Menciones en los medios

Close to 2,000 members of the Center for Popular Democracy as well as Philadelphia based affiliates CASA, Make the Road PA, OnePA and other allies gathered on Sábado to march on City Hall to call for a significant investment in nationwide green social housing that’d...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The city’s Landlord-Tenant Office has agreed to temporarily suspend evictions, following a shooting in Port Richmond last week. But a Pennsylvania senator wants to permanently bar private entities from handling evictions.

Speaker Joanna McClinton, Senator Nikil Saval, and PA Representative Donna Bullock joined Google to help teach kids how to stay safe and secure online at the Xtreme 5 Teen Tech Summit Google’s Online Safety Roadshow was presented to students at the 3rd Annual Xtreme5...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Striking actors belonging to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists brought their case to Philadelphia and held a rally at LOVE Park Jueves morning. The rally comes as members of SAG and the Writers Guild of...

Actors and writers in SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild are on strike together for the first time since the 1960s. Jueves, union members from Philadelphia held a lunchtime rally at LOVE Park to explain their demands. SAG-AFTRA officials say the studios are unwilling...

Philadelphia's landlord-tenant office agreed Miércoles to halt evictions until its employees and contractors have received up-to-date trainings on de-escalation and use of force procedures. Since Marzo, three deputy officers have opened fire during eviction lockouts,...

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia’s controversial landlord-tenant office has agreed to suspend evictions. The move comes after a second shooting by one of its officers.

Philadelphia’s landlord-tenant officer has agreed to temporarily stop performing evictions, according to a spokesperson for the First Judicial District. The decision comes less than 24 hours after a deputy landlord-tenant officer allegedly shot a 33-year-old woman in...

After another violent incident during an eviction in Philadelphia, the city's controversial landlord-tenant officer has agreed to stop carrying out lockouts — for now.

Evictions in Philadelphia have surprisingly little to do with the Sheriff’s Office. Though the sheriff has the power to serve evictions, the task is usually handled by a private force hired by a court-appointed attorney known as the landlord-tenant officer. These...

None of this should have come as a surprise to anyone. The barricades, the protests, the arrests, the drab counterterrorism units bobbing in and out of the powder-blue sea of police—it was all to be expected, and could have easily been prevented weeks ago. A couple of...

Protests were out in full force against a far right-wing advocacy group holding their national summit in Philadelphia Junio 29-Julio 2. Self-proclaimed parental-rights group Moms for Liberty (M4L) held their “Joyful Warriors” summit at the Philadelphia Marriott...

The Supreme Court on Jueves overturned more than 40 years of policy at many of the nation’s college campuses by making it illegal to use race alone as a factor in admissions.

This week’s Moms for Liberty national summit in Philadelphia has provoked a storm of protests and denunciations, as well as supportive responses and possible counter-protests by the group’s members. Also known as M4L, the conservative nonprofit pushes for school book...

Earlier today, the United States Supreme Court ruled against Harvard College and the University of North Carolina. In a 6-3 decision, the justices rejected the colleges’ race-conscious admissions systems, finding that the programs violate the equal protection clause...

Conservative group Moms for Liberty is kicking off a four-day summit Jueves in Philadelphia that has sparked weeks-long protests and drawn heavy criticism from elected officials. Why it matters: The self-labeled "parental rights" group's event is bringing school...

For the second time in three months, a deputy landlord-tenant officer in Philadelphia has fired a gun on the job, according to law enforcement. The incident occurred Miércoles morning while the officer was serving an eviction on the 5500 block of North American Street...

Philadelphia residents and activists get ready for a weekend of actions outside the Moms for Liberty Conference. Events include banned book giveaways, LGBTQ dance parties and more. A weekend of demonstrations and actions are planned in Center City Philadelphia as the...

The more I’m in government, the more I realize how corrupt it is.” Janeese Lewis George is sitting in the lobby of the Kellogg Conference Hotel at Washington, D.C.’s Gallaudet University, telling me about the last three years. It hasn’t been easy for the 35-year-old...

In response to the Moms for Liberty (M4L) national summit taking place at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown from Junio 30-Julio 2, numerous progressive civil-rights and pro-democracy organizations will be holding protests in Philly. M4L’s raison d’être is steeped in...

Former president Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other prominent Republican figures will all be in Philadelphia this week. What’s the draw? The annual conference of conservative nonprofit Moms for Liberty. LGBTQ and anti-censorship groups are planning to...

Last week, several Philadelphia area state senators sent a letter to the CEO of the Museum of the American Revolution, requesting that the museum cancel an event scheduled to be held at their venue by far right-wing advocacy organization, Moms for Liberty. M4L has...

DANIEL ELLSBERG LIVED A LIFE defined by the accumulation of high-level knowledge and punctuated by famous acts of political courage. Many people act courageously; fewer people have high-level knowledge, and fewer of these display any courage at all. The connection...

It’s been seven weeks since House Democrats passed the Fairness Act, and LGBTQ+ activists and allies are tired of waiting. On Miércoles, they held a lobby day in Harrisburg demanding a vote on the non-discrimination bill. LGBTQ+ activists visited the Pennsylvania...

Before he was evicted, Mark Person thought he and his landlord could work out what he described as a dispute over the timing of an exterminator visit. Then, one day in Febrero, he heard from neighbors that a deputy landlord-tenant officer was in his apartment...

As the date for Moms for Liberty’s national summit approaches, organizations opposed to the far-right extremist group’s policies are planning protests for when the group is in town. Moms for Liberty will hold its second annual convention, the Joyous Warriors National...

It was Enero, 2021. COVID-19 was entering its second calendar year and the country had yet to re-open. A pair of former Florida school board members, Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich, had reached a boiling point. They were outraged by pandemic restrictions and...

The Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia later this month is expected to convene hundreds of conservative women and spotlight GOP presidential hopefuls Donald Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. It also will feature its share...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (ErieNewsNow) - As the nation continues to struggle with an overdose crisis that reached a record-high in 2021, more states are exploring ways to prevent fatal drug overdoses. Some states are considering safe injection, or overdose prevention sites,...

Coal Township is located deep in the hills of Northumberland County. It takes it name from the once-thriving anthracite industry that built the hard-scrabble community and others like it in the north central part of the state. Today, it is tucked away between green...

GETUP — a group of graduate student workers at the University of Pennsylvania — reunited over 200 people and rallied on campus on Abril 26 for safe, fair, and transparent working conditions. AL DÍA heard from some students about their thoughts on the movement. For...