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Articles by Suzy Wurtz
Pennsylvania Nurses Urgently Call on the Trump Administration to Recognize Us as Professionals for the Sake of Our Patients and Communities
Contact your congressmembers at congress.gov/members/find-your-member and urge them to tell the Trump administration that nurses must be included in the Department of Education’s “professional” category for student loan qualifications so we can address the nursing crisis and protect our patients.
Lancaster Stands Up: Toe To Toe With MAGA In Pennsylvania
Some days being a community organizer in Lancaster, PA means the MAGA faction threatens to crash your group’s picnic—and bring their guns. On an up day, Lancaster Stands Up Organizer Suzy Wurtz almost shrugs off such menaces. “There’s work to do on housing, there’s work to do on reproductive justice. There’s work to do to elect champions for working people. These little sideshows are annoying at best, and dangerous at worst,” Wurtz said. But the danger is real.
Key to Strategy #3: Assess the Balance of Forces
A hard look at the balance of strengths between the MAGA and anti-MAGA blocs shows that pro-democracy forces must stretch for new levels of coordination and strategy. This is the third a series of columns looking at Left strategy today. Key to Strategy #1 focused on the first component of Sun Tzu’s dictum that to prevail in battle it is necessary to “know the enemy and know yourself.” Key to Strategy #2 focused on the second component.
Not in Our Town: Ephrata, PA Says No to Extremists » Organizing Upgrade
Celebration at Penn Square in Lancaster, PA after President Joe Biden’s 2020 election. Photo courtesy of Lancaster Stands Up. Life in Ephrata is not easy for working-class families. Our town of about 14,000 people in southeastern Pennsylvania has a poverty rate close to 12% and a per capita income of just above $28,000 a year. People know what it’s like to struggle to keep food on the table, and a roof over their heads. Most feel like they don’t have time to worry about politics.
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