For 30 years, @FIGHTPHL has been providing health care, advocacy, and research on treatments and vaccines.
It wants people to know it is not involved with the similarly named start-up.
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Some weekend reading:
“The loss of jobs has also left in its wake an eviction crisis, to a city already struggling with homelessness — as the protest encampment on the Parkway underscored. Demands of police reform also deserve immediate attention."
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We are so grateful to encampment organizers and residents for shining a bright light on this critical issue. And while we have a long way to go towards achieving housing justice here in Philadelphia, we are committed to the fight.
We know that many of the explanations we offer in this statement will sound like excuses. And frankly, in some respects, they are. Every Philadelphian deserves to have a roof over their head, and dismantling the encampment doesn’t change that fact.
City cancelled their press conference but encampment leaders are having their own. They argue the city is not doing enough and they won’t go away. Parkway traffic is blocked. Police cars are around but no officers close by.
We're gonna need people to stay all day and overnight at the encampments tonight. The police will come when they think its safest for them, when the media and the supporters are thinnest. They want this to be easy for them. We can make it impossible.
I really hate how suicide prevention month every year is reduced to “check on your friends” and not universal health care, to defund the police, accessible mental health services, and peer support programs. That analysis is so corny.