From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): With the climate crisis causing unprecedented disasters around the world, people are asking what can I do as one individual? The answer? Multiply your power by acting as a group with your faith community! … Continued
From Interfaith Power and Light (http://interfaithpowerandlight.org): The United Nations will be holding its climate talks, COP26, in Glasgow, Scotland, during the first two weeks of November. This year’s COP comes at a critical time in history, when we are witnessing … Continued
From the Coalition on Human Needs (http://www.chn.org): During this terrible pandemic, we have seen an unprecedented surge in Americans going without food. In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, that is simply unacceptable. President Biden’s Build Back … Continued
Today’s Funding Will Add Another 1,974 Affordable Rental Units in PA Harrisburg, PA – Governor Tom Wolf today announced awards totaling more than $43.6 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits, more than $7.4 million in PennHOMES funding, and more than … Continued
From Common Cause (http://www.commoncause.org): This is big. Majority Leader Schumer just announced that next week will be the first major procedural vote for the Freedom To Vote Act. This will mark a new phase of our campaign to pass this transformative … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): Plea from a grieving mother…On the last day of 2020, my son Hans walked into a gun store in the Philadelphia suburbs and legally purchased his first firearm. Two hours later, he was dead by suicide. He … Continued
From Moms Rising (https://www.momsrising.org/): Last week the New York Times shared shocking statistics about early child care support in the United States. Brace yourself….it turns out rich countries contribute an average of $14,000 per year for a toddler’s care, compared … Continued
From Amnesty International USA (http://www.amnestyusa.org): We will not remain silent: Amnesty just released a new report1 on the state of global vaccination rates, and it is dire. As the U.S. administers booster shots, billions of people across the globe are STILL waiting to get … Continued
Posted at https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2021-10-12/environment/pa-groups-planting-trees-as-part-of-10-million-by-2025-goal/a76085-1 October 12, 2021 – Emily Scott, Public News Service (PA) Play Audio in Browser Window HARRISBURG, Pa. — Now through November, Pennsylvania groups will plant an estimated 300,000 trees for fall, as part of a goal of … Continued
From CeaseFirePA (http://www.ceasefirepa.org): When Joshua Mitchell was chased down and shot to death in front of his girlfriend in 2017, the murderer, a Phoenixville man, turned out to be a convicted felon who’d stolen the gun from a nearby home … Continued