This Philly Activist News was created in a spirit of love and service. We are the opposite of Fox News – but in more ways than one. It’s not just about ideological leanings. It’s about connection.
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. 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 infrastructure for the activist communities. Philly is a city of fighters – there are so many of us. Our 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. phillycommunitynews at gmail.com.
Normal political news covers matters that have already been decided. When votes have already happened — when it’s too late to speak up.
This is accountability reporting, and it is critical to our society and fighting corruption. The free press is under attack – we all need to support them.
This site adds another layer. It is designed to ease access into public participation. It is designed to let you – the public – have your voices heard. To be in the room when matters of consequence are being debated and decided.
“But you see,” she said, “it’s not really fair at this moment, if you want to debate the sides of a question. Because not all sides have a newspaper.”
– from The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams