Keystone Progress is Live!

For Immediate Release
Contact: Michael Morrill
Email: info@keystoneprogress.org

Keystone Progress to Challenge Conservative Propaganda in Pennsylvania

Initial Campaigns Include the Stopping the Privatization of the PA Turnpike, Exposing the Bush War Tax, fighting for Universal Healthcare and Making the Case for Paper Ballots

Harrisburg, PA - Meet Keystone Progress, a new, multi-issue, progressive advocacy organization that combines cutting edge online organizing and communications with rapid and hard-hitting on-the-ground strategies. Year round, Keystone Progress will work to engage citizens from across the state around issues of immediate state or local concern.

"Our goal is to make Pennsylvania more progressive and our government more responsive to the real challenges facing communities today," said Michael Morrill, Executive Director. "We aim to dramatically expand public action for progressive ideas. Whether it is fighting for a clean energy future, standing up to special interests like powerful drug companies, or holding public officials accountable, we will be there."

A key component of Keystone Progress' work is providing communications support for the entire progressive community. Local advocacy groups often have few staff and fewer resources to challenge conservative propaganda in the media and assure that progressive perspectives are heard.

This week, the Keystone Progress website (http://www.keystoneprogress.org/) features a variety of actions including the privatization of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, the Bush War Tax, universal healthcare and ensuring accurate elections with paper trails for ballots.

"Keystone Progress has the potential to be an incredible tool for issue advocacy organizations," said Eileen Connolly of the SEIU Pennsylvania State Council. "Already, Keystone Progress is connecting us and providing a strong, credible voice in advancing progressive solutions to critical community problems."

Keystone Progress’s goal is to make Pennsylvania more progressive and our government more responsive to the real challenges facing communities today. By working with other organizations, we aim to dramatically expand active public support for progressive causes and ideas. Whether it is fighting for a clean energy future, standing up to special interests like the powerful drug companies, or holding public officials accountable, Keystone Progress will be there.
A key component of Keystone Progress' work is providing communications support for the entire progressive community. Local advocacy groups often have few staff and fewer resources to challenge conservative propaganda in the media and assure that progressive perspectives are heard.

Some of the ways we will network include:
· Creating PA’s largest online activist network.
· Holding news conferences, writing news releases and developing PR plans for progressive partners.
· Developing a progressive news service to bring our message to new media and the mainstream.
· An online Progressive PA Job Bank.

For further questions or inquiries, go to the Keystone Progress website (http://www.keystoneprogress.org/)