Hi everyone. We would love to see you on the 5th! If you can, please spread the word!
Thanks,
Frank
NEPA Organizing Center
198 South Main Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18702
http://www.nepaorganizingcenter.org/
CONTACT: FRANK SINDACO
frank@nepaorganizingcenter.org
(570) 527-6575
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The NEPA Organizing Center to Announce Formation of Local Faith-Based Poverty Initiative
Members of all faith communities and all other concerned individuals are invited to join together in the local fight against poverty. On Friday, November 5, 2010 at 7:00pm, the NEPA Organizing Center (198 South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre) will be the venue for a presentation by members of Union Theological Seminary’s Poverty Initiative, a New York City-based project founded in 2003.
The Poverty Initiative, whose mission is “to raise up generations of religious and community leaders committed to building a movement to end poverty, led by the poor,” presents Poverty Truth Commissions. These events allow people who are in jeopardy due to poverty to tell their stories while prominent religious, academic, and community leaders listen and respond to their testimonies.
Following the presentation, members of the NEPA Organizing Center will discuss with the local Right to Housing Campaign, whose “listening tour” enables people who are facing home foreclosure to tell their story.
This event presents a new opportunity for all faith communities to work together to combat poverty at the local level. The Poverty Initiative believes that it is possible to end poverty – not
merely manage it and that is our moral imperative and theological calling to do so.
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