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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
NEW VOICES
Healthy Children
PICO federations agreed on July 9 to launch a
national campaign to provide affordable health coverage to all
children in the United States. As part of this campaign to make
children's health a national priority PICO will be working with
allies and others in the faith community to reach out and
remove obstacles that prevent eligible children from enrolling in
coverage, expand coverage to children who are not currently
eligible and protect children from possible cuts in Medicaid and the
State Children's Health Insurance Program. Click here to learn more.
RECENT WINS
Health Care
Covering uninsured children in Conta Costa
County, California
Contra Costa
County Interfaith Sponsoring Committee (CCISCO) won commitments from
local officials to enroll uninsured children in health coverage and
restore $3.4 million in health care funding. Read
more>>
One
thousand people gather to launch Vermont Interfaith Action, move
state health care plan
On June
5 one thousand people met at St. Joseph’s Co-Cathedral in
Burlington to press state officials to reach an agreement on a plan
to guarantee health coverage to all Vermont residents. Read more
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Education
Oakland parents reshape district plans for
their schools
Parents from ten
low-income schools worked with Oakland Community
Organizations (OCO) to win an agreement in June to place a
qualified teacher in every classroom and improve instruction and
curriculum in their schools. Read more>>
PICO
school spending Sunshine Bill advances in California
The California State Assembly Education Committee
approved a Sunshine bill (SB 687) that would require schools to
annually report actual expenditures in key areas, including teacher
salaries. PICO California is leading an effort to establish this new
requirement to ensure that parents know where tax dollars are really
being spent and eliminate disparities in spending within districts.
Read
more>>
Immigration
New York officials join press conference to
combat fraud against immigrants
Community Action Project (CAP) held a press
conference on the steps of New York City Hall with leading local and
state officials to announce progress on a coordinated strategy to
fight fraud against immigrants seeking legal assistance. Read more>>
Community
economic development in Ft. Collins, Colorado
Latino leaders from Holy Family Catholic Church in
Fort Collins are working with Congregations Building Community (CBC)
and Colorado State University to create a cooperative small business
incubator. Read more>>
Safe Neighborhoods
San Francisco residents respond to youth
violence
San Francisco Organizing
Project leaders are asking city leaders and law enforcement
officials to invest more funding in intervention and job training
for high-risk youth. Read more>>
OTHER
NEWS
PICO Central America
moves forward with leadership training events in Honduras and
Panamá
PICO held training sessions in
June for clergy and lay leaders from the Diocese of Santa Rosa de
Copán in Honduras, the archdiocese of Panamá and the diocese of
Santiago de Veraguas in Panamá. These introductory sessions follow
the decision by fourteen Bishops of six Central American countries
to work with PICO to create a regional organizing effort. Read
more>>
New PICO
federation launched in Queens, New York
Queens Congregations United for Action held their
first public meeting in May at Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic
Church in Corona, NY. The meeting, which focused on traffic safety,
launched PICO’s third federation in New York City. For more
information contact Jaime Weisberg at jweisberg@gmail.com.
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