Casino-Free Philadelphia’s alternate waterfront development mural
Casino-Free Philadelphia is creating a community mural depicting the waterfront as the activists would have it developed. Help the group create the mural at Frankford Avenue First Friday, August 6, and in Center City on August 11.
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