(Photo Caption: The Raging Grannies sing at the 10th Annual Tax Day Rally (Photo: Neil Cosgrove) By Edith Bell Join us on Tuesday, April 17 from noon until 2pm for the 11th Annual […]
Tax Day April 17th
Art Saves Lives
(Photo provided by author) By Roy My Grandfather survived a genocide,”The Great Fire of Smyrna” of 1922. He fled to a nearby Greek island, Chios, losing a brother and parents. Occurring days […]
Panel to Discuss Proposed Toxic Cracker Plant
By Wanda Guthrie How will our city be impacted by the proposed upwind petrochemical plants? Can we afford to accept Allegheny County’s rank as in the top 1% of cancer rates ? […]
PNC Bank Anti-Nuke Campaign: Growing and Spreading
Peter Deutsch, Secretary, and Nancy O’Leary, President of Beaver County Peace Links send their Stop Banking the Bomb message at the corner of Forbes and Murray in Squirrel Hell on February 9. […]
Preparing for the March on Harrisburg with the Poor People’s Campaign
Photo provided by Wanda Guthrie. By Wanda Guthrie Join the Movement for Democracy in their Barnstorming Campaign. Adam Eichen, co-author with Frances Moore Lappe of Daring Democracy: Igniting Power, Meaning, and Connection […]
SW PA Bread for the World Workshop, Sunday, April 15
Picture provided by Joyce Rothermel. By Joyce Rothermel The threats to domestic and international food programs have never been more real. The proposed Trump budget for 2019 would devastate the US food […]
JUST DO IT!
By Bette McDevitt It is becoming easier to find funds and investment firms that focus on issues you care about, as Bonnie DiCarlo points out in the adjoining article. The funds are […]
How to Lend Support to the Post-Gazette’s Journalists
By Neil Cosgrove The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh is asking our readers to remind the owners and management of the Post-Gazette of their “civic responsibility” as stewards of a 231-year-old newspaper that […]
Local activists meet across a 50 year divide
By Charles McCollester Among the Battle of Homestead programs planned for 2018 are two marking the 50th anniversary of the momentous year of 1968, You may be interested in participating in the […]
Black History Month
By Molly Rush I recently began thinking about a number of black activists, many of whom may be forgotten. I came to know some of them through my work with the Catholic […]
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