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Pittsburgh Anti-War Activists Picket Home Of Senator John Fetterman

July 31, 2026 Dot Bodwell, Fight Back! News. , , ,
Braddock, PA – On Sunday, July 26, the International Solidarity Committee of Pittsburgh (ISCPIT) gathered outside John Fetterman's home in Braddock, Pennsylvania to protest the Senator's support of the Trump administration's increased sanctions on Cuba. This protest was held as part of the Anti-War Action Network's week of action marking Cuba’s National Rebellion Day. Organizers and attendees chanted, held signs and spoke on a variety of issues that Senator Fetterman has been on the wrong side of, focusing on his vote in April to uphold the Trump administration's ramping up sanctions on Cuba.

Pennsylvania’s Petrochemical ‘Renaissance’ Hasn’t Panned Out

July 11, 2026 Sarah Hofmann, DeSmog. , , ,
Over a decade ago, Shell announced it would build a major petrochemical complex on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, lured to the state by historic public incentives amid what was hailed as the coming of a new petrochemical corridor outside the Gulf Coast. At the time, local and state leaders hoped the massive facility, drawing on cheap shale gas drilled nearby to produce the feedstock for plastics, would bring economic growth and thousands of jobs to the Ohio River region in western Pennsylvania. The corridor never materialized. Instead, Beaver County’s economy continues to fall behind, according to a new report from the Ohio River Valley Institute (ORVI) published Wednesday and a June report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

Power Workers Independence Day Strike Wins Pensions

July 10, 2026 Mindy Isser, Labor Notes. , , , ,
Workers at PECO, the electric company for the Philadelphia region and Pennsylvania’s largest electric and natural gas utility, went on strike just after midnight on Saturday, July 4, winning a tentative agreement for the 1,500 workers just before midnight on Monday, July 6. They restored defined-benefit pensions for the 600 newer hires who had been relegated to 401(k)s, and won full medical coverage in retirement. They had leverage: Philadelphia celebrates the July Fourth holiday massively, with a giant concert in Center City, and this year was even bigger with the country celebrating its 250th birthday and the city hosting some World Cup games.

The Data Center Showdown In Lackawanna County

June 16, 2026 Dave Rollo, Resilience. , , , ,
As the artificial intelligence (AI) boom explodes with a race for ever more powerful models, so does the need for its infrastructure. This takes the form of huge, windowless buildings housing thousands of data servers. Projects may involve numerous buildings—sometimes a dozen or more—with added infrastructure such as hundreds of backup generators. These amalgamations are termed data centers or, in some cases as an indication of their enormity, “hyperscale data centers.” Over 4,000 data centers have been built or are under construction in the United States, with corporations seeking approval for thousands more.

Pennsylvanians Are Beating Back A Wave Of Water System Privatization

June 8, 2026 Katie Rose Quandt, Truthout. , , , ,
In January, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court blocked the corporate takeover of a public water system in Chester, Pennsylvania. After a nine-year battle, the court ruled that Chester, a town of 33,000 outside Philadelphia, does not have the jurisdiction to sell the local municipal water system to Aqua, a massive company that owns water and sewer systems throughout the state. The ruling came in the wake of major public pushback, with hundreds of residents joining state legislators at public hearings to oppose the sale. Save Chester Water Authority, a grassroots campaign, warned: “In every acquisition it has made, [Aqua] hikes up water bills through rapid-fire rate increases and infrastructure surcharges.”

How A Legal Group’s Anti-LGBTQ Policies Took Root In School Districts

May 13, 2026 Kathryn Joyce, In These Times. , , ,
The West Shore school board policy committee meeting came to a halt almost as soon as it began. As a board member started going over the agenda on July 17, 2025, local parent Danielle Gross rose to object to a last-minute addition she said hadn’t been on the district’s website the day before. By posting notice of the proposal so close to the meeting, charged Gross, who is also a partner at a communications and advocacy firm that works on state education policy, the board had violated Pennsylvania’s open meetings law.

Environmental Groups File To Intervene Opposing Proposed ICE Detention Centers

April 17, 2026 Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Berks and Schuylkill Counties, PA; Harrisburg, PA -  On April 17, 2026, two environmental organizations, Green Amendments For The Generations and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, have filed legal petitions to help stop the Department of Homeland Security from advancing efforts to transform two Pennsylvania warehouses into Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. The proposed facilities have faced state and local opposition due to their projected environmental and community impacts.

Allegheny County Organizes Against ICE Kidnappings

April 5, 2026 Jay Arthur, People's World. , , ,
Pittsburgh—On Feb. 18, 2:45 p.m., dozens lined up to stand watch outside Turner Intermediate School in Wilkinsburg, PA. They were on the lookout for ICE, which had kidnapped a minor that morning, less than three blocks from the school.  Among the attendees was Amanda Barber, President of the Wilkinsburg School Board. “We were notified that there was ICE activity at a local corner store. When we arrived, we spoke with the crossing guard and two parents that were witnesses to what happened.” After hearing the news that morning, Barber mobilized the community.

Data Centers Are Poised To Engulf A Pennsylvania Town

March 15, 2026 Edward Donnelly, DeSmog. , , ,
On a chilly Monday just before Thanksgiving, residents of Archbald, Pennsylvania hurried from work in the fading autumn light to snag seats in the old brick Borough Building for a 5 p.m. council meeting. After the roughly 50 seats quickly filled, people continued to pack the room, standing along the walls or wedging themselves into the remaining floor space. Police officers manned the doors. Outside, latecomers huddled around a laptop in the 40-degree cold to watch proceedings on a hastily rigged livestream. On the sidewalk, someone waved a handmade sign saying “Boycott AI.”

Community Demands: ‘Justice For The Quakertown 5!’

March 4, 2026 Betsey Piette, Workers World. , , , ,
After 35 teenage students walked out of their high school in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, to protest the actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Feb. 20, they were attacked by the town’s police chief, Scott McElree, who was not in uniform nor did he identify himself.  The Philadelphia Inquirer reported on Feb. 22, that eyewitnesses, including some who videoed the incident, claimed that McElree, dressed in plain clothes, charged into the crowd of students, pushed one boy to the ground and put one teenager in a chokehold. However, five students, some who were injured by McElree and other police officers while defending themselves, were arrested initially on simple assault charges, which were then elevated to aggravated assault, a felony, because their alleged “victim” was a police officer.  

Following ICE Raid, Mill Town Fights Back Against Local Police Cooperation

August 9, 2025 Mike Elk, Payday Report. , , ,
Ambridge, PA - In recent years, the dying mill town of Ambridge has seen revival as Latino immigrants pour into the community. However, a recent raid by ICE working in conjunction with local police has angered many residents and raised important questions about how even small municipalities like Ambridge can resist Trump’s attack on immigrants.  In 2016, Trump held a rally in Ambridge. After Trump won Pennsylvania, Gabriel Trip writing for The New York Times in an article entitled “ A Pennsylvania Town in Decline and Despair Looks to Donald Trump” wrote that, “Ambridge, like much of Pennsylvania outside Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, eagerly enlisted in Trump Nation this year.”

‘Northumberland 2’ Mink Fur Farm Case: RICO Charge Dropped

July 27, 2025 Chris Schiano, Unicorn Riot. , , ,
Sunbury, PA – Two women from Massachusetts and several dozen supporters from around the country traveled to a small central Pennsylvania town for the first major hearing in a felony case stemming from their arrest last November. The ‘Northumberland 2’ – Celeste Legere and Cara Mitrano – face a litany of PA state charges after being accused of an October 18-19, 2024 break-in at the Richard H. Stahl & Sons, Inc. fur farm in which 683 mink were released from their pens and breeding records were destroyed. Monday’s hearing saw prosecutors drop the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) charge leveled against both activists from Massachusetts.

Philadelphia DC 33 Strikers: ‘When We Fight, We Win!’

July 5, 2025 Betsey Piette, Workers World. , , , ,
Philadelphia, PA - As the historic strike by 9,000 members of Philadelphia’s American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 33 continues, workers’ militancy is escalating, and support for them is growing. Mountains of uncollected garbage are growing at official city collection sites in neighborhoods around the city. Some have been dubbed “the Parker Piles” after Mayor Cherelle Parker. Actions in support of the striking workers are being held all over the city, from protests outside municipal buildings to shutdowns of scab trash collection sites to librarians’ refusals to cross the picket lines of their library staff maintenance coworkers.

Philadelphia Municipal Workers Strike Before July 4 Celebrations

July 3, 2025 Paul Prescod, Labor Notes. , , , , , ,
Nine thousand blue-collar workers who make Philadelphia run went on strike July 1. After sacrificing through the pandemic and years of bruising inflation, they say they’re on strike so they can afford to live in the city they serve. Already, uncollected garbage is piling up as the workers, members of AFSCME District Council 33, defend their strike lines. The COVID-19 pandemic brought the term “essential worker” into widespread use, but many experienced a gap between how they were talked about and how they were treated. They were called essential, but regarded as disposable. In June 2020, at the height of the pandemic, hundreds of Philadelphia sanitation workers and other DC 33 members rallied to demand hazard pay and personal protective equipment.

Philadelphia’s Largest Blue-Collar Workers’ Union Goes On Strike

July 2, 2025 Tom Ignudo, Portside. , , , , ,
Philadelphia's largest city workers' union is on strike for the first time in nearly 40 years on Tuesday after a deal couldn't be reached with the city. AFSCME District Council 33, which represents thousands of city workers, including trash collectors and police dispatchers, is walking off the job after negotiations didn't end in a deal. The union last went on a strike in 1986. Here's what you need to know about the strike and how it will affect Philadelphia. District Council 33 represents about 9,000 city workers in services handled by the Sanitation Department, Water Department, Police Dispatch, Streets Department, maintenance at the airport and more. The union left Monday morning's negotiations with the Parker administration without a new contract in place.
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