Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and his lone challenger in the May 18 Democratic primary, Carlos Vega, clashed early and often in a debate on NBC10.
May Day 2021 – International Workers’ Day!
By Martha Grevatt posted on May 4, 2021
May Day began in the U.S. in 1884 after labor federations called for worker strikes and protests for the eight-hour day. 400,000 workers answered the call countrywide on May 1, 1886. That year eight worker organizers, some immigrants, were arrested and framed for the May 4 bombing of a Haymarket Square rally in Chicago. Five were sentenced to death; four were executed and a fifth died in his cell. An 1889 international socialist conference declared May 1 International Workers Day, in part to honor the Haymarket Martyrs. The day was revitalized in the U.S. in 2005 by the Black-led Million Worker March, and in 2006 by the Latinx immigrant workers’ mass strike. In 2021 the day was commemorated around the world; Workers World Party helped organize a number of actions across the U.S.
Hope and help for wrongfully incarcerated Pennsylvanians With Project HOPE, President’s Engagement Prize winners Carson Eckhard, Natalia Rommen, and Sarah Simon will address the lack of support to wrongfully incarcerated people in Philadelphia and across the state. Carson Eckhard (left), Sarah Simon (center) and Natalia Rommen (right) won the President’s Engagement Prize for Project HOPE.
Philadelphia has one of the highest incarceration rates of any big city in the United States, and from 1996 to 2018 the city found itself at the top of the list. Adding to this notorious distinction is Philadelphia s relatively high wrongful-conviction rate. For Penn seniors Carson Eckhard, Natalia Rommen, and Sarah Simon, these rates were more than just unfortunate statistics; they were a catalyst for them to help make profound changes in the criminal justice system.
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has rattled the criminal justice system in the three-plus years he s been the city s top prosecutor, but the reforms he put in place are just the beginning, he says.
And he doesn t plan on going anywhere.
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to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. I used to defend a lot of protesters. It was my professional hobby. I did it for 25 years. In order to do it at jury trials, I had to really study the history of these movements and their philosophy so I could stand up in front of a jury and say, Look, yeah, they blocked the street. You don t like your street blocked. But here s the news. So did the suffragettes. And that s why you can vote and that s why you re sitting on the jury if you re a woman, Krasner said in an interview with NBC10. And one of the things I drew from that is social movements take a long time. They usually take about 30 years to win a huge battle. I t