Philadelphia Bearing colorful signs and banners, thousands of activists from dozens of U.S. cities marched around Philadelphia City Hall on July 22 demanding “Housing now!” The event was part of the national convention of the Center for Popular Democracy. Speakers from Philadelphia’s housing movement, including Darlene Foreman and Mel Hairston…
Philadelphia Piled in front of a Philadelphia City Hall entrance April 27, were 18 boxes filled with 15,000 petitions and 3,000 written postcards opposing the proposal to build a $1.3 billion 76ers’ basketball arena. This would lead to the destruction of one of the last neighborhoods in the city’s downtown…