May 10, 2006: Columbus, OH: Benjamin Ross of the Jewish FundS for Justice had a blogs on BREAD's 1500
person action, "BREAD Rises in the Buckeye State," with full text of sermon by Rabbi Howard Apothaker. Check out
JFSJ's new blog, the J-Spot. Find out more
April 2006: ShelterForce magazine features the story "Picking Up the Pieces," about ACORN, IAF, and PICO
organizing and rebuilding after Katrina Find out more
April 20, 2006: The Guardian / UK reports on the IAF accountability session of 500 in New Orleans (see April 8), and
how Black and poor residents are excluded from the city elections, a story widely ignored in the US media of record.
Gary Younge, posted on Common Dreams.
Find out more
April 10, 2006: National: Millions marched in over 100 cities demanding real, comprehensive and fair immigration
reform. For insider information on the growing Immigrant Rights Movement, check out the Center for Community
Change website
April 8, 2006: New Orleans: The Jeremiah Group and the Katrina Survivors Network of the Southeast Industrial Areas
Foundation will gather to consolidate their thoughts and ratify an "agenda of issues for rebuilding the Gulf Coast.
Find out more
April 4, 2006: Boston: Rev. Hurmon Hamilton as well as Rabbi Jonah Pesner of GBIO - Greater Boston Interfaith
Organization spoke at a rally in the Massachusetts Statehouse, which celebrated passage of the near universal
health care bill. Find out more
March 21, 2006: Lexington, KY: Over 1,000 members of BUILD - Building a United Interfaith Lexington through
Direct-Action rallied for better drug-abuse treatment, more effective school anti-violence programs and increased
public transportation for the working poor. Find out more
March 21, 2006: St. Petersburg, FL: More than 1,000 leaders rallied for affordable housing and teacher training,
organized by FAST - Faith and Action for Strength Together. Find out more
March 18, 2006: New Orleans: National Clergy Summit puts pressure on officials to rebuild Louisiana. 150 clergy
from across the PICO network joined LIFT -Louisiana Interfaiths Together and ACT - All Congregations Together to
press federal, state and local officials for action on temporary and affordable housing in Louisiana. Find out more
March 5 and 12, 2006: New Orleans: Rebuilding Louisiana Campaign Days of Declaration brought 1,500 people to
six community meetings in neighborhoods to demand that rebuilding move forward more quickly and assure that
families from all neighborhoods have a say in designing a safer, stronger and more vibrant city. Find out more
March 1, 2006: National Alliance to Restore Opportunity for Gulf Coast Survivors unites ACORN, Gamaliel
Foundation, PICO Network, Civil Rights and Spiritual Progressive groups for 100s of prayer vigils nationwide. Find
out more
Dec. 21, 2005: PICO network disappointed at Senate vote on Medicare. Find out more
Dec. 8, 2005: "Keeping the Faith on Social Issues" Washington Post profiles IAF affiliate Action in Montgomery (MD).
Find out more
Dec. 6, 2005: "Mott Program Officer Christine Doby on community organizing and social entrepeneurship" in an
interview on the C.S. Mott website. Find out more
Dec. 1, 2005: Houston IAF affiliate The Metropolitan Organization (TMO) moves quickly to reconnect and organize
Astrodome "residents" evacuated in Hurricane Katrina. (story on the C.S. Mott website) Find out more
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Aug. 29, 2006: Anniversary of Katrina: Member churches of PICO Louisiana and others on the public neglect but
community response, from Sojourners The Gamaliel Foundation African-American Leadership Commission tours
still-ravanged neighborhoods and issues demand for federal action. Find out more
Aug. 8, 2006: Miami: PACT joined with other organizations to declare a “state of housing emergency” and jointly
presented a 14-point plan for immediate relief. The desperate lack of housing in Miami, made worse by
mismanagement, is chronicled in the Miami Herald. See the plan and more at www.miamipact.org
Aug. 9, 2006: PICO National Network reports on national policy, health care, education and more in their regular
update. For more info and links
July 3, 2006: Los Angeles: Over 1400 One LA - IAF delegates addressed issues with Mayor Villaraigosa on June 25.
Read reports in the Tidings (Southern California Catholic Weekly) and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, and post
your thoughts at www.jspot.org
June 26, 2006: ACORN, a national network of direct membership organizing groups, is widely supported by IF
members, sometimes working in partnership with FBCOs. Read NY Times article "City by City, Anti-Poverty Group
Plants Seeds of Change" on the new Faith in Public Life website. Find out More
June 11, 2006: Denver Metro Organizations for People (MOP) released Unraveling the Denver Public Schools
Budget: Toward Transparency and Equity through Weighted Student Funding. The report by MOP analyzes
budgeting in the Denver Education system and supports the district's adoption of a weighted student funding system
with greater support for low-income students and English language learners. Find out more
June 9, 2006: Columbus, OH: Rev. Tim Ahrens' of First Congregational UCC Downtown commentary in the
Dispatch on BREAD's assembly. Find out more
May 12, 2006: New York: "Rabbinical Students Focus on Activism" Jennifer Seigal in The Forward on the Jewish
FundS for Justice seminary education project, and Jewish involvement in FBCO (CBCO), with quotes from Benjamin
Ross of JFSJ and Rabbi Jonah Pesner of the Union for Reform Judaism's Just Congregations project. Find out
more
May 10, 2006: Baton Rouge: "Help Keep Louisiana in the News" writes Jennifer Jones-Bridgett of Louisiana
Interfaiths Together, PICO Network. Read an update, view their moving 3-minute video news release, and ask your
local TV station to air it. Find out more
community response, from Sojourners The Gamaliel Foundation African-American Leadership Commission tours
still-ravanged neighborhoods and issues demand for federal action. Find out more
Aug. 8, 2006: Miami: PACT joined with other organizations to declare a “state of housing emergency” and jointly
presented a 14-point plan for immediate relief. The desperate lack of housing in Miami, made worse by
mismanagement, is chronicled in the Miami Herald. See the plan and more at www.miamipact.org
Aug. 9, 2006: PICO National Network reports on national policy, health care, education and more in their regular
update. For more info and links
July 3, 2006: Los Angeles: Over 1400 One LA - IAF delegates addressed issues with Mayor Villaraigosa on June 25.
Read reports in the Tidings (Southern California Catholic Weekly) and the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles, and post
your thoughts at www.jspot.org
June 26, 2006: ACORN, a national network of direct membership organizing groups, is widely supported by IF
members, sometimes working in partnership with FBCOs. Read NY Times article "City by City, Anti-Poverty Group
Plants Seeds of Change" on the new Faith in Public Life website. Find out More
June 11, 2006: Denver Metro Organizations for People (MOP) released Unraveling the Denver Public Schools
Budget: Toward Transparency and Equity through Weighted Student Funding. The report by MOP analyzes
budgeting in the Denver Education system and supports the district's adoption of a weighted student funding system
with greater support for low-income students and English language learners. Find out more
June 9, 2006: Columbus, OH: Rev. Tim Ahrens' of First Congregational UCC Downtown commentary in the
Dispatch on BREAD's assembly. Find out more
May 12, 2006: New York: "Rabbinical Students Focus on Activism" Jennifer Seigal in The Forward on the Jewish
FundS for Justice seminary education project, and Jewish involvement in FBCO (CBCO), with quotes from Benjamin
Ross of JFSJ and Rabbi Jonah Pesner of the Union for Reform Judaism's Just Congregations project. Find out
more
May 10, 2006: Baton Rouge: "Help Keep Louisiana in the News" writes Jennifer Jones-Bridgett of Louisiana
Interfaiths Together, PICO Network. Read an update, view their moving 3-minute video news release, and ask your
local TV station to air it. Find out more
Oct 23, 2006: Miami, FL: PACT's new issue agenda unveiled at action. Find out more
Oct. 20, 2006: Kalamazoo, MI: ISAAC rallies over 1000 to press Michigan governor for highway jobs training. Find out
more
Oct. 19, 2006: URGENT ALERT! ACORN shut out of New Orleans planning process. Find out more
Sept. 20 , 2006: Washington DC: Washington Interfaith Network’s (WIN) unprecedented, non-partisan Vote
Neighborhoods First Get-Out-The-Vote effort during the 2006 DC Primary increased voter turnout an average of
10.3% Find out more
Sept 17, 2006: Santa Cruz. CA: Prof. Manual Pastor find the civic engagement/democracy of COPA/IAF assembly in
sharp contrast to treatment of immigrants. Find out more
Sept 1, 2006: New Orleans, LA: Seventeen local community organizers honored as Louisiana Organizers Renewal
Award Fellows by the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. Find out more
Oct. 20, 2006: Kalamazoo, MI: ISAAC rallies over 1000 to press Michigan governor for highway jobs training. Find out
more
Oct. 19, 2006: URGENT ALERT! ACORN shut out of New Orleans planning process. Find out more
Sept. 20 , 2006: Washington DC: Washington Interfaith Network’s (WIN) unprecedented, non-partisan Vote
Neighborhoods First Get-Out-The-Vote effort during the 2006 DC Primary increased voter turnout an average of
10.3% Find out more
Sept 17, 2006: Santa Cruz. CA: Prof. Manual Pastor find the civic engagement/democracy of COPA/IAF assembly in
sharp contrast to treatment of immigrants. Find out more
Sept 1, 2006: New Orleans, LA: Seventeen local community organizers honored as Louisiana Organizers Renewal
Award Fellows by the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. Find out more
Dec. 21, 2006: Oakland, CA: The PICO Network reports on Congregation-based Community Organizations' victories
from Africa to Alaska. Find out more
Dec. 12, 2006: Greeley, CO: Early in the morning, federal agents moved in on the Swift meat packing plant. They
detained 261 employees of the plant on suspicion of illegal immigration status and identity theft.Congregations
Building Community (CBC) immediately organized with the Board of Education for every student to be picked up by a
relative to avoid their return to an empty home. Find out more
Nov. 3, 2006: Denver: Metro Organization of People rallies 600 for ambitious agenda including full SCHIP funding
for children's health care, immigration, safety and education issues. For this and other PICO news
Fall 2006 ShelterForce #147 exposes Katrina evacuees challenges in Texas. Find out more
from Africa to Alaska. Find out more
Dec. 12, 2006: Greeley, CO: Early in the morning, federal agents moved in on the Swift meat packing plant. They
detained 261 employees of the plant on suspicion of illegal immigration status and identity theft.Congregations
Building Community (CBC) immediately organized with the Board of Education for every student to be picked up by a
relative to avoid their return to an empty home. Find out more
Nov. 3, 2006: Denver: Metro Organization of People rallies 600 for ambitious agenda including full SCHIP funding
for children's health care, immigration, safety and education issues. For this and other PICO news
Fall 2006 ShelterForce #147 exposes Katrina evacuees challenges in Texas. Find out more
June 26, 2007 (Austin TX) Commentary by Steven Jacobs, recipient of the Ernst Young Social Entrepreneur Award
for directing the Texas IAF inspired Capital IDEA. Find out more
June 19, 2007 (Washington, DC): Over 2200 Gamaliel clergy and leaders were a strong presence in the Fair
Immigration Reform Movement march and prayer service. See Report and Photos
June 16, 2007 (Chicago, IL): United Power for Action and Justice (IAF) brings Muslim congregations into interfaith
organization. New York Times story by Samuel Freeman. Read the article
June 14, 2007 (Charlotteville, VA): Profile of Joe Szakos, author of the new book We Make Change - Community
Organizers Talk About What they Do... and Why Read the Article
June 7, 2007: Over 20 national religious leaders and 9000 clergy sign Call for Children's Health Insurance funding
(SCHIP), organized by the PICO National Network and National Council of Churches Find out more
May 27, 2007 (Washington, DC): Over 350 clergy call for end to immigration workplace raids. PICO clergy from six
impacted cities deliver statement to White House, Office of National Security Find out more
May 17, 2007 (Washington DC): Hearing on immigration raids' impact on children and families brings voices of
leaders, workers, and local officials to Capitol Hill. See Center for Community Change to Find out more
Spring Shelterforce features David Moberg on Obama's lessons as an organizer. Find out more
April, 2007: PICO Network News with updates on actions, new federations, more
March 18, 2007 (Baton Rouge, LA): Louisiana IAF rallies 500 to get Road Home Program moving Find out more
March 15, 2007 (Washington DC): PICO-supported SCHIP bill passes Senate Budget Committee following Faith
and Families Summit on Children's Health. Find out more
March 13, 2007 (Washington DC): Gamaliel Foundation leaders and allies on Capital Hill for fair and comprehensive
immigration reform, Gamaliel's first national campaign. Find out more
Feb 20, 2007: PICO Network News
Feb 13, 2007 (Los Gatos, CA): Five hundred Jews and allies rally at a local synagogue for health care, including
participants of the Jewish Funds for Justice K'hilot K'doshot national CBCO gathering Find out more
for directing the Texas IAF inspired Capital IDEA. Find out more
June 19, 2007 (Washington, DC): Over 2200 Gamaliel clergy and leaders were a strong presence in the Fair
Immigration Reform Movement march and prayer service. See Report and Photos
June 16, 2007 (Chicago, IL): United Power for Action and Justice (IAF) brings Muslim congregations into interfaith
organization. New York Times story by Samuel Freeman. Read the article
June 14, 2007 (Charlotteville, VA): Profile of Joe Szakos, author of the new book We Make Change - Community
Organizers Talk About What they Do... and Why Read the Article
June 7, 2007: Over 20 national religious leaders and 9000 clergy sign Call for Children's Health Insurance funding
(SCHIP), organized by the PICO National Network and National Council of Churches Find out more
May 27, 2007 (Washington, DC): Over 350 clergy call for end to immigration workplace raids. PICO clergy from six
impacted cities deliver statement to White House, Office of National Security Find out more
May 17, 2007 (Washington DC): Hearing on immigration raids' impact on children and families brings voices of
leaders, workers, and local officials to Capitol Hill. See Center for Community Change to Find out more
Spring Shelterforce features David Moberg on Obama's lessons as an organizer. Find out more
April, 2007: PICO Network News with updates on actions, new federations, more
March 18, 2007 (Baton Rouge, LA): Louisiana IAF rallies 500 to get Road Home Program moving Find out more
March 15, 2007 (Washington DC): PICO-supported SCHIP bill passes Senate Budget Committee following Faith
and Families Summit on Children's Health. Find out more
March 13, 2007 (Washington DC): Gamaliel Foundation leaders and allies on Capital Hill for fair and comprehensive
immigration reform, Gamaliel's first national campaign. Find out more
Feb 20, 2007: PICO Network News
Feb 13, 2007 (Los Gatos, CA): Five hundred Jews and allies rally at a local synagogue for health care, including
participants of the Jewish Funds for Justice K'hilot K'doshot national CBCO gathering Find out more