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Hey Jack, you're invited!
People Power! Not Techy Products.
A Funeral Parade for the Mon Oakland Connector
and Birth Day Picnic for a New Day of Community-Driven Process
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Sunday, June 11, 2023 – 1pm
Parade start at Panther Hollow
Parade end and picnic at the playground in The Run
Picnic Potluck until 4pm-ish
Out with the bad, in with the good! As the brass band sings, join us to celebrate the burial of the Mon Oakland Connector and uplift a new vision of community-centered process to take its place - one that uplifts the power of Pittsburghers over products and corporate profits. Join residents of Four Mile Run, Hazelwood and Panther Hollow, along with Junction Coalition, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, P.O.O.R.L.A.W., GH-CARED, and Eagleburger Band, for a New Orleans-style brass band funeral parade followed by a good-’ol community potluck picnic.
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Image description: a red bus travels down the East Busway. |
Time Is Running Out! Regional Plan Needs Big Vision For Public Transit |
Every five years, the Southwest PA region updates its Long Range Transportation Plan. For Allegheny County and Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT), this plan has some big visions including the busway extensions to the Mon Valley and Monroeville, an aerial gondola (!) running north and south connecting Allentown and communities south of the Mon to Hazelwood to Oakland and up to Lawrenceville. This plan also has some necessary big repairs and replacements, like replacing much of our rail car fleet and building a fifth bus garage, one that can allow for more buses and an electric fleet.
But where there are big plans for infrastructure, there are nearly no goals for improving transit service and hiring more transit workers. Public meeting is being held on 6/8 and public comments need to be submitted by 6/9. |
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Image description: Photo of PPT's new Community Organizer, Nicole Gallagher. Fireworks are superimposed in the background of the image. |
Meet Nicole Gallagher! PPT’s newest staff member and the org's second Community Organizer. Here's Nicole's secret recipe for what makes her as an organizer:
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Recipe for a PPT Organizer:
9 years labor organizer with Unite Here 20 years proud service industry worker A dash of local, diy Pittsburgh organizing Several ounces of personal and family history of riding public transit
A heavy pour of working class, immigrant family
Shaken not stirred.
There you have PPT’s newest community organizer, Nicole Gallagher! Her family roots and strong sense of right and wrong have made social justice work a pleasure through most of her adult life. At any meeting, you’ll hear her sharing tales from her union organizing experience at hotels in Chicago or the Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh. When she’s not sharing about work, find her telling true stories at local storytelling events around the city or out hiking in the woods with her dogs.
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Image description: event flyer for PPT's Monthly Meeting. PPT Logo and "Monthly Virtual Meeting" is overlaid on a photo of the inside of a bus with the blue lights at night. |
2023 is almost half-way over! PPT's 2023 Strategic Plan outlined some ambitious campaigns. Join our June meeting to check-in on the progress we've made towards our goals, highlight the places we need to focus more, and consider what we should plan on for 2024.
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Whole Homes Repair Act Application Open for All in Allegheny County! (online) // Applications will be accepted Tuesday, May 30, 2023, through Friday, June 30, 2023 // More Info
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Long-Range Transportation Plan for Southwestern PA (online) // join the public meeting on June 8th // give public feedback here before June 9th
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People Power! Not Techy Products.
A Funeral Parade for the Mon Oakland Connector
and Birth Day Picnic for a New Day of Community-Driven Process
June 11th @ 1pm. (in-person) Info + RSVP here
PPT Monthly Meeting (online) // June 14th, 6:30pm Social time, 7-8:30pm meeting // RSVP here
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Labor & Disability Justice: Towards Solidarity hosted by PeoplesHub (online) // June 28th // info here
PPT Board Nominations are open until July 3rd. Nominate a PPT member to run for our Board here!
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Pittsburghers for Public Transit is a grassroots union of transit riders, workers and neighbors. Together, we organize for a more affordable, accessible and expanded transit system that meets all our needs, with no communities left out.
PPT is fueled by volunteer energy of people like you. Donate today to support our organizing for transit justice. |
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5119 Penn Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15224
United States
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