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NPP Celebrates MLK Day 2024 Across the Commonwealth |
The New Pennsylvania Project spent MLK Day 2024 at events across the Commonwealth, spending our time registering voters and engaging the electorate. To mark such an important day for our organization, we wanted to share an open letter from our CEO Kadida Kenner:
Dr. King was a radical.
Dr. King was not a cookie cutter action figure. Throughout this week, the New Pennsylvania Project and the affiliated organization, New PA Project Education Fund, honored his life and legacy by being in our communities continuing the work he was assassinated for - advancing civil rights - including voting rights. Want to get involved - please ensure your activities help to advance that cause.
Dr. King didn’t die picking up trash at a park, he died to ensure the trash workers had fair wages. Dr. King wasn’t killed because he was planting trees, he was murdered because he was fighting for liberation of Black people and planting the seeds that when we liberate ourselves, we liberate others.
Let’s ensure our words, activities and deeds are not performative but advancing the mission. Want to help? Talk to young folks and get them registered to vote.
Happy Mr. and Mrs. King Day — there was no Martin without Coretta. #MLK2024
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Harrisburg
What: Reflective Democracy Workshop When: Tuesday, January 23rd and Tuesday, January 30th from 6:30-8PM
Where: First Church of the Brethren, 219 Hummel Street, Harrisburg, PA 17104
Details: Join affiliated organization the New PA Project Education Fund for an interactive workshop and discussion around how we achieve a more representative democracy that reflects all the people of Pennsylvania. They will discuss the current status of our democracy, and why it is important to build a reflective democracy in order to win on the issues that most matter to us -- Come have your voice heard! **Closest Bus Stop: Mulberry St and Hummel St (20 and 8 buses)**
The event will also feature free food, free parking, and is free to attend
For additional details and to RSVP, click here. |
Eight Democrats looking to unseat Perry meet in first candidates’ forum (Pennsylvania Capital-Star) For the first time this cycle, the eight Democratic candidates seeking to unseat U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-York) in Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District met for a candidate forum. “I think I’m safe to say, we all agree that Scott Perry must go,” Dauphin County Democratic Party Chair Rogette Harris said at the beginning of the two-hour long forum on Saturday. Biden, Casey and other elected officials mark Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at events in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania Capital-Star)
Biden spent the morning volunteering at Philadelphia food bank Philabundance alongside Mayor Cherelle Parker, stuffing boxes of food for those in need. It’s the third time Biden has volunteered at Philabundance on the King holiday; he visited in 2021 and 2022.
Want to quote MLK? Then capture the authentic King, not the whitewashed version. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
As another MLK Day arrives, politicians across the spectrum will post pictures with quotes by Martin Luther King Jr., using them as a veil to conceal all the ways their policies don’t align with his philosophies. Instead of, like King, advocating for voting rights, economic and environmental justice, and criminal justice, today’s legislators have contributed to the erosion of voting rights, implemented inhumane immigration policies, and funded conflicts like the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
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The New Pennsylvania Project is a voting rights organization with a primary focus of registering communities of color and the youth to vote. We are looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help defend democracy by expanding the electorate.
To learn more about how to apply and review job descriptions with requirements and disclosed salary ranges, please click here. |
Thank you for taking the time to stay informed. We're excited to accomplish some big things together in 2024! In solidarity, #TeamNPP |
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Primary Election: April 23, 2024
Last day to register to vote: April 8, 2024 Last day to request mail-in ballot: April 16, 2024
General Election: November 5, 2024
Last day to register to vote: October 21, 2024
Last day to request mail-in ballot: October 29, 2024
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We're on a mission to register new voters in the Commonwealth and expand the electorate. |
The New Pennsylvania Project is a 501(c)(4), contributions are not for charitable purposes and are not tax-deductible. |
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