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Mon Feb 10, 6:00pm Act-UP Weekly Meeting – St Luke’s Church Basement – 330 S. 13th St Between Pine and Spruce

Tue Feb 11, 7:30pm Books Through Bars Packing Cafe – The A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave

Sun Feb 16, 5:00pm Long Term Organizing MDU working group – Ethical Humanist Society, Rittenhouse Square

Tuesday, February 11, All day, The Day We Fight Back

On February 11th 2014 thousands of websites and tens of thousands of people will come together for a day of online protest mass surveillance.

Sign up to take part here: https://thedaywefightback.org/

What will happen on February 11th: If you’re in the US: Thousands of websites will host banners urging people to call/email Congress. Plans may change, but we intend to ask legislators to oppose the FISA Improvements Act, support the USA Freedom Act, and enact protections for non-Americans.

If you’re not in the US: Visitors will be asked to urge appropriate targets to institute privacy protections.

How to get involved

– RSVP and invite everyone you know to join.

– Go to https://thedaywefightback.org/ and sign up to take part.

– Scroll down and sign up to add the banner to your website.

– Join the discussion at http://www.reddit.com/r/thedaywefightback/

– Be creative, help spread the word however you can!

The People’s Hearing on Prison Expansion has been postponed due to unsafe driving conditions. The People’s Hearing on Prison Expansion is rescheduled for 1:00 pm on Wednesday, February 12th. This is the date of the Appropriations Hearing for the Department of Corrections, who, according to Corbett’s budget proposal, will receive an additional $78 million in the 2014-2015 budget. It is the first time that Pennsylvania has ever spent over $2 billion on the DOC budget with state funds. This will be a great time for us to come to Harrisburg with our own message that PA should build communities, not prisons. Pennsylvania is currently embarking on the second-largest construction project in state history by building two new prisons in Montgomery County.

The Hearing will still be in the Rotunda at the Capitol Building in Harrisburg, and buses will be leaving at 10am sharp from the Youth United for Change offices at 1910 N. Front Street (Berks Station on Broad Street Line).

If you registered for the free buses to the People’s Hearing, please let us know if you can still make it on February 12th by emailing us at decarceratepa@gmail.com or calling (267) 217-3372.

If you have not registered for buses, please do so at the link below as soon as possible. Space is limited! http://decarceratepa.info/peoples-hearing-registration

Wednesday, February 12, 6:00pm – 8:00pm, ItAG Kickoff Event, Science Leadership Academy, 55 N. 22nd Street

Join TAG for the start of our annual Inquiry to Action Group series! Sign up for an ItAG in advance — some may fill up before the event!

Thursday, February 13, 6:00pm, May Day 2014 Planning Meeting, PhilaPOSH Office, 5th Floor of AFSCME DC 33 Bldg., 30th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia

Cosponsored by PhilaPOSH and the Pennsylvania Labor History Society to o honor U.S. Labor’s “hidden history” of “May Day” – the Life and Death Struggle for human rights and the eight hour day – celebrated throughout the World.. ALL ARE WELCOME!

Please RSVP your attendance to Jimmoran2008@verizon.net

Thursday, February 13, 3:00pm, Rally to Raise The Minimum Wage in Pennsylvania, 200 South Broad St. Philadelphia, PA

195,000 Pennsylvanian workers suffer earning wages at or below $7.25/hour.
In fact, 140,000 of these workers earn wages below the Federal minimum wage and almost all of them are restaurant workers who live primarily off of tips. They earn only $2.83/hour in Pennsylvania.
These are economy harming jobs. Despite the best effort of these workers, many of them have to seek state or federal help for healthcare, food, housing and child care. In other words, your taxes are subsidizing the profits of corporations such as Taco Bell, McDonald’s, Olive Garden and Pizza Hut.
We need to turn these jobs into economy building jobs. That is why the Restaurant Opportunities Center is calling on Governor Corbett to abolish the tipped minimum wage.
Sign this petition- http://www.change.org/petitions/tom-corbett-raise-the-minimum-wage

Friday, February 14, 4:00pm Phila. PM Rush Hour Leafleting w/banners and signs at Bellevue Hotel, (SE PA Office of PA Gov. Corbett, head of PA Air Guard), 200 S. Broad Street, Broad & Walnut Streets, Phila., PA 19102/

YO Gov! Pull the Plug on Drone War Command Center…Not In Our Backyard (or anyone else’s). Bring whistles, noisemakers, and big hearts. Broad Street Subway Stop: Walnut & Locust.

Saturday, February 15, 10:00am – 9:00pm, KXL Pledge of Resistance Direct Action Training feat. Hands Off Appalachia Reportback! The MAAS Building 1325 Randolph Street Philadelphia, PA

Tens of thousands of people across the country have signed the CREDO KXL Pledge of Resistance. They will use civil disobedience to protest at the State Department if the Keystone XL pipeline is approved by the Obama Administration. But what happens after that? And what happens if Obama doesn’t approve the last portion of the KXL pipeline? Tar sands extraction will continue in Canada. Fracking will continue along the Marcellus Shale. The Mariner Pipeline is coming through our area, and vulnerable neighborhoods and the Schuykill River are still threatened by the Bakken Shale oil being transported across Philadelphia by rail.

This training will present tactics that go beyond those that are part of the planned action at the Federal Building as organized by CREDO and Rainforest Action Network, and trained by Earth Quaker Action Team. With trainers we will explore forming an affinity group for direct action, security culture and group roles, and fun with technical skills for extraction resistance.

But wait, that’s not all! In the evening, friends and comrades on the from UBS: Hands Off Appalachia Campaign will be giving a report back from their action in Stamford, CT in November. Folks from Hands Off Appalachia challenged UBS’s funding of mountain top removal coal mining with several actions targeting the UBS headquarters.

Saturday, February 15, 2:00pm, Lets Build $15 Now in Philly!, 112 N. Broad St. Philadelphia

Philadelphia is one the poorest large cities in the US. We have endured decades of cuts in public services, our neighborhoods left to rot, schools and firehouses are closed and our children thrown onto the street while the state spends hundreds of millions to build more and more prisons.

They tell us the city and schools are broke and we must all share the pain while billion dollar corporations like Verizon and Comcast use legal loopholes to avoid paying taxes. Walmart and McDonalds reap massive profits, but their employees are forced to work two or 3 part time low wage jobs and rely on public assistance to make ends meet.

But across the country low-wage workers are rising up, protesting, and striking for a $15/hour minimum wage! Lets get together to build a campaign in Philadelphia!! We’ve had enough – it’s time to fight!!

Saturday, February 15, 3:00pm, The Way Forward: Huey P. Newton Seminar 2014, Peace Spot, 1652 Ridge Avenue

A conversation with our Brother Comrade Tommy Joshua, leader of the Revolutionary Assembly.

With Special Guests: Brother Mujahid Abd Azeez, Chairman, Jr. LIFERs Committee and Brother Chaplain Mahdi El, Chief-Magistrate, International Interfaith Court

Special Performance by Iam Victorious, Pili X Music, The Radicans, Skurban Vintro Music

Donations Welcome. Sponsored by Dr. Huey P. Newton Ideological Institute , Revolutionary Assembly of Philadelphia and the Hip-hop The Hip Hop Party for the People

Wednesday, February 19, 5:00pm, Know Your RIGHTS – Know The LAW, OIC of America, Inc. 1415 North Broad Street, Suite 227

FLASH (Future Leaders Advancing Self Help) teams up with UATL! Come join us for a Know Your Rights/StopSnitching on Yourself (KYR/SSOY) training with Up Against the Law Legal Collective on Wednesday February 19, 2014 at 5 pm.

Up Against the Law Legal Collective is a collective of activists, organizers, law students, legal workers and lawyers. We have knowledge of the legal system, its value and limits, and how it can be used for and against us.

Up Against the Law Legal Collective feels there is a need for legal resources offered from an activist perspective. To this end, they provide legal and jail support, facilitate trainings on rights and legal issues, and make sure that the concerns and goals of activists/grassroots groups are heard in the legal community.

This training will consists of 6 parts: KYR in the streets, in your home, in your car, when you are in custody, online/internet/FB, and how to safely/effectively CopWatch (film the police).

This will be an interactive, role-playing, getting down to the dirty details of how to protect yourself legally during interactions with the police.

Please join us and bring friends! Please RSVP so we have a sense of size.

Wednesday, February 19, 6:00pm, DVLF Wonder Women Film Screening – Mountains that Take Wing,

First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, 2125 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Doors open at 6:00pm, Film Begins at 6:30pm. Donations accepted at the door. There are no ticket sales; we believe in giving as you can and helping how you can.

Wonder Women is a DVLF Committee focused on developing programming for LGBT Women and philanthropy. We are connecting and promoting women and facilitating opportunities for emerging leaders. Join us as we launch our film screening program with ‘Mountains That Take Wing’ (Featuring Angela Davis and Yuri Kochiyama), a 97 Minute feature with Community Discussion to Follow.

Thursday, February 20th, 6:00pm, Grassroots mobilizing and Electoral Campaigns, TBA

Ty Moore, Occupy Homes Minneapolis activist and Socialist Alternative candidate for Minneapolis City Council, will speak on building grassroots movements and independent electoral campaigns to fight the 1%.
At the national level, both the Democratic and Republican parties are controlled by big business. Working people will remain locked out of political power, left to protest on the sidelines, until we create our own political voice. one that refuses corporate donations, has genuine democratic structures, and is held accountable to our social movements.

Wednesday, February 26, Actions to Remember Trayvon Martin.

4:30pm, LOVE Park, 15th and JFK, This event honors the second anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s killing. It will involve a reflection, reading, single, and candle lighting, and a silent march for Trayvon and all the young people harmed by police officers, security guards, and vigilantes and fueled by a system of racially coded violence against people of color.

5:30pm, Malcolm X Park on 52nd and Pine Street, West Philadelphia. If you remember the tragic death of our brother Trayvon Benjamin Martin and are still sickened by the widespread acceptance of the Zimmerman verdict, please join PURP to rally against discriminatory violence against our generation!

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Small Business in the Philadelphia Area

There is a Christmas Shopping Village in Love Park.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – In the coming weeks, Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Alan Greenberger will participate in series of events showcasing small businesses and neighborhood development to highlight the ways in which the City of Philadelphia supports economic development in Philadelphia. Small business development is a priority for the Nutter Administration, and this work is primarily implemented through the City’s Department of Commerce. The three events focus on recognizing the first recipient of the Department of Commerce’s new InStore forgivable loan program, promoting neighborhood shopping on Small Business Saturday and breaking ground for a brand new manufacturing facility on a large vacant parcel.

“While it is often the big deals and major developments that get the headlines, it is Philadelphia’s small business men and women who drive our economy on a daily basis, representing the vast majority of businesses in Philadelphia,” said Mayor Nutter. “Through the Department of Commerce and our partners like the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, my Administration is committed to finding new and innovative ways to provide funding to small businesses, to help them expand and grow, and to regenerate neighborhood commercial corridors throughout the city.”

Enhancing neighborhood commercial corridors through fit-out grants

The first event will be held tomorrow at 1:00 pm at Rose Petals Café and Lounge, a new sit-down restaurant located at 322 W. Chelten Avenue in Germantown. Rose Petals Café and Philly Office Retail partnered to apply for the InStore forgivable loan. The City’s $50,000 investment covered the costs of critical start-up supplies, including refrigeration units, a hood and exhaust system for the stove, new floors, shelving units, a unique copper color ceiling and more.

Jania and Desmin Daniels, the owners of Rose Petals, named the business in honor of Desmin’s late sister, Rose, who died tragically two years ago. “When my grandmother died a year later, we sharpened our resolve to not wait another minute to make the dream happen,” said Desmin Daniels, who previously worked as a teacher for the School District of Philadelphia. “The InStore program was hugely helpful in making it happen.”

The Department of Commerce launched the InStore forgivable loan program in the beginning of 2013 as a means of enhancing commercial corridors, increasing foot traffic and improving the retail mix of neighborhood commercial corridors. For several years, the Department of Commerce has offered grants for façade renovations through the Storefront Improvement Program. However, a funding option for interior improvements previously did not exist. The small business community had repeatedly requested funding for financial assistance with business start-up costs related to the interior fit-out of a commercial space (i.e. commercial stoves, refrigeration units, ADA bathroom installation, electrical work, etc.). The Department of Commerce responded with the InStore loan program, which targets new and expanding retail, food and creative businesses looking to relocate to low and moderate income neighborhoods. The forgivable loans range between $15,000 and $50,000.

“This program was developed in response to demand from our small business community,” explains Jonathan Snyder, Commerce’s Senior Program Manager overseeing the InStore loan program. “When a business is approved for an InStore loan, they must comply with guidelines and stay in business for at least five years and then the loan is forgiven – effectively becoming a grant.”

Encouraging shoppers to buy local on November 30 – “Small Business Saturday”

“Small Business Saturday” is November 30m and Mayor Nutter will visit the East Girard commercial corridor in the Fishtown neighborhood in order to highlight shopping locally. This event is part of a larger national effort sponsored by American Express. East Girard, a newly popular shopping destination, had been an underutilized commercial corridor for decades. Recent investments from funders, such as the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), PNC Bank, the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the Department of Commerce, have helped transform the district into a trendy place to shop, eat and drink.

For the last 7 years, the Department of Commerce has provided funding to New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC) to support commercial corridor improvements and small business development. NKCDC has assisted dozens of businesses on the area’s main commercial strips—Frankford and Girard Avenues—to receive storefront improvement grants and financing.

“We are thrilled to have Mayor Nutter recognize that our growing commercial corridors here in Fishtown are a great place to shop and show his commitment to supporting local entrepreneurs,” said Sandy Salzman, Executive Director of NKCDC. “We hope that his actions will encourage other Philadelphians to invest in their city by shopping with locally owned businesses and for locally made goods whenever possible. It’s a great way to leverage the purchases folks already are going to make to benefit the growth and stability of our city.”

Replacing blighted vacant lots with small businesses that create new jobs

The final small business event of the Mayor’s three-pronged tour will be held on Wednesday, December 11 at 11:00 am at a longtime vacant lot on the industrial corridor of American Street in East Kensington. The lot will soon be converted into an 11,550 square foot manufacturing facility for Veyko, Inc., a Philadelphia-based metal fabrication company. The total project cost is $2.1 million, $250,000 of which comes from a grant from the American Street Empowerment Zone, overseen by the Philadelphia Department of Commerce. Veyko plans to create 15 new jobs at the new facility. The company provides design, metal fabrication and installation services to architects, designers, general contractors and homeowners. Examples of Vyko’s work include the SEPTA 8th Street Station benches and the large scale exterior artwork at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Since 1994, the City of Philadelphia has been working to improve the American Street Commercial Corridor. Investments have been made through the Philadelphia Department of Commerce and the Philadelphia Empowerment Zone’s signature program, the Neighborhood Funding Stream, to support local economic development and neighborhood revitalization. The American Street Empowerment Zone Community Trust Board, an advisory board to the City of Philadelphia, provides input on grant making in the American Street Empowerment Zone.

“Through this process, grants are being provided to support major investments in real estate development. Veyko, Inc. is one of three recent American Street Empowerment Zone Neighborhood Economic Development grants. Veyko, Inc. will receive a $250,000 grant that will support the continued revitalization of the neighborhood,” says Aiisha Herring-Miller, Senior Program Manager for Philadelphia Empowerment Zones at the Philadelphia Department of Commerce.

PIDC, the City’s economic development corporation, invested $933,000 in the Veyko Project. Marla Hamilton, Vice President of Market Development for PIDC said, “What is especially exciting is that this is a project that was approved just when the recession hit. At one point, the developers even decided to halt the project. Clearly, they have weathered the storm and come back strong. This is a great opportunity for Veyko, Inc. and a great win for the City.”

Small business as the spark for community economic development

The projects described above offer a snapshot of the Philadelphia Department of Commerce’s daily work. With the help of partners, such as PIDC, the Merchant’s Fund, local CDCs and small business technical assistance providers, the Department of Commerce offers and supports many programs, including one-on-one technical assistance for small businesses, training programs on how to start and grow a business, micro- and small-business lending, an online business support website (www.phila.gov/business), grants for storefront improvements and security cameras, and more.

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Mon Nov 11

6:00pm Act-UP Weekly Meeting – St Luke’s Church Basement – 330 S. 13th St Between Pine and Spruce

Tue Nov 12

7:30pm Books Through Bars Packing Cafe – The A-Space 4722 Baltimore Ave

Fri Nov 15

4:30pm Third Friday Protest In Solidarity With The Palestinian People – 19th and JFK Blvd

Sun Nov 17

2:00pm PHARE/Wells Fargo working group – 1706 Race St.

5:00pm Long Term Organizing MDU working group – Ethical Humanist Society, Rittenhouse Square

Tuesday November 12, 6:00pm, Philly Net Tuesday, 1501 Cherry St.
On November 12, Philly Net Tuesday will feature our signature “Crowdsourcing Change” format. (NOTE the change of date — since our usual “first Tuesday of the month” is Election Day.) Here’s how it works: Three local nonprofits share how they’re using online marketing and social media/networking to achieve their goals and objectives. Then the crowd (that’s you!) participates in a facilitated discussion about how each organization might use the social web to even greater effect.
We’re pleased to announce two local organizations eager to receive the wisdom of the crowd will be:
The Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (http://www.urbannutrition.org).
The West Philly Coalition for Neighborhood Schools (http://westphillyschools.org).
And there’s room for one more! If your organization would like to apply to participate in this fun and (hopefully) useful process, please fill in the form at http://tinyurl.com/phlnet2-crowd).
More info about the participating organizations will be coming out shortly.
The event will be held at the Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street. Doors open at 6:00 PM on the evening of Tuesday, November 12. Light fare will be available, and RSVP’s are appreciated for planning, but not required.
Thanks to the American Friends Service Committee for sponsorship

Wednesday, November 13, 4:30pm, PHILLY SOLIDARITY PROTEST: Drop the Charges Against Rasmea Odeh!, 5th and Market Sts.
A protest at the Federal Building in Philadelphia in solidarity with long-time Chicago resident and community organizer Rasmea Odeh.
Rasmea was arrested Tuesday, October 22nd, at her home in Chicago by agents of the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and ICE. She is charged with immigration fraud. Allegedly, in her application for citizenship, she didn’t mention that she was arrested in Palestine 45 years ago and tried in an Israeli military court that does not recognize the rights of Palestinians to due process. She is now facing being stripped of U.S. citizenship, a prison term of ten years and probably, after prison, deportation.
Rasmea is the associate director of the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), one of the oldest institutions in the Arab community in Chicago. She leads a women’s committee with 600 Arab and Muslim women and she is also a leader in the immigrant rights movement in Chicago.
Come out in solidarity with Rasmea, and against the political attacks on the Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian communities across occupied Turtle Island and in occupied Palestine by the United States and Israel.
Drop the charges on Rasmea Odeh now!
Endorsed by Philly BDS and the International Action Center.

Thursday, November 14, 4:30pm,
Lois Weiner, The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice, University of Pennsylvania, 3620 Walnut St. Annenberg Rm. 111
Lois Weiner is a professor of education at New Jersey City University. She brings to her wide-ranging scholarship first-hand experience, as a classroom teacher and union officer.
In her presentation at University of Pennsylvania, she will analyze how changes being made to public education in Philadelphia, including school closings, budget shortfalls, and use of standardized testing to judge student and teacher performance, relate to the global project that is reshaping education throughout the world. Her presentation will take up ideas she explores in her most recent book, “The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice,” (Haymarket Press, 2012).
Teacher Action Group Philadelphia hopes to see you at this essential author event. Sponsored by Penn GSE / Teacher Education
P.S. Also, mark your calendars for a special evening with City Paper education writer Daniel Denvir on Tuesday, Nov 19th at the Media Mobilizing Project!

Thursday, November 14, 6:00pm, May Day 2014 Planning Meeting (for the 7th Annual Philadelphia May Day Rally & Family Celebration), PhilaPOSH Office 5th Floor of AFSCME DC 33 Bldg.
30th & Walnut Streets, Philadelphia.
We’ll discuss next year’s event – May Day 2014 – ALL ARE WELCOME.
Agenda:
Building May Day USA Planning Committee/Outreach
Fund Raiser
May Day Rally & Family Celebration @ Elmwood Park
Determine Time for Saturday May 3rd
Rally/March
Keynote/Main Speaker
Music/Entertainment
“Spiral Q”
Kids “Stuff”
Other stuff
Please RSVP your attendance to:
Jim Moran <Jimmoran2008@verizon.net>

Friday, November 15, 4:30pm,
Third Friday Protest In Solidarity With The Palestinian People, 19th and JFK Blvd.
The next monthly 3rd Friday protest in solidarity with the people of Palestine will be held on Friday, November 15 from 4:30-6pm outside the offices of the Israeli Consulate at 19th and JFK Blvd. Bring signs, noise makers and your energy to demand an end to the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Sunday, November 17, 3:30pm, Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, PA 19064. Free!
Beacon Theatre Productions Presents… ‘MR. PRESIDENT, I’M FREDERICK DOUGLASS’: Ex-Slave Challenges Lincoln”at Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, PA 19064.
A one-act, 35-min. play based on writings of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. Followed by open discussion on racism in America today. Doors open at 2:30p.m. for refreshments and fellowship. More and directions at www.delcopeacecenter.org

Monday, November 18, 4 p.m. – District Office of Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D, CD #13), 801 Old York Road, Jenkintown, PA 19046. Sponsored by BuxMont Coalition for Peace Action.
Friday, November 22, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. – District Office of Rep. Patrick Meehan (R, CD #7), 940 West Sproul Road, Springfield, PA 19064. Demonstration at well-traveled intersection will include large Reaper drone replica. Co-sponsors: Brandywine Peace Community, Central Baptist Church Peacemakers, Peace Center of Delaware County.
Representatives Patrick Meehan (R, CD #7) and Allyson Schwartz (D, CD #13), who is soon to leave her seat in Congress to run on the Democratic ticket for the PA Governor’s post of Thomas Corbett (and head of the PA Guard/Air National Guard) were both effusive in their support of the drone war command center in Horsham, as well as PA Senators Casey (D,PA) and Toomey (R, PA). Meehan is the chair of the House subcommittee on Cyber-security of the Homeland Security Committee, who spoke at the press conference announcement last March said regarding the establishment of the drone command center, “The new battlefields of the 21st century of the 21st century are being fought increasingly through the use of drone…Our region will soon be at the forefront of this effort.”
Drone War Command Center in Horsham, Montgomery County: Your Senators and Congresspeople supported it, promoted it, voted your Taxe$ for it. Now, we need to protest it! De-Fund the Drone War Command Center.
Protest Demonstrations & Visits, with signs, banners…at the district offices of Representatives Allyson Schwartz and Patrick Meehan, a part of demonstrations against drone war and surveillance around the country at congressional offices.

Wednesday, November 20, 7:30pm, Activists to discuss U.S. spy revelations Socialist leader to speak in Philadelphia, 1315 Spruce St., Philadelphia
On Nov. 20, two long-time political leaders and scholars will share the platform to discuss “U.S. Government Repression and Spying: What the Snowden Revelations Tell Us.” The speakers will be Socialist Action National Secretary Jeff Mackler and Temple University African American Studies lecturer Anthony Monteiro.
The event will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 7:30 p.m., at the William Way LGBT Community Center, 1315 Spruce St., in Philadelphia.
Jeff Mackler, based in San Francisco, is currently on a speaking tour of East Coast cities. Mackler is a national coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and a key figure in organizing nationwide support for the defense cases of Mumia Abu-Jamal and Lynne Stewart. He is a former schoolteacher and a vocal activist for quality public education for all. He is the author of numerous articles, books, and pamphlets on topics as varied as the Arab Spring, the threat of climate change, and Marxist economics.
Prof. Anthony Monteiro, a distinguished lecturer at Temple, has been a leading activist in the African American movement since the 1970s. Dr. Monteiro’s recent scholarship has centered on the work of social commentator and historian WEB DuBois; his forthcoming book on DuBois is scheduled to be published soon by Africa World Press.
This event is sponsored by Philadelphia Socialist Action. For more information please contact philly.socialistaction@gmail.com.

Events listed here include Occupy Philly related events as well as other social justice events. For more updates be sure to check the Occupy Philadelphia Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/OccupyPhiladelphia. Your support is greatly appreciated!