PNN’s mission is to engage, educate and empower our neighbors to make our City a better place to live. Here’s what’s coming up in each of these areas:
Engage: 18 Days Until Election Day - Do Your Part: Canvass, Events & Postcards!
Educate: Interview with Erin McClelland, Chinatown Health Problem
Empower: Project Your Vote, Get On the Bus
Want to Help Get Out the Vote (GOTV)?
Canvassing is completed in phases: The first phase came this summer when we knocked on doors to have Persuasion conversations with our neighbors; then came Persuasion-Mobilization, just after Labor Day thru when mail ballots begin to arrive, convincing folks to get registered and to vote early by mail.
Next week, we will enter the final phase of canvassing - GOTV. Our job will be to talk with those folks who said they would vote, or applied for a mail-in ballot (we keep track of this), to have a final conversation that reaffirms their commitment to vote and helps them make a plan.
We have been asked by our State Partner America Votes to canvass in Ward 9 in West Mt. Airy, then move to Wards 11, 13 and 17, in Germantown and North Philly. We will be at the doors every day until Election Day.
If you would like to help with this work, click on the link below and then click the GET OUT THE VOTE link at the bottom of the form to let us know that you're ready to help!
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Last Chance to Join Our PNN Postcard Campaign!
There are 18 days left until the Election. So far, more than 200 volunteers have written 5,000 postcards. That's amazing! And there are a few more opportunities for you to sign up for a postcard writing event. It’s fun, effective, and we’re reaching voters to increase the turnout. It’s now or never! Let’s step to do our part to bring victory home.
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Opinion: Chinatown Areas Creates a Health Problem
Walter Tsou is a long-time PNN Steering Committee member, and former City Health Commissioner, so his opinion on health matters carries weight. Walter created a simple but powerful video opposing the construction of the Sixers arena in Chinatown on public health grounds. Check it out.
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Project Your Vote Lights Up Philly
Throughout the Month of October, 6:30PM-10PM
PNN has teamed up with activists from across the country to light up Philly with two-story tall projections on buildings and other urban screens to promote positive messages about the importance of voting and how to register and vote by mail. The PYV Team will be visiting locations across the city this month. Click below for a schedule of projections.
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Get on the Bus - Election Day GOTV
Tuesday, November 5, Various Shifts All Day
Spike Lee fans will remember the movie "Get On the Bus" about the iconic Million Man March that took place in Washington in 1995 to unite in self-help and self-defense against economic and social ills plaguing the African-American community.
In homage to that work, Philly Neighborhood Networks will be renting a 27-passanger bus to travel around neighborhoods in North Philly and Germantown to encourage neighbors to Get On the Bus to their Polling Place. We'll establish a bus route thru these wards that stops at all the polling locations.
We are still in the planning phase for this and need help pulling together the logistics for it, but if you're willing to step up, we can provide some financial reward on top of a really big "thank you!" Want to help? Send an email to Tim Brown with the title "Get On the Bus".
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Financing Philly's Future with Erin McClelland
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 4:30 to 5:00 PM, Virtual
Erin McClelland, Democratic Party candidate for PA Treasurer, will be our guest on “Financing Philadelphia’s Future” (FPF). Her platform emphasizes restoring integrity by rebuilding the supply chain and ending pension privatization. McClelland will discuss her views about public banking, pension fund investment, and the PA Treasurer’s responsibility for “managing our taxpayer’s coffers with diligence and accountability” in conversation with FPF host Vanessa Lowe. The general public is invited to participate in this interactive discussion on Zoom below.
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This Week in History
Oct 22, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis. On this day, John Kennedy announced the presence of Soviet warheads in Cuba. This led to thirteen days of high-stakes brinksmanship that ended in withdrawal of Soviet missiles in Cuba and US missiles in Turkey.
Oct 23, 1850 – Women's Rights Convention. The first National Women's Rights Convention was held in Worchester, MA with the objective: "to secure for [women] political, legal, and social equality with man until her proper sphere is determined by what alone should determine it..."
Oct 24, 1940 – 40-Hour Work Week. The determined work of labor organizers met success on this day when the 40-hour work week was enacted as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Thanks for your activism!
Tim Brown, Organizing Director
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