by Joel SroncePhoto by Scott Warman on Unsplash In mid-May, Joel Sronce sat down at Buna Café with three workers … More
Author: phillypartisan
Who’s Reading What We’re Writing?
How leftist journalists can reach readers beyond the activist bubble by Suzy SubwaysAll images by the author unless otherwise noted. … More
A History Still in the Making: 50 Years of Philadelphia Tenant Organizing
by Tommy McGloneFeatured image: Aftermath of the Columbia Avenue Riot, August 29, 1964. Joseph Wiedelman/Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Courtesy of Special … More
Tenant Victory: How Kate McKeon and the PTU Beat an Eviction
by Jay FullenwiderFeatured image by Cupcake Media on Unsplash Kate McKeon was devastated to learn over Memorial Day weekend last … More
Textile Art, Labor Organizing, and Socialism: An Interview with Tabitha K. Arnold
by Nico Millman and Lauren TroopFeatured image by Tabitha K. Arnold / Colorspace Labs Nico Millman and Lauren Troop conducted … More
Gagarin [Poem]
“Love lives in rage, sings lost names / With each new season of barricades”
Artists Rally to Urge Kenney Not to Annihilate Arts. Again.
Joyful as many of them were, taken together, the rally performances exuded a kind of collective loneliness, a longing to be united in shared space, to dance together, breathing the same air without fear.
Bryn Mawr Student Activists Demanded for Change as Tri-College Strike Manifested
Working to change an institution is a radical and revolutionary attempt; the act requires not only immediate responses to injustices but also requires long term plans for accountability.
Open Letter From the César Andreu Iglesias Community Garden to the Philadelphia Land Bank Board of Directors / Para la junta directiva del Land Bank
Despite the Land Bank’s stated goals of supporting, “Affordable, market rate, or mixed-income housing development, business expansion, community facilities, side- and rear-yards, and Gardens and community open space, including urban agriculture,” it is clear that developers are heavily favored over communities through this process.