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While the tired, old adage of how Eagles fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus is annoying and overused by the national media when talking about the “personality” of Philadelphians, it is worth mentioning considering what’s happening to television reporters during their coverage of Saturday’s blizzard.
TV news reporters are getting hit with snowballs while reporting on the winter weather.
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Volume 2 Issue 5 (PDF for printing 11×17)
Volume 2 Issue 5 (PDF for reading 8.5×11)
In this issue:
Submission
Development Index is an anti-gentrification research project in Philly. Charting the progress of development allows us to map a material aspect of how white supremacy and colonial capitalism operate in this city. This project focuses on those responsible for building, funding, designing, planning, and profiting from new developments, and otherwise collaborating in the gentrification process.
This website is a tool for people to identify targets and take action against displacement and gentrification.
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An Incomplete Timeline of Action Against Gentrification
Spanning from March 2015 to last month.
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I started this blog to have a central point to gather local events in hopes of improving coordination/scheduling/promotion as well as a clearing house for other relevant information to local philly anarchists.
This being the 999th post, it seems clear that my ability to consistently meet the first goal, and even the second, is unlikely given the lack of (successful?) submissions and my own inability to spend all of my time on the internet. Expanding involvement could better meet those needs, but I wonder if it would even be worthwhile? It’s a goddamn tumblr account that has already been shut down twice. Buying a url could help prevent its future shut down, but brings up questions regarding money, anonymity and social media-level accessibility. But is social media, or any internet interaction of the sort, having any impact on the proliferation of real world anarchist practice in this city? If it is, is it the type of impact I am intending?
Leaving things up to people’s interpretation is largely my intention, but I do occasionally express opinion outright (and certainly don’t share every protest or cry for justice, as I favor a greater level of conflictuality and less adherence to the rather traditional concept of revolution that most care to muster on their best of days), so I guess this is a question of my own projectuality, too. Still, it would be nice to hear some more feedback about @Anarchadelphia , however temporary the project may be.
So, is this worth it? What could be done better? Are there better venues to do it in? Isn’t the best propaganda spread by deed, anyway? If a tree falls in the woods, and there isn’t a humyn animal there to hear it, should I blockade industrial infrastructure? If a cop falls in the street and there’s no one there to laugh, does anyone care?
[Response form on Anarchadelphia]
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Someone “terminated” this blog [Anarchadelphia], yet again, this time for the better part of two months. There was no response to my requests when this first began, shortly before the arrival of the pope in philadelphia, but suddenly the tumblr staff began responding apologetically.
I am at a crossroads with this medium and would like to reevaluate my goals, and maybe poll you readers as to the effectiveness of such things, but for now I am just here to say that I’m back.
from Instagram
“Violence against transgender women, particularly transgender women of color, is an epidemic. At least 20 transgender women have been murdered so far in 2015, 18 of these women were women of color. Two of these murders happened in Philadelphia. Trans* women’s ability to live their lives is constantly threatened by brutal violence.
#Blacktranslivesmatter
Stand with them”
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#adbusting at 23rd and Winter. Today is #always the perfect day to skip work
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“Here’s a pamphlet made for the upcoming demonstration. Please share it.”
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In this issue:
Unfortunately Facebook has finally caught up with us and locked us out of our account for not having proper identification. We encourage everyone to bookmark our website and to share our flier on social media. Now that we aren’t on facebook it might be a bit harder for us to find out about what’s going on, please continue to send us information about upcoming events, analysis, report backs and anything else that seems relevant to anti-authoritarians in Philly.
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Nice use of free posters spotted downtown. #anarchistprisoners
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This month’s issue is tailored to celebrate the one year anniversary of the revolts in Ferguson, MO. In this issue you’ll find:
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