Pittsburgh Tunnel Builder Institute Announced!
The Pittsburgh League of Young Voters’ Tunnel Building Institute is an eight-week, grassroots voter organizing training program. This program is designed to fuse the skills of community organizing and political strategy by engaging, educating and empowering traditionally disenfranchised or ignored communities to effectively use the democratic process. Upon completion of the program, participants will be presented with an official LYV voter organizer certificate at a reception held in mid-November. The Tunnel Builder Institute will provide participants with an opportunity to work in a dynamic experiential learning lab by participating in unique field exercises and simulations. TBI will provide participants the necessary skills to become the premier electoral, grassroots and issue-based organizers in the region. Field activities will include voter registration, voter identification, alliance building, writing press releases and running an effective election-day program. **Application deadline: 5PM, Tuesday September 5th, 2006
Tags: pa league of young voters, pittsburgh, tunnel builder institutePort Authority Sued Over Denial of Ads on Buses.
The Pittsburgh League of Young Voters, in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Foundation of Pennsylvania, filed a federal lawsuit today against Port Authority, claiming the agency discriminated against them by not allowing them to run advertisements on their buses promoting the voting rights of ex-criminal offenders. Both organizations say they want to inform ex-offenders of their rights, so that they can register to vote for this November’s election. Under Pennsylvania law, ex-felons are permitted to vote as soon as they complete their prison terms — even if they are serving parole — but the League of Young Voters believes that conflicting information abounds, and most ex-offenders don’t know their rights. They received grants from various organizations to run an advertising campaign, and planned to place advertisements on buses, especially in areas with large populations of ex-offenders
Tags: ACLU, ex-offender voting rights, pa league of young voters, Port Authority“Young Activists Leave Town. . .and Actually Come Back!”
A contingent of about 30 Pittsburgh activists, many members of Pittsburgh’s League of Young Voters, spent the weekend of July 21st in Chicago at the National Hip-Hop Political Convention. Attendees said the weekend of panel discussions and performances served mainly to rededicate them to their mission of educating and empowering themselves and their peers to be politically active, and to gain a sense of perspective on hip-hop’s place in history as a political entity. The convention included discussions on grassroots organizing, lobbying, media wrangling, and the history of hip-hop as a political vehicle, and performances by Dead Prez and Immortal Technique.
Tags: National Hip-Hop Political Convention, PA League of Young of VotersWake Up Wal-Mart and the League of Young Voters with special guest John Edwards
Hill House, @ Noon
Free to the public
Hosted by Gabe Morgan & Khari Mosely. Groups sponsoring it include Change to Win, League of Young Voters, Democracy 4 Pittsburgh, ACORN, Progress Pittsburgh, Pensylvania Young Democrats, Just Harvest, South End Active Democrats, CLUW, Labor and Religion Coalition, Mon Valley Unemployed Committee, CSTU, Pennsyvlania America Votes, Working Families Win, and more!
