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Federal Court Rules Pennsylvania Mail Ballots Without a Handwritten Date On the Outer Envelope Must be Counted

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2023 CONTACT: Ian Pajer-Rogers, ACLU of Pennsylvania, media@aclupa.org Inga Sarda-Sorensen, ACLU National, 347-514-3984, isarda-sorensen@aclu.org PITTSBURGH, PA — A federal court in western…

POWER InterfaithNovember 22, 2023

Climate Justice Criminal Justice Reform News Press Releases Statements

POWER Interfaith Takes On Philadelphia Gas Works, Secures Significant Victories for Affordable Utilities

November 9, 2023 POWER Interfaith Takes On Philadelphia Gas Works, Secures Significant Victories for Affordable Utilities Local congregations organized to fight PGW’s rate increase and…

POWER InterfaithNovember 10, 2023

Education News

Rising Together: The Faithful Pursuit of Education Justice in Pennsylvania

We are POWER Interfaith, and we're fighting for equity, justice, and opportunity in Pennsylvania – a battle to ensure that every child in our state…

POWER InterfaithOctober 31, 2023

News Press Releases

POWER Interfaith proposes the ‘People’s Energy Plan,’ pushing Peco to use more renewable energy

Few disagree that PECO supplying electricity using 100% renewable energy is a divine goal. But the devil is in the clean energy transition details. POWER…

POWER InterfaithJuly 7, 2023

News Statements

Statement on the Governor Shapiro’s First Pennsylvania Budget Proposal

For nearly a decade, POWER Interfaith, Pennsylvania's largest faith-based organizing movement with over 200 congregations of over 20 different faith traditions, has organized clergy congregations…

POWER InterfaithMarch 8, 2023

News Publications

Check out Getting souls out to the polls: The Inquirer

This last weekend before the election was crammed with get-out-the-vote efforts in Black neighborhoods across Philly — many spearheaded by the faith-based community. by Lynette…

POWER InterfaithNovember 7, 2022

News

Radio Times: Bishop Royster on the Buffalo shooting

Bishop Dwayne Royter, our Executive Director, joined Marty Moss-Coane and Kurt Braddock on WHYY's Radio Times to discuss the Buffalo shooting and the rise in…

POWER InterfaithMay 20, 2022

News

Tragedy in Buffalo, NY: Remarks from Bishop Royster

I was shocked like many of you to hear the news of the shooting that occurred in Buffalo, NY at the TOPS Supermarket. Over the…

Bishop Dwayne RoysterMay 18, 2022

News Press Releases

POWER Board Names Bishop Dwayne Royster as Executive Director

POWER Interfaith’s Board of Directors is delighted to announce that it has hired Bishop Dwayne Royster as the Executive Director, effective January 1st, 2021. Bishop…

POWER InterfaithJanuary 15, 2021

News Publications

More than 1,000 people rally in Harrisburg for fair school funding

BY: The Notebook The Rev. Phyllis Harris of Mount Pisgah A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia volunteers in a kindergarten class at Alain Locke Elementary School every…

POWER InterfaithJune 26, 2019

News Publications

Gov. Wolf brings fight for $15 minimum wage to Philly

BY: Michael D’Onofrio Gov. Tom Wolf took his campaign to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour to Northern Philadelphia on Friday. Fresh off…

POWER InterfaithMay 15, 2019

News Publications

City Council at-large candidates hear from the people at a People’s Forum

BY: Erin McCarthy David Lipscomb, who said he’d been handcuffed during a traffic stop in South Philadelphia, called for an end to stop-and-frisk. Teresa Herrera, who…

POWER InterfaithMay 15, 2019

News Publications

Gov. Wolf brings fight for $15 minimum wage to Philly

BY: Michael D’Onofrio Gov. Tom Wolf took his campaign to increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour to Northern Philadelphia on Friday. Fresh off…

POWER InterfaithFebruary 11, 2019

News Publications

Council Approves Bills For ‘Fair Workweek’ And $15/Hr. Wage Hike

BY: Juliana Feliciano Reyes Terrence Wiggins is trying to support his family, but it’s been difficult. The 24-year-old graduate of Olney High School left his job…

POWER InterfaithJanuary 11, 2019

News Publications

Plans for Temple’s proposed football stadium on hold, but not off the table

BY: Antoinette Lee PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The fight over Temple University's proposed plan to build a $130 million football stadium in North Philadelphia continues. Temple’s current…

POWER InterfaithOctober 30, 2018

Education News Publications

Rural/urban poll finds common ground on school funding, corporate influence

BY: J.D. Prose A new statewide poll of urban and rural Pennsylvania voters released last week shows they share similar opinions on corporate influence, school…

POWER InterfaithOctober 30, 2018

Economic Justice News

Marriott workers say they are drowning in credit union fees

BY: Juliana Feliciano Reyes Out of the roughly $30,000 that Amos Troyah made last year as a dishwasher at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, $2,000 went toward…

POWER InterfaithOctober 17, 2018

Economic Justice News

Summit rallies forces to fight easing of federal lending law

The Community Reinvestment Act has enabled capital to flow into minority communities throughout the country that previously were denied access to loans. Now the Trump…

POWER InterfaithOctober 11, 2018

Economic Justice News Publications

Mayor Kenney proposes minimum wage hike for Philly employees, contractors

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced legislation on Wednesday to incrementally raise the minimum wage for city employees and contract workers to $15 by July 1,…

POWER InterfaithSeptember 28, 2018

Economic Justice News Publications

Kenney pushes raising city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour

BY: Michael D'Onofrio Mayor Jim Kenney aims to raise the minimum wage in phases for some workers in the city to $15 an hour by 2022.…

POWER InterfaithSeptember 27, 2018

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