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"COVID-19 & the Black Community"
On June 2, 2020 2:00 pm, 215 People’s Alliance, the Office of Councilmember Brooks and WURD cohost "COVID-19 & the Black Community: Why Philly Needs a Black Stimulus".
Speakers/Panelists:
- Amadee Braxton (host, WURD) – moderator
- Kendra Brooks (Councilmember At-Large) – focus on Black essential workers’ rights and City budget
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Author, Race for Profit, Assistant Professor, Princeton University) – focus on structural critique/big picture
- Munira Edens and her son (One PA Organizer) –focus on Black parent/student experience/education
- Jennifer Graham (Essential Worker)
- Shelah Mcmillan (Nurse)
- Chenjerai Kumanyika (215 People’s Alliance Steering Committee Member, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University) – focus on impact of austerity on Black communities, defines Black Stimulus
- Rasheedah Phillips (Senior Advocate Resources and Training Attorney, Shriver Center on Poverty Law) –focus on housing, race, and poverty
- Isaiah Thomas (Councilmember At-Large) –focus on Black youth
- Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party, National Director) –focus on national scale and importance of voting for Black community/tie-in to election day
2019 215 People’s Alliance slate
The membership of 215 People’s Alliance is supporting a slate of movement candidates for this May's primary election. We're backing candidates who are committed to working-class people and building a more just Philadelphia. Here's your chance to get involved and make sure our representatives are accountable to our communities.
These candidates are: Helen Gym, Erika Almiron, Isaiah Thomas, Justin Diberardinis and Ethelind Baylor.
Movements are won through people power. Join us, be a part of a sea change in Philadelphia's chambers of power, and volunteer as a part of 215 People’s Alliance PAC field program!
Reclaim Philadelphia 2019 Council endorsements
Reclaim Philadelphia April 2 2019:
With Erika for Philly, Helen Gym, Citizens For Isaiah Thomas, Justin for Philly and Ethelind Baylor.
Union endorsement
Amid public accusations of racial and personal bias, AFSCME District Council 47, the union that represents primarily white-collar city employees and supervisors, declined on Thursday night to endorse its current vice president, Ethelind Baylor, who has touted her union bona fides in her campaign for an at-large City Council seat.
“The meeting was a circus,” said Bob Coyle, president of the Local 2187, the largest voting delegate bloc among the eight labor groups represented under District Council 47. “There was a lot of animated discussion surrounding Ethelind, but in the end the union made the right decision to not endorse her.”
In the end, District Council 47 choose to endorse Isaiah Thomas, Sherrie Cohen, Helen Gym, Derek Green, and Justin DiBerardinis for City Council’s at-large seats.[1]
Vote Justice slate
215 People’s Alliance May 19, 2015 ·
TODAY IS THE DAY FOLKS. Nurse Patty Eakin on why she's going to #VoteJustice:
"I am excited by this election because I think we have a strong slate of candidates who are willing to fight to make this a city for everyone, not just for the city elites and the downtown corporations like Comcast.
As a nurse I know that one of the biggest predictors of poor health is poverty, and Philadelphia is the poorest of America's big cities. Jim Kenney and our endorsed city council candidates have pledged to increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour because no one can provide the basic necessities of life for themselves and their children on $8 an hour."
The #VoteJustice Slate is Jim Kenney for Mayor, and Sherrie Cohen, Helen Gym, Isaiah Thomas, Wilson Good, Jr. and William Greenlee for City Council. Learn more about the #VoteJustice slate at http://215pa.com/.
Progressive Philly Rising endorsement
Progressive Philly Rising is proud to announce our endorsements for City Council At-Large. Our endorsed candidates make up the #VotePeoplesAgenda slate.
Serving Councilman, W. Wilson Goode, Jr. is joined by challengers, Isaiah Thomas, Sherrie Cohen, Jenne Ayers, and Helen Gym.