Generocity Team
Social Justice coverage at Generocity.org casts a wide net. We look at prisoner rights, LGBTQ advocacy, economic justice and more. These stories include just some of the topics we cover under Social Justice.
The legalization of gay marriage in Pennsylvania was a big win for the LGBTQ community. But there is still much left to do before their is true equal rights. We talked to Reggie Shuford, head of the PA chapter of the ACLU, about what's next.
How advocacy organizations market themselves matters, and The March to End Rape Culture made a strategic decision to change its name to reach a broader audience.
The local chapter of 15 Now, a national coalition advocating for a $15 per hour minimum wage, has made some notable gains since it first came to Philadelphia in February. Here is an overview of their progress, as well as on-the-scene details from one of their biggest protests.
The Pennsylvania Board of Pardons voted on August 28 not to grant Avis Lee, who has been imprisoned since she was a teenager, a chance to reduce her sentence of life without parole through the commutation process. This story looks at the movement building to increase commutation -- one of the only ways lifers get a second chance.
HollaBACKPhilly (now Feminist Public Works) launched its new transit ad campaign earlier this year. The ad campaign included a total of 25 ads in the interior of subway cars, on the subway platforms, and in bus shelters across the city called for an end to street harassment.
