Sunday, January 8, 2023

CALENDAR & NEWS ~ January 2023


Please check original posts of events for most updated and accurate information

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING EVENTS

Jan 14 - 12th Annual Dr. King Awards Dinner Bayfront Convention Center 1 Sassafras Pier Erie, PA Info: James C. Sherrod, Executive Director of the Martin Luther King Center at 814-459-2761
Jan 15 - As Gentle as Doves: MLK and the Nonviolence Movement Speaker: Rev. Kristina Church Unitarian Universalist Cong. of Erie 7180 Perry Hwy. 10:30,in person and via Zoom. UUCE website for the Zoom link)
Jan 16 - Annual Martin Luther King Day March in Erie  Lineup 11:30am at Perry Square, Erie PA. march to MLK Center, 312 Chestnut St., for  brief ceremony outside followed by a program inside. Theme is "Act 43," based on a 2020 Erie County Council resolution declaring racism a public health crisis.  814-459-2761, 814-899-3904 or 814-490-9669 
Jan 16 - The Beloved Neighborhood Allegheny College Meadville PA.  6pm $20 cash or check before 1/6, from CCSD 11280 Mercer Pike Meadville PA. "Dr. Armendia Dixon and Supt. Thomas Washington preview The Beloved Neighborhood Dinner and Community Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday"
Jan 16 - Who We Are - A Chronicle of Racism in America Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown NY 7pm.Presented by YWCA of Jamestown and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. .All proceeds support the New Neighbors Coalition of Jamestown Fund held at the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation, which is used to assist in refugee resettlement in Jamestown.
Jan 16 - Annual MLK Jr. Day Prayer Service 6pm Mary, Seat of Wisdom Chapel. Erie PA
Jan 16-18 - PSU Behrend: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Commemoration  All events free and public: Erie March, brunch, multimedia presentation, documentary.

ARTS & WORDS

Jan 21 - Poets Against Racism Franklin Public Library 11am at 421 12th St, Franklin, PA Upstairs meeting room.  814-432-5062
Jan 21 - “Vae Victus” Live 7:3opm Meadville Council on the Arts 910 Market St., Meadville PA. 
Feb 3-19 -Cabaret   Academy Theatre, Meadville PA "Cabaret explores the dark, heady, and tumultuous life of Berlin's natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich."
Feb 5 - Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Live At City Gallery 4-6PM 1503 State Erie PA 48th anniversary return , of the legendary Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's annual Black History Month Tour,2023 $25

DARNELL "MALIK" STALLWORTH, JR

Darnell “Malik” Nathaniel Stallworth, Jr.  passed away  December 16, 2022. Darnell found his home and purpose in the Progressive Movement in Northwest Pa. He discovered a passion for political activism and politics with SEIU Healthcare PA. He was a founding member of Erie County United, where he most recently sat on the Police Accountability Campaign Team. He was a Community Organizer with Keystone Progress where he was a founder of the Green New Deal Coalition. Darnell was a youth violence counselor with MATV. He was the first chair of the Erie Black Caucus. He was instrumental in electing several local, state, and national political leaders, and was a poll worker most recently on November 8th of 2022. Darnell had a long history with the SSJ and their neighborhood efforts being a neighborhood coordinator. A tribute is being planned for the anniversary of the Police Accountability campaign.  Full obituary/tribute here 

EARTH

Erie Coke Indictment: Victims might be eligible for financial compensation (Pat Lupo, OSB/Erie Times-News) Victim website  (DOJ) DOJ indictment  (DOJ/ U.S. Attorney’s Office),   Activists speak out  (YourErie) Erie Coke no-show (YourErie)

2023 Woods & Waters Film Series returns with screenings on 1/20 and 2/24 (virtual) and 3/31 (PennWest Edinboro)

2022 Post-Election Forum on PA Environment (Conservation Voters of PA) Video panel round-up "Hear from legislative champions and leaders at Conservation Voters of PA and PennFuture talk about the 2022 election results."

Presentation to Erie City Council on Recycling/Waste Diversion 12/7/2022 Presentation by Penn State Behrend students who researched the issue, begins at 10:30 mark. 12/21 meeting public comments included Sherri Mason on waste diversion project follow-up, Pat Lupo OSB on Erie Coke and Environmental ordinance, and Jenny Tompkins on environmental ordinance. 

Bayfront Pkway federal lawsuit tossed (Erie Times-News) Streetsblog USA calls it  "Mistake by the Lake"


Virtual Tour: Potential Erie to Corry Segment Erie to Pittsburgh Trail System Environmental Planning and Design, LLC January 3, 2023


NYS developments: 
ELECTIONS & GOVT

Bah Humbug Brenton Davis (Jim Wertz/Erie Reader) Jim provides a good overview of Erie Co Executive Davis and his attitudes and actions related to the DEI commission, Erie Redevelopment Authority, and process in general. 


Tactics & Actions: Q&A with a member of Fetterman campaign’s winning social media team. (Slate) Preacher mobilizes voters in PA (Washington Post)


HOME & TABLE

Meadville City Council public comments about safe and livable housing standards  (11/16/2022) Armstrong Neighborhood Channel Public comments about housing inspections for safe and livable housing. Crawford Co United delivered signatures. Update


Richford Arms had broken pipes, flooding, residents without heat and hot water for several days (Erie News Now) Affordable housing complex is undergoing $25 million renovations seriously failed residents. 

Allegheny County’s new shelter to take ‘low-barrier’ approach to couples, pets and substance use (Public Source) While offering connections to recovery services, Second Avenue Commons won’t mandate sobriety, search clients or ask what’s in their “amnesty lockers.”

JUSTICE

Jan 12 -  The Erie County Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commission will hold a public meeting for general purposes on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. at Blasco Memorial Library – Hirt Auditorium, 160 East Front Street, Erie, PA 16507.

Melquan Barnett gets sentence of up to 5 yrs (Erie Times-News)


Millcreek police adding mental health aid For crisis calls and officer well-being  (Erie Times-News) 

The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth 11.18.2022 (City Club of Cleveland)  

Community Matters - Alize Scott - December 15, 2022 (WRFA) AUDIO Guest Jamestown YWCA's Director of Social Justice and Race Equity Alize Scott discusses recent local lawn jockey costume incident, white privilege, micro-aggressions, and more.


MARY LOU KOWNACKI, OSB

Mary Lou Kownacki OSB passed away January 6, 2023 after a three-year battle with cancer. 
Over the past 50 years, she founded or helped organize many organizations that worked for peace and helped the poor, some of the more well-known including the Pax Center, Emmaus Soup Kitchen, Inner City Neighborhood Art House, Erie Benedictines for Peace, Trinity Square Foundation, and Poetry Park. She was a writer, poet, monk, and teacher on contemplative activism, nonviolence, and spirituality. She was National Coordinator for Pax Christi USA from 1984 to 1991. More on her life here:  Prayer and obituary from Benedictine Sisters , National Catholic Reporter and  Pax Christi USA tribute  

SCHOOLS & YOUTH


Anti-mask parents sue again, claim Millcreek, NE school directors violated Sunshine Act (Erie Times-News) Also who will pay legal fees? Related: some of the people involved with lawsuit apparently are also active in getting parents to run for school boards in Erie county in the coming year.


Roger Young Park on Hold (Erie News Now) 

PENNCREST backgrounder and updates (Curmudgecation) Progressive education blogger on rightwing activity at PENNCREST school board

WOMEN

Jan 11 - She Said Reg Lenna at Jamestown NY, Based on the story of NYTimes reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, who together broke the story that helped propel the #Metoo movement, shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood. 

Jan 22 - Womens March 2023: Bigger Than Roe "This year's National Women's March will be in Madison, Wisconsin with sister marches around the country." #BiggerthanRoe  No events in region at this writing, check back. 

Erie Art Museum "Eighty-Six Reasons" explores how and why women were sent to asylums in the 19th and 20th centuries. At Erie Art museum through May 14, 2023. 

WORKING PEOPLE

Video: Panel on Gen-Z workforce    (City Club of Cleveland) Panel of Gen Z voices, in conversation with Grace Heffernan with the Northeast Ohio Worker's Center, live at The Happy Dog.  Information

Report offers path to fixing ‘broken’ unemployment system (Penn Capital-Star) "An already fragile system ‘crumbled’ during the pandemic. " 

City of Steel documentary traces the story of Pittsburgh steel through the voices of workers  (WESA) Neighborhoods, culture, labor activism, Pittsburgh and WWII, industry collapse and more. Well done story telling in an hour and a half doc.  Watch online

UE Research and Education Fund has won a generous grant from the Preston-Werner Foundation to expand the Green Locomotive climate justice project. (United Electrical Workers)  "This project aims to create good union jobs, address climate change, and clean up pollution in the low-income communities and communities of color which bear the brunt of pollution from rail yards"

Billy Bragg Performs at Starbucks Workers United Rally in Buffalo (Buffalo.FM | WNYmedia Network)  10/12/2022  Backgrounder 

GEMISH

Seneca Nation gets grant for Southern Tier Regional Transit Hub On Cattaraugus Territory (SNI Official Newsletter) "Project will enhance accessibility, streamline transportation service to Seneca Territory and throughout the region"

W.PA College actions  
Here’s how some college men are helping to prevent sexual violence (Emily Folts at Public Source/Open Campus) 

PHOTOS
Top photo by Deb Spilko, with Mike Mahler's late pooches Heracles and Hecate 2016

Franco Harris as featured speaker at a labor-organized Erie rally for Obama September 2008. Photo is from a photo album that features 50+ photos from that event. Feel free to use any, but attribution please. Album: https://www.flickr.com/photos/51091877@N00/albums/72157607545150113  PHOTO: Deb Spilko

Women's March 2023 womensmarch.com


City of Steel new documentary  by Steelworkers themselves watch online free: https://city-of-steel.com/

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