rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/petition/no-new-stadium-in-north-philly?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-petition-area-no-new-stadium-in-north-philly' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Stadium Stompers https://actionnetwork.org/users/7d07677822b4448ef4b8c7405c3980cf3953f1f1/profile https://actionnetwork.org//images/generic_facebook.jpg Tell the Temple Board of Trustees: No New Stadium in North Philadelphia! Temple University is planning to build a 35,000 seat football stadium in a residential neighborhood in North Philadelphia. Despite Temple's recent agreement to continue using Lincoln Financial Field for football games through 2018, the University has not canceled plans to build a new stadium. The strained relationship between Temple and the surrounding community stems from decades of disrespect and displacement. Stadium Stompers is a coalition of North Philadelphia residents and Temple University students & alumni organized against the stadium proposal. Since the fall of 2015, the group has put pressure on the Board of Trustees and local legislators to reexamine the relationship Temple University has with its neighboring communities and to end projects that displace longstanding residents. For over a year, Stadium Stompers has led community actions and interventions against the proposed stadium and has garnered national media coverage of the issue. Incredibly, despite evidence that the stadium will harm the community and that on-campus sports stadiums often do not generate intended revenues for universities, Temple’s Board of Trustees continues to push for the creation of a new stadium in North Philly. We need your help to demonstrate broad disapproval of this development. To learn more about the Stadium Stompers, go to https://www.facebook.com/NotoTemple/ Twitter: @StadiumStomper1 https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/no-new-stadium-in-north-philly