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Friend --
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.
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.
Ready to commit to DC? Sign up for
the bus leaving from ERUUF at this link.
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]
Monday, May 23, 7:00pm, 200 E Main St 2nd floor,
Durham, NC 27701 is 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 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9198016863
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
to attend.
Education Action
Team
Date: Thursday,
June 21| Time:
8:00 - 9:30pm | Location: Zoom
Register here to attend
(required). 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]
anytime with interest, questions and ideas. Welcome our summer intern
Ayanna Watkins at [email protected]. She will be
working on social media.
The
People's Alliance needs your support.
People's Alliance
http://www.durhampa.org/
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