Philadelphia

Judge Rules Environmental Group Can Challenge Sunoco Over Pipeline Eminent Domain

May 30, 2017 Jon Hurdle, www.stateimpact.npr.org Resist! Environment, Philadelphia, Pipelines, Protests

By Jon Hurdle for State Impact NPR - Sunoco Logistics’ use of eminent domain to take private land to build its Mariner East 2 pipeline came into question again on Thursday when a Philadelphia court ruled that an environmental group can argue that the practice is unconstitutional. Judge Linda Carpenter of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas denied the company’s request to summarily dismiss a complaint by the Clean Air Council, clearing the way for a trial, possibly at the end of this year. The Clean Air Council argues that Sunoco has no right to take land via eminent domain because the pipeline is carrying natural gas liquids across state lines and is therefore an interstate, not intrastate, pipeline. If Mariner East 2 is deemed an interstate pipeline, it is not entitled to a “certificate of public convenience” from the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, the environmental group argues. That certificate is needed to assert eminent domain to take the land of uncooperative landowners. The ruling follows two other recent decisions from the Commonwealth Court, which ruled in favor of the company in its disputes with individual landowners.

Philly Teachers Call Off Work In Bottom-Up Campaign

May 29, 2017 Samantha Winslow, www.labornotes.org Resist! Education, May Day, Philadelphia, Teachers

By Samantha Winslow for Labor Notes - Teachers and their unions turned out for May Day this year in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Oakland, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Seattle. They held teach-ins at schools and pickets outside, and joined citywide demonstrations in solidarity with immigrant communities. Philadelphia teachers wanted to show solidarity with the day’s themes—but also make a statement to the city about their own contract struggle. They’ve gone four years without a contract and five years without a raise. They’ve suffered school closings, freezes on steps and lanes in the pay scale, layoffs of school nurses and counselors, and the privatization of substitute teachers. The state-appointed school board even tried to cancel their contract, though it was rebuffed by the courts. So, to create pressure on the district, a group of teachers organized their own protest. “We are finally taking some action, after five years of not doing much,” said Tom Quinn, a teacher at the city’s largest high school, where more than half of teachers took a “personal day” on May Day. The 11,000-member Philadelphia Federation of Teachers didn’t authorize the action. Instead it was a rank-and-file group, the three-year-old Caucus of Working Educators, that enlisted 400 teachers from 24 schools to call off from work and join a series of May Day activities.

N. Philly Lays Out An Unwelcome Mat For Trump

September 4, 2016 Jason Nark and Mensah M. Dean, www.philly.com Resist! Donald Trump, Philadelphia

By Jason Nark and Mensah M. Dean for Philly.com. The protest of Trump's visit to North Philadelphia coalesced at Brown and Broad Streets, growing to over 100 people by the time the nominee slipped inside a back door on Carlisle Street at 2 p.m. Protesters included Juntos, a Latino immigrant advocacy organization, which prepared long cloth signs, stenciled with black chain-link fence and redbrick designs, and the words #wall off Trump. Erica Mines of the Philadelphia Coalition for Real Justice also directed her anger at the people who invited Trump to Philadelphia. "We are tired of them handing our communities over to our oppressors on a silver platter," she told the crowd. A few blocks away, at Brown and 13th Street, Carla Griffin, 54, sat on her front porch and wondered how anyone could take seriously Trump's brief dip into Philadelphia. "He's an embarrassment. This is a photo opportunity for him," Griffin said. "This is what politics has been reduced to."

In Philadelphia, Progressive Education Organizers Fight ‘Disaster Capitalism’

August 4, 2016 Molly Knefel, www.inthesetimes.com Resist! Capitalism, Education, Philadelphia

By Molly Knefel for In These Times - This week, Democrats descended upon the city of Philadelphia, attempting to present themselves as simultaneously progressive enough to be the party of racial, gender, and economic justice, but conservative enough to be welcoming to Republicans turned off by Donald Trump. In a succinct illustration of some of the contradictions at play during the Democratic National Convention, vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine, the former governor of a Right-to-Work state, spoke proudly of his dad running a union shop.

Bernie Sanders Supporters Just Staged Massive Walkout At DNC

July 27, 2016 Zach Cartwright, www.usuncut.com Resist! Bernie Sanders, DNC, Philadelphia

By Zach Cartwright for US Uncut - Bernie Sanders delegates are leaving the Wells Fargo Center in droves, protesting the Democratic National Committee’s bias toward Hillary Clinton throughout the primary process. In a video tweeted by NBC News’ Monica Alba, Sanders’ most ardent supporters are seen walking out, holding signs and chanting “Show me what Democracy looks like! This is what Democracy looks like!” NPR’s Asma Khalid also tweeted video of Sanders supporters chanting “Walk out! Walk out!” after the nomination vote.

Democratic Convention Draws Thousands Of Protesters To Philadelphia

July 26, 2016 Staff, www.AP.org Resist! DNC, Philadelphia, Protests

By Staff of Associated Press - Thousands of demonstrators took to the sweltering streets of Philadelphia on Sunday, chanting and beating drums in the first major protests ahead of the Democratic national convention. Throngs of clean energy activists jammed a major thoroughfare in a mile-long march from city hall to Independence Mall, near the Liberty Bell. They held anti-fracking and anti-pipeline signs, some with illustrations such as a train surrounded by a fireball and the words “No Exploding Trains”. Others held “Bernie or Bust” signs.

Guide To Philadelphia DNC Media Won’t Show You

July 15, 2016 Bob Hennelly, www.salon.com Educate! DNC, Philadelphia, police brutality, Poverty

By Bob Hennelly for Salon - Just like their Republican counterparts in Cleveland, the delegates to the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia will be sequestered far away from the daily misery and despair that’s the experience of their host city’s extreme poor. This growing cohort of folks are overwhelmingly people of color and include tens of thousands of children who find themselves living in neighborhoods in the “City of Brotherly Love” pock marked with 40,000 vacant lots and zombie homes.

Philadelphia Airport Workers Just Voted To Strike DNC

July 14, 2016 Zach Cartwright, www.usuncut.com Resist! DNC, Philadelphia, Strikes, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Zach Cartwright for US Uncut - All the political luminaries, delegates, and journalists attending the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia may be flying directly into a chaotic mess if employers don’t negotiate with airport workers. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, SEIU 32BJ, the union fighting to represent workers at the Philadelphia International Airport, is demanding the city grant airport employees the right to unionize.

GoFundMe: The People’s Convention Needs Space

July 7, 2016 Staff, www.gofundme.com Create! Democracy, Philadelphia, Revolution

By Staff of Popular Resistance - The People’s Convention is where people eager to reclaim their democracy will join together to unite behind a common policy framework, rather than a personality or party. This one day event will take place on July 23rd at the historic Arch Street Meeting House (ASMH) in Philadelphia. Organizers from around the country will be in attendance in order to ratify a People's Platform, participate in movement building exercises and to discuss next steps for the political revolution spearheaded by Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.

Philadelphia’s Forgotten Spirit Of 1776

July 4, 2016 Sam Pizzigati, www.ourfuture.org Educate! History, Independence Day, Philadelphia

By Sam Pizzigati for Campaign for America's Future - Later this summer, just a few weeks after this year’s Fourth of July celebrations, Democrats will be gathering in Philadelphia to make some presidential nomination history. Democrats — small-d variety — gathered in Philadelphia soon after the original Fourth of July, too. Those democrats, all Pennsylvanians, also had some history to make. In September 1776, they would go on to adopt their new nation’s most egalitarian state constitution.

Philadelphia Lawyers Form Coalition To Defend Protesters At DNC

June 24, 2016 Christopher “Flood the Drummer” Norris, www.phillyinfocus.com Create! Defense, DNC, Philadelphia, Protesters

By Christopher “Flood the Drummer” Norris for Philly In Focus - for Philadelphia – (Politics): More than a dozen copies of the book, “Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000,” sat in a brown box on a sturdy wooden table just inches from where twenty or so private Philadelphia criminal defense and civil rights lawyers who will defend free speech at the Democratic National Convention convened to introduce their collaborative to the news media, answer journalists’ questions and, once the press exited the Law Offices of Krasner & Long, LLC, talk strategy among themselves.

Want People’s Revolution? Support People’s Convention

June 3, 2016 Steven D, www.caucus99percent.com Create! Philadelphia, Revolution

By Steven D for Caucus 99 Percent - The Democratic National Convention starts on July 24, 2016. But it's not the only convention in Philly. And it with won't be the only organization voting on a platform. Because if you want a platform for real progressives (and not the once every four year ones) to run on, you should ask the people what they want and let them vote on it. And that is exactly what The People's Convention, to be held in the historic Arch Street Meeting House in Philadelphia on July 23rd, is all about.

Philly Schools Sacrificed On Altar Of Pennsylvania Budget Compromise

December 18, 2015 Staff, www.gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com Educate! Budget, Education, Philadelphia

By Staff of Gad Fly On The Wall Blog - Pennsylvania lawmakers are ready to help all students across the Commonwealth – if only they can abuse, mistreat and trample some of them. Which ones? The poor black and brown kids. Of course! That seems to be the lesson of a school code bill passed with bipartisan support by the state Senate Thursday. The legislation would require the Commonwealth to pick as many as 5 “underperforming” Philadelphia schools a year to close, charterize or just fire the principal and half the staff.

Police Riot In Philadelphia, Attack Peaceful Protesters

May 27, 2015 Betsey Piette, www.workers.org Resist! #SayHerName, Philadelphia, police brutality, Racial Justice

The confrontation with the police had begun to develop over an hour earlier, before the bus incident, toward the conclusion of a two-hour #SayHerName vigil in remembrance of Black women, transwomen and children murdered by racist police and vigilantes. Nearly 50 demonstrators had gathered at the corner of Cecil B. Moore and N. Broad streets to light candles and chalk the names of hundreds of victims on the surrounding block. Toward the end of the event, people took turns reading the names of the victims, including women and children who had been lynched by racist mobs. Nevertheless, people peacefully concluded the vigil and many headed home, only to get calls a short time later alerting them to the arrests at the bus stop and the need to be present outside the precinct where the arrestees had been taken. Despite the late hour, nearly 60 people turned out, with many staying into the night.

Can’t Talk Amtrak Derailment Without Talking Infrastructure

May 15, 2015 Aviva Shen, www.thinkprogress.org Educate! Austerity, Infrastructure, Philadelphia, Transportation

At least six people have died and more than 140 people are injured in the wake of the deadliest Amtrak derailment in recent history. Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 rolled off the tracks while rounding a bend near Philadelphia, according to NBC Philadelphia, while carrying 238 passengers and five crew members. As officials sort through the wreckage and try to determine the cause of the tragedy, the Northeast Corridor — Amtrak’s busiest and most profitable route between Boston and Washington — will be shut down for an indeterminate amount of time. Already the densest rail route in the U.S., aging Northeast Corridor trains are grappling with more riders than ever. The route has steadily broken ridership records every year for more than a decade — last year, 11.6 million people rode a Northeast Corridor train.

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