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Remembering and Honoring a Coal Miner’s Daughter – as an Oil-and-Gas Worker’s Daughter

By Tonya Yoders / October 25, 2022
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This is the 24th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Tonya Yoders. Have something on your mind? Write about it! Please read this blog for more information. Growing up in rural Appalachia, on a dirt road in a single-wide trailer, forty-five minutes from the nearest grocery store, I […]

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How to Better Your Community with Mutual Aid

By Saint Soulaani / August 31, 2022
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The term mutual aid has popped up more within the last two years, yet it has been around for quite some time. Since the start of the pandemic, thousands of mutual aid projects have created a space where people in communities can access necessities including food, clothes, personal protective equipment, shelter, and other needs.

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We Could Owe Flag Day to a SWPA Native

By Ethan Story / June 14, 2022
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On June 14, 1777, the United States officially adopted Old Glory as our national flag. Interestingly enough, Pennsylvania remains the only state in the nation to honor Flag Day as a legal holiday. 

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I-70 Accidents and “Construction” over Tunnel Ridge

By Tonya Yoders / June 10, 2022
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This is the 21st installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Tonya Yoders. Almost every day, I have to drive the stretch of I-70 interstate between Washington, PA and Wheeling, WV. More often than not, there are significant delays just trying to get to my destination. […]

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Overdose deaths are rising. Why not try something different?

By Heaven Sensky / April 27, 2021
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This is the 20th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Heaven Sensky. This past year has brought many new challenges to many of our families, including mine. I lost someone very young and dear to me to an accidental overdose this past fall. My loved […]

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CCJ Organizing Fellow, Prem, joins allies in DC to protect our rights

By Prem Rajgopal / October 27, 2020
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This is the 20th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by Organizing Fellow Prem Rajgopal. I was in town to join organizers from the Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and various other organizations to protest the hearing for the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. We […]

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