From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): As faith leaders, clergy, and leaders of religious communities, we invite you to join in signing onto a letter to Congress at https://interfaithpowerandlight.salsalabs.org/climateinfrastructure/index.html calling for a bold economic recovery and infrastructure package that creates … Continued
From the Philadelphia Unemployment Project (http://www.philaup.org/): As part of the recently passed American Rescue Plan, Congress included $10 billion to help struggling homeowners through the Homeowner Assistance Fund. Through the fund, Pennsylvania is slated to receive over $350 million dollars … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): As we celebrate Mother’s Day, my heart is filled with compassion for the thousands of immigrant families that have been separated from their mothers due to the harmful zero tolerance policy enacted by the … Continued
From Faith in Public Life (http://www.faithinpubliclife.org): Care workers are mostly women, over half women of color and nearly one-third immigrant workers. They not only care for our mothers, but many of them are mothers. Join the faithful call for them to be … Continued
Getting College Students Vaccinated College students returning home after the semester ends should look to get their COVID-19 vaccines as quickly as possible. With the Spring semester, some college students may get their first dose of a two-dose series (Pfizer … Continued
Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/05/05/transformative-hopeful-event-under-pressure-biden-backs-covid-19-vaccine-patent Published on Wednesday, May 05, 2021 by Common Dreams “This has a real potential to help save lives, strengthen the economy, improve international relations, and eventually end this awful pandemic.” By Jessica Corbett, staff writer Demonstrators hold … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Every day, it seems like the need to address the climate crisis becomes more urgent. And we all know that politicians’ efforts to implement climate solutions have lagged behind the public’s resolve to tackle climate change. That’s why … Continued
From the Juggernaut Project (https://juggernautproject.com/): I’m Mansoor Adayfi, otherwise known as “441”– my internment serial number (ISN) at the Guantánamo Bay military prison where I spent over 14 terrible years of my life. I wrote more about my story in … Continued
From the National Religious Campaign Against Torture (http://www.nrcat.org): President Biden has announced that he was raising the cap on the number of refugees who can be admitted to the United States this year to 62,500. While 62,500 is still far … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): This summer, Congress will negotiate a once-in-a-generation infrastructure package that will determine whether our country transitions to a clean energy economy and averts catastrophic climate change, or whether we lock in out-of-control pollution, economic … Continued