People First is a Mid-South Peace and Justice Center supported partnership with residents and activists working in the Binghampton community to raise voter turn out during elections and assist in long term resident-driven grassroots community organizing after the elections end.
For the past four months our team of activists and Binghampton residents have been canvassing door to door, talking with …residents and neighbors about the issues that they care about. Moving forward People First seeks to engage and organize residents from all races and religions across the Binghampton community to collectively address the needs of the neighborhood as well as ensure all redevelopment efforts in the area have real front end resident and community input. We have already hosted a candidate forum, a neighborhood BBQ and have just finished our second monthly meeting with area residents, talking about issues of the community and planning long term organizing for positive action….but..it’s not all about meetings…it’s about building community.
Upcoming Events
People First-Binghampton Earned Benefits and Tenncare application assistance and screenings.
Earned benefits is a program in partnership with Seedco is a system of facilitated enrollment services used to screen and connect low wage workers to a range of income services such as Tax credits, food stamps,health insurance and bank accounts.
Join us on Saturday, January 21st from 2pm-5pm as we partner with service providers to offer a one day service providing screening and application assistance for qualified applicants seeking EBT and Tenncare among other services.
Date- Jan 21st
Time-2pm-5pm
Location-Caritas Village-2509 Harvard,Memphis Tn 38112
Please refer any questions to Brad Watkins, Organizing Director of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center at 901-725-4990 or by email at brad@midsouthpeace.org