Student Labor Action Project - Penn SLAP

01/26/2021

Penn has not been testing subcontracted dining hall workers, and does not plan to until February 5th at the earliest. This is UNACCEPTABLE. Support dining hall workers and sign this petition to demand University of Pennsylvania Bon Appetit start testing workers immediately:

Test Dining Hall Workers NOW

12/23/2020

Dining hall workers are still in economically precarious conditions and struggling to celebrate with their families over the holidays.

Please support the workers who make this university run and contribute to the worker’s fund: tinyurl.com/pennworkerfund.

DONATE AND SHARE WIDELY!!

12/12/2020

University officials said they are aware of the reports of forced labor and are waiting for the results of a full investigation to find out the details of the alleged violations. 

12/12/2020

The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke to more than a dozen nurses, doctors, and clinical students who work across Penn Medicine’s hospital system. While Penn undergraduates enjoyed virtually unlimited access to COVID-19 testing this semester, some health care workers continue to be denied COVID-19 tests.

12/08/2020

URGENT ACTION NEEDED!!

Dining hall workers are still left uncertain if Penn will hire them back for next semester. Many of them are facing expiration of unemployment, and as COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on the US, evictions seem eminent.

Please support the workers who make this university run and contribute to the worker’s fund: tinyurl.com/pennworkerfund.

DONATE AND SHARE WIDELY!!

07/09/2020

Tomorrow is the last day to submit a proposal! Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/penndisorient

CALLING ALL WRITERS:

"We are currently accepting article proposals for the 2020 Disorientation Guide! To those who are unfamiliar, the Disorientation Guide is an extensive zine collected by student organizers to tell the truth about Penn and the harm it enacts. During New Student Orientation, Penn crafts a flattering image of itself as a benevolent bastion of learning that fulfills its civic responsibilities with grace. This image is one that severely belies Penn’s role in gentrification, environmental destruction, worker exploitation, militarization, and student abuse, to name only a few of its offenses. Our Guide attempts to overturn this image of benevolence and show students that organizing against Penn is not only necessary, but possible. We reject the institutional forums and philanthropic centers that Penn has constructed to co-opt and water down the demands and politics of student organizers. Rather, the Disorientation Guide has been collected by a coalition of students that are invested in direct action, radical critique, and antagonism towards Penn’s institutional collusion with global and local forces of racial capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism."

If you feel well positioned and passionate about writing an article, please fill out the google form below! More details within.

https://tinyurl.com/penndisorient

For further reference, here is last year's Guide:
https://issuu.com/penndisorientation/docs/_one-flap__disorientation_guide_2019_template__1_/2

07/06/2020

SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL!! Forward to your friends who are knowledgable, radical, tired, or just overall hate Penn :)

"To those who are unfamiliar, the Disorientation Guide is an extensive zine collected by student organizers to tell the truth about Penn and the harm it enacts. During New Student Orientation, Penn crafts a flattering image of itself as a benevolent bastion of learning that fulfills its civic responsibilities with grace. This image is one that severely belies Penn’s role in gentrification, environmental destruction, worker exploitation, militarization, and student abuse, to name only a few of its offenses. Our Guide attempts to overturn this image of benevolence and show students that organizing against Penn is not only possible, but necessary. We reject the institutional forums and philanthropic centers that Penn has constructed to co-opt and water down the demands and politics of student organizers. Rather, the Disorientation Guide has been collected by a coalition of students that are invested in direct action, radical critique, and antagonism towards Penn’s institutional collusion with global and local forces of racial capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism"

CALLING ALL WRITERS:

"We are currently accepting article proposals for the 2020 Disorientation Guide! To those who are unfamiliar, the Disorientation Guide is an extensive zine collected by student organizers to tell the truth about Penn and the harm it enacts. During New Student Orientation, Penn crafts a flattering image of itself as a benevolent bastion of learning that fulfills its civic responsibilities with grace. This image is one that severely belies Penn’s role in gentrification, environmental destruction, worker exploitation, militarization, and student abuse, to name only a few of its offenses. Our Guide attempts to overturn this image of benevolence and show students that organizing against Penn is not only necessary, but possible. We reject the institutional forums and philanthropic centers that Penn has constructed to co-opt and water down the demands and politics of student organizers. Rather, the Disorientation Guide has been collected by a coalition of students that are invested in direct action, radical critique, and antagonism towards Penn’s institutional collusion with global and local forces of racial capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism."

If you feel well positioned and passionate about writing an article, please fill out the google form below! More details within.

https://tinyurl.com/penndisorient

For further reference, here is last year's Guide:
https://issuu.com/penndisorientation/docs/_one-flap__disorientation_guide_2019_template__1_/2

07/02/2020

Please support Troy Harris and Kareem Wallace, members of Hillel’s dining staff for over two decades, in their dreams to open T&K Grassroots Food Truck by donating to this gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/q6n9m-15000

“Mr. Harris and Mr. Wallace both firmly believe that the best way to break the cycles of poverty and violence that have plagued our city is by empowering the residents of our community with opportunities. T&K Grassroots is a grassroots mission to provide participants with valuable vocational and management training, while simultaneously teaching them to become entrepreneurs. With this valuable training under their belts, participants can pay these lessons and skills forward to another wave of participants, uplifting the community with hope and promise for a brighter tomorrow.”

The vision of T&K Grassroots Kosher Food Truck started as a dream. Created by Troy Harris and Karee… Hannah Sacks Bookbinder needs your support for 15,000

06/26/2020

CALLING ALL WRITERS:

"We are currently accepting article proposals for the 2020 Disorientation Guide! To those who are unfamiliar, the Disorientation Guide is an extensive zine collected by student organizers to tell the truth about Penn and the harm it enacts. During New Student Orientation, Penn crafts a flattering image of itself as a benevolent bastion of learning that fulfills its civic responsibilities with grace. This image is one that severely belies Penn’s role in gentrification, environmental destruction, worker exploitation, militarization, and student abuse, to name only a few of its offenses. Our Guide attempts to overturn this image of benevolence and show students that organizing against Penn is not only necessary, but possible. We reject the institutional forums and philanthropic centers that Penn has constructed to co-opt and water down the demands and politics of student organizers. Rather, the Disorientation Guide has been collected by a coalition of students that are invested in direct action, radical critique, and antagonism towards Penn’s institutional collusion with global and local forces of racial capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism."

If you feel well positioned and passionate about writing an article, please fill out the google form below! More details within.

https://tinyurl.com/penndisorient

For further reference, here is last year's Guide:
https://issuu.com/penndisorientation/docs/_one-flap__disorientation_guide_2019_template__1_/2

06/18/2020

Via Philly We Rise:

"No, that is not what we meant by “Defund the police.”

Wednesday night after 11pm, City Council voted to approve an amendment to the City of Philadelphia’s budget - one that looked, on the surface, to reduce funding to the Philadelphia Police, the most lavishly funded department in the city, by $33 million dollars.

But if you look closely, the vast majority of those cuts are just revoking the proposed increase for the department of $19 million dollars, put forward by Mayor Kenney in May, and moving crossing guards and traffic enforcement officers to the Managing Director’s office.

This is not . This is collusion between the Mayor’s Office and the Fraternal Order of Police. Council and the Mayor have been pressured to do something in response to the tens of thousands of Philadelphians on our streets for the past three weeks - the vibrant, visionary and united movement we are seeing across Philadelphia and around the world. Yet at a time of unimaginable austerity for Black and brown communities, this kind of shell game with our resources is an insult. Not increasing the police budget isn’t enough."

SLAP supports the continued struggle to in Philadelphia! We stand in full solidarity and urge you and/or your organizations to sign on to this statement:

If you or your organization would like to sign on to this statement in the wake of City Council's budget amendments to the Philadelphia Police budget, please read below and sign on the form below. No, that is not what we meant by “Defund the police.” Wednesday night after 11pm, City Council vote...

06/16/2020

The Student Labor Action Project at Penn stands in full support of and its abolitionist organizers!

Collectively authored by Police Free Penn: An Abolitionist Assembly