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: Lambert Street Community Clean-Up
Educate: How Does Candidate Succession Work?
Empower: Become a Paid Canvasser, Help with Voter Registration
How Does This Candidate Succession Thing Work?
With the political ground quickly shifting, some have wondered about the process of candidate succession - how does this whole thing work? What are the things to look out for?
The most important thing is that while this is a rare situation, it is not a crisis because there is a plan in place for just such an occasion. Check out this Primer on Candidate Succession.
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Community Clean-Up Day
Saturday, July 27, 1PM-3PM, 2200 Block Lambert St
Believing that a clean neighborhood leads to a better sense of community, we will be conducting a Community Day Clean-Up on the 2200 block of Lambert Street tomorrow afternoon, July 27th. We'll supply materials, but if you have a favorite broom or some other things you'd like to bring, please do so. Afterwards, we'll be treated to water ice and pretzels.
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Are You Ready to Buddy Canvass?
Mid-August thru Election Day, in Mt Airy
Sign up to canvass in Wards 22 and 59 starting mid-August - to talk with voters (particularly, low-turnout) about Kamala Harris' record and plans for the future, the nefarious plans of Trump/Vance and the GOP's Project 2025, and why their vote can make the difference in winning Pennsylvania.
If you'd like to help this summer, whether it's buddy canvassing, postcards, planning/staffing events, make phone calls or you've got another idea, please Click Here to let us know.
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Paid Canvass Opportunities
Thru the Summer Until Election Day
We will announce our first canvass prep workshop next week.
If you or someone you know would like to get paid to talk with your neighbors, then click on the link below to sign up. PNN is looking to hire people to canvass neighbors in select communities in the city. You must be personable, responsible to the work, have a smart phone, and be willing to learn how to use the MiniVAN app to capture information from the people you talk with at the doors.
Work is typically a five-hour shift with a paid half hour break taken from that time. At the start of each shift, you'll get a List Number that you'll input into the MiniVAN app. You'll be given instructions - and practice - on what to say at the doors, how to record information in MiniVAN, and how to close out your shift.
Canvassers are paid $20/hr for five hours for a total of $100 per shift. Accommodations can be made on hours and days to fit personal schedules. You can work as often as you like within program limits.
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Voter Registration Opportunities
If you would like to take part in upcoming Voter Registration opportunities, we will be tabling at the following events:
Sat, Aug 10 - Wayne Avenue Community Comeback (4810 Wayne Av)
Sat, Aug 17 - Wallace Playground Park Clean-Up (33rd & Wallace St)
Sun, Aug 25 - Back-to-School Event (Piccoli Playground)
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This Week in History
July 26, 1775 – USPS Established. The postal system was established by the Second Continental Congress, with Benjamin Franklin as its first postmaster general. It has been an institution that has helped minority workers become members of the middle class and a fundamental national institution.
July 27, 1974 – Nixon Impeachment Begins. Due to a series of political scandals that became known as Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee recommended that President Richard Nixon be impeached and removed from office.
July 30, 1965 – Medicare Becomes Law. On this day, Lyndon Johnson signed the Medicare bill into law. Former president Harry Truman became the first recipient of this new program which has since become a bedrock program of our nation.
Aug. 1, 1946 – Mine Workers Strike. The 400,000-strong AFL-United Mine workers went on a nationwide strike for better wages and safer working conditions. They resisted violent attempts to break their strike until the Federal government intervened to broker a deal acceptable to the miners.
Thanks for your activism!
Tim Brown, Organizing Director
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