http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news/ Latest news from PICO National Network and its affiliates en-us Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:05:20 -0700 tlilienthal@piconetwork.org (Tim Lilienthal) cwilliamson@articulatedman.com (Chris Williamson) 40 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0138 OCCCO worked with over 10 community partners through a collaborative from Central Santa Ana called the Santa Ana Collaborative for Responsible Development (SACReD) to win significant improvements to their community. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0138 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0135 On Wednesday, June 23 over 800 PICO leaders in California converged on the State Capitol to call on state officials to make children a priority in our state budget. Beginning at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacramento, PICO leaders including hundreds of youth and clergy marched to the State Capitol, where they spoke to state legislators and Governor Schwarzenegger through a press conference. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0135 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0137 Over 500 community members joined PACT to urge the U.S. Treasury Department to hold banks accountable for modifying loans to stop the foreclosure crisis that continues to devastate our community and economy. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0137 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0136 Wendy Medina, a member of Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church and co-chair of the action, said aEURoeBuilding a trusting relationship between the police and the community is key. Our families live here. Our friends live here. This is where we go to church and it is important to us that everyone here is safe." http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0136 Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0139 SDOP leaders and clergy cannot support shifting $6-billion to benefit downtown San Diego redevelopment and associated interests at the expense of programs and services needed by families throughout the entire city. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0139 Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0134 Micah Project leaders, Paula Arceneaux and Gwen Payne, kept the presentations grounded with the top ten questions commonly asked regarding health care reform. Questions like "How can I get the $250.00 available to seniors with Medicare?aEUR? http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0134 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0133 200 residents from Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, gathered in St. Stephens Lutheran Church to tell the U.S. Treasury department that changes need to be made to the Homeowner Assistance Modification Program. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0133 Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0132 aEURoeNobody messes with Father Vien. He tends to get what he wants.aEUR? So said President Obama in a speech on May 24 after being introduced, just moments earlier, by Reverend Vien Nguyen, pastor of the Mary Queen Viet Nam Church in eastern New Orleans, [PICO Louisiana | MICAH Project] http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0132 Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0130 A group of faith and community leaders from San Jose, CA were physically locked out of by BofA executives last week as they tried to close their accounts at the grand opening of a new Bank of America branch in the city's hard-hit East Side neighborhood. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0130 Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0131 People Acting in Community Together (PACT), an affiliate of the People Improving Communities through Organizing- (PICO) National Network, organized the event, and brought about a dozen people together who planned to divest from the Bank of America. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0131 Mon, 10 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0129 On May 4, PICO faith leaders in Colorado celebrated a major victory in its multi-year effort to fight back predatory payday lending in the state, when the state legislature passed HB 1351, restricting payday lenders from making the sort of short-term loans with sky-high interest rates that have been proven to trap borrowers in a never-ending cycle of debt. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0129 Mon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0128 At the event, children presented petitions with more than 200 signatures from residents in the area and officials responded. All three legislators committed their support to the libraries and the youth. Senator Peralta announced his pledge of $50,000 to the Queens Library System. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0128 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0127 Several Kansas City residents with Communities Creating Opportunity organizations were in Jefferson City on Wednesday, urging lawmakers to preserve summer school funding. Vibrant summer school programs should remain an essential part of the stateaEUR(TM)s education mission, CCO member Mary Ellen Boozer said. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0127 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0126 A delegation of religious leaders from PICO traveled to Arizona today to lift up testimonies from, and pray with, residents stricken with fear ever since Governor Jan Brewer signed legislation last week criminalizing being in the state without proper documentation. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0126 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0125 aEURoeThe business model of big banks seems to be to make money from squeezing their customers and Wall Street gambling without producing anything of value,aEUR? said the Rev. Dr. Mario Howell, clergy leader with Contra Costa Interfaith Supporting Community Organization and the PICO National Network. aEURoeItaEUR(TM)s time banks become part of making the economy work, not just profiting off of our hard times.aEUR? http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0125 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0124 As the Senate prepares to take up long-delayed Wall Street reform, thousands of religious leaders, small business people, homeowners and veterans are taking to the streets to demand tougher accountability on the nation's largest banks. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0124 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0116 Over 700 people attended the service, including members from Brooklyn Congregations United (BCU), Catholic Charities, Catholic Migration Office, and Queens Congregations United for Action (QCUA). http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0116 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0117 Organized by leaders of New Mexico Comunidades en Accion y de Fe (CAFe), the forum was the largest mobilization of residents Anthony has ever organized. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0117 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0119 Hundreds of CCISCO and PICO leaders will join SEIU, AFL-CIO, ACCE, California Reinvestment Coalition, Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC), Tenants Together, to present a common set of demands to Wells Fargo. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0119 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0122 ECCO leaders worked with a state-wide Coalition of PICO members to help create several funding programs that would begin to shift the paradigm of state funding for violence issues away from building prisons toward funding violence prevention programs. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0122 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0120 In February 2010, PICO leaders from across the Bay Area met at St. PeteraEUR(TM)s Catholic Church for a CIR training and strategy meeting to understand the policy and political worlds that surround the reform conversation, develop a short term and long-term strategy for winning reform, and build our organizing and communication skills for the campaign ahead. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0120 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0121 "Do you know how it feels to be a kid and to think that drugs are more important to your dad then you are? I do." This is just one of the shocking sentiments shared in over 234 letters that have been sent to Camden officials. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0121 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0118 "I was proud to serve my country," said Iraq war veteran and CCISCO leader, "Rodrigo Peregrina, "I am here today as a veteran, a citizen and a voter. I am here to ask Senator Feinstein to stand with our veterans, our families and our community and support comprehensive immigration reform." http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0118 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0115 CCISCO, in conjunction with the Diocese of Oakland and the Justice for Immigrants Campaign, hosted a Bridge-Building workshop at Immaculate Heart of March Church in Brentwood, California. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0115 Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0114 Members of Mary Queen of Vietnam Church and other residents of New Orleans East will tour landfills, dumpsites and the proposed location for the Sun Energy Gasification plant. The Micah Project New Orleans attained commitments from over 100 people to tour sites such as the Agriculture Street Landfill, Chef Menteur Highway-barrow pits and the Bayou Savage National Wildlife Refuge. http://www.piconetwork.org/news-media/news?id=0114