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March 15th: Rally With Us for Non-Police Responses to Mental Health Crises

March 9, 2022
Next Tuesday, March 15th, join us to tell Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) Commissioner Dr. Jill Bowen...
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Why We Are Fighting for Mobile Crisis Expansion in the Philly City Budget

March 7, 2022
Imagine this: you’re walking down a sidewalk, but suddenly you trip and fall to the ground. Hard. You feel a sharp, horrible pain and notice the...
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When We Fight We Win: New Political Maps Increase Community Power

March 3, 2022
The Legislative Reapportionment Commission (LRC) released their final redrawn political maps on February 4, 2022. Every ten years, the LRC–made up of...
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Statement on the Police Murder of Twelve Year Old Thomas Siderio

March 2, 2022
We are furious and heartbroken to learn that Thomas Siderio, a twelve year-old boy, was shot in the back and killed while running from plain clothes...
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Nikki Grant Speaks on Ending Police Violence at Transitional Justice Series

March 2, 2022
Does prosecuting individual police bring us closer to a society where police violence is a thing of history? On Monday, February 28th, Amistad Law...