http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Past_Actions_%26_EventsPast Actions & Events - Revision history2026-09-20T04:37:31ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.0-alphahttp://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Past_Actions_%26_Events&diff=2609&oldid=prevMaddy PGHrights: /* Actions & Events */2025-08-01T14:37:15Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Actions & Events</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(February 2021) '''Advancing the Human Right to Housing in our Cities''' Multi-city dialogue with organizers from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York- [https://pitt.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=10457780-58e5-4feb-85ba-acc3001a5588 '''View recording here'''] Co-Sponsors: ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance, Atlanta Housing Justice League, Organization for Human Rights & Democracy, University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center & Urban Studies Program, Student Human Rights Task Force- Pitt & The New School (NYC) Collaboration.'' Further background and recordings at:[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Zero_Evictions_Days_2020 Zero Evictions Days Resource page and webinar recordings] Featuring dialogues with Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(February 2021) '''Advancing the Human Right to Housing in our Cities''' Multi-city dialogue with organizers from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York- [https://pitt.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=10457780-58e5-4feb-85ba-acc3001a5588 '''View recording here'''] Co-Sponsors: ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance, Atlanta Housing Justice League, Organization for Human Rights & Democracy, University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center & Urban Studies Program, Student Human Rights Task Force- Pitt & The New School (NYC) Collaboration.'' Further background and recordings at:[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Zero_Evictions_Days_2020 Zero Evictions Days Resource page and webinar recordings] Featuring dialogues with Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing.)</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(February 2021) '''Advancing the Human Right to Housing in our Cities''' Multi-city dialogue with organizers from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York- [https://pitt.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=10457780-58e5-4feb-85ba-acc3001a5588 '''View recording here'''] Co-Sponsors: ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance, Atlanta Housing Justice League, Organization for Human Rights & Democracy, University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center & Urban Studies Program, Student Human Rights Task Force- Pitt & The New School (NYC) Collaboration.'' Further background and recordings at:[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Zero_Evictions_Days_2020 Zero Evictions Days Resource page and webinar recordings] Featuring dialogues with Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(February 2021) '''Advancing the Human Right to Housing in our Cities''' Multi-city dialogue with organizers from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York- [https://pitt.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=10457780-58e5-4feb-85ba-acc3001a5588 '''View recording here'''] Co-Sponsors: ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance, Atlanta Housing Justice League, Organization for Human Rights & Democracy, University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center & Urban Studies Program, Student Human Rights Task Force- Pitt & The New School (NYC) Collaboration.'' Further background and recordings at:[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Zero_Evictions_Days_2020 Zero Evictions Days Resource page and webinar recordings] Featuring dialogues with Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing.)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Maddy PGHrightshttp://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Past_Actions_%26_Events&diff=2593&oldid=prevMaddy PGHrights: /* Actions & Events */2025-06-27T17:24:20Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Actions & Events</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(April 13 2024) '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/9/92/Peoples_Assembly_Fair_Housing_April_13_2024_Program.pdf 2024 People's Assembly for Fair & Equitable Housing]''' Around 150 people gathered at the Frick Fine Arts Building to engage in learning and dialogue focused on the affordable housing crisis in Pittsburgh and potential solutions. Participants heard from local housing and human rights advocates about current community-led efforts to address our region's affordable housing needs, as well as from international advocates about innovative potential solutions being explored in other cities and countries. Topic areas included funding a Right to Counsel+ initiative for tenants facing eviction, establishing a Tenant Bill of Rights and related protections, and exploring creative solutions for creating permanently affordable, community-controlled affordable housing, such as through housing cooperatives (co-ops) and community land trusts. '''Co-sponsors:''' ''Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table, Human Rights City Alliance, City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, Pittsburgh United, Casa San Jose, University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology, Pitt Graduate Workers’ Organizing Committee, The Global Switchboard.'' '''View the full program [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/9/92/Peoples_Assembly_Fair_Housing_April_13_2024_Program.pdf here]''', [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dW07sakCIWs6sTo8qt2oJcne2hIENzip/view?usp=sharing English Flier]        , [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8Reuoa6q4KHuu6Ppi_PBYNSlBBeg29x/view?usp=sharing Spanish Flier]     </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(April 13 2024) '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/9/92/Peoples_Assembly_Fair_Housing_April_13_2024_Program.pdf 2024 People's Assembly for Fair & Equitable Housing]''' Around 150 people gathered at the Frick Fine Arts Building to engage in learning and dialogue focused on the affordable housing crisis in Pittsburgh and potential solutions. Participants heard from local housing and human rights advocates about current community-led efforts to address our region's affordable housing needs, as well as from international advocates about innovative potential solutions being explored in other cities and countries. Topic areas included funding a Right to Counsel+ initiative for tenants facing eviction, establishing a Tenant Bill of Rights and related protections, and exploring creative solutions for creating permanently affordable, community-controlled affordable housing, such as through housing cooperatives (co-ops) and community land trusts. '''Co-sponsors:''' ''Pittsburgh Housing Justice Table, Human Rights City Alliance, City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations, Pittsburgh United, Casa San Jose, University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology, Pitt Graduate Workers’ Organizing Committee, The Global Switchboard.'' '''View the full program [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/9/92/Peoples_Assembly_Fair_Housing_April_13_2024_Program.pdf here]''', [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dW07sakCIWs6sTo8qt2oJcne2hIENzip/view?usp=sharing English Flier]        , [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8Reuoa6q4KHuu6Ppi_PBYNSlBBeg29x/view?usp=sharing Spanish Flier]     </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday, April 5, 2025) '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=2025_Pittsburgh_Housing_Justice_Summit Pittsburgh Housing Justice Summit]''' About <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">150 </ins>attendees came together to learn, connect, and mobilize for action to advance housing justice in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. The Keynote was Tracy Rosenthal, co-founder of LA Tenants Union and Co-author of ''Abolish Rent: How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis.'' '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=2025_Housing_Justice_Resources_%26_Follow_Ups Resources & Action Steps]'''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Friday, April 4, 2025) '''Reading & Conversation: ''Abolish Rent'' with author Tracy Rosenthal,'''  [https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/45378 White Whale Bookstore]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Friday, April 4, 2025) '''Reading & Conversation: ''Abolish Rent'' with author Tracy Rosenthal,'''  [https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/45378 White Whale Bookstore]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Thursday, April 3, 2025) '''Housing is Health: Community-driven Initiatives in Pittsburgh and Beyond,''' the Human Rights City Alliance and Pitt Public Health hosted a panel discussion featuring local housing & health advocates focused on housing as a social determinant of health and local initiatives working to ensure healthy housing is accessible to all as a human right. [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/f/fe/Health_Panel_Flyer.png Flyer]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Thursday, April 3, 2025) '''Housing is Health: Community-driven Initiatives in Pittsburgh and Beyond,''' the Human Rights City Alliance and Pitt Public Health hosted a panel discussion featuring local housing & health advocates focused on housing as a social determinant of health and local initiatives working to ensure healthy housing is accessible to all as a human right. [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/f/fe/Health_Panel_Flyer.png Flyer]</div></td></tr>
</table>Maddy PGHrightshttp://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Past_Actions_%26_Events&diff=2566&oldid=prevMaddy PGHrights: /* Actions & Events */2025-04-17T17:54:25Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Actions & Events</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday, March 29, 2025) '''Teach-in: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back!,''' [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/1/11/TEACH-IN_Flyer_%281%29.pdf Flyer]. About 50 people participated in a teach-in at Haven in Oakland. Speakers with Against Carceral Tech, Take Action Advocacy Group / Take Action Mon Valley & Black Socialist Formation, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Alliance for Police Accountability, Abolitionist Law Center, and Casa San Jose shared about local impacts of recent executive orders and implications for human rights. '''[[Teach-in Resources & Next Steps: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back]]'''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday, March 29, 2025) '''Teach-in: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back!,''' [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/1/11/TEACH-IN_Flyer_%281%29.pdf Flyer]. About 50 people participated in a teach-in at Haven in Oakland. Speakers with Against Carceral Tech, Take Action Advocacy Group / Take Action Mon Valley & Black Socialist Formation, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Alliance for Police Accountability, Abolitionist Law Center, and Casa San Jose shared about local impacts of recent executive orders and implications for human rights. '''[[Teach-in Resources & Next Steps: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back]]'''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday February 22, 2025) '''Strategies for Advancing Affordable Housing and Reparatory Justice,''' HRCA session at the 27th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit. The 2025 theme was ''People Power & Progress: Community Engagement for Justice & Accountability''. The summit focused on engaging and empowering communities through discussions about how to build connections and coalitions across differences to collectively work toward racial justice in Pittsburgh and beyond. Session Panelists: Carl Redwood, ''Hill District Consensus Group,'' Brooke Christy, ''Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services,'' Jackie Smith, ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday February 22, 2025) '''Strategies for Advancing Affordable Housing and Reparatory Justice,''' HRCA session at the 27th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit. The 2025 theme was ''People Power & Progress: Community Engagement for Justice & Accountability''. The summit focused on engaging and empowering communities through discussions about how to build connections and coalitions across differences to collectively work toward racial justice in Pittsburgh and beyond. Session Panelists: Carl Redwood, ''Hill District Consensus Group,'' Brooke Christy, ''Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services,'' Jackie Smith, ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance.''</div></td></tr>
</table>Maddy PGHrightshttp://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Past_Actions_%26_Events&diff=2565&oldid=prevMaddy PGHrights: /* Actions & Events */2025-04-17T17:53:58Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Actions & Events</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Friday, April 4, 2025) '''Reading & Conversation: ''Abolish Rent'' with author Tracy Rosenthal,'''  [https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/45378 White Whale Bookstore]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Friday, April 4, 2025) '''Reading & Conversation: ''Abolish Rent'' with author Tracy Rosenthal,'''  [https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/45378 White Whale Bookstore]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday February 22, 2025) '''Strategies for Advancing Affordable Housing and Reparatory Justice,''' HRCA session at the 27th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit. The 2025 theme was ''People Power & Progress: Community Engagement for Justice & Accountability''. The summit focused on engaging and empowering communities through discussions about how to build connections and coalitions across differences to collectively work toward racial justice in Pittsburgh and beyond. Session Panelists: Carl Redwood, ''Hill District Consensus Group,'' Brooke Christy, ''Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services,'' Jackie Smith, ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday February 22, 2025) '''Strategies for Advancing Affordable Housing and Reparatory Justice,''' HRCA session at the 27th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit. The 2025 theme was ''People Power & Progress: Community Engagement for Justice & Accountability''. The summit focused on engaging and empowering communities through discussions about how to build connections and coalitions across differences to collectively work toward racial justice in Pittsburgh and beyond. Session Panelists: Carl Redwood, ''Hill District Consensus Group,'' Brooke Christy, ''Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services,'' Jackie Smith, ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance.''</div></td></tr>
</table>Maddy PGHrightshttp://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Past_Actions_%26_Events&diff=2550&oldid=prevMaddy PGHrights: /* Actions & Events */2025-04-14T14:38:01Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Actions & Events</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Friday, April 4, 2025) '''Reading & Conversation: ''Abolish Rent'' with author Tracy Rosenthal,'''  [https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/45378 White Whale Bookstore]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Friday, April 4, 2025) '''Reading & Conversation: ''Abolish Rent'' with author Tracy Rosenthal,'''  [https://whitewhalebookstore.com/events/45378 White Whale Bookstore]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Thursday, April 3, 2025) '''Housing is Health: Community-driven Initiatives in Pittsburgh and Beyond,''' the Human Rights City Alliance and Pitt Public Health hosted a panel discussion featuring local housing & health advocates focused on housing as a social determinant of health and local initiatives working to ensure healthy housing is accessible to all as a human right.  </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Thursday, April 3, 2025) '''Housing is Health: Community-driven Initiatives in Pittsburgh and Beyond,''' the Human Rights City Alliance and Pitt Public Health hosted a panel discussion featuring local housing & health advocates focused on housing as a social determinant of health and local initiatives working to ensure healthy housing is accessible to all as a human right.  </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday, March 29, 2025) '''Teach-in: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back!,''' [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/1/11/TEACH-IN_Flyer_%281%29.pdf Flyer]. About 50 people participated in a teach-in at Haven in Oakland. Speakers with Against Carceral Tech, Take Action Advocacy Group / Take Action Mon Valley & Black Socialist Formation, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Alliance for Police Accountability, Abolitionist Law Center, and Casa San Jose shared about local impacts of recent executive orders and implications for human rights. [[Teach-in Resources & Next Steps: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back]]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday, March 29, 2025) '''Teach-in: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back!,''' [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/1/11/TEACH-IN_Flyer_%281%29.pdf Flyer]. About 50 people participated in a teach-in at Haven in Oakland. Speakers with Against Carceral Tech, Take Action Advocacy Group / Take Action Mon Valley & Black Socialist Formation, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, Alliance for Police Accountability, Abolitionist Law Center, and Casa San Jose shared about local impacts of recent executive orders and implications for human rights. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins>[[Teach-in Resources & Next Steps: Local Impacts of Trump's Executive Orders & How We Can Fight Back]]<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday February 22, 2025) '''Strategies for Advancing Affordable Housing and Reparatory Justice,''' HRCA session at the 27th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit. The 2025 theme was ''People Power & Progress: Community Engagement for Justice & Accountability''. The summit focused on engaging and empowering communities through discussions about how to build connections and coalitions across differences to collectively work toward racial justice in Pittsburgh and beyond. Session Panelists: Carl Redwood, ''Hill District Consensus Group,'' Brooke Christy, ''Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services,'' Jackie Smith, ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance.''</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Saturday February 22, 2025) '''Strategies for Advancing Affordable Housing and Reparatory Justice,''' HRCA session at the 27th Annual Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit. The 2025 theme was ''People Power & Progress: Community Engagement for Justice & Accountability''. The summit focused on engaging and empowering communities through discussions about how to build connections and coalitions across differences to collectively work toward racial justice in Pittsburgh and beyond. Session Panelists: Carl Redwood, ''Hill District Consensus Group,'' Brooke Christy, ''Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services,'' Jackie Smith, ''Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance.''</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Sunday January 12, 2025) '''[https://kelly-strayhorn.org/events/building-bridges-featuring-aziz-abu-sarah-and-maoz-inon/ Building Bridges featuring Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon]''', Palestinian peacemaker Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli peacemaker Maoz Inon both experienced immeasurable tragedies growing up in the region. Together they travel across the globe to share a message of hope and peace. Co-sponsors: City of Pittsburgh, 1Hood Media, Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>*(Sunday January 12, 2025) '''[https://kelly-strayhorn.org/events/building-bridges-featuring-aziz-abu-sarah-and-maoz-inon/ Building Bridges featuring Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon]''', Palestinian peacemaker Aziz Abu Sarah and Israeli peacemaker Maoz Inon both experienced immeasurable tragedies growing up in the region. Together they travel across the globe to share a message of hope and peace. Co-sponsors: City of Pittsburgh, 1Hood Media, Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance</div></td></tr>
</table>Maddy PGHrights