Category: Labor Solidarity
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Dignity Over Dumping: Community Conversations on Waste & Litter With Centennial Parkside CDC
January 29, 2019 I worked with Nora Elmarzouky and Russell Hicks from Centennial Parkside to develop a program for their eighth Green Economy Chat n Chew event, titled Dignity Over Dumping. This event is part of a series of community discussions on issues impacting residents of the Parkside neighborhood. In the past, they’ve held discussions…
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Philadelphia Takes A Moment of Silence for Echol Cole and Robert Walker
February 9, 2018 Last week, I joined dozens of public service employees, union members, and allies gathered outside of Philadelphia City Hall at the memorial statue of Octavius Catto, civil rights activist and abolitionist, to pay tribute to Echol Cole, and Robert Walker, two sanitation workers whose tragic deaths sparked the historic Sanitation Workers Strike…