Support Rep. Rabb for Congress; Ranked Choice Voting: Easy as HB123; On the Radio: Protecting Our Environment

Ranked Choice Voting: Easy as HB123

Help us pass the Ranked Choice Voting bill into law - HB123. What it means in real, tangible terms is: No more vote-splitting. You can rank your favorite candidate first without worrying that you’re “helping the other side.” Real majority rule. RCV ensures every winner has over 50% support by reallocating votes from eliminated candidates. Coalition politics, not toxic-attack politics. Candidates are incentivized to appeal to their opponents’ supporters, not smear them. New voices rise. Voters can support underdogs without strategic hesitation, making it possible for community organizers and outsider candidates to win. Pennsylvania can be the next state to choose RCV.

PNN is working with our friends at March on Harrisburg to get this bill across the finish line. Use the link below to write a letter to your legislator and share with your friends across Pennsylvania.

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On the Radio: Protecting Our Environment

Friday, April 2nd, 4PM, G'Town Radio

Environmental lawyers John Dernbach and Robert McKinstry will discuss a new petition to the state’s Environmental Quality Board (EQB). The strategy and legal history of this attempt also provides lessons to other states and other environmental legal cases as well as derives lessons from them. This effort is particularly relevant in our uncertain times. Check out the show on 92.2 G'Town Radio.

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We Are America March to D.C.

Saturday, April 11th, 5th & Market

The We Are America March (WAAM) is kicking off from Philadelphia on April 11th and arriving in DC on April 25th! You can join this pro-democracy movement: join for a mile, a day, or the whole way!

This 160-mile march was completed by 50 core marchers from around the country in September 2025, with hundreds more joining as day marchers. In April 2026, WAAM is aiming to double the number of core marchers and double the impact.

Over the course of 2 weeks, marchers will participate in training centered on non-violent direct action, teach-ins on pertinent social issues, and events co-hosted by local community members. Impact depend on family so a lot of.

WAAM leadership is committed to making the march as safe and accessible as possible. Following a carefully curated and tested route, marchers are accompanied by multiple support vehicles, safety marshals, and volunteer street medics. Core marchers (those marching for a week or more) are provided with food and housing accommodations.

Interested in learning more? Visit their website or sign-up for a Q & A session!

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Protest Citizens Bank's Support of Detention Facilities

Saturday, April 4th, 11AM, 1515 Market Street

Citizens Bank has long financed private prison and detention facility companies even though there have been years of allegations of forced labor, healthcare neglect, and other abuses. Citizens is a lender to companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group, which have caused widespread, documented harm to people in their facilities.

This Saturday is another statewide day of protest to demand that Citizens Bank stop supporting cruelty and inform their customers of its role in supporting the fascist and racist deportation activities of ICE and the Trump administration.

Right here in Pennsylvania, GEO Group operates the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, the largest ICE detention facility in the Northeast, just three and a half hours from here.

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Weekly ICE Vigil

Monday, April 6th, 11AM, 114 North 8th Street

Join State Senator Art Haywood and our allies as we keep vigil at the local Center City ICE office to call out their bad behavior. Keeping a regular presence is a way to remind them that we are watching and to remind our fellow citizens that while it looks like life is going on as usual, we cannot allow ourselves to accommodate fascism.

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Word Scramble

ATGER SINEPDOSRE

Hint: Economic era that followed the 1929 stock market crash. (Two Words)

Last Week's Word: UNION

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This Week in History

April 4, 1968 – MLK Murdered. Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis. He was in town to support a sanitation worker's strike.

April 5, 1933 – FDR Creates CCC. President Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), an innovative federally funded organization that put tens of thousands of Americans to work during the Great Depression on projects with environmental benefits.

April 8, 1993 – Latina in Space. Astronaut Ellen Ochoa became the first Latina in space when the shuttle Discovery lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center

April 9, 1947 – First Freedom Ride. The Congress of Racial Equality sent 16 Black and white activists on a bus ride through the American South to test a recent Supreme Court decision striking down segregation on interstate bus travel. The so-called Journey of Reconciliation, which lasted two weeks, was an important precursor to the Freedom Rides of the 1960s.