upcoming events

[Rachael Kamel]

Our friends and partners continue to fight for a better life in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania. In this e-letter we are sharing news of:

• the fight for drivers' licenses for al,l with vigils across the state on Thursday, June 18, sponsored by the New Sanctuary Movement;

• a "Moral Takeover" of the state assembly in Harrisburg raises a call for equitable education funding, sponsored by POWER and beginning on Saturday, June 20;

• a look at two new novels that tell the stories of Jews in social/historical conflicts--Simone's Zelitch's "Waveland," set in 1964's Freedom Summer, and Jon Papernicks' "Book of Stone," which follows a young Jew as he descends into fundamentalism. Meet the authors at the Big Blue Marble Bookstore on Wednesday, July 1 at 7:00.
  

Details of each event are included below.

• On Thursday, June 18, vigils across Pennsylvania will call for driver's licenses for all. Philadelphia vigils will take place at 2:00 pm at Rep. Keller's office at 1531 S. 2d St. (2d & Greenwich) and 4:00 pm at Rep. Taylor's office, 2901 E. Thompson St. (Cambria & Thompson). For more information and to RSVP, please visit the New Sanctuary Movement website at www.sanctuaryphiladelphia.org.

• Beginning on June 20, in the largest interfaith service in Pennsylvania's history, as people of faith from across the state will gather to take over our State Capitol to demand a moral budget that fully funds public schools. For more details and to sign up for a bus to Harrisburg, please visit http://www.faithinpa.org/moraltakeover.html or www.powerphiladelphia.org/.

• On Wednesday, July 1, meet the authors of two new novels that tell the stories of Jews in social/historical conflicts--Simone's Zelitch's "Waveland," set in Freedom Summer (1964), and Jon Papernicks' "Book of Stone," which follows a young Jew as he descends into fundamentalism. Reading and discussion at 7:00 pm, sponsored by Big Blue Marble bookstore, 551 Carpenter Lane in West Mt. Airy. For more information, please visit www.bigbluemarblebooks.com/.