PNN Newsletter: Become a Neighborhood Leader, Civil Rights Meeting, More
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- Mar 14
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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: Civil Rights: Immigration & Incarceration, Free Mahmoud Rally
Educate: Make the Rich Pay Their Fair Share, Time to Stand Up Rally & Planning
Empower: Become an Election Captain in Your Neighborhood
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Civil Rights, Immigration & Incarceration Meeting
Wednesday, March 26th, 7PM-8:30PM, on Zoom
This online meeting is part of our follow-up to our All-Hands meeting that took place at the end of January. This meeting will address the immediate Civil Rights abuses we anticipate from the Trump regime, with an analysis from allies within our immigrant communities; as well as the ballot measure regarding the formation of a Prison Justice Oversight Board and the education of voters in time for the primary election.
Right now, sign up to save the date in your calendar. We'll have further details in next week's newsletter.
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Get Training to Become a Neighborhood Leader
Sign Up Now for the Election Captain Program
The Working Families Party, on whose Board PNN serves, is providing leadership to move into neighborhood-centric work. Their idea, much like our original organizing model, is to train volunteers to be election captains in their own division, focusing their energies within walking distance of their homes.
Election Captains will be offered stipends of up to $600 dollars per election cycle. In-depth training on deep canvassing techniques will be offered. You will also be trained on how to become trusted a community messenger between elections so that neighbors will naturally look for guidance from you when election season rolls around.
If you are interested in becoming an Election Captain, please click the link below to get started.
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Free Our Speech, Free Mahmoud Rally
Monday, March 17th, 5:30PM-7PM, City Hall, North Apron
Join hundreds of Philadelphians speaking out for freedom this Monday at City Hall.
If you've been following the news, you know that Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University was arrested by ICE this past Saturday for protesting the Israeli invasion of Gaza. Khalil is here legally on a green card that allows him to stay in the U.S. permanently and he is married to an American woman who is eight months pregnant.
While a federal judge has blocked the State Dept order to deport him, the Orange Menace rage posted that this is "the first arrest of many to come" for people expressing their views in public.
Help us push back against ICE’s targeting of immigrants for exercising their right to dissent. When immigrants face retaliation for speaking out, it threatens everyone’s right to organize, protest, and demand change.
This action is about protecting our collective right to dissent and ensuring that ICE’s overreach doesn’t go unchallenged! We cannot let this stand or nobody is safe.
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"Let Us Work" Picket at Wells Fargo
Friday, March 14th, 5PM, Broad St. and Sansom St.
Workers at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Veterans' Affairs, National Park Service, and more have been illegally fired or locked out from doing our jobs serving the public. Join workers from CFPB Union, NTEU, Philly Coalition of Labor Union Women and Federal Unionists Network at this event to fight back against the illegal firings of federal workers.
To support them, we will be "information picketing" outside the Wells Fargo Building this evening at 5PM because they are an active collaborator in Elon Musk's corporate takeover of our public services. Wells Fargo is currently operating lawlessly, with zero oversight from Trump's CFPB for over a month. Meanwhile, Wells Fargo is calling for the corporate selloff of our United States Postal Service for the benefit of greedy investors.
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Policy Call: Make Rich Pay Their Fair Share
Thursday, March 20th, 1PM, Online
Join us for PA Policy Center's Policy Action Zoom meeting next Thursday, 3/20, at 1PM, when we'll be focusing on the need to make billionaires & wealthy corporations start paying their fair share in PA! Learn about the issue & how we can work together to win this victory. RSVP: https://bit.ly/PolicyAction032025
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"Time to Stand Up" Rally & Planning Meeting
Tuesday, April 1st, 6PM-8PM, 1328 North 19th St
The Coalition to Defend Democracy, of which PNN is a founding member, is conducting a rally/planning meeting at the Tenth Memorial Baptist church located at 1328 N. 19th Street on April 1st. You'll hear from organizing leaders about the key issues we're facing right now and, more importantly, you'll take part in the planning of actions to fight back against this fascist regime. Let us know you're coming by clicking the link below.
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This Week in History
Mar 15, 1965 – LBJ Calls for Equal Voting Rights. President Johnson addressed Congress to urge the passage of voting rights legislation, saying "all of us...must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice."
March 18, 1942 – Japanese Relocation. The War Relocation Authority was established at the start of WWII. More than 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese decent were rounded up on the West Coast and put into camps.
March 19, 2003 – Bush Attacks Iraq. After months of ginned up rhetoric about WMDs, the Bush Administration began their war on Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than half a million Iraqis and the waste of hundreds of billions of US taxpayer dollars.
Thanks for your activism!
Tim Brown, Organizing Director
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