Sanctuary Directory
The Sanctuary Directory, compiled by PHLA collaborators is showing different community partners included: The Attic Youth Center, Project SAFE, Prevention Point, Laos in the House, New Sanctuary Movement, Broad Street Ministry and other organizations on sanctuary related services throughout the city.
Toward Sanctuary Dome Launch at Lubert Plaza. Photo by Zein Nakhoda
Toward Sanctuary
The PHLA Sanctuary atmosphere concluded that there is no singular definition of sanctuary (i.e. what is sanctuary for one person might not be the same for another). How can Philadelphia become a true Sanctuary City? To connect various forms of sanctuary, including LGBTQ safe-spaces, immigration and migration, youth and adult street homelessness, and harm reduction in drug use and sex work, the group created a traveling pod, constructed by Traction Company, that lived with various community partners between mid-April to mid-June 2017. Taking the shape of a geodesic dome that one can enter as well as transport, the structure was meant to hold and inspire multiple forms of storytelling and story-gathering - audio, drawn, written, private, public.
While these sites grew active, a new program developed from the Sanctuary working group, “Sanctuary Stewards,” trained at these locations, collectively developing vision and knowledge on how intersectional sanctuary can be offered and received. Additionally, the Sanctuary working group hosted regular programs including film screenings, public forums on sanctuary and safe space, and storytelling and related art workshops. Within the space there were areas to rest, have a conversation, and collect materials on sanctuary related services available throughout the city.
The Sanctuary Directory map was handed out in the 'Toward Sanctuary Dome' and could be founded at different community Partners.
While these sites grew active, a new program developed from the Sanctuary working group, “Sanctuary Stewards,” trained at these locations, collectively developing vision and knowledge on how intersectional sanctuary can be offered and received. Additionally, the Sanctuary working group hosted regular programs including film screenings, public forums on sanctuary and safe space, and storytelling and related art workshops. Within the space there were areas to rest, have a conversation, and collect materials on sanctuary related services available throughout the city.
The Sanctuary Directory map was handed out in the 'Toward Sanctuary Dome' and could be founded at different community Partners.
PHLA Public Phase / Sanctuary Stewards gathering. Photo by Joseph Hu
Half the land in Oklahoma could be returned to Native Americans. It should be.
A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.
By Rebecca Nagle, The Washington Post
Rebecca Nagle is a writer, advocate and citizen of Cherokee Nation living in Tahlequah, Okla.
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By Rebecca Nagle, The Washington Post
Rebecca Nagle is a writer, advocate and citizen of Cherokee Nation living in Tahlequah, Okla.
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PHLASK Project - find water map
The PHLASK Project was conceived as a social enterprise solution to help make an existing system - accessing and drinking water - more ecologically sustainable.
The mission of the project was to reimagine how existing infrastructures and systems could be reorganized and optimized to reduce waste and provide greater access to water, simply by re-engineering the social norms of accessing existing water sources.
by Billy Hanafee
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The mission of the project was to reimagine how existing infrastructures and systems could be reorganized and optimized to reduce waste and provide greater access to water, simply by re-engineering the social norms of accessing existing water sources.
by Billy Hanafee
Find water map
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North Philly Teach-in: Changing the Master Narratives, November 10, 2018, Mount Pleasant Mansion, By Denise Valentine
North Philadelphia has undergone rapid and significant changes over the last 2-1/2 centuries. While facing a history of discriminatory housing policies, strategic decay and displacement, African-Americans have raised families, created community, made their mark and changed the course of history. In recent decades, archival material has been uncovered revealing the lives of Africans enslaved at several Fairmount Park Mansions. What are their stories? If we don't remember them who will? If we don't tell these stories who will? And, who will remember us when we are gone?
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This App Can Tell You the Indigenous History of the Land You Live On
Whose land are you on? Start with a visit to native-land.ca. Native Land is both a website and an app that seeks to map Indigenous languages, treaties, and territories across Turtle Island. You might type in New York, New York, for example, and find that the five boroughs are actually traditional Lenape and Haudenosaunee territory.
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Sanctuary Directory
The Sanctuary Directory, compiled by PHLA collaborators is showing different community partners included: The Attic Youth Center, Project SAFE, Prevention Point, Laos in the House, New Sanctuary Movement, Broad Street Ministry and other organizations on sanctuary related services throughout the city.
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