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Build new power during PPT’s Member Drive!
Image Description: an illustrated Pittsburgh skyline at night, in deep purple and blue with yellow lights. The night sky is deep purple with a lighter purple illustration of Pittsburgh’s three rivers. Above the skyline is handwritten light yellow text reading “PPT’s 2025 Year End Member Drive: Building new constellations of power”, decorated with yellow and […]
Party down with us at our 2025 Transit Justice Victory Party!
Image Description: white text on a dark purple background reads “PPT’s Year End Transit Justice Victory Party”, with the PPT logo below. The graphic is illustrated with yellow star-shaped lights strung across the top of the frame We’ve accomplished so much this year, all in service of new transit rider and worker power. Party down […]
Hilltop Organizing Fellowship! Lessons for how we win better transit service
PPT’s new Organizing Fellowship in the South Hilltop Communities is building new leaders to grow our movement and win better transit service. In October, PPT launched a new organizing fellowship in the South Hilltop. With generous help from multiple organizations including the Hilltop Alliance, Brashear Association, Ms. Charlene Saner and Councilman Anthony Coghill’s office, PPT […]
PPT Celebrates the Waterfront Bus Stop Restoration – Riders Belong Here!
Community organizing gets the goods!! When a corporate property owner tried to remove important bus stops, more than 1500 riders spoke up to demand better – and won! Besides Downtown Pittsburgh and Oakland, two of the busiest bus stops in our system are out front of the Giant Eagle and Target in Homestead. It was […]
Lessons from PPT’s Movie Night Film, IKIRU
PPT hosts Movie Nights with our members every now and then to learn skills about organizing. This month we wated IKIRU. Here are our reflections on what it taught us about community organizing and the value it has in our lives. As part of our ongoing PPT Movie Night series, Pittsburghers for Public Transit showed […]
Riders Win Big With Mon Valley Organizing Fellowship
PPT’s recent Organizing Fellowship in the Mon Valley shows that when advocates skill up, they can organize their communities and win! This year, Pittsburghers for Public Transit launched it’s first fellowship program for transit advocates in Mon Valley communities, led by staff and PPT Board facilitators. Why now, and why focus on these areas? PPT […]