The event, organized by local Indivisible groups, was part of a nationwide effort dubbed “Tesla Takedown.”
Now that ICE agents have the green light to conduct operations at or near schools, school playgrounds, and bus stops, it is critical for districts to understand the law and have procedures in place to protect their students.
Bucks County has been targeted by ICE raids in the past.
The 2023 school board election that swept Moms for Liberty-backed MAGA candidates at the polls illustrates the power of community organizing in defense of public education.
Unlike the previous Republican-led school board, they didn’t waste over $1 million to pretend a clearly identified problem didn’t exist.
We can be both and build unity if we recognize our common enemy is extremism.
The PGN endorsement is the most recent in a long list of LGBTQ leaders across Pennsylvania who are supporting Khan in the Democratic primary.
“We have to show up. Democracy is not a spectator sport.”
The League of Women Voters of Bucks County held a forum that argued more open primaries could help ease the stranglehold the two-party system has on American politics and lead to more voter participation.
“Weaponizing a 200-year-old law to facilitate mass deportations is pure xenophobia and would repeat one of the darkest episodes in United States history,” said Erol Kekic, senior vice president of programs at Church World Service.
Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick’s First Congressional District has an estimated 5,201 federal employees.
The event, sponsored by The Braver Angels of Southeast Pennsylvania and League of Women Voters of Bucks County, is to promote dialogue and strengthen community relationships.
“The executive order is not law and cannot change existing law. The orders even say on them they do not have the force of law,” said Kristina Moon, a senior attorney at the Education Law Center.
The right-wing law firm Thomas More Society, along with their plaintiffs which include South Side Area School District and Knoch School District, and Republican State Representatives Barbara Gleim and Aaron Bernstine, want to make discrimination OK again in the commonwealth.
