Campaigns and Actions

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a Florida grassroots farmworker organization, and allies in Philadelphia and nationwide are celebrating a successful campaign against Aramark. The multinational food service company, based in Philadelphia, is the eighth company to agree to partner with the CIW to ensure fair wages and humane working conditions for Florida tomato pickers in their supply chain. The company bowed to the pressure of a growing nationwide campaign that included successful student organizing on numerous university campuses, weekly pickets at Aramark's corporate headquarters in Philadelphia and a rally and delegation to Aramark Headquarters lead by the CIW and United Workers last December. Local allies of the CIW who contributed to this win include Media Mobilizing Project, students at Penn, St. Joe's and Temple, The United Taxi Workers Alliance, Just Harvest and Student/ Farmworker Alliance.

En el 2 de Febrero, grupos de imigrantes, trabajadores y gente de fé se juntaron para demandar el apoyo de una reforma migratoria del Congresista Robert Brady.  El escuchó el grito del pueblo y ya llego el momento para traer el mensaje a la capital de este país,  Washington DC.

 

El pueblo de Filadelfia y el region va a unirse con 80,000 de personas este Domingo en Washington DC para demandar que el Congresso de los EEUU reforma este sistema migratorio quebrado. 

 

When 200 residents of the Lindley Court Apartments in Logan lost their homes with two hours’ notice on Saturday, June 21st, the building' fire alarm system didn’t work, raw sewage festered in the basement, putrid garbage piled up atop overflowing dumpsters, and there was no water because the copper pipes had been stolen.

Demonstration/Rally in Harlem Against Displacement & Gentrification

Saturday, June 21, 2008

HARLEM TENANTS COUNCIL, Inc.

21 West 130th Street New York, NY 10030

Email:Harlem tenants@gmail.com

Contact: Nellie Hester Bailey 646-812-5188

Don’t Tax Me Out Campaign Calls on City Council to Enact Community Protection Plan

Don’t Tax Me Out Campaign Calls on City Council to Enact Community Protection Plan

Time and Location: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:00 pm West Side of City Hall

In 2008 the city will move to full market valuation. Proponents believe that this move will make the tax system more fair and equal. However, a coalition of neighborhood and residents associations is very concerned that if full valuation goes forward without a plan in place to protect residents, especially low-income residents and senior citizens, this plan could have a widespread impact of forcing people out of their homes, especially in neighborhoods where property values have risen dramatically.

Save Hawthorne Park

Community Rally

12 noon on Saturday, October 20th

At the park (12th and Catharine)

Late last week we got word that the City Council Rules Committee cancelled tomorrow's meeting which for months was billed as the hearing that would move Sugarhouse casino forward. Due to continued opposition to both casinos the Sugarhouse casino asked to cancel this meeting as they still have not been successful at forcing the various community groups they need to get on board to the table on their terms. Check out www.casinofreephila.org to learn more. And please sign up to join us next Tuesday. We are taking a trip to Scranton to shut down the PA Gaming Control Board hearing. Training is Monday night. Please join us.

I left up the following post as I think it provides some helpful background information. In April 2006 when we were first reaching out and getting the lay of the land when it came to the casinos being proposed in Philly's neighborhoods we were told that there was nothing we could do and that casinos would break ground by Spring 2007. With fall 2007 just getting started the casinos, backed by some of the biggest names in the legal and political donor circles in this city, continue to be responded to with organized opposition. In the past few months this opposition has grown and I am writing to encourage you to join us. Just last week residents shut down the Gaming Control Board hearing that was taking place in Philly and a few dozen citizens went to the Governor's house to pay him a visit-the Governor afterall has been the biggest booster and champion for this disaster.

In the past few months we have learned from a state agency (PICA) that casinos will cost at least one job lost for every job that they create and that casinos will cost the City $200 million due to increased crime (money that is not planed for in any City budget being proposed). We have elected officials, including the Governor, talking about resiting casinos outside of residential neighborhoods (which would reduce some costs and preserve the quality of life in Philly's neighborhoods) and the head of the PA Gaming Control Board, Tad Decker resigned his post to return to Cozen O'Conner law firm, which represents Sugarhouse casino company (the company behind the proposed casino in Northern Liberties/Fishtown).

Community organizations and public housing residents from across the nation, along with Miami Workers Center and Power U Center for Social Change, stormed the Housing Agency of New Orleans (HANO) office at around 12:30 PM today. The organizations we are acting in solidarity with displaced residents of New Orleans public housing.

HANO, under federal HUD leadership, has fenced off four public housing projects and will not let people return to their homes even though the units were not damaged by the storm two years ago.