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Thank you for voting and for supporting so many of the PA-PAC endorsed candidates. We are SO grateful to all the candidates and volunteers for their countless hours of work. Running for a seat is an act of leadership – We honor that!
Show up for History
PA is hosting two virtual interest meeting for anyone who is considering attending the June 18th Moral March on Washington DC. <[link removed]>
We are called to assemble and march in the nation’s capital as a broad coalition in response to the pain caused to all of us when there are 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this country. We are called to join together to shift the moral narrative, build power, and demand a national agenda that can realize the nation we have yet to be for so many.
Learn more and get your questions answered on Saturday May 21th (TOMORROW!) at 11:00am or Tuesday May 24th at 6:15pm.
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Ready to commit to DC? Sign up for the bus leaving from ERUUF at this link <[link removed]>. Contact
[email protected] if you want information about covering costs of the bus to DC.
Your voice is needed
Housing Action Alert – Email the County Commissioners!
The PA Housing and Transit Committee is in support of the list of priorities sent by the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People to the County Commissioners:
The Durham Committee strongly supports the prioritization of ARPA funds to address the following:
- Using funds to address closing the racial equity gap and using a racial equity lens for both short-term and long-term priorities.
- Utilizing City and County ARPA funds to provide Rental Assistance for the 1,500 households on currently on the waiting list for Durham Rent Relief and other low-income families at risk of Eviction.
- Utilizing ARPA funds to increase capital improvement needs of Homeless shelters and to increase the number of units available to meet the growing number of homeless families and households in our community.
- Prioritizing both County and City ARPA funds to fund Homeowner Repair and Accessibility Grants to help long-time (10 years) residents in legacy Durham neighborhoods stay in their homes.
- Utilizing both County and City ARPA funds to Build Permanent Affordable Housing w/in ½ mile of any investment in rail/trail.
Now we need to ask our County Commissioners and City Council members to fund more housing in their Budgets.Before Monday, please email the County Commissioners at:
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]>
Monday, May 23, 7:00pm,200 E Main St 2nd floor, Durham, NC 27701is the County Commission meeting and Budget Hearing in-person.
Please write why you support these housing priorities. If you can, tell a story about the urgent need for one or more priorities.
Housing and Transit Action Team contacts:
Lorisa Seibel, 919-801-6863
Marie Hill Faison, 919-452-2302
NEXT MEETING - TOPIC "Ban the Box"
Date: Thursday June 16 | Time: 6:00 - 7:30pm | Location:Zoom [link removed]
Upcoming Action Team Meetings
Economic Justice Action Team
The Economic Justice team will meet on June 7th at 7:00 PM via Zoom. Click here <[link removed]> to attend.
Education Action Team
Date: Thursday, June 21| Time: 8:00 - 9:30pm | Location:Zoom
Register here to attend (required) <[link removed]>. Registrants will receive the Zoom details the week of the meeting.
Make a connection
Please reach out to our Lead Coordinator Ann Rebeck at
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]> anytime with interest, questions and ideas. Welcome our summer intern Ayanna Watkins at
[email protected] <mailto:
[email protected]>. She will be working on social media.
The People's Alliance needs your support.
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