“Building One Pennsylvania Public Meeting: Advancing an Agenda for Regional Change”

Update, bus available-below

 “Martin Luther King Jr. writing from Birmingham Jail said, "We live in inescapable networks of mutuality."

Well, we have spent a long time in active disregard for that observation. We have assumed we could be saved by one more shopping mall, one last office park, one less multi-family apartment building.

The jig appears to be up. The nations unmistakable demographic movement toward a non-white majority makes escape from the network impossible except for the very rich and undesirable as it relates to our most cherished ideals.

We're running out of land and natural recourses to run to or to use up.

The gating of our communities has only cost us more. We can no longer afford ourselves. 


We can't do it alone. We have little choice but to do it together and I believe we can."

David Trout, Professor of Law and Justice, Rutgers University

“There's an old saying that there's not a Republican way to clean the streets or Democratic way to clean the snow and I think the same is true for the kinds of problems that confront our state. 


Pennsylvania has; and this is going to sound harsh,  for too long been a reform backwater.  Too long we have followed too many states and too many communities in making the kinds of fundamental change that will improve the lives of our citizens. 


And so the challenge is, you can do it; do you have the energy, the enthusiasm and the commitment to make the changes that matter?" 

Dr. Terry Madonna, Franklin and Marshal College, Center for Politics and Public Affairs.

Coatesville Assistant City Manager Kirby Hudson at Monday October 24th City Council Meeting announcing that a bus will stop at Coatesville to take Coatesville residents to the Building One Pennsylvania Meeting: