Pennsylvania

Community leaders, petitioners, fashionistas agree: “No Arena in Chinatown!’

Philadelphia Piled in front of a Philadelphia City Hall entrance April 27, were 18 boxes filled with 15,000 petitions and…

May 4, 2023

School district targets queer youth

Queer youth need support and love, but this was denied by Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District when it passed Policy…

February 11, 2023

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike vs. Block Communications continues

The author is a member of Typographical Local CWA 14156 Communications Workers Locals 14827 and 14842, Typographers and Mailers union…

January 5, 2023

Water polluting energy company gets green light to resume fracking

Pennsylvania Nearly 14 years after a water well explosion on Jan. 1, 2009, made residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, aware of…

December 21, 2022

Health care in prisons is a crime

If you have the misfortune of being convicted of a crime, innocent or not, what’s it like behind bars if…

December 15, 2022

Pennsylvania county jails are a death trap

Philadelphia An unprecedented number of incarcerated people have died inside Pennsylvania’s county jails in the last two years, and the…

August 2, 2022

Prison hunger strikers challenge solitary torture

Bulletin:  WW received notice of a new letter from Michael Rivera who wrote: “While active participants in the hunger strike…

June 30, 2022

Letters from behind the walls

Workers World Staff, I am incarcerated in SCI Albion in Pennsylvania. I came across an older newspaper and love the…

June 26, 2022

Squirrel Hill neighbors win against gentrification

Philadelphia Supporters of Protect Squirrel Hill, a neighborhood coalition in the Squirrel Hill section of West Philadelphia, celebrated a victory…

May 12, 2022

Pennsylvania prisons: a fight for humane release policies

Philadelphia Bradford Gamble is out of prison after serving 46 years and is now living with his nephew, Shaquan J.…

April 28, 2022