Wednesday, August 26, 2009
TV Coverage of Pastor Matt & Mayor Nutter
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
PICTURES & VIDEO - Pastor Matt & Mayor Nutter - ONE Campain Press Conference
On Tuesday, August 25, Pastor Matt Staniz shared a press conference with Mayor Michael Nutter as Philadelphia was declared a ONE City. Cofounded by U2's Bono and other campaigners, the ONE Campaign was launched five years ago in Philadelphia.
With Mayor Nutter signing the ONE City proclamation, Philadelphia joins more than 130 cities across the nation working to mobilize public support behind initiatives to fight poverty, combat diseases like AIDS and malaria, put children in school and increase opportunity for those living in extreme poverty around the world.
MAYOR NUTTER'S REMARKS
PASTOR MATT'S REMARKS
Transcript of Pastor Matt's Remarks
Today is a good day in the "City of Brotherly Love". Today, Philadelphia once again lives up to that name by placing the name of our city side-by-side with the ONE Campaign, a movement more than 2 million strong committed to to the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease. The ONE Campaign is a vital movement in the world today. It reflects the type of love that we must have for each other: a love that is reflected in justice, equality, and action. This is Philadelphia-style "brotherly love" at it finest!
I want thank Deesha Dyer and the volunteers she guided for making this day possible. Every letter, every phone call, every ounce of effort and every second of time that you gave has produced results. Thank you. Everything that begins today, begins because of you.
And thank you to mayor Michael Nutter for hearing Deesha and the volunteers. Thank you, mister mayor, for declaring the city of Philadelphia a ONE city. It really is a natural fit. It was just a few blocks east of this building on Independence Mall where the ONE Campaign was launched in 2004. A year later, it was few blocks up the Benjamin Franklin parkway where over a million of us gathered for "Live 8" and raised our voices to "make poverty history". Philadelphia has been at the heart of this movement. Today we proudly celebrate that this movement reflects the heart of Philadelphia.This declaration is evidence of visionary leadership rooted in hope: hope for a future shaped by action today. As we celebrate this commitment to fight extreme poverty, mister mayor, we also look forward to working together, every one of us, to keep these promises being made today to our poorest sisters and brothers around the world. I am also convinced that as we make these commitments to the poor around the world, it will also guide our continued efforts to care for our friends and neighbors right here in the city of brotherly love. Raising a voice on behalf of the poor is how faith creates action, it is how compassion creates justice, it is how being concerned leads to changing things.
Today we stand together as ONE. We stand as ONE with the poor. We stand as ONE with the billion people trying to survive on less than a dollar a day. We stand as ONE with the thousands who are dying of preventable and treatable diseases. We stand as ONE with millions of people committed to changing these realities. Today we stand together as ONE Philadelphia. We are the city of brotherly love, and we are a ONE city!
A ONE Family: Pastor Matt Staniz, Monica Staniz, Amber Staniz
Monday, August 24, 2009
ONE Phildadelphia Press Event - August 25, 2009
The location of the event is Room #202 in City Hall (Mayor's reception room).
The event begins at 10:30am. Please plan to arrive between 10-10:15 so that we can make our presence as visible as possible.
Full info below:
Philadelphia, Penn.—On August 25, Mayor Michael A. Nutter will join local members of the global anti-poverty organization ONE to declare Philadelphia a ‘ONE City’ against global poverty and disease. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE was launched five years ago in Philadelphia in an event at Liberty Mall.
With Mayor Nutter signing the ONE City proclamation, Philadelphia joins more than 130 cities across the nation working to mobilize public support behind initiatives to fight poverty, combat diseases like AIDS and malaria, put children in school and increase opportunity for those living in extreme poverty around the world.
The ONE City event comes five years after ONE was launched in May 2004 at a kick-off event and rally in Philadelphia. The event, held in front of Independence Hall, was attended by faith leaders, heads of leading anti-poverty organizations, African citizens and activists, celebrities and policymakers from the right and left.
Five years on, ONE is a grassroots advocacy organization with more than two million members, including thousands in Pennsylvania. ONE works closely with policy experts, African leaders, and anti-poverty activists to support initiatives that are saving lives and helping the world’s poor secure access to basic needs in order to make a better life for themselves and their children.
What: Philadelphia declared a ‘ONE City’
Who: Mayor Michael A. Nutter
Deesha Dyer, Philadelphia ONE Leader
Pastor Matt Staniz, Temple Lutheran Church, Havertown
Where: Philadelphia City Hall Room #202 (Mayor’s Reception Room)
When: 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Contact: Brian Sweeney, ONE Field Organizer, brian.sweeney@one.org , 717.644.3034
In just the last several years, America’s global poverty-fighting and disease-fighting efforts have delivered historic results. U.S. support for programs like PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria—initiatives backed strongly by ONE and its membership—have contributed to putting nearly 4 million people living with HIV/AIDS globally on lifesaving medicines, up from just 50,000 people in 2002. Millions more are surviving malaria thanks to the delivery of bed nets and medicines by U.S. and other donors. Some 34 million more children living in sub-Saharan African countries have gone to school for the first time, largely thanks to simple debt relief.
ONE is a global advocacy and campaigning organization backed by more than 2 million people from around the world dedicated to fighting extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa. For more information please visit http://www.one.org/
Monica Staniz
Thursday, July 23, 2009
PASTOR MATT TO GIVE REMARKS WITH MAYOR NUTTER
On behalf of the ONE Campaign, Pastor Matt invites you to attend the press conference on Tuesday, August 25th, 10:30 AM at City Hall. If you commit to attending, you will receive a free ONE T-Shirt to wear to the event. Please sign up at the church or RSVP to Pastor Matt with your T-shirt size by Sunday, August 2nd.