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Remembering the MOVE Bombing

The MOVE bombing killed 11 people, including 5 children, and leveled two blocks containing over 60 homes. This image shows the massive destruction in the following days.

updated 2025 On May 13th, 1985, the Philadelphia government used military explosives to bomb the headquarters of MOVE, a radical Black environmentalist group, in the neighborhood of Cobbs Creek in West Philadelphia. As a result of this horrifying act of police violence, the bomb and resulting fire killed 11 MOVE members, including five children, andContinue reading “Remembering the MOVE Bombing”

The Union Fight at Penn

Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania and United RAs at Penn are uniting efforts to push for worker’s rights.Credit: Sydney Curran substantially updated from 2024, by Anonymous, 2025 Join Your Union Now! From the start of the day, when the lights turn on, to the end, when everyone goes home, it is labor that keeps theContinue reading “The Union Fight at Penn”

Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine

Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine organized a die-in demonstration at College Hall on Jan. 29.Credit: Abhiram Juvvadi by Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine, University of Pennsylvania, 2025 For nearly two years, the Penn Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine chapter has spoken out against the brutal and ongoing extermination of PalestinianContinue reading “Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine”

Drone Research; Palestinian Death

figures (a) and (b) from the GRASP Lab’s “SEER: Safe Efficient Exploration for Aerial Robots using Learning to Predict Information Gain”: arXiv:2209.11034 by Penn Against the Occupation, 2025 Penn Engineering prides itself on an interdisciplinary, humanitarian approach to engineering for the betterment of the world. However, just a few layers of digging show a concerning levelContinue reading “Drone Research; Palestinian Death”

Penn Culture

U.S. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk speak in the Oval Office before departing the White House in Washington on March 14, 2025. | Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images by Anonymous, 2025 The two most powerful men in America are President Trump and Elon Musk. Both men are racist, arrogant, and narcissistic, viewing their wealthContinue reading “Penn Culture”

Penn vs. International Students

By U.S. Customs and Border Protection – CBP International Travel Preclearance Operations in Canada, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=66500139 by Anonymous, 2025 Penn hosts one of the largest international student communities in the Ivy League, with students hailing from over 137 countries, a fact often repeated in admissions flyers and marketed as a differentiating strength. In theContinue reading “Penn vs. International Students”

Lynching victims in the dissecting room: Penn’s record of desecrating Black human remains

Clipping from the Inquirer (1894) by Anonymous, 2025 The University of Pennsylvania’s history is a story of scientific racism and dehumanizing practices. In 2021, facing pressure from racial justice community organizers, the Penn Museum and the University issued long overdue apologies for displaying the skulls of enslaved Africans in a eugenist collection and for stealingContinue reading “Lynching victims in the dissecting room: Penn’s record of desecrating Black human remains”

ICE out of Philly

Immigration agents are seen on video as they arrest five Guatemalan men near 20th and Morris Streets in Philadelphia on July 6, 2025. Obtained by The Inquirer by Anonymous, 2025 Before I ever sat in a lecture hall at Penn, I cleaned the Alpha Tau Omega house on 39th St. That summer of 2019, rightContinue reading “ICE out of Philly”

How Penn Gentrifies

Mel Hairston, resident at the UC Townhomes, protests with Fossil Free Penn to save UC Townhomes on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Photo by Siena Christopherson by Anonymous, 2025 Following a period of relatively cordial relations established by William Penn himself and ended by his death, his sons engaged in a legalistic swindle of the Lenape’sContinue reading “How Penn Gentrifies”