The Philadelphia Unemployment Project won a major victory at the beginning of the year with a moratorium on Sheriff Sales. The moratorium was successful in stopping Sheriff sales on 1400 homes in January, giving people a chance to apply for relief and help in saving their homes.

Today I woke up, free from the shock of yesterday and ready to celebrate: ding dong, a witch is dead. "I'm a Casino Slayer," I marveled to myself. I rushed out of bed to read the news, to make sure it really happened. The news is true: Foxwoods license is revoked!

Tom Cronin sent this to me.
This blog kind of stirs up some feelings I have from attending protests in the last three years.
There is one thing I remember from some commercial that goes like this, "Stay in the lines, the lines are your friends". I don't remember what commercial, just this.
And many protests I have been to, resembled this. Some organizer would speak into a bullhorn, and ask everyone to stay in the lines.

When officials closed down Camden's Tent City this past May, they promised the 54 homeless residents that it was not an eviction, but the first step to a better life. Now, less than 6 months later, many of them are once again homeless and some have created a new Tent city encampment near the original site.