Philadelphia Nov. 6 – More than 200 community activists marched through West Philadelphia today in the 21st “Peoplehood” event organized by Spiral Q theater group. Many participants carried or wore flags, banners, papier-mâché puppets, costumes, child-sized cardboard houses and even a cardboard mailbox, in pageantry focused on uplifting the many . . .
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Only two weeks after Amazon Labor Union workers filed with the National Labor Relations Board on Oct. 25 to hold an election at the company’s Staten Island warehouses, signs of support are visible throughout the New York City metro area. These large banner drops are seen daily by thousands of . . .
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Claudette Colvin’s defiant action on a segregated Alabama bus in 1955 – before that of Rosa Parks – resulted in her arrest and conviction on two counts of violating Montgomery’s segregation laws and one of assaulting an officer. Though the first two convictions were overturned on appeal, the third still . . .
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By Hadley Willow Since late August, tenants at the Peace Bridge Apartments building have been organizing mounting resistance against Porter Avenue Acquisitions and Power Play Partners – real estate developers that plan to convert the building into “quality green housing that is kept at a high standard.” Tenants and organizers . . .
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