A founder of the progressive Reclaim Philadelphia is eyeing a City Council run against Mark Squilla
Amanda McIllmurray was the political director of Reclaim, which has been instrumental in pulling the city’s politics to the left since its founding in 2016. Read More Here
Read More“What the Democratic Party keeps trying to do is decide for us who we should support without engaging us as committeepeople,” Sergio Cea, interim political director for Reclaim Philadelphia, told Billy Penn. Read more here
Read MoreSince DA Krasner was elected we’ve seen 25 people exonerated who would have still been in prison to this day and relieved the prison population of more than 28,000 years. We need to keep families together, high-quality educational opportunities regardless of finances or ability, and community-enriching criminal justice reform. We need our local democratic process to be respected at every level of government and the power to make our own legislation to keep our communities safe and thriving.
Read MoreIn Democratic ward elections marked by bitter arguments — and in at least one case, a physical struggle — progressives in Philadelphia this week made some small but potentially significant movement toward their goal of making hyperlocal politics more representative. Read more here
Read MoreThe other thing that we experienced was a lack of enthusiasm around Biden in general. We had to do a lot of work of moving people to more wholeheartedly support Biden, because he was so out of step with our priorities,” says Amanda Mcillmurray for Prospect. Read more here
Read MoreDear Councilmember Gilmore Richardson,
We are writing to you as a budget-focused working group within Reclaim Philadelphia’s Climate Justice Caucus with requests for the next City budget. The budget will affect the lives of every resident, worker, business, and visitor to our city. Budgets are moral documents - they reflect what we prioritize and value.
Read More“Our candidates faced organized bankrolled resistance: conservative Republican donors like Jeffrey Yass colluding with the Democratic machine, anti-education interests attacking our communities and fighting to silence us. But overwhelmingly across the entire city, our movement of working people of all races in all places was not defeated.”
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