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Senator Saval Honors the Life and Legacy of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad
Temple University Administrators Have Declared War on Striking Grad Workers
On Febrero 8, striking graduate workers at Temple University, a public institution on Philadelphia’s North Side, received notices that their tuition remission for the spring semester would be removed, “as a result of your participation in the TUGSA strike.”...
What you need to know about Temple’s graduate workers strike
Since Enero 2022 Temple University Graduate Student’s Association (TUGSA) has been negotiating with the university administration for improvements in healthcare, wages and overall working conditions. No agreements have been reached, and things just...
Overwhelming Demand for Whole-Home Repairs Program in Counties Across PA
Philadelphia, PA − Febrero 9, 2023 − The Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development recently released information on the overwhelming demand for Whole-Home Repairs Program funding in counties across the Commonwealth: 64 of Pennsylvania’s 67...
Students who participated in a strike at Temple University are being told they will lose their tuition and health care benefits
Temple University, a public school in Philadelphia with roughly 40,000 students, confirmed Miércoles that teaching and research assistants who take part in a strike over low pay will have their health coverage suspended and be forced to cover the full cost of tuition,...
48 Pa. elected officials say U.S. Supreme Court should be expanded with four new justices
In the wake of a series of U.S. Supreme Court rulings that have alarmed Democrats concerned about the justices’ rightward shift, dozens of elected officials in Pennsylvania have endorsed expanding the court in an effort to restore balance. Eight members of...
Museum for Art in Wood in Philadelphia
On Enero 30, the organization officially rebranded as the Museum for Art in Wood after undergoing an intensive and diligent planning process. The move allows the Museum to be further recognized by an international community of artists, scholars, and...
Temple U graduate students go on strike for a living wage
The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) went on strike early Martes morning for the first time in the union’s history since it was founded in 1979 and continues to show their support for a living wage through ongoing rallies...
Temple University graduate workers on strike
Holding signs proclaiming “Respect TUGSA, Respect Students” and “Temple Works because TUGSA Does” on a lively picket line loud with chants and brass horns, Temple University Graduate Students’ Association members went on strike Jan. 31. They are demanding a fair...
Grad students’ strike continues as Temple U. remains steadfast
Elected officials, Temple University students and local community leaders came together Jueves to show support for the ongoing strike being held by the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) following over a year of failed negotiations on a new...
Bernie Sanders supports Temple’s graduate worker strike
The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders wrote a message on his social media supporting the indefinite strike the Temple University graduate workers announced yesterday. The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) called the strike after a year of non...
Bernie Sanders tweets support for TUGSA strike
United States Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders voiced his support for Temple University Graduate Students’ Association’s strike in a tweet Miércoles evening. “If Temple can afford to pay its football coach $2 million per year, it can afford to pay its grad...
Forget red vs. blue: Harrisburg bipartisan green for Eagles
HARRISBURG, Pa. (CBS) -- Junior lawmakers typically defer to their senior leaders on important decisions. But drafting a memo for legislation about the cost of tickets to sporting events, newly-inaugurated state Sen. Frank Farry (R-Bucks) couldn't help himself. "We...
Blair County to apply for low-income home repair grant
Blair County is preparing to submit a grant application to the state for $741,487 that can be used by lower-income property owners for home repairs, based on a program state lawmakers created in 2022. The county anticipates receiving the grant through the Whole-Home...
THE ROOTS RUN DEEP: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OF UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING
This crisis of unaffordable housing did not start yesterday. It’s a build-up of deliberate and very racist housing policy, corrupt financial institutions and severe structural deficiencies over generations. Recently, on WURD, Charles Ellison hosted a special ecoWURD...
THERE IS NO COST TO LIVE: THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS OF UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING
What image comes to mind when you think about the environment? Is it a lush forest bursting with vibrancy? Or an open field where the sun casts its warmth over the rolling hills? How about an icy tundra? When we think of the environment, especially in the context of...
This is one of the best times in history to be an organizer
As a community organizer, I often imagine what it would have been like to march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and win the Voting Rights Act. I always find inspiration in Dr. King’s words, especially this passage from his final book, Where Do We Go From Here? “Let...
Teamwork while in training
About 30 pre-apprentice carpenters, members of the Eastern Atlantic States Carpenters Technical College’s Carpenters’ Apprentice Ready Program, on Sábado created planter boxes to share with communities across Philadelphia in celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr....
Philly airport food service workers rally for a signed contract
Dozens of Black, brown and immigrant Philadelphia International Airport food service workers, who are members of UNITE HERE Philly Local 274, picketed at the airport’s Terminal B on Viernes for a contract they say has not been signed yet. The workers said they are...