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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPhiladelphia was told to brace for mass unrest. Instead, the city danced. That was no accident.
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Katrina vandenHeuvel
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Joy is itself an act of resistance. Philadelphia was told to brace for mass unrest. Instead, the city danced. That was no accident.
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ORourke said the tone in Philadelphia in the days after Election Day was set in the days leading up to it. There were the photos and videos of people dancing while waiting in line, jamming to live music in many cases supplied by Joy to the Polls, a program the Working Families Party launched in Philadelphia and then expanded to swing states nationwide.
Joy to the Polls was part of Working Families Partys Election Defenders program that trained volunteers in de-escalation tactics they could use if trouble started at a polling place, said Nelini Stamp, Working Families Partys director of strategy.
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Philadelphia was told to brace for mass unrest. Instead, the city danced. That was no accident. (Original Post)
soothsayer
Nov 2020
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BComplex
(8,029 posts)1. Now THAT is how you make things work!!
Bravo, Working Families Party!!
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)2. Lesson for the Georgia runoffs!
doublethink
(6,822 posts)3. Pretty much all across the Nation ...
All major cities 'boarded up' instead we danced ....
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)4. I'm proud of my hometown
Rough around the edges and we have some major blemishes, but there is a huge amount of heart there.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)5. Community organizing ftw!