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Temple U graduate students go on strike for a living wage
The Temple University Graduate Students’ Association (TUGSA) went on strike early Tuesday 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 Thursday 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 Wednesday 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 Saturday 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 Friday for a contract they say has not been signed yet. The workers said they are...
Senator Saval Celebrates Urban Agriculture at the 107th Annual PA Farm Show
Philly state lawmaker wants Pa. to recognize Jan. 6 as Democracy Observance Day
Two years after insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol while Congress members met to certify the electoral results for president, and as House members in the same chamber repeatedly failed over several days to vote on a speaker, a...
Sens. Haywood, Hughes, and Saval Host Jan. 6 Commemoration to Honor First Responders
PHILADELPHIA – January 6, 2023 – Sen. Art Haywood (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia) joined Sen. Vincent Hughes (D-Montgomery/Philadelphia), Sen. Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia), state Rep. Mary Isaacson (D-Philadelphia), and statewide elected officials at the National...
Senator Saval Calls for Solidarity on the Second Anniversary of the Insurrection
Pa. enacted 166 new laws last year, the most in 6 years. Here are the highlights, from deteriorating homes to property tax help
HARRISBURG — The 166 laws enacted in Pennsylvania in 2022 honed in on a staggering variety of problems — among them fentanyl, deteriorating homes, victims’ rights and tax rates — and each took its own path through Harrisburg’s lawmaking machine. The annual total of...
A new vision for Fishtown and Kensington businesses is coming into focus
State Rep. Mary Isaacson and state Sen. Nikil Saval joined forces to help secure a state grant for the Fishtown-Kensington Business Improvement District Vision Plan Initiative. The $72,750 award represents the final funding required to complete the initiative.
Want to gift a book? Let the best of Philly writers help.
Philadelphia is packed with literary talent. We chased after some of the city’s finest to ask what projects they’re working on, and got them to suggest what books (and tickets!) to gift this holiday season.
Readout of White House Meeting with State Legislative Leaders on Housing Affordability
Building on President Biden’s Housing Supply Action Plan, White House Officials from the National Economic Council, Domestic Policy Council, and Office of Intergovernmental Affairs convened a meeting on housing affordability with state legislative leaders from ten...