Philly Power Research (PPR) is a group of volunteer researchers investigating the “powers that be” (i.e. corporations, elected officials, and billionaires) in Philadelphia. We started in 2016, right after Donald Trump was elected president. A few weeks after the election, we hosted a “Power Research 101” training, where we explained...
In the summer of 2020, the murders of Breonna Tayler in Louisville, George Floyd in Minneapolis, and Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, at the hands of police sparked nationwide protests and sent thousands of people into the streets with calls to defund police departments. As these calls gained traction, bloated police...
Activists in Michigan have taken on DTE Energy, a gas and electric utility monopoly that has extracted billions of dollars in profits from Michiganders while polluting the air, working to block and delay the transition to renewable energy, and exerted influence over the state government through millions of dollars in...
Researchers and activists in Pennsylvania have been focused on one powerful individual in recent years – billionaire Jeffrey Yass. As a co-founder and managing director of private equity and trading firm, Susquehanna International Group (SIG), Yass is now worth an estimated $30 billion. While Yass’s trading firm is powerful in...
