Here’s this week’s rundown of ways to connect with the movement in Pittsburgh!

Please let us know if there there’s an event that is not listed that you would like us to promote through our Facebook, our blog, our Twitter, and through flyers or email.



TransPride PGH was founded in 2010 (wow seven years strong!) by Chance Thomas, Dylan Drobish, Skyler Belles, and Lyndsey Sickler. What started as a yearly talent show, grew to include a live Q&A with trans folks, a day long workshop series, a weekend of events, and now… Trans Pride PGH has a WEEK LONG PRIDE CELEBRATION! This year, organizers are trying something a little new. You’ll see on the schedule: board game night, femme meet-up night, and a craft night. Sound familiar? These are events that TransPride PGH regularly organizes for the community. By highlighting them all during Trans Pride Week, they hope to show off all the fun events that happen year round for trans folks. Because let’s celebrate being trans, all the time, ‘k thnx! Here’s your Trans Pride Pgh Pride Week Schedule! [Follow the link below!]

http://www.queerpgh.com/whats-new-transpride-pgh-pride-week-year/

Monday (Today) – 9.25

Republican leadership released the latest version of TrumpCare — the Graham Cassidy Bill. They are pushing as hard they can to radically restructure one sixth of our economy with no debate and GUT THE ACA!

Here are just a few things we know from this new bill:

-It will completely eliminate all protections for pre-existing conditions

-It will end Medicaid Expansion cutting billions of dollars in healthcare for seniors, people with disabilities, and young children.

-Premiums will skyrocket

-Healthcare could differ from state to state complicating access to care

Join us on MONDAY Sept. 25 for a state-wide day of action to say NO WAY you can’t GUT THE ACA!

While Republicans in D.C. hold a hearing to push their extremist bill we will hold our own hearing in Pittsburgh outside of Senator Toomey’s Office downtown (310 Grant St) to hear the voices of people in our community who won’t lose healthcare without a fight!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1927199144164499/

Join Take Back the Tap for our second general body meeting of the semester! We are excited to bring in Krystle from the Our Water Campaign to talk about water safety and accessibility on the city level. There will be pizza served, so bring a friend! 🍕

http://pittsburghunited.org/ourwater/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1156779361090796

Come talk with the Mr. Roboto Project Board of Directors!

Let us know what you think about the space, and learn how to get involved.

Spak pizza provided!

https://www.facebook.com/events/146128119321209/

Join PublicSource for an Evening with Cathy O’Neil, a mathematician and author of New York Times bestseller, “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.”

Cathy launched the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia University. She is a blogger at MathBabe.org.

Lecture and Q&A beginning at 7:00 p.m., followed by signing with White Whale Bookstore at 8:30 p.m. (Private reception at Schenley Park Visitor Center at 6:00 p.m.)

https://www.facebook.com/events/156130798271260/

Tuesday – 9.26

Want to learn about what is happening at PWSA and what you and your neighbors can do to ensure ensure safe, affordable, publicly controlled water? Join us for a Town Hall hosted by the Our Water Campaign!

Tuesday, September 26th from 6-8pm at Pittsburgh United

841 California Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15212

FREE FOOD & 120 FREE WATER FILTERS

Together, we’ve accomplished a lot:

– Free water filter program

-Halted dangerous partial line replacements

-Passed legislation that supports low-income residents in need of line replacements

– Worked with the PWSA Affordability Committee to ensure affordable water in PGH!

That’s a lot to win and the biggest reason we’ve won that is because we have been able to work WITH our public water authority to begin solving these problems. However, IMG, a Maryland based consultant group, is pushing for corporate takeover of PWSA. Our water is too important to be left in the hands of a for-profit corporation.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1691793704226390/

Wednesday– 9.27

Paramilitary Diversity Patrol – First General Body Meeting Sadly, The Unsafe Place leaked our list of demands before they could be finalized. ( http://www.unsafeplace.com/bleifbart-1/ )

We’ve lost the element of surprise, comrades. The Paramilitary Diversity Patrol arms training is postponed until further notice… *** Weekly crew assembly, reportbacks, announcments, workshop series signup, breakouts. Conspire with friends, play boardgames, do homework, eat dinner, announce projects, ask for support – come hang for a bit! Or don’t, it’s whatever really. Show up early to help build an agenda! 9pm(ish) to 11 or so in the Room of Requirement. Ask a septum ring // contact PSSC for an invite. https://www.facebook.com/events/134081170550947/

Thursday – 9.28

Union Ballroom, 4th floor of the Duquesne Union Building

A panel with Q&A will follow the screening. On the panel: Chris Ivey, documentarian; Alethea Sims, Coalition of Organized Residents of East Liberty; Randall Taylor, Penn Plaza Support and Action Coalition (and former resident, Penn Plaza Apartments); Prof. Pamela E. Walck (Media Department); Prof. Andrew Simpson (History Department)

Chris Ivey is an award-winning filmmaker who after years of race discrimination in the Pittsburgh advertising industry ventured into documentary filmmaking to address his frustrations with racism in the city, and to serve as a conduit for its underserved Black community. He has been featured on NPR’s Going There and has won an Addy award for his commercial filmmaking.

Ivey is esteemed internationally for his documentary series East of Liberty, which focuses on race, class, and gentrification fears. The East of Liberty series is a historical document and the only interactive documentation project in recent Pittsburgh history. The long-term goal of the project is to make future generations aware of hard issues that come with urban renewal and gentrification.

Light refreshments will be served after the film.

More information about the film is available at <eastofliberty.com>.

Sponsored by the Departments of English, Media, Sociology, and Political Science, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and the Public History Program at Duquesne University.

For more information about the event, please contact Prof. Judy Suh at <suhj@duq.edu>.

https://www.facebook.com/events/498536450479634/

https://www.facebook.com/events/266980580490391

Meet at the corner of 46th and Butler in Lawrenceville around 8:00pm and plan to start the ride around Ride Departs at 8:30pm.

The underwear bike ride is about having fun and promoting a positive self body image.

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/body-image

https://www.facebook.com/events/635903489947359/

Friday – 9.29

This will be on September 29th, at 5:00 PM, upstairs at Big Idea Bookstore in Bloomfield! Transportation and special needs can be provided, message STP-Pittsburgh if you have any need at all! Refreshments (and free bread, hallelejuh!) will be provided for free. You do not want to miss this!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1042315165910096/

Come show support for people testifying against the criminalization of ransit riders. Port Authority is Proposing Fare Changes to Make

Riding the T More Efficient. Unfortunately, their plan includes using

armed Port Authority Police Officers and Criminal Charges to Enforce Fare Payment. This Will Endanger People. Join the Alliance for Police Accountability, Casa San Jose, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, and the Thomas Merton Center in calling for a more responsible solution. Port Authority’s plan for increased policing will not make anyone safer, could hurt their ridership and revenue numbers, and will certainly endanger immigrants, people with disabilities, and communities of color. If you represent a community group that would like to testify, contact gabriel@thomasmertoncenter.org

https://www.facebook.com/events/1498208200258725/

Soul Glo (Pennsylvania) – https://soulglophl.bandcamp.com/

Multicult (Maryland) – https://multicult.bandcamp.com/

LIFES (Wisconsin) – https://lifes.bandcamp.com/

Druse (New York) – https://druse.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/events/1699332603705995/

Saturday – 9.30

The Big Idea Bookstore is proud to host a screening of the ACJ Health Justice Project’s documentary film “No Bars to Healthcare.” (~30 minutes)

A collection of interviews and evidence of the medical neglect and abuse that has cost the lives of 18 people since 2013. Three people this year alone. David Black, 53, of Mckees Rocks, Jamie Gettings, 33, of West Mifflin, and Joel Velasquez-Reyes, 39, of Brookline.

The Allegheny County Jail was also the subject of a 2013 FBI investigation into the “vast & deliberate” cover up of the 2010 beating of Gary W. Barbour, Jr. by Maj. James Donis.

Also this will be the Health Justice Project’s monthly book group meeting. They are getting close to finishing Professor Angela Davis’ case for the abolition of the prison “Are Prisons Obsolete?”

A free version of it can be found here:

https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Are_Prisons_Obsolete_Angela_Davis.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/events/544981595836318/

Sunday – 10.1



Pittsburgh Food Not Bombs will be preparing vegan lunches for an event at the end of October. Any volunteers who can assist in the planning, supply, prep, cooking, or transport please come to the Big Idea Bookstore Sunday afternoon. If you can’t make it but would like to help, please message this account.

Mutual Aid FTW! Solidarity not Charity!

https://www.facebook.com/events/2012083265671541/



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