PA Education Action Team Public Comment on School Board Budget
The People's Alliance Education Action Team has submitted the following public comment to the Durham Public Schools Board of Education:
View ArticlePA Board Statement on Nonrenewal of County Manager Contract
Dear Durham,In 1979, three years after the People’s Alliance was founded, Republican Harry Rodenhizer was elected mayor of Durham. Mayor Rodenhizer was central to getting the Durham freeway — which had...
View ArticlePeople's Alliance Celebrates 35th Anniversary of Durham Pride
On the 35th Anniversary of Durham’s Gay Pride/Recall VictoryCeleste Cornelius with Mab Segrest On June 25, 1986, a flyer was distributed around Durham that read in bold print at the top of the page...
View ArticlePA Education Action Team: Statement on DPS Growing Together Plan
Members of the Board, The People’s Alliance Education Action Team urges the BOE to wait to approve the new proposed academic application programs and elementary school boundaries. We believe the...
View ArticleStatement from the Carolina Abortion Fund
Decision Day is Here, 6/24/2022First: if you need a minute, take a minute. Your body is likely tense and flooded with (righteous, justified) rage and frustration at all the (deliberate) mechanisms that...
View ArticleReproductive Rights - Be Informed, Take Action
Help PREVENT the super majority in NCVolunteer for Ray Jeffers in Northern Durham and Person Countyhttps://rayjeffers.com/volunteerCanvass or phone bank:...
View ArticleSupport for History Marker
Dear NC Marker Advisory Committee Members, The Durham People’s Alliance strongly supports the placement of a historical marker honoring the legacy of Booker T. Spicely, a martyr of the Civil Rights...
View ArticleEnd of Year President Letter 2022
Dear PA Members,I hope you all are doing well! I am so excited to see everyone at our membership meeting this Tuesday evening at 6 p.m. at The Fruit. Food and drinks will be provided. It will be a...
View ArticleTake the PA Strategic Survey
We welcome your input to set our course for 2023!Thank you in advance for taking the time to give PA your thoughts.Link can be found HERE
View ArticleCoalition for Affordable Housing and Transit
Position on the Durham Transit PlanAdopted by the Coalition for Affordable Housing and Transit Coordinating CommitteeApril 4, 2022The new Durham Transit Plan will allocate approximately one billion...
View ArticleSupport for DPS Growing Together Plan
A little more than thirty years ago, the People’s Alliance stood in support of the merger of the City and County School systems. Those school board meetings to determine the district maps were also...
View ArticleThe Death of Tyre Nichols
Tyre Nichols should be alive today. His brutal murder is yet another painful example of police brutality in the United States, especially against communities of color. We grieve for Tyre’s family,...
View ArticleSupport Equitable Plans for Northgate Mall
Action requested by members of the Walltown Community Dear Walltown neighbors and Durham residents,A huge thanks to the many of you who came out to last week’s stakeholder meeting on the redevelopment...
View ArticleBudget Priorities for 2023
Dear Durham County Commission and City Council: The Durham People’s Alliance believes in a just, equitable, and inclusive community where all people thrive. This will be possible only when everyone...
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New Mission and Vision
VisionWe envision an inclusive Durham with fair social and economic conditions. Each person and family will have the same rights and access to services that they need to thrive. Durham will lead the...
View ArticleLetter in Support of City Workers
Dear City Council Members: The Durham People’s Alliance stands in solidarity with the Durham sanitation workers--and all City and County employees--in their desire to earn a living wage. Every worker...
View ArticleVision for 505 W. Chapel Hill
Proposed by:The Coalition for Affordable Housing & TransitDurham Committee on the Affairs of Black PeopleDurham CAN (Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods)The People’s AllianceDuke Memorial...
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Ceasefire Now
The People’s Alliance calls for Durham City Council to pass a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. The PA Board voted to endorse the resolution (link) proposed by Council member Chelsea Cook that is on...
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