The Struggle to Save Philly’s Chinatown by Casey Butcher
- Angela Coppola
- Feb 26, 2023
- 1 min read
Speaker: Casey Butcher
Casey Butcher, community organizer in South Philadelphia and Center City for POWER Interfaith, discusses the history of Philadelphia’s Chinatown, its outsized importance for the city and region, and the current struggle to protect its integrity. If the proposed arena construction is approved, the neighborhood is expected to become a construction site for six years. Butcher is a veteran of many social justice campaigns, including the Movement to Ban Fracking in New York State and Occupy Wall Street. He is a pre-candidate analyst of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis.
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