This Philly Activist News was created in a spirit of love and service.
We, the contributors to this site, represent hundreds of years of activist experience in Philly, Pennsylvania, and around the country.
We put together this site because we need a new Internet.
Social media platforms have been hijacked. They have been weaponized to tear apart our movements, and make people apathetic, disempowered, and distrustful of each other. This is how democracy has been destabilized: distrust, apathy, and a torrential flood of distracting noise.
This site is a way of weaving our community back together. All of our struggles are in common. Some are new, some are old.
Struggles change and morph, they get new names. They may look different.
But under the surface, we are all fighting for our common dignity, humanity, and liberation.
Although we are rarely on TV, although our struggles are effectively banned from social media, we are legion. There are thousands of us in Filadelfia, Fèi Chéng, فيلادلفيا. – however you name our common home.
What’s Different About this News Site?
This site is public infrastructure for the activist community. Our great hope is that it is used: for learning, connection, morale-building…whatever is needed to build our collective strength.
Please keep in touch, send ideas, comments, etc.
Please add us to your press list if you are an activist organization: phillycommunitynews at gmail.com.
We accept submissions of all kinds: press releases, blog posts, memes, videos, whatever.
We also run job listings for social justice organizations, so please put us on that distribution list too.
Our plan is to make this site more interactive, possibly with a forum. Stay tuned!
Sincerely,
The Philly Activist News