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In this year’s election, Neighborhood Networks is endorsing Larry Krasner for District Attorney, and a “Slate of Eight” impressive Democratic candidates for Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth Courts. Please be sure to vote for them on Election Day, November 7th. We also urge you to vote NO on the Ballot Question which would enable broadening the...
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THE TIME TO REMAKE THE PHILLY DEMOCRATIC PARTY INTO AN ENGINE OF PROGRESSIVE CHANGE IS NOW EACH OF US CAN PLAY A PART The Philadelphia Democratic Party is ineffective for so many reasons. Let us begin to count the ways: because it does not stand for anything, much less a progressive platform; because it endorses...
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It’s just over a month until the 2017 election. The vast majority of Philadelphians will not vote in it. And that’s a big problem for all of us for at least three reasons. The first is the damage it can do to Larry Krasner and everything he stands for. Yes, Larry Krasner will (almost definitely)...
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RSVP for this event! Philadelphia’s justice community has now had two victories following the November apocalypse. First we nominated Larry Krasner for D.A., signaling a monumental turn in the philosophical underpinnings of our criminal justice system. Then, at the national level but built on a base of tremendous local activism, we stopped Trumpcare. These two...
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Fights will be at the Federal, State AND Local Level Thankfully, just about everyone reading this will have signed up for the resistance. Great! Now the only question is what does resistance mean?...
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