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EARTH

Green New Deal Coalition of Erie County, posed important questions related to International Recycling Group  3 pages

Fr. Dan Horan: “Urgent Explorations of Global Climate Change and the Consistent Ethic of Life.”  Guest speaker for Mercyhurst  51st annual Sister Maura Smith Earth Day Lecture April 22, at 7 p.m., Free, public via Zoom.

ReLeaf is planting 275,000 trees (One tree for every citizen in Erie County)" "ReLeaf is the Lake Erie Arboretum at Frontier Park’s direct response to climate change and a chance for us to beautify our community spaces outside of Frontier Park." 

PennFuture Releases Report on Massive Fossil Fuel Subsidies in PA (PennFuture 2/22/2021) 

Gov. Wolf Announces Largest Government Solar Energy Commitment in the U.S. (Gov Tom Wolf, 3/22/2021) " initiative that will produce nearly 50 percent of state government’s electricity through seven new solar energy arrays" 

Allegany Nature Pilgrimage cancelled for 2021, but they are working on alternative events. 

"Nature in the Northeast" (Justin Thompson, North Coast Voice 3/10-4/7 2021) An appreciation of nature in northeast Ohio and a call to support those who are protecting it. 

Global Just Recovery Gathering April 9-11 Online climate movement event featuring interactive workshops, cultural sessions, and hands-on trainings. 
Environmental Voter Project 

Fire Drill Fridays with Greenpeace "Visit FireDrillFridays.com to take action with Jane Fonda, Greenpeace, and the Fire Drill Friday movement." Videos with guests and movie nights.

COMMUNITY

Tool Lending Library "Giving neighbors the tools to build better neighborhoods." 

"Downtown with dignity: New Erie rest areas planned to help homeless and vulnerable" (Kevin Flowers, Erie Times-News "'The Downtown Partnership is looking at the reality of our community.' Buchna said. 'We have a homeless and vulnerable population in downtown Erie that has needs, like food, clothing, shelter and places to go to the bathroom.'"

PSU Speaker Series: Mona Hanna-Attisha Physician, scientist and activist who exposed the Flint water crisis April 13, 7:00 p.m.

Bayfront Project Roundabout Peer Review  (PennDOT) "The roundabout peer review will review information related to pedestrian safety"

SSJ Neighborhood Network Silent Auction This year, SSJNN is converting their annual Guess That Tune Gala fundraiser to a virtual silent auction from May 12-22, which will benefit their bicycle program and other ministries

ARTS

GU Speaker: Sherwin Bitsui Friday, April 16 7:30PM Author and poet, he is Navajo of the Todichʼíiʼnii (Bitter Water Clan).

Cleveland Film Festival April 7-20, 2021 
Erie Art Museum Spring Art Show

Branching Out: A GGG + LEAF Collaborative Art Show  thru May 4 at Glass Growers Gallery, 10 E. Fifth St. 10% of the show proceeds to LEAF's ReLeaf initiative. 

Station Hope   May 1, 2021 5-9pm  Free, Livestreamed on Cleveland Public Theater's website and social media pages, details to come. "A virtual festival of performance honoring and exploring Cleveland's social justice heritage."

VARIOUS

Erie's Independent Alternative Publication Turns 10 (Ben Speggen, Erie Reader, March 10, 2021) A look back at the Erie Reader's beginnings and successful first decade. 

Protest and Pride at Fenton History Center History of the LGBTQIA+ community in Chautauqua County. Open to the public thru Oct. "Visit us Monday through Saturday 10-4"  $10 adults, members and under 18 free.

"I’m a member of the ‘Mass Shooting Generation.’ Pa. lawmakers need to pass tougher background checks on gun purchases" | Opinion (Penn Capital-Star 3/24/2021) 

JUSTICE

The Publix Voice: Asian Hate Host Marcus Atkinson interviews Asian-American citizens John Park (Erie, PA) and Pastor David Cho (Boston, MA) talk about their family journeys, the incidents springing up all around the country, and how their Christian walk plays out in the backdrop of these incidents. 

Good Friday Pilgrimage for Peace April 2   "This year’s Good Friday Pilgrimage focus on racism and the many ways that racism intersects with other issues of injustice. The shooting in Atlanta of six Asian women and two others is a recent example of the intersections of racism, sexism and violence." Online. 

Undesign Erie's Redline "The mission of ERIWE is to reduce impacts of Racism and Redlining in Erie County"

Frida Berrigan on ML King's Triad: Racism Militarism & Excessive Materialism Host: Cleveland Nonviolence Center

AP: Pittsburgh area police officers’ posts to private Facebook group show hostility, hate (Meghan Schiller, KDKA/AP 3/22/2021) 

ELECTIONS

PA Superior Court Candidates Forum April 6 at 6pm

Indivisibles in conversation with Bob Casey  April 6 at 5:30pm "Join Pennsylvania Indivisible and Bob Casey for a conversation about voting rights, DC statehood, campaign finance reform, the filibuster and more!" 

PA Primary deadlines 

Allegheny College Designated Voter Friendly Campus Through National Nonpartisan Initiative (Allegheny College, 3/9/2021) 

LOOK BACK

From 2010: "Pennsylvania Homeland Security office engaged in domestic surveillance, compared political groups to Al Qaeda" (PennLive 11/7/2010; updated 1/6/2019) "Pennsylvania's Office of Homeland Security had been tracking groups engaged in lawful, peaceful protests, including groups opposed to natural gas drilling, peace activists and gay rights groups...Regular readers of the bulletins could easily begin to view activists as a threat. The bulletins freely mixed references to actual terrorist activity abroad with warnings about the non-violent, lawful activities of Pennsylvania citizens. A July 30 bulletin that discusses 'jihadist threats in France' quoting Al-Qaeda, also warns that natural gas drilling events 'may draw unruly crowds.'"  Brandywine Peace Community was heavily tracked and did a detailed write-up on the monitoring, with background, updates, and specific alerts.