Philadelphia

Philly officials target drug-using community in Kensington

Multiple attacks against the drug-using community in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia have taken place during both International Overdose Awareness…

September 19, 2024

Philly protest demands: Free Palestine! Free Puerto Rico!

Hundreds marched in a show of solidarity between Puerto Rican and Palestinian activists in Philadelphia Feb. 17. In a mile-long…

February 22, 2024

“Get up, get down! Philly is a union town!”  

Philadelphia Graduate workers at the University of Pennsylvania have had enough, and they’re making their voices heard through a historic…

October 13, 2023

Philadelphia communities unite against destructive developers

Philadelphia Close to 150 people, representing over a dozen diverse multinational, working-class Philadelphia neighborhoods, rallied together at FDR Park in…

November 16, 2022

Philadelphia protest opposes developers plans targeting Chinatown

Philadelphia Billed as a chance to “network and shmooze with Philadelphia’s top real estate developers and professionals,” the Jewish Federation…

October 28, 2022

Philadelphia Trans March for safety, inclusion ‘for all’

Philadelphia Hundreds of trans people, family members, friends and supporters joined the 12th Annual Philly Trans March on Oct. 8.…

October 14, 2022

Philly Museum of Art workers strike

During a one-day strike Sept. 16, workers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art picketed the renowned institution as a warning…

September 22, 2022

Protest of ‘Penntrification’ shuts down UPenn convocation

University City Townhomes, renamed the Peoples Townhomes by residents and activists, sits next to the campus of the University of…

September 6, 2022

Pennsylvania county jails are a death trap

Philadelphia An unprecedented number of incarcerated people have died inside Pennsylvania’s county jails in the last two years, and the…

August 2, 2022

Reproductive rights vs. rightwing Federalist Society

Protesters gathered outside the Mellon Bank building in Center City Philadelphia July 13 to denounce the Federalist Society meeting there.…

July 18, 2022