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Pima County Interfaith Council Key Part of Sanctuary History

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · April 10, 2012 5:48 PM

"Casa San Juan was started in 2002 by the Diocese of Tucson, at the request of leaders and members of the St. John the Evangelical Catholic Church.

One of its founders, the Rev. Raul Trevizo, said the center was started in a joint effort with the Pima County Interfaith Council, an organization of churches in the area..."

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AMOS Unveils Plans for Biggest Skateboard Park in US

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · April 01, 2012 3:46 PM

"On Saturday, A Mid-Iowa Organizing Strategy (AMOS)...unveiled a preliminary design for the park at the Subsect Skate Shop in Des Moines' East Village.

The facility will feature all three of the main structures skateboarders prefer: a deep vertical bowl, a "flow section" that recreates the experience of downhill skateboarding, and a plaza with stairs and rails, Rogers said..."

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COPA Leaders to Sign Up 30,000 Voters in Monterey County

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 29, 2012 1:42 PM

"Peter Stemp, ministry outreach coordinator at the Diocese of Monterey, is helping collect signatures for COPA's Stand Up and Take Charge Campaign, launched March 12. They're 200 signatures toward an October goal of 30,000, in support of a broad agenda: the rights to affordable housing, healthcare, safety, economic opportunity and education for citizens and immigrants alike."

Coalition of Faith and Community Groups Seeks 30,000 Signatures for Political Agenda, Monterey County Weekly


VOICE Leaders Fight Proposed Electricity Rate IncreaseIncrease

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 24, 2012 5:55 PM

"Linda Clark, a VOICE leader who attends St. Charles Borromeo, said the issues VOICE will bring to the forefront are those that the poor, immigrants and other marginalized community members have identified as important to them.

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PCIC Calls on AZ Corporate Commission to Approve Electricity Plan

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 23, 2012 5:57 PM

"Existing programs that save Tucson Electric Power customers money on their energy bills will be cut significantly. That's the bottom line reached at the end of the March 16 Arizona Corporation Commission public hearing....

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1,000 Leaders Fight for Better Bus System in Baton Rouge

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 22, 2012 2:26 PM

"A wheelchair-using retired U.S. Air Force captain who travels to the hospital by bus three times a week.

A New York transplant who hoped to get to her job without having to purchase a vehicle.

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COPA Launches Voter Signup Campaign in Central California

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 14, 2012 2:47 PM

"Tony Cardoso didn't think there was much point to voting. After all, what could his one vote do? Then he learned about an organization of 24 religious, education and nonprofit groups working together to solve economic and social justice issues....Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action, or COPA, launched a campaign Monday to push for affordable housing, health care access, public safety, economic and educational opportunity, and immigration reform."

Campaign Seeks to Enlist Voters in Support of Social Change: COPA Sets Agenda for Host of Issues Including Housing, Immigration, Santa Cruz Sentinel

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OTOC Fights for Prenatal Care in Nebraska

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · March 14, 2012 1:48 PM
"Omaha Together One Community (OTOC) joins the Nebraska Catholic Conference, United Methodist Church leadership, Interchurch Ministries of Nebraska and many other medical, religious and social institutions in support of Legislative Bill 599.

This common-sense legislation would restore prenatal care for all low-income women without regard to their immigration status — an investment in families that Nebraska has been making for more than 20 years..."

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Dallas Area Interfaith Calls on Hospital District to Fix Crisis

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · February 28, 2012 3:43 PM
Dallas Area Interfaith, a "grassroots advocacy group, which pushed Dallas City Hall to hire more police and Collin County to fund more indigent health care, exhorted the board to fix widespread failures that have threatened safety and brought Parkland to the brink of closure."

Dallas Area Interfaith Calls on Parkland's Board, UTSW to Fix the Site, Dallas Morning News


1,180 Leaders Launch VOICE in Oklahoma City

Posted on News by West / Southwest IAF · February 12, 2012 4:14 PM
"Four years ago, a group of concerned citizens began the Oklahoma Sponsoring Committee (now called Voices Organized in Civic Engagement, or VOICE) to advocate for the residents of Oklahoma City. They held dozens of small meetings in churches and public places to understand the concerns of the local people—the struggling local schools, an inadequate public transportation system, the lack of dignity afforded to undocumented immigrants and the lack of opportunities for people after getting out of prison."

On February 12th, almost 1,200 leaders from 23 institutions and 8 denominations gathered to launch VOICE: Voices Organized in Civic Engagement. Dr. George Young, pastor of Holy Temple Baptist Church asked, "Who will speak for me? ...Do you hear the rumbling?...Do you hear the roar?...I add my voice to the roar: VOICE!"

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