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D.C. faith leaders prepare to confront developers

 

The Washington Interfaith Network, a collection of religious institutions, is preparing to confront local businesses in an effort to secure more jobs and housing for District residents.

Publication Date: 
Wed, 12/07/2011

Interfaith group seeks help from banks in housing crisis

 

Members from more than 40 religious institutions across Northern Virginia are asking some of the country’s largest banks to commit to helping rebuild neighborhoods that have been devastated by housing foreclosures.

Publication Date: 
Mon, 10/31/2011

Important faces in the AIM crowd

Action in Montgomery, a coalition of religious congregations considered by some to be the county's most powerful grass-roots organization, announced its 2006 agenda at a
rousing meeting at Woodside United Methodist Church in Silver Spring last week, and the politicians turned out to hear it.
The event drew 708 religious leaders and congregants

Publication Date: 
Thu, 03/16/2006
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Inequality is Evident With Flip of a Switch

Just as Candy Binson Smith was telling me about life without indoor plumbing or electricity in the 1960s in Scotland, the tiny black neighborhood tucked away along a dead-end street in affluent Potomac, the lights in the gymnasium next to us flickered and died...

Publication Date: 
Fri, 04/04/2008
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Keeping the Faith on Social Issues

Dec 8, 2005 – Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele (R) was impressed. Sitting in a Bethesda church one evening last month, he watched as Montgomery County Executive ..

The lieutenant governor told the assembled members of Action In Montgomery, a network of congregations that has become perhaps the most powerful grass-roots organization in the county, that he was making progress on an immigration issue they had raised with him.

Publication Date: 
Thu, 12/08/2005
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Md. voters to decide immigrant tuition law

Opponents of a new law that gives undocumented immigrants in-state tuition discounts at Maryland’s public colleges have gathered enough signatures to suspend the law and force a statewide referendum, election officials said Thursday.

It is the first time in 20 years that a petition drive has forced a vote on a Maryland law...
 

Publication Date: 
Thu, 07/07/2011
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Washington Post

Measure providing in-state tuition for illegal immigrants appears headed for Md. ballot in ‘12

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Opponents of a recently approved measure that would allow certain illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at Maryland colleges have collected enough signatures to put the matter before state voters in November 2012, officials said Thursday...

Publication Date: 
Thu, 07/07/2011
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Counting begins to force referendum on immigrant tuition law

Opponents of a new Maryland law to give undocumented immigrants in-state college tuition breaks said they turned in more than twice as many signatures as needed on Thursday night to suspend the law and to force it to a statewide referendum...

Publication Date: 
Thu, 06/30/2011
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