Housing

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has the sixth largest U.S. rapid transit system by ridership and the fifth largest overall transit system. Sixty-four percent of its workforce is African, as well as forty-eight percent of its overall ridership of 4 million people. 

When it comes to upgrading the failing sewage infrastructure in St. Petersburg our position is that the big corporations and real estate developers who build in the city of St. Petersburg, must pay an infrastructure tax that will be used to upgrade our sewage system. 

My name is Anne Hirsch and I am running for District 5 City Council. I live in Lakewood Estates! I want to weigh in on the issue of the proposed housing development by Boley on 54th Ave S to house people who are dealing with mental health challenges and addiction.

Black people, sold on propaganda that home ownership is the foundation of economic development and the antidote to gentrification, discovered after 2008 that an international market was consolidated to exploit them as the subprime mortgage was invented and weaponized into financial instruments to be sold to investors.  

Three weeks after Hurricane Maria’s September 16, 2017 devastating landing on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico, causing the destruction of its fragile colonialist infrastructure, the people are still dying, there is no electrical grid, and food, water and medicine are trickling down to the people at a snail’s pace.

LONDON––The Jewish settler’s leaders are involved in a criminal attempt to legalize their occupation of settlements on land stolen from Jordan, Syria and Palestine in Israel’s 1967 colonial war.

On November 6, 2016, the Israeli settler colonial government approved what the New York Times characterized as “a contentious bill that would allow for the retroactive legalization of Jewish settlement outposts built on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. The measure breaks a longstanding taboo, and in the view of many experts, it defies international law.”

Africans who live on the Gullah or Geechie Islands are being forcibly removed from their homes by crooked colonial politicians and parasitic capitalists in favor of hotels resorts and golf courses.

These Africans­––known as Geechie people by many­­––are the descendants of Africans from West and Central Africa who were enslaved and forced to work on the rice and indigo plantations on the islands off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia and northeast Florida during slavery.

Their isolated location on these islands have sheltered them from much of the outside colonial influences. This allowed them to preserve much of our African culture through language, food, music and spirituality.