KQV--June 27, 2010
City passes clean water Act
WDUQ--July 27, 2010
City Council passes clean water Act
Pittsburgh Post Gazette--June 2, 2010
Council pushes for clean development
WDUQ--June 1, 2010
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PIIN In the News
Clean Water, Clean Air Acts
Submitted by piinUser on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:40.Prevailing Wage
Submitted by piinUser on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 05:14. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- Tuesday, January 19, 2010
"Prevailing wage bill gains support"
WPXI Channel 11 News -- Monday, January 18, 2010
"East Liberty Rally Calls Attention To Pittsburgh Poverty"
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- Monday, January 18, 2010
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PIIN Public Action Meeting
Submitted by piinUser on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 05:07. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- Friday, October 30, 2009
"Interfaith gathering challenges local leaders"
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Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church Holy Ground Action
Submitted by piinUser on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 05:04. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tuesday, September 1, 2009
"Interfaith group pushes Hill cleanup"
WPXI Channel 11 News -- Tuesday, September 1, 2009
"Hill District Residents Take To The Streets To 'Fight Blight'"
WTAE Channel 4 News -- Monday, August 31, 2009
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Resurrection Baptist Church (Braddock) Holy Ground Action
Submitted by piinUser on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 05:00. WPXI Channel 11 News -- Wednesday, August 26, 2009
"Braddock Residents Want End To Community Drug Use"
KDKA Channel 2 News -- Tuesday, August 25, 2009
"Braddock Residents Take Stand Against Drugs, Crime"
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Valley View Presbyterian Church Holy Ground Action
Submitted by piinUser on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 04:54. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette -- Thursday, August 20, 2009
"Garfield church takes on blight"
Pittsburgh Tribune Review -- Friday, August 21, 2009
"Garfield church joins effort to make neighborhoods more livable"
WDUQ News -- Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Beginning of the Holy Ground Campaign
Submitted by piinUser on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 04:51. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sunday, April 19, 2008
"Vigil held after home shot up in the Hill"
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End Racial & Ethnic Profiling
Submitted by piinUser on Fri, 03/26/2010 - 04:12.PIIN's work on ending racial and ethnic profiling in the Pittsburgh region was birthed from the outrcy in the Latino community of being unfairly targeted and profiled by police officers, which often times resulted in the division of immigrant families who were working to create their American dream. This issue not only affects Latinos but also other racial and ethnic minorities and immigrant groups. It was out of this shared concern for our rights that came the spirited organizing on this issue and the subsequent committal of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police to implement a policy
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Transportation Equity
Submitted by piinUser on Thu, 03/25/2010 - 16:57.The work the PIIN Transit Equity Task Force has done to improve access to shopping malls by public transportation in the Pittsburgh region has been chronicled in the following articles:
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review -- Thursday, December 3, 2009
"Relocation of bus stops at malls urged"
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review -- Friday, November 20, 2009
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Join Us at Grace's Holy Ground Action - Tuesday, August 31 at 6!
The Holy Ground Campaign is underway! Valley View Presbyterian Church had nearly 200 people at their action on Friday, August 13 to address the gun violence in Garfield & East Liberty.
It's time for more Holy Ground action!
Come support Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church at their Holy Ground action next Tuesday, August 31 at 6pm at Grace Church! 1000 Bryn Mawr Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15219. They will be engaging the City of Pittsburgh to address the disparity in the amount of City resources the Schenley Heights area in the Hill is receiving.
We need your support! Plan to come & spread the word!
PIIN Members
Congregations
- Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church; North Side
- Bethesda Presbyterian Church; Homewood
- Bidwell Presbyterian Church; North Side
- Calvary Episcopal Church; Shadyside
- Christian Fellowship Center Church; North Side
- Church of the Holy Cross Episcopal; Homewood
- Church of the Redeemer Episcopal; Squirrel Hill
- Community of Reconciliation; Oakland
- Croton United Methodist Church; New Castle
- First Unitarian Church; Shadyside
- Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church; Hill District
- Islamic Center of Pittsburgh; Oakland
- New Hope United Methodist Church; North Side
- Religious Society of Friends (Quakers); Shadyside
- Resurrection Baptist Church; Braddock
- St. Benedict the Moor Catholic Church; Hill District
- St. Charles Lwanga Catholic Church; Homewood
- St. James Catholic Church; Wilkinsburg
- St. Regis Catholic Church; Oakland
- St. Thomas More Catholic Church; Bethel Park
- Second Baptist Church of Penn Hills
- Sisters of Mercy; Oakland
- Sisters of St. Joseph; Baden
- Sixth Presbyterian Church; Squirrel Hill
- Temple Sinai; Squirrel Hill
- Unitarian Universalist Church of the North Hills
- Unitarian Universalist Church of the South Hills
- Valley-View Presbyterian Church; Garfield
- Verona Presbyterian Church
- Wesley Center AME Zion Church; Hill District
Organizations
- Association of Pittsburgh Priests
- CAIR - Pittsburgh Chapter (Council on American-Islamic Relations)
- I CARE House - Slippery Rock University; New Castle
- JBM Language Services, LLC
- Labor & Religion Council of Western PA
- Metro Urban Institute; Pgh. Theological Seminary
- Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee
- Pittsburgh Presbytery
- Thomas Merton Center
- United Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh