A Benefit for Winchester Tenants

  • February 28, 2015 3:55 pm

from facebook

Bands playing:
Melanie Hsu- http://www.melaniehsu.com/music/
Haldol- http://bandcamp.haldol.com/
more TBA

$5-7 donations.

Taken from the petition:

The tenants in the Winchester building in West Philly (48th and Chester) have organized to demand justice from their landlord. The landlord has systematically ignored a long list of maintenance issues. The problems have been building up for several years. One example is a building-wide bed bug infestation.

The Winchester Tenants committee is working with the Philly Socialists Solidarity Network to organize the tenants and community. Together we will take action to pressure the landlord until the demands are met.

The proceeds go to helping the tenants begin to refurnish their apartments after damages of neglected

[March 6 7pm at LAVA Space 4134 Lancaster Ave]

West Philly Interests Meeting/Soldarity Network Strategy Session

  • October 23, 2014 12:09 pm

reposted from West Philly Interests Meeting/Solidarity Network Strategy Session

The West Philly branch of Philly Socialists will meet this Friday, 6pm at A-Space to introduce the group to interested newcomers and to relaunch our solidarity network.

We’ve got two promising fights on our hands. In the first, we’d be fighting with an active supporter to help him recover $800 of his security deposit wrongfully denied him. In the second, we’d be fighting with a senior citizen who has been without adequate heat for several years, has a deteriorating ceiling, and has been discriminated against for their gender identity, all while living in subsidized housing.

We can win both these fights so long as we can build a core group of committed volunteers. This meeting will help determine our capacity to do it.

Come on out and help make these campaigns the capstone of a year of great work on the part of our branch.