A Musical Call To Action For Breonna Taylor!!!!!!!!! It’s been 4 months since Breonna was unjustly murdered by Louisville, KY Police! Today and everyday forward is a good day to arrest them! We seek justice!!! Along with my co-organizers Sam Gellerstein, and Tre Lambert, we Call on All Horn players from the tri-state area and beyond to join us in this Historic, Peaceful, Musical Protest For Change! We will play music to the high heavens to Combat Racism and Hatred around this country wherever It Lives!!!!! All lives matter, BUT Black lives are under siege as racism has once again poked its ugly head out from hiding with reckless abandon for Black Lives Once Again! So Join Us As We Seek Justice For Breonna Taylor, a beautiful black life that was Stolen!!!!

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Join us for a rally to demand PILOTs from David Cohen, the Chair of Penn’s Board of Trustees! If you’ve been impacted by the public school funding crisis, if you’re a member of the Penn community, or if you’re a concerned Philadelphian, we need your voice to win this urgently-needed source of revenue for our schools.

We will be gathering in front of the Walnut Street entrance to the Inn at Penn, where the Board of Trustees holds their meetings. Penn Board Chair David Cohen is out of excuses–we need PILOTs now!

Philly’s public schools are in crisis, and Penn’s Board of Trustees have the power to change that. The Philadelphia Inquirer has made us all aware of the deadly consequences of asbestos in the schools, and students, teachers, and staff are risking their lives every time they step into a school building.

At the same time, Penn is a multi-billion dollar institution and the largest private landowner in the entire city, but pays no property taxes. In a city where most of the local funding for our school district comes from property taxes, mega-nonprofits like Penn are directly contributing to our public school funding crisis. Our public schools serve mostly low-income Black children, and Penn’s refusal to pay their fair share is part of the long legacy of racist disinvestment in Philadelphia’s Black community.

Penn’s Trustees are some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the country. The President of the Board of Trustees, David Cohen, is especially powerful here in Philadelphia. In 2017, the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, led by Cohen, sued the city over a law that aims to close the gender pay gap. He was also one of the highest-paid executives at Comcast, with a total compensation package of $19.1 million in 2018.

We’re calling on Penn to contribute just a fraction of the yearly value of their property taxes. We need schools with teachers, librarians, nurses, and safe buildings. David Cohen and the rest of the Trustees have evaded paying PILOTs for decades, and we’ve had enough.

We will have masks and hand sanitizer. If you would like to participate but aren’t able to join the crowd, please reach out to aiden@phillyjwj.org for a more socially-distanced option.

Gun violence within our communities is skyrocketing. The time has come to unify and take a collective stand against ending violence in Philadelphia.

We will meet at 52 and Haverford Ave in West Philly and March south down 52nd street to Malcolm X Park where we will Rally and have an anonymous gun turn in!

We have announced our next Black Lives Matter march which will take place here in Ridley Township, Delaware County.

On Saturday, August 1st, we would love for you to meet us at Frederick L. Mann Park in Folsom at the intersection of Academy & Kedron Avenues; from there we will march to Ridley Police station.

Please join us again in standing with our black community and showing Delaware County residents that racism will not be tolerated here.

We would like to give Ridley and the surrounding communities a platform to speak out safely about any injustices they’ve faced as we continue our quest for true justice and true equity.

Date: Saturday, August 1st, 2020
Location: Frederick L. Mann Park (Academy Ave. & Kedron Ave.)
Time: 12 PM
End Location: Ridley Police Station

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them”
– Ida B. Wells

P.S. Please remember to bring your masks and your signs!

With love and in solidarity,

“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” – Sophia Loren

THE TIME IS NOW to stand up for the AMERICA our children deserve. An America where BLACK LIVES TRULY MATTER…an America where FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS ARE PROTECTED…an America WHERE ALL PEOPLE can access the same RIGHTS, PRIVLEDGES & OPPORTUNITY!

ALL MOMS and dads, sons, daughters and friends of ALL AGES are invited to this PEACEFUL DEMONSTATION of solidarity & support of Black Lives Matter, First Amendment Rights and Fair & Equal Treatment for all people.

We will LINE THE SIDEWALKS on RT 202(DeKalb Pike) in front of the King of Prussia Mall, between Allendale Road & Mall Boulevard.
(We will not be blocking traffic or marching.)

Bring your SIGNS, NOISE MAKERS & most importantly YOUR VOICE!

Please WEAR A MASK & RESPECT SOCIAL DISTANCING.

This event will happen RAIN OR SHINE.

If you cannot stand with us, consider a DRIVE BY DEMONSTRATION OF SOLIDARITY. Decorate your car, Make a sign, Honk your horn!! Let us know you’re with us!

Germantown High School was closed in 2013. It is one of several Philadelphia public schools that has been shut down due to a lack of investment in local education. In the years since its closing, Germantown High School has been sold to developers and the community no longer has a functioning high school to educate its young people. A few blocks away from Germantown High School is the 14th District Police Station. Their funding has increased in the years since the school’s closing. Increasing funding to the police while our schools are in peril is completely unacceptable.

Since the uprisings began, the Philadelphia organizing community has made unequivocal demands for the City of Philadelphia to vote NO on a proposed increase to the police budget. In the last month, the city has responded to this public pressure and announced a reduction to the police budget by $33 million dollars. This supposed decrease in funding is simply a ploy by city officials to mislead the public. City Council has merely moved the budget for crossing guards to another department of city government. This type of subterfuge is unacceptable. We demand an immediate and authentic reduction in the police budget by 20%. We want public funds to enrich our communities, not the police. We demand the originally proposed $14 million police budget increase be augmented by $11 million and go to the Philadelphia School District budget for the removal of environmental hazards from schools, namely, asbestos and lead paint, which is estimated to cost $25 million per year.

We will gather for a rally at Germantown and High Streets on Saturday August 1, 2020 from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Speakers will include members of impacted communities. Please wear a mask and bring water. We look forward to seeing you there!

https://phillyprotest.com/event/invest-in-communities-not-cops-authentic-police-defunding-now/