SCHOOLS
PENNCREST update: CRT policy up for first reading, though may change (9/9/)Clarion-Limestone anti-CRT school board member arrested for DUI Board member Gary Sproul, who worked for the ban, seems to have issues with public health as well. Aside from the DUI, he has cheered on anti-mask recklessness.
York county school district rolls back bans on books b authors of color after backlash from students Pa. House panel approves bill to post school curriculums online
JUSTICE
Longtime Erie activist pushes city to embrace 'deep and meaningful' policing dialogue
Kevin Flower talks with local activist Art Leopold
Longtime Erie activist pushes city to embrace 'deep and meaningful' policing dialogue
Kevin Flower talks with local activist Art Leopold
Whistleblower complaints about migrant facility in Erie and others (Source: Whistleblower Network News)
PA ‘Kids for Cash’ scandal class action as hundreds testify in civil hearingLocal students statements at Climate Strike
ETC
Study: Economic impact of immigrants on Erie County A new study from the Economic Research Institute of Erie at Penn State BehrendFood as Healing with Shane Bernardo Gannon, Palumbo Academic Center (3rd floor) Oct. 28 3PM "Shane Bernardo is co-founder of Food As Healing, a grower, facilitator and food justice organizer based in Detroit, Michigan that uses food and storytelling as mediums for healing and decolonizing." ‘People called us heroes’: Pa. nurses sound the alarm on unsafe working conditions
Unearth will screen at Eerie Horror Fest Oct. 30 at 6pm, Erie Playhouse.
Interfaith Candlelight Vigil for the Earth Oct 4 Hosts: Gannon U. Center for Social Concerns, Cathedral of St. Paul, Benedictines for Peace, Erie Benedictines
Interfaith Candlelight Vigil for the Earth Oct 4 Hosts: Gannon U. Center for Social Concerns, Cathedral of St. Paul, Benedictines for Peace, Erie Benedictines
NextGen America launches $32 million program to turn out young voters in 2022: Will organize in PA, TX, AZ, NC, NH,MI,WI and NV with a goal to "register, inform and mobilize" hundreds of thousands of young voters, the group says.”
PA Dem candidates on fracking ban Pa. Dems running for Senate shun talk of fracking ban (Source: from E&E, an energy and environment publication presently owned by Politico)
ARTS
Live at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones Terence Blanchard's opera adaptation of Charles M. Blow's moving memoir. Fredonia Opera House (10/23), Tinseltown Erie (10/23 & 10/27), Lakewood 8 (10/23)
Live at the Met: Fire Shut Up in My Bones Terence Blanchard's opera adaptation of Charles M. Blow's moving memoir. Fredonia Opera House (10/23), Tinseltown Erie (10/23 & 10/27), Lakewood 8 (10/23)
‘Al Franken to perform at Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall’: Oct. 23 Strict vax/test/ID requirements
Cauleen Smith: Pandemic Diaries Online "engaging with the intersecting crises of the pandemic and social injustice through her lens o active care, radical imagination, and collective consciousness."
Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community through Art Pittsburgh thru March 19, 2022
Bourbon at the Border Presented by Playshop Theatre, Allegheny College November 11–14, 2021 'Howard University students May and Charlie joined hundreds of other Americans in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 for a voter registration drive. Years later, they are still searching for a way back from the damage that was done to them during that long ago “Freedom Summer.”'
Cauleen Smith: Pandemic Diaries Online "engaging with the intersecting crises of the pandemic and social injustice through her lens o active care, radical imagination, and collective consciousness."
Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community through Art Pittsburgh thru March 19, 2022
Bourbon at the Border Presented by Playshop Theatre, Allegheny College November 11–14, 2021 'Howard University students May and Charlie joined hundreds of other Americans in Mississippi in the summer of 1964 for a voter registration drive. Years later, they are still searching for a way back from the damage that was done to them during that long ago “Freedom Summer.”'
WAR & PEACE
Peace activists protest at Niagara Falls airbase over Afghanistan drone attacks "We came to honor them, to remember them, to think about the drones that bury innocent live and to read the names and talk about the program that is killing nine people for every person they are aiming at," Victoria Ross said.
No Drones Niagara and WNY Peace Center work to raise awareness about killer drones and prevent the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station from adding a drone operation. No Drones Niagara is part of the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones and End the Wars.
George W. Bush will be in Erie November 9, hosted by Jefferson Educational Society. No vigils or protests scheduled so far... however, it is important to remind Americans that the cuddly old guy calling for decency and tolerance was responsible for some of the most horrific behavior of modern times: vote.pa.gov New URL for PA voter website vote.pa.gov.
Erie County Executive Live Debate Oct 12 YourErie (JET 24 TV) live at 7 p.m.
True Quotes of an Erie Working Man and Erie Wannabe Man, Brenton Davis+++ https://www.facebook.com/eriewannabeman
Erie County Executive Live Debate Oct 12 YourErie (JET 24 TV) live at 7 p.m.
True Quotes of an Erie Working Man and Erie Wannabe Man, Brenton Davis+++ https://www.facebook.com/eriewannabeman
Draw the Lines: The PA Citizens' Map Combines the 1,500 congressional maps Pennsylvanians have submitted to Draw the Lines. This is the first such map that has ever been created by citizens.
Wolf creates new redistricting oversight panel ahead of fraught map-drawing process+++
AG Shapiro sues to block GOP election subpoena
PA Dems sue over GOP election "investigation"
Wolf creates new redistricting oversight panel ahead of fraught map-drawing process+++
AG Shapiro sues to block GOP election subpoena
PA Dems sue over GOP election "investigation"
Mastriano barred from attending private Senate GOP meetings https://www.ydr.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/09/28/pa-sen-doug-mastriano/5846223001/
To avoid Wolf’s veto, Pa. GOP proposes giving voters final say on stricter ID rules, other election changes
Ed Rendell is targeting the ‘Treason Caucus’ in Congress
Pa.’s poll worker shortage
Become a poll worker
To avoid Wolf’s veto, Pa. GOP proposes giving voters final say on stricter ID rules, other election changes
Ed Rendell is targeting the ‘Treason Caucus’ in Congress
Pa.’s poll worker shortage
Become a poll worker
Study: Economic impact of immigrants on Erie County A new study from the Economic Research Institute of Erie at Penn State Behrend
PHOTOS
women's march+++
Erie Wannabe Man, Brenton Davis
https://www.facebook.com/PADepartmentofState
https://www.facebook.com/PADepartmentofState
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