Banned from City Hall in Fight for Women's Safety

Kensington Welfare Rights members just spent the last few days in jail after trying to secure emergency housing for over six families who are victims of domestic violence in the Philadelphia area. We refuse to have victims of domestic violence placed in city shelters that cannot meet the specific safety needs of women who are in danger of their lives. After laying seven to a jail cell with cockroaches and lying on ice cold cement floors we were given misdemeanors in the third degree and told that we have a stay away order from city hall. We cannot go to our mayor's office, nor our city council representatives, nor testify before city council. We went to jail and now are going to have to stand trial and we can't even enter our own city hall; but what is worst of all is that these women's lives are in danger in Philadelphia and that our city officials don't give a damn!

Please send us a letter of outrage and support so that we may deliver them to our mayor.

Via email kwru@kwru.org

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KWRU
PO Box 50678
Philadelphia, PA 19132