"If you hear the dogs, keep going. If
you see torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after
you, keep going. Don't ever stop."
- Harriet
Tubman
November Newsletter: Build
Community
1) November 8th: Join PA-PAC
for an election watch party, Motorco @
7:00 p.m.
2) December 6th: Membership
meeting
3) Renew
or donate to be current for 2023
4) November 12th: Stagville
and the Roots of Durham
5) November 15th: The Education Action
Team invites you to learn about the Community Schools Model in a Virtual
Training
5) Opportunities from our partners at
the Community
Empowerment Fund
After many years online, please join
PA members at The
Fruit (305 S Dillard St., Durham NC 27701) for the Annual
Meeting on December 6th at 6:00pm. For those who would prefer to
remain online, there will be a virtual option.
Come out and reconnect with the PA
community and allies. Enjoy food and beverages and celebrate the year.
We will elect board members and officers for the 2023 year, hear from
our Strategic Planning partners, and check in with our Action
Teams.
Be Ready
for 2023
Please renew your PA
membership for 2023! All renewals between now and the
end of 2022 will be credited as 2023 memberships. Get it done
early!
Renew now and you will be a member for
2023 — Consider becoming a monthly sustainer.
Free Tour with PA members:
Stagville and the Roots of Durham
Register HERE
to discover the connections between the early history of Durham and
one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. This outdoor guided
tour will highlight the post-Emancipation history of Stagville. Hear
stories of freed families who moved to Durham, how the Cameron
family's wealth influenced North Carolina, and how sharecropping
shaped the lives of African American families at
Stagville.
This tour will take place rain or shine. Join PA
members at the visitor's center afterwards for fellowship and hot
apple cider.
Post-Election Team
Meetings
The
Education Action Team
will meet Tuesday, November 15 at 8:00 PM.
Register here
to attend (required).
Registrants will receive the Zoom details the week of the
meeting.
Discussion of the Community
Schools Model will be on the agenda as well as an election
debrief
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The
Economic Justice Action
Team End-of-year
meeting. Date to be determined.
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VOLUNTEER
- Join the Housing and Transit Action Team as they assist our
neighbors in crisis. Contact [email protected] if
you have a few hours on a weekday morning to come to the courthouse
and distribute information to people facing eviction. You will be
trained and equipped with resources.
The Housing
and Transit Action Team will meet Thursday, November
17 at 6:00 PM.
CEF is currently accepting applications for our
Spring 2023 volunteer advocate cohort. Visit https://communityempowermentfund.org/hiring/ to
learn more. Applications will be accepted until Sun, November 20th at
11:59 pm.
People's Alliance
http://www.durhampa.org/
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