community organizing

Reposted from the One Love Movement Blog. This was written in response to the Obama administration's recent announcement that it will now focus immigration enforcement on people with criminal records.

Like the progression of any disease making its hearty way through stages of infection and incubation before being treated and eventually annihilated, things have to get worse before they can get better. Such is the story of casinos.

In January of 2010, the Poverty Initiatve, a group based in New York that aims to reignite Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, visited Philadelphia for an immersion tour. The tour highlighted the history of the struggles of poor people in this city. Willie Baptist and Liz Theoharis, of the Poverty Initiative,  shared stories about the struggle of the homeless in 1995 and 1996.

Yesterday City Council came a step closer to regulating the sale of expired products at retail stores like CVS, which has a significant track record of selling outdated over-the-counter medicine, infant formula and dairy products at its Philadelphia stores and nationwide. The City Council Committee on Health and Human safety unanimously passed a bill on for an intitial reading this week and possible vote at next Thursdays City Council session.