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Five Questions with Sen. Nikil Saval: From community organizing to the Capitol | Miércoles Coffee
Good Miércoles Morning, Fellow Seekers. People talk about bringing socialism to state government. State Sen. Nikil Saval walks the talk. Along with Reps. Sara Innamorato and Summer Lee, of Allegheny County, and Elizabeth Fiedler, of Philadelphia, Saval, of...
Residents, public officials battle for the future of University City Townhomes in West Philly
On Jueves, Oct. 14, longtime residents of the University City Townhomes in West Philadelphia joined with City Councilmember Jamie Gauthier and other elected officials to protest the sale of the rental complex at 39th and Market Streets. The tenants, many of them...
Residentes y funcionarios públicos luchan por el futuro de University City Townhomes en West Philly
El jueves 14 de octubre, los antiguos residentes de University City Townhomes, en el oeste de Filadelfia, se unieron al concejal Jamie Gauthier y a otros funcionarios electos para protestar por la venta del complejo de alquiler de las calles 39 y Market. Los...
PGN celebrates 45 years of activism with historical marker unveiling
A state historical marker recognizing Philadelphia Gay News was unveiled Octubre 13 at the site of PGN’s first office, 233 S. 13th Street. Before the unveiling, current and former staff members, community members, politicians, and supporters of the paper gathered...
Statewide Nondiscrimination: Instagram Live with Senator Santarsiero, the PA Youth Congress, and the Millennial Advisory Committee
Activists call for end to ‘death by incarceration’
A movement of Pennsylvania activists are working to end the state’s policy of sentencing incarcerated people to life without the possibility of parole (LWOP). They have coined the term ‘death by incarceration’ to describe this cruel punishment. The activists held a...
Teen vaccine consent bill introduced
Legislation has been introduced in the state Assembly that would allow children age 14 and older to decide for themselves if they want childhood vaccines, including the COVID-19 vaccine. Introduced by Sen. Amanda Cappelletti, D-Delaware/Montgomery, Senate Bill 856 was...
Liberen a nuestros mayores: Concentración y rueda de prensa por la libertad condicional geriátrica (SB835)
Senator Saval Demands an End to Death by Incarceration
State Senator Nikil Saval’s Electoral District: In Food and Photos
he first thing State Sen. Nikil Saval (D–01) learned from watching his recently immigrated Indian parents run a pizza parlor in Santa Monica was that the restaurant industry is hard. The second thing he learned was that solidarity among working–class people of...
Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist?
It feels most apt to mark the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street by reviving a debate that is resistant to resolution, open to endless disagreement, and primed for messy expressions of political ideology. How very Occupy! If you had asked me at the time whether...
Senator Saval Legislative Priorities: Housing Is a Human Right
Senator Saval Demands Use of State Rainy Day Funds to Help Rebuild After Ida
Senator Wants PA Supreme Court To Reimplement Eviction Moratorium
A Pennsylvania lawmaker is calling on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to halt evictions. Following the United States Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the eviction moratorium, Democrat Senator Nikil Saval of Philadelphia says the state’s highest court should...
State Senators Saval and Schwank to Introduce State Mask Legislation
Harrisburg, PA – Agosto 30, 2021 – Today, State Senators Nikil Saval and Judy Schwank announced they will soon introduce legislation to support Governor Tom Wolf’s call for mask mandates in the state. Senator Schwank’s forthcoming bill would require general indoor...
Two Pa. Democrats propose legislation to impose mask mandates in K-12 schools, childcare facilities
Though it’s unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Legislature, a package of bills requiring universal indoor masking for Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools and childcare programs is in the works. Days after House and Senate leadership denied a request from Gov. Tom Wolf...
SCOTUS eviction ruling increases pressure to dole out rental aid money
Last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling rejecting the Biden administration’s last-ditch effort to extend a federal ban on evictions, which has put hundreds of thousands of American renters at risk of losing their housing, was not a particularly surprising one. But as...
State Democratic lawmakers propose statewide school mask mandate
HARRISBURG, Pa. — As thousands of students across the Susquehanna Valley return to the classroom full-time, some school districts have opted to follow the mask mandate — others have not. The decisive approach to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Los demócratas del Senado instan al Tribunal Supremo del Estado a que actúe contra los desahucios de inquilinos con solicitudes pendientes del PAER
Harrisburg, PA - 30 de agosto 2021 - El Caucus Demócrata del Senado envió la siguiente carta a la Corte Suprema de Pensilvania para alentar al tribunal a tomar medidas para detener los desalojos de los inquilinos que ya tienen solicitudes pendientes en el Programa de Asistencia de Alquiler de Emergencia.
Senator Saval’s Statement on U.S. Supreme Courts Ruling Thrusting Millions of Renters into Precarity
PHILADELPHIA, PA — Senator Nikil Saval (D–Philadelphia) released a statement Viernes on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate the only remaining protection for renters:. “Hundreds of thousands of people across our state, and millions of people all across...