Several community meetings put on by the Don't Tax Me Out Campaign of
the Community Preservation Network have been in the news recently. Check them out here:
[...] South Central Philly is, after all, the place where Odunde (www.odundeinc.org) was born and for more than 30 years has operated one of Philadelphia' most vibrant cultural events (check out We Shall Not Be Moved: Thomas B. Morton’s photographs of 30 years of ODUNDEat http://www.folkloreproject.org/programs/exhibits/odunde/index.cfm). The founder of Odunde, Ms. Lois Fernandez, once told me about the time she fought the city and saved Madison Square (one of South Central' garden blocks) from being cemented over—decades before ninety-nine percent of the developers I met this summer paid any attention to the area they’re now so excited about. And the descendants of Ms. Lois (both actual and metaphorical) continue to fight for the rights of current and long-time residents in their neighborhoods (http://www.allforthetaking.org/?p=165). [...]
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[...] South Central Philly
[...] South Central Philly is, after all, the place where Odunde (www.odundeinc.org) was born and for more than 30 years has operated one of Philadelphia' most vibrant cultural events (check out We Shall Not Be Moved: Thomas B. Morton’s photographs of 30 years of ODUNDEat http://www.folkloreproject.org/programs/exhibits/odunde/index.cfm). The founder of Odunde, Ms. Lois Fernandez, once told me about the time she fought the city and saved Madison Square (one of South Central' garden blocks) from being cemented over—decades before ninety-nine percent of the developers I met this summer paid any attention to the area they’re now so excited about. And the descendants of Ms. Lois (both actual and metaphorical) continue to fight for the rights of current and long-time residents in their neighborhoods (http://www.allforthetaking.org/?p=165). [...]