Joe Piette

Coast-to-coast rallies demand: Keep U.S. Postal Service viable

Rallies demanding the U.S. Senate approve funding that would "SAVE OUR POSTAL SERVICE" were held on June 23 from coast…

June 26, 2020

Fight budget cuts in cities

Philadelphia Dozens of Philadelphia city workers wearing masks, standing on chalked X marks 6 feet apart, chanted, “Kenney’s cuts hurt”…

May 29, 2020

Car caravan: Free Our Youth! 

Philadelphia As states across the U.S. took steps to stop the spread of COVID-19 — closing schools and workplaces, canceling…

May 28, 2020

Racist, sexist, job-killing, union-busting robber baron appointed to head USPS

An earlier version of this article appeared in Labor Notes May 15. The Trump administration, COVID-19 and U.S. Senate reluctance…

May 25, 2020

Car caravan: Free Our Youth! 

As states across the U.S. took steps to stop the spread of COVID-19 — closing schools and workplaces, canceling events…

May 21, 2020

Philadelphia: #FreeBlackMamas demand prisoner release

Philadelphia Protesters, led by currently and formerly incarcerated women, trans and non gender-binary people, held a rally on May 15…

May 18, 2020

Protesters say: ‘Shelters = Death, Hotels = Haven’

After the COVID-19 deaths of dozens of seniors at Philadelphia nursing homes and at least one homeless person in a…

May 6, 2020

Philadelphia failure to empty jails causes COVID-19 death 

The first COVID-19 death in Philadelphia jails occurred on April 14. She was Yvonne Harris, a 48-year-old woman incarcerated at…

April 17, 2020

Caravan targets City Hall and jail in Philly protest

Traffic around Philadelphia City Hall came to a standstill for over an hour April 9 as hundreds of protesters, from…

April 13, 2020

Caravan protests demand ‘Decarcerate now!’

A broad coalition of prison abolition activists took to Philadelphia’s streets in over 120 cars—most with just one occupant—to demand…

April 1, 2020