The Save Chinatown Campaign and Petition
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…
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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…
Sanctuary Schools Campaign Update – Juntos
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…
Behind the Scenes: Navigating Philadelphia’s Complicated Park Upgrade Process
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…
Developer Connects Green New Deal to Affordable Housing
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…
At the Liberty Bell, immigrant leaders tell Biden to dismantle deportation mechanisms
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…
“Incompatible with Healing”: Vote for Homes Statement on Treatment Center Next to a Prison
Our organizations were deeply concerned to read newly released details about Mayor Parker’s proposed treatment and wellness center in the news last week. The decision to locate the facility next to the prisons, to house more than 600 people in one facility and to place people there involuntarily is antithetical to the values that we…
