Steven Powers is a community organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), who has written about getting locked up as a teenager in Texas. After cutting his teeth in the non-profit Close Rikers Campaign in New York City, but leaving that world due to stark ideological differences, Steven now organizes with the Kensington Party Unit of PSL in Philadelphia. There, he and his comrades work on a range of community issues, from schools to running the People Power Gym. When COVID-19 hit North Philly, in addition to working on Cancel The Rent protests around the city, they built on previous service to the people programs in establishing the Unity and Survival Program. In this work, PSL distributes free food and supplies to people in the neighborhood. "It's about how gentrification divides us, about how food apartheid divides us, and how class divides us," says Steven. "We want to keep our at-risk people, and our people who are struggling with layoffs, with greedy landlords, with all this bullshit, with debt, we want to keep them out of the grocery stores, we want to keep them safe in the house. And so we thought the best way to do that would be to form a comprehensive network of care that was focused on delivering food to people." Note: This episode was recorded before the police murder of George Floyd. Before the interview begins, Steven provides us with a brief update on PSL's work organizing protests for Black Lives Matter, where they've been at the center of some of the most heated protests in Philadelphia.