Highlights from items in the local and national news this past month that you might not have heard about, along…
The People Have Spoken: It’s Time SEPTA Gets Proper Funding
By I. Pliskin Fresh off the heels of news that union workers have come to an agreement with SEPTA staving…
Curating a Movement, Doing for the Self: In Conversation with Mike Africa Jr.
By Anya Kohan Photos by Marcus Branch This past May marks 39 years since MOVE, a Black liberation group in…
Stewards of the Land: An Interview with Jovian of the Original American Foundation
By Nneka Azuka The Original American Foundation Garden is a community garden project started by Jovian & Robert in 2020,…
Report from Starbucks’ Red Cup Rebellion
By Joel SronceAll images by the author Report originally published at Tempest Magazine. On a cold, windy Thursday in Philly,…
What We Should Remember: How Memorials Mask the Capitalist Roots of War
by Herbert P. CainePhoto by Walter Martin on Unsplash Walking through Port Richmond, I regularly pass by two memorials for…
‘What’s Happening in the Philippines Is Happening Here in America’: Ket Maarte of Anakbayan on the Filipino Diaspora and International Solidarity
Interview by Tarig RobinsonPhoto by Alexes Gerard on Unsplash This is a transcript of an interview with Ket Maarte, the…
Facing Intimidation and Retaliation, Philly Starbucks Workers Go on Strike
by Joel SroncePhotos by the author. Before sunrise on July 22, 2022, a crowd gathered in downtown Philadelphia at the…
‘We Intend to Make a Workers’ Paradise’: Mariposa Union Members Reflect on the Struggle So Far — and What’s Next
by Joel SroncePhoto by Scott Warman on Unsplash In mid-May, Joel Sronce sat down at Buna Café with three workers…
The Philadelphia Partisan 