Philly Power Research

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Philly Power Research is a group of volunteer researchers investigating our city's most powerful people, corporations, and organizations.
https://www.phillypowerresearch.org/
We demand a city free from Trump’s deportations, fear & violence. ICE Out bills put our values into law & prioritize immigrant communities' safety. Show up Monday 4/13 for City Council hearing & 1st vote to demand no city $, personnel, data or public space be used to help ICE!
RSVP: https://www.mobilize.us/ndwa-c3/event/919594/
Any expressions of concern about ICE from the Parker administration are meaningless if they're allowing Philly police to actively assist ICE.

A quick search on LinkedIn turns up hundreds of people who work for 🧊. People should message them to tell them to quit their jobs. And shame them in front of their communities.

Philly never really defunded its police department, but the public disdain toward policing in the 2020 uprising era contributed to years of police under-staffing.

(Under-reported sidenote that historic lows in murders last year happened at same time that police staffing was lower than it had been in years)

A little too on the nose that this cyber charter school CEO complaining about the new cyber charter accountability measures in the PA state budget is converting a 219-year-old public library into his private home.
Philly has large contracts with Axon for police body cameras. Axon is developing an AI tool for generation of police reports based on body camera audio. They say we don't have to be worried about AI hallucination because they "turned off" the model's "creativity."
https://www.axon.com/resources/draft-one-vs-other-generative-ai-solutions
Wild for Parker admin to be saying they can't give workers the raises they are demanding due to Trump funding threats when the mayor and City Council JUST LAST MONTH passed a huge 13-year business and wage tax cut plan. Those tax cuts alone could pay for the raises that DC33 is asking for.
Councilmember Isaiah Thomas was pushing for even bigger tax cuts than Mayor Parker this year. These are a lot of empty words from him.
Come out to support city workers, who may be going on strike Tuesday! Rally Monday 5pm, northeast corner of City Hall
Almost the entire SEPTA structural deficit could be filled by the Working Families Party Councilmembers' proposed wealth tax on holdings of stocks and bonds.
Families Over Billionaires Tax Day Rally Tuesday 4/15 at noon at Philly City Hall!