would like to see for all.
We all want to BELONG
Joseph Perez-Caputo at the “Walk to End Alzheimer’s”
Calf Pasture, Norwalk (2019)
Joe grew up in both Stamford, CT and in Naugatuck, CT, and saw firsthand how poverty can be passed down generationally for those around him. Whether you live in a city, a suburb, or a rural community, Joe knows that the unique struggles of coexisting generations weave into an ecosystem that needs to be changed together. Joe wants to get his hands dirty helping pave a new path for future generations to thrive on.
Joe graduated in 2013 from Naugatuck Valley Community College in Waterbury CT with an Associate’s degree in Criminal Justice. In 2016, Joe graduated from the University of Bridgeport in Bridgeport, CT with a Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Martial Arts Studies. He graduated magna cum laude with a 3.60 GPA in major, and as a member of Alpha Phi Sigma National Criminal Justice Honor Society and in the first ever inducted class of Phi Tao Kappa International Martial Art’s Honor Society.
Joe spent the next few years working throughout Connecticut as a gardener, actor, and teacher, before apprenticing as a dental assistant. He also began training in fight choreography and stage combat as well as teaching Karate in New York City. Joe is no stranger to the ever evolving and difficult to navigate gig economy of our region, and how difficult it is to plan a life around it.
Joe recognizes that one of the key responsibilities of leadership is the development and continued support of jobs that allow the working class to afford to live, play, and raise a family in comfort in CT. This is interwoven with the equally important and related duties of working tirelessly towards affordability, attacking the cost-of-living-crisis and the fight for fair and affordable housing.
One of Joe's key focuses is building our communities and giving them the support they need to create strong foundations to help CT residents feel both security and freedom.
Joseph Perez-Caputo at Black Lives Matter Protest.
Naugatuck, (2020)
Joseph Perez-Caputo after a performance at Curtain Call
Stamford. (2017)
Joseph Perez-Caputo, Joey Rinaldi, and Troy Bond, all raised in CT, shooting comedy sketches in Astoria (2021)
Photo Credit Unknown.
Discipline, Tradition, and Innovation
Economic Inequality in CT overall has only gotten worse as national issues compound, and while local leaders do what they can, they find themselves having to work in alignment with federal representatives, which can lead to them having to make harder choices more often than they should.
Joe believes one of the key patriotic things a federal representative can do is help preserve, aid, and empower groups and individuals who are trying to make their communities safer and who inspire those around them to lend a helping hand to those harmed by the misfortunes of life, capitalism, and socioeconomic segregation.
Joseph Perez Caputo on set. (2022)
Photo Credit: Ryan Doyle
On the Issues
-Joe will fight for AI regulation as it pertains specifically to copyright infringement, labor theft, and growing ecological concerns, and create a task force to protect Americans from technological oligarchs and technofascism.
-Joe will labor for the reclamation of Reproductive rights for every person in the United States who has had their rights taken away, and will labor to enshrine those inalienable rights permanently.
-Joe vows to labor for appropriate spending to restore American infrastructure, including traditional means of transportation like rail, trolley, and bike, and to connect Americans from all walks of life through these means.
-Joe supports the expansion of harm reduction policies throughout the continental United States.
-Joe supports a complete ceasefire of the genocide in Palestine, a return of any and all hostages held by any warring party, a complete global economic divestment from Israel, and supports the International Courts of Justice in the trials that are to come. Joe is committed to the health and safety of the Jewish people as an ethnic and religious culture everywhere in the world. Joe recognizes national Zionism as a hateful sword meant to cause harm to the health and safety of the Jewish people. Joseph also recognizes Israel’s right to exist as it pertains to its foundation from the original charter in International Law and recognizes Palestine’s right to exist as it pertains to thousands of years of cultural history.
-Joe vows to protect and expand the national parks and to preserve the purity, beauty, and ancient majesty of the natural land. Joe also vows to serve the Native population in reclaiming stewardship and ownership of lands stolen before and during the genocide of the Native Nations.
-Joe will labor ceaselessly for the often forgotten and abused rural communities, looking out for their health, economic opportunity, and preservation of culture.
-Joe will labor to reclaim and enshrine the rights of LBGTQ+ folx and enshrine their inalienable rights permanently.
-Joe will labor for Universal parental leave for all people regardless of socioeconomic status, so that these precious moments for new families can be appreciated without concern or loss.
-Joe supports a complete reformation and restructuring of the American immigration system, making it easier, faster, and cheaper for future citizens to be recognized as American citizens. Joseph recognizes that his Perez heritage are citizens through colonization and his Caputo heritage are citizens due to a time where the United States took you in and gave you papers in an eased immigration process. He will advocate for an immigration system that establishes the proper paperwork, education classes, support system, and community for all immigrants, so that they may be happy, healthy, free, and contributing joyfully in their community. We all deserve a good life.
-Joe will support any act that advances equality for all genders, all sexes, all races, and all religions, and makes amends for discrimination received by specific groups.
-Joseph Perez-Caputo will labor for every possible step that brings us closer to Universal healthcare for all citizens, guests, and tourists in the United States.
-Joe will take a radical and ravenous Anti-Felon President 4547 stance, aiming to serve ALL AMERICANS, including those outside of CT district 4 and those who voted for the current president, and to labor for the wellbeing and restitution of all those harmed by the incumbent administration.
-Joseph will put in the sweat equity to draft, sponsor, and co-sponsor Anti-Project 2025 legislation. His mission will be to actively oppose and continually draft legislation that aims to unwrite any Project 2025 proposal AND restore and rebuild what was destroyed.
-Joe will fight as he always has for peace in the world and for veterans and enlisted of the armed forces. He will advocate for a restructuring of military expenditure to focus on humanitarian aid around the globe and on the health, wellbeing, and benefits of Veterans and Active Duty, rather than enriching warmongers, stockholders, and billionaires.
“We Will Make You Hear Us”
Nov. 26, 2015
Photo Credit: Vanessa Pena
Joe was the organizer and protester from the “We Will Make Your Hear Us Protest” from 2015.
Sensing calamity on the horizon, he spent three years creating a Constitutional Restatement by listening to voters, doing extensive historical and legal research, and harmonizing different policy analytics.
The goal was to trigger national dialogue via the publicity stunt, and have a preventative conversation and design of our civilization’s reformation throughout the 2016 election.
What we got was worse, and it’s gotten worse since.
One thing is still very certain:
We will make them hear us.
Unafraid to fight for you!