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Become a Rep215 Advocate

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A plan of action to repair the Black community in Philadelphia and the Delaware valley.

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Become a Rep215 Advocate

Become a Rep215 Advocate Become a Rep215 Advocate Become a Rep215 Advocate

A plan of action to repair the Black community in Philadelphia and the Delaware valley.

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About

Reparations Philadelphia "Rep 215" is a Philadelphia alliance of advocates and organizations who support reparations and reparatory justice for Black Americans in the Delaware Valley. 

Rep 215 invites academics, social service professionals, economic experts, members of the faith community, public officials, and everyday Philadelphians to bring about legislation that atones for the vestiges of government sanctioned racism against Black Americans in the United States. 


Federal reparations has distinctions from regional and local levels of reparations, and Rep 215 does the work of clarifying those distinctions to establish the foundation for what Philadelphian's hyper-local repair needs are. Rep 215 is in part led by the N’COBRA PHL, the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, and brings the Philadelphia community at large into the reparations conversation and movement to establish a Reparations Commission, enforce Philadelphia’s existing Slavery Disclosure Ordinance, and restablish The Freedmen’s Bureau and an Office of Freedmen’s Affairs. 


Philadelphia Reparations Commission 

  • Philadelphia must establish a Reparations Commission to Redress and Recompense the Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States of America and those “Black” and “African-American” descendants of Negro and Colored Americans in the United States.  


Enforcement of the Slavery Disclosure and Reparations Ordinance 

  • The City of Philadelphia Reparations must enforce the Philadelphia Slavery Disclosure Ordinance § 17-104. Prerequisites to the Execution of City Contracts, section titled, Slavery Era Business/Corporate Insurance Disclosure and Financial Reparations.


The Freedmen’s Bureau & Office of Freedmen’s Affairs

  • The Reconstruction of the Freedmen's Bureau and establishment of an Office of Freedman’s Affairs must evolve the pre-existing provisions and support services of the special order. Special Field Order No. 15 proclamation, the Freedmen's Bureau Act granted 40 acres of land and a mule, food, housing, protection, education, health care, employment contracts with private landowners including the distribution of land, schools for their children, military courts, and banks to ensure these rights.


  Join Rep 215 in advocacy and leadership for reparatory justice for Black Philadelphians.



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