Join POWER, Put People First and Tuesdays with Toomey to spook Pat Toomey and demand that our health care be treated as a human right! Tuesday, October 31st 12:20pm 200 Chestnut St The US Congress just passed a budget that guts Medicaid by $1 trillion, slashes Medicare by $500 billion, and leaves 9 Million...
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At this month’s SRC meeting — Thursday, October 19th — we’ll be stepping up the pressure and saying that the SRC can’t operate with business as usual until they put on the agenda the vote to abolish the School Reform Commission. Join us at 4PM next Thursday, October 19th outside of the School District of...
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Budget Update The budget situation in Pennsylvania is about to become dire. The General Fund goes into the red on September 15 and will mostly stay there for the rest of the year, which will likely lead to a 12% cut in non-mandatory expenditures. We’re looking at a $1 billion cut in basic education funding...
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This summer, progressives are organizing across the country to demand a Peoples Platform – 8 bills that say definitively that this country stands for people over profit*. Neighborhood Networks is a local affiliate of Our Revolution which, in turn is part of a huge coalition including Progressive Democrats of America, Democracy for America, National Nurses United, The...
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We had good news on the resistance front this week: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the injunction to stop the Trump Immigration Ban. It’s not over yet but at least it stopped this discriminatory and hurtful policy from affecting our immigrant and refugee communities. And coming up next week: Resistance Recess! Hundreds of actions...
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Fights will be at the Federal, State AND Local Level Thankfully, just about everyone reading this will have signed up for the resistance. Great! Now the only question is what does resistance mean?...
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200 Activists Overfill Room At Our ROE (Resistance Organizing Event) Wow! On December 14th, 200 of us came together to discuss how we can resist Trump, fight for policies that promote people over profits...
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