FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 26, 2024
Contact: Kirstin Snow, Communications Director, snow@pennpolicy.org
ADVISORY: 11:30 a.m., Monday, September 30
CAPITOL RALLY Launching Pennsylvanians Together In Action with Legislative Leaders, Partners; Demand for Policies That Work for ALL Pennsylvanians
Harrisburg, PA—Pennsylvania Policy Center, the statewide affiliate of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and its action arm, Pennsylvanians Together In Action, will officially launch its campaign in the Capitol rotunda on Monday, September 30, at 11:30 a.m. EST.
The event will feature the following speakers:
• Marc Stier, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Policy Center
• Dwayne Heisler, Campaign Director, Pennsylvanians Together
• House Speaker Joanna McClinton
• Senator Vince Hughes
• Laura Nevitt, Executive Director, Keystone Progress
• Ginny Mazzei, Member, Action Together NEPA
• Tammy Murphy, Manager of Public Policy and Advocacy, Make the Road PA
• Steve Catanese, SEIU State Council and President, SEIU 668
At this event we are urging Pennsylvanians to recognize the difference between legislators and legislative candidates who support our agenda—at this moment only Democrats—and those who oppose it; and vote for the Democratic candidates who support our agenda.
MISSION: Pennsylvanians work hard—not just for ourselves and our families but for our communities. We know that our success as individuals and as Pennsylvanians is a product of both our hard work and our common efforts. Throughout the 20th century, engaged Pennsylvanians joined through community groups, advocacy organizations, and labor unions to bring us high wages, strong unions, public education at all levels, the protection of civil rights, and more. Together, we Pennsylvanians created a vibrant economy and a strong middle class.
Pennsylvanians Together is a campaign working to ensure that all Pennsylvanians can thrive—not just survive. For too long, we’ve let politicians, who serve the interests of corporations, and the rich divide us based on what we look like, where we come from, where we worship, how much money we have or whether we are native-born or immigrants. By dividing us, they have given us public policies that do too little to help most Pennsylvanians, while making the rich and corporations even wealthier.
WHO WE ARE: We come from every corner of the state.
WE ARE RICH AND POOR, BLACK, BROWN, AND WHITE. WE ARE NATIVE-BORN AND WE ARE IMMIGRANTS, BOTH DOCUMENTED AND UNDOCUMENTED.
We are Pennsylvanians, working together to create a commonwealth where WE ALL CAN thrive, not just survive.
