Philadelphia Unemployment Project (PUP)
A History of Organizing for Justice 1975-2010
Fighting for Fair Wages and Jobs for over 30 Years [Video: Philadelphia Unemployment Project Celebrates 30 Years of Grassroots Struggle] You will need the most recent Quick Time player to play the video. You can download it free here.
Since 1975, the Philadelphia Unemployment Project has organized the poor and unemployed to fight for economic justice, bringing diverse groups together to bring about major changes that benefit millions of unemployed and impoverished. PUP has helped the unemployed link with coalition partners in the labor, religious, community civil rights and women’s movements to increase our power. Our victories prove that, once organized, working people and the unemployed can be a powerful voice in the city, state, and nation.
PUP’s sister organization the Unemployment Information Center has also played a important role by providing research, direct services and organizing support to jobless Philadelphians and PUP since 1976.
