TONIGHT @ 7 PM January Statewide Call
Leadership Across Difference and the Movement to Abolish Poverty
Every third Wednesday of the month from 7-8 pm ET, Put People First! PA, a statewide, member-led, staff-free organization holds our Statewide Membership Call. This call is for active members, mobilizers, and anyone who is interested in finding out more about our Healthcare is a Human Right campaign and getting involved!
Click here to RSVP & share on facebook.
The cornerstone of ruling class strategy is divide and conquer. But how do we unite when we’ve been divided for so long, and treated unevenly? Leadership Across Difference is the set of ideas and concrete actions that allow us to develop solidarity across lines of division. Our unity is the necessary foundation to building a movement to abolish poverty. Find out more about what that means on January’s statewide call!
As always, we’ll share our stories of struggle.
Remember – we only get what we’re organized to take!
Click here to join: https://zoom.us/j/5483957623
Or to call in, Dial: 646 558 8656 (US Toll)
Then enter Meeting ID: 548 395 7623
Hot off the press: The Keystone Winter/Spring 2026
Put People First! PA’s member-created newsletter!
The Media & Communications Team of Put People First! PA is proud to announce our latest edition of the The Keystone, our member created newsletter.
📢 Read the latest edition here: https://bit.ly/Keystone2026 📰
The Keystone makes the invisible visible through member stories, reports on base building and campaign activities, lessons on the terrain and leadership development, arts, culture & more. This edition is 44 pages covering activities across rural, urban and suburban Pennsylvania as well as highlights from across the country and internationally. Upwards of 75 people worked on content for The Keystone in one way or another for this publication, and you will find the edition is richer because of it!
Learn more about the Keystone or to view in PDF go here: https://putpeoplefirstpa.org/the-keystone-winter-spring-26/
Forum to Save Our Healthcare Thursday @ 6 PM
Put People First! PA joins PASNAP & others
Join Put People First! PA on Thursday, January 22nd at 6 PM on Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals (PASNAP)’s Save our Healthcare Forum in South Philly. Southeast PA Healthcare Rights Committee leader Robin will be repping Put People First! PA on the panel and share how cuts to Medicaid have hurt our families, and how we’re fighting back for our healthcare rights!
Register here: https://forms.gle/ww2h9daD72HbiUGM9
Join us for the February 2026 Saturday School of Struggle
Understanding and Surviving the Economics Crisis
What’s going on with the economy? Why do we hear more reports about what’s happening with the stock market than we do about what’s happening to everyday people? The economy is treated like the weather, it’s made to seem natural and untouchable. It’s made out to be intimidating, and it’s one of the topics that working class people are deliberately taught to feel intimidated by. We reject this! We have to understand the foundations of the society that we live in.
Register here: https://bit.ly/NVMAFeb2026SSoS
The February Saturday School with the Nonviolent Medicaid Army will look at what’s going on with jobs, prices, debt, and AI. We’ll talk about what’s really going on with our families and communities when it comes to the economy and our ability to survive. We’ll look at how we can unite for support, survival and strategy to get through this deepening crisis and build our movement to abolish poverty.Click here to RSVP & share on facebook.
VICTORY in our year-end fundraising campaign!
Thank you to all contributors, supporters, and fundraisers! Our crew of 17 Put People First! PA leaders collectively raised more than $17k. Additional donations came in through check and venmo, bringing the total of grassroots fundraising to 20k. Major gifts were also donated in the amount of 20k bringing our year-end fundraising total to $40,000!!!
Put People First! PA is member-led and staff-free. All of our resources go to gatherings like our yearly Membership Assembly, carrying out our Healthcare is A Human Right Campaign across the state, Community Care funds, childcare, printing, permits, People’s Clinic supplies –> in other words DIRECTLY into building our politically independent working class movement.
This campaign victory represents almost 1/3 of our yearly budget.
If you didn’t get a chance to contribute you can still do so here: putpeoplefirstpa.org/donate
Thank you for ALL YOU DO to PUT PEOPLE FIRST!!!
Regional Healthcare Rights Committee Meetings
Put People First! PA is organized into five regions: Southeast, Southwest, Central-Appalachia, South Central and Northeast. In each of these regions, members participate in twice a month meetings held by phone and online, organized around our healthcare struggles. If you’re new to Put People First! PA, attend a monthly Statewide Call or Saturday School or contact any of the Coordinators listed here to learn more.