Strike Statement this December:Union Starbucks Partners Vote Overwhelmingly to Authorize Strike as Bargaining Enters Final Stages Starbucks Workers United baristas announced Tuesday morning that they have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, if necessary, to win fair raises, benefits and staffing, protest unfair labor practices, and resolve outstanding litigation with Starbucks. An overwhelming 98 percent…
During an interview in VietLead’s cramped offices in a South Philadelphia Asian shopping center, Chu Bach began to cry. It’s all too much — too much trauma, too much pain, too much fear. What if he never came back? What if immigration grabbed him and deported him? What if he never saw his wife and…
Historical & Cultural Significance of Chinatown For 150 years, Philadelphia’s Chinatown has been the cultural heart of Philly’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and our community is worth fighting for. Chinatown has been the place where we share community, culture, and language. It is where generations of immigrants have found home. It is where…
About the New Sanctuary Movement: Our Work Through grassroots organizing led by affected immigrants, we fight and win immigrant justice campaigns with our members across nationality, faith, class, and immigration status. Our community organizing in Philadelphia builds power in immigrant communities to alter the power imbalance, organizes direct action campaigns, builds the individual and collective…
March 2024 marks exactly three years since a pregnant immigrant mother was detained outside a public elementary school in South Philadelphia, an arrest that sparked widespread fear and concern for immigrant and newcomer students and families. Despite the unanimous approval for the Welcoming Sanctuary Schools resolution in 2021, there have been continued instances of institutional…
Outside of Philadelphia’s Rebuild initiative, which aims to invest in more than 70 parks and recreation centers in the city, the path to upgrading city-owned parks and playgrounds is not entirely straightforward. Philly has more than 500 public parks. Over 400 of those are overseen by the Department of Parks and Recreation. Notably, Parks and…
Marc Rowell’s mission with Deep Green Retrofit, launched in 2021, is to develop energy efficient, move-in ready housing for working-class families, putting affordability and sustainability ahead of personal profit. Growing up in public housing in North Philadelphia, Rowell came to believe that the residents deserved better. That idea combined with his passion for sustainability led…
About a hundred immigration activists and supporters met in the shadow of the Liberty Bell on Wednesday to demand that President Joe Biden use his remaining time in office to take apart the nation’s deportation mechanisms. Amid a loud, sign-waving rally that temporarily blocked traffic at the foot of Ben Franklin Bridge, everyday citizens and…
