Pennsylvania

Letters from behind the walls

Workers World Staff, I am incarcerated in SCI Albion in Pennsylvania. I came across an older newspaper and love the…

June 26, 2022

Squirrel Hill neighbors win against gentrification

Philadelphia Supporters of Protect Squirrel Hill, a neighborhood coalition in the Squirrel Hill section of West Philadelphia, celebrated a victory…

May 12, 2022

Pennsylvania prisons: a fight for humane release policies

Philadelphia Bradford Gamble is out of prison after serving 46 years and is now living with his nephew, Shaquan J.…

April 28, 2022

‘Day without Immigrants’ demands ‘citizenship now!’

Migrants, refugees and their supporters participated in a march and rally in Philadelphia on the national ‘Day Without Immigrants’ Feb.…

February 21, 2022

Police charged for Fanta Bility murder

Delaware County Three Sharon Hill police in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, were charged with manslaughter Jan. 18 for killing…

January 19, 2022

Unequal justice in Philadelphia

Philadelphia As protests over the police murder of George Floyd engulfed the U.S. in spring 2020, in Philadelphia two polar-opposite…

July 14, 2021

Philadelphia: March against Israeli apartheid

Hundreds of people carrying Palestinian flags, protest signs and banners gathered at City Hall for a March Against Israeli Apartheid…

July 13, 2021

‘I have rights too’

By Miley Selena Fletcher The following letter is from a transgender incarcerated worker at SCI Forest in Pennsylvania. When I…

April 29, 2021

Fracking banned in Delaware River Basin

In a historic ruling, the Delaware River Basin Commission voted Feb. 25 to permanently ban fracking (hydraulic fracturing) for natural…

March 2, 2021

PA prisons:  Disdain, distrust and deprivation

Incarcerated workers across Pennsylvania are demanding that Department of Corrections Secretary John Wetzel reverse his disastrous decision to begin mass…

December 10, 2020