Organizations involved in PPC/Monterey County - NAACP Monterey County Branch

First Meeting Poor People’s Campaign, Monterey County Branch NAACP
Greater Victory Temple COGIC 1620 Broadway, Seaside
Saturday, June 23rd from 2:00-4:00PM

Representatives from these organizations attended the first meeting:

Alpha Kappa Alpha (Kappa Gamma Omega Chapter)

Bayview Charter School

Board Member Central Coast VNA & Hospice

Community Activist

Community Human Services

Community Responses to Eldercare

Del Monte Manor Playground Committee

Gathering for Women

Green Party

Homeless Community

Indivisible Monterey Bay

LULAC (Monterey Council)

Monterey County Housing Advisory Committee

Monterey County Housing Commission

Monterey County Planning Commissions

Monterey Peak and Justice Center

Monterey Peninsula Pride

Monterey Peninsula Quakers/Friends

MPUSD Board

NAACP

NCBI (National Coalition Building Institute)

Neighborhood Improvement Committee for Seaside

Peace Coalition

Progressive Democrats, Monterey Bay Area

Public Water Now

Safe Ag/Safe Schools

Seaside Environmental Committee

Seaside Planning Commission

Seaside School Board Member

SEIU 521

The Links, Inc. Monterey Bay Chapter

Vice Mayor, City of Monterey

Village Project

Volunteer CHOMP Auxiliary

Whites for Racial Equity

WILPF (Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedom

Over the past two years, the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has reached out to communities in more than 30 states across this nation. The campaign targets the areas of Systemic Racism, Poverty and Inequality, Ecological Devastation, War Economy and Militarism, and National Morality.

NAACP, Monterey County is calling for representatives from local organizations to join together to implement actions that benefits the most impacted Monterey County residents.

Congressman Elijah Cummings

Congressman Elijah Cummings has passed away after a storied career in the House of Representatives. The 68-year-old Maryland Democrat, who was no stranger to the spotlight, made headlines over the summer when he came under attack from President Trump.

The president labeled Cummings’ Baltimore district “a rat-infested mess where no human would want to live” and questioned why the congressman wasn’t doing more to find out what happens to the billions of dollars of financial aid going to his city. Cummings, who chaired the House Oversight Committee, had been in poor health recently. His office says he died early this morning at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and he had been suffering from “longstanding health challenges.”

Since 1996, Cummings has represented Maryland’s 7th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition, as serving as Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, he was a senior member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, serving on both the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

Cummings began his career of public service in the Maryland House of Delegates, where he served for 14 years and became the first African American in Maryland history to be named Speaker Pro Tem.

Cummings attended Howard University and later went on to graduate from the University of Maryland School of Law. He practiced law for nearly two decades before his election to the House. He also held no less than a dozen honorary doctoral degrees from universities around the nation. He leaves behind a wife, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, and three children.

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