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You want to help get out the vote. Come to one of our super-duper election day orientations: get prepped, scheduled, and the day’s agenda in an hour. Plus, we’ll feed you punch and pie!
TUESDAY, Oct 28th, 7pm-8pm
League Office, 6101 Penn Avenue Suite 302, East Liberty
WEDNESDAY, Oct 29th, 7pm-8pm
United Steelworkers Office, 1945 Lincoln Highway, North Versailles
(We’re serious! Punch & Pie!)
Tags: election training, get out the vote, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Youth Vote
On a historic day like this one, don’t you want to be with your friends and countrymen?
Terry encouraging Pitt students to call County Executive Dan Onorato and ask him to verify the county's electronic voting machine software before the Nov. 4th election.
In a democracy such as ours, when those who represent our interests to our government fall short of doing the work of the people, to whom do we turn? Each other! The PA League of Young Voters has been calling for the people of Allegheny County to address their concerns about the integrity of the operating software in the electronic touch-screen voting machines to our county officials. When Michelle Obama came to University of Pittsburgh campus on October, 16th, Leaguers passed out some 800 leaflets containing the County Executive’s office phone number, instructions for writing a letter to the editor of the local newspapers, and information about our local government to a crowd of hundreds of eager voters. Everyone pulled out their cell phones, began making calls, and passed the information on to each other.
Terry took to the wall, walking along the line of speech-goers, proclaiming the importance of ratcheting up public pressure to direct the County Executive and the Board of Elections to take all necessary and reasonable steps to ensure that the paperless voting machines record and count each and every vote in Allegheny County on November, 4th, and in every election. Consequently, hundreds of people from around the Pittsburgh area who care to have their voices heard have experienced their collective power and the duty to influence the decisions of our elected officials. The flood of phone calls reportedly tied up County Executive Dan Onorato’s phone line for a good portion of the morning.
Now go the the Board of Elections meeting this Tuesday October 21st, 10am, and be there when the County Executive and the two At-Large County Councilmen make the decision. Our presence will influence!
With the number of U.S. children in poverty increasing, many states are forming commissions and task forces to reduce the ranks of the poor.
Pennsylvania is not among them.
Also, nearly two dozen states - including Delaware and New Jersey - have adopted state income-tax credits, considered by many policymakers to be the single best weapon in the antipoverty arsenal, because the credit rewards working people and raises many families above the poverty line.
Pennsylvania has not created such a credit.
“There’s silence on poverty in Pennsylvania - no serious discussion of poverty reduction at all,” said Sharon Ward, executive director of the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, a research group in Harrisburg.
-The Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct 15th, 2008, by Alfred Lubano
Poverty/Economy Issues Forum
Oct 23rd, 6pm-8pm
Kiva Han (Craig & Forbes, 15213)
presentation followed by panel discussion and Q&A
Putting the “fun” back into “debate,” the PA League has partnered with our old friends at The Shadow Lounge to bring you the debates you’ve been looking for.
Educate yourself on the candidates’ issues while playing our debate bingo for prizes or partake of the Shadow Lounge’s drink specials!
That’s this Tuesday, Oct 7th from 8pm till it’s over, and again Wednesday Oct 15th from 8pm till no one can take it any more. Get there early to get a good seat!
Tags: 2008, debate, election, october, Party, pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, PLYV, presidential, vote
Pa League canvasser for the “Unlock the Vote” Project registers another happy NEW voter who got their registration in right before the deadline to be able to vote in this fall election.
CMU Political Trivia, originally uploaded by paleague.
MC and City Council President Doug Shields shows off his fly new duds for political junkies at Carnegie Mellon during thei. He promised to wear the new rocking jacket the League gave him in Council Chambers on Tuesday, so watch the City Channel next week to see his rhinestones glitter. City councilmen Shields and Bill Peduto were on hand to emcee the CMU grad student political trivia night, where the PA League was invited to register last-minute voters and recruit volunteers for election day.
City Council President Shields won the jacket at a previous Elvis-themed fundraiser the PA League held, where young voters in attendance voted for which public figures they felt deserved the hand-decorated Elvis jackets. (Miraculously, Doug’s jacket fit him perfectly. He reportedly wore it out to Kelly’s afterwards; please send us any photos. 
The PA League was recently featured in the series of Right Here columns about 20-something Pittsburghers who work at nonprofit organizations.
“Our goal is not only to engage [voters], but keep them engaged after this election. … I’ve never seen an election with this much enthusiasm,” Ms. Rincon said.
Read the full text of the article here
Tags: election, engagement, new voters, pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, post-gazette, registration, students, volunteers, vote
CJ Jenkins, guest trainer!
Carey Jenkins from Milwaukee, WI!
He will be in Pittsburgh
Saturday, the 20th of September to enhance our Tunnel Builder Institute training with the Conflict Resolution Training that the Campaign Against Violence (our sister organization in Milwaukee) has become famous for!
Please join us in welcoming CJ to Pittsburgh!
The festivities will be at the
PA League Office
6101 Penn Ave, Suite 302, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206
We will be getting started at 10am. The Tunnel Builder Institute is only scheduled until 2pm, but we will be extending the time an hour to allow CJ to do his thing.
It will be time well spent, don’t worry about that.
Please RSVP online or email me at roxanne@theleague.com if you can come!
See you soon!
Roxanne A. Banks-Williams
Education/Training Director
PA League of Young Voters Education Fund
6101 Penn Ave, Suite 302
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
This is how we do it…!, originally uploaded by paleague.
Enough about Rhyme Cal…how bout the afterparty (in front of the Rhyme Cal
room)?! DJ Huggy was spinning some of the classic hip hop hits… You
should’ve seen the look on the cleaning guy’s face! Hey…they had to know
what would happen if they put piles of shredded paper, free alcohol, and
music in the same spot!
…ever seen Mac dance?! Looked like he was having fun to me! Again…this
is how WE do it!! We are all about having a good time as long as we are
getting the work done! (And there is PLENTY to do!) Ya gotta love this
work…
Roxanne
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