From the Poor People’s Campaign (https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/): “What we’re seeing is that when people come together and start organizing, then so many other people come forward too. In the banding together of clergy and activists, and poor people, therein lies the … Continued
From the Poor People’s Campaign (https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/): “Rev. Dr. King didn’t envision the Poor People’s Campaign as a charitable crusade. It wasn’t a campaign for the poor. It was a campaign of the poor to awaken a broad mass movement to … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): Our most pristine wilderness is in jeopardy. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has just put forth plans that would usher drilling into the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain. Drilling would scar the land and endanger … Continued
From Community Legal Services (https://clsphila.org/): Due to the federal government shutdown, SNAP recipients in Pennsylvania will receive their February 2019 SNAP benefits by January 18. This is not an extra payment and recipients will not receive any additional benefits until at … Continued
From the Poor People’s Campaign (https://poorpeoplescampaign.org/): “The emergency we now face is economic, and it is a desperate and worsening situation. The dispossessed of this nation — the poor, both white and Negro — live in a cruelly unjust society. … Continued
From Common Cause (http://www.commoncause.org): Congress must finally do what it takes to make our democracy work for everyone. Tell your Representative in Congress to support the For the People Act today at https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-congress-we-deserve-a-democracy-that-works-for-us. On January 21 we honored the legacy … Continued
From Church World Service (http://www.churchworldservice.org): As we welcome the 116th Congress into office, it is critical that we remind them that dreamers, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients, and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) holders are in urgent need of a permanent, legislative … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Have you seen all the “New Year, New Me” memes? I’ve got a better one: New Congress, New Chance for equal pay! That’s right — this new 116th Congress, the most diverse in history, is the best … Continued
The Guardian At the Berks Family Residential Center, an immigrant detention facility in Leesport, Pennsylvania, advocates and former detainees say it’s normal for children held there to have health problems. One mother, who asked to use her middle name Arely, told … Continued
From the Alaska Wilderness League (http://www.alaskawild.org): In yet another attack on the Arctic, before the government shutdown, the Interior Department began an environmental review process to write a new management plan for Alaska’s Western Arctic, a home to the highest … Continued