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LL Cool J won't perform in the Wawa Welcome America Fourth of July Concert on Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Friday, saying he won't "cross a picket line" amid the ongoing strike in Philadelphia involving the city's largest municipal workers' union.
LL Cool J said that he is not going to perform at Wawa Welcome America on July 4th in light of the AFSCME District Council 33 strike in Philadelphia.
LL Cool J and Jazmine Sullivan canceled their Philadelphia July 4th concert appearances to support striking municipal workers.
LL COOL J issued a statement on why he dropped out of the July 4 concert, siding with the striking workers who are demanding better wages.
Philadelphians and tourists celebrated Independence Day Friday in America’s birthplace as a city workers strike prompted LL Cool J and Jazmine Sullivan, coheadliners of the Wawa Welcome America concert,
A day after LL COOL J announced he would not perform at the Wawa Welcome America concert, Jazmine Sullivan announced she would also not perform.
About 9,000 members of AFSCME District Council 33 say they will walk off their jobs Tuesday unless they have a new contract in place.
In this life we are only measured by how we uphold our morals and standards, by what we choose to fight for through participation or protest,” she wrote on her Instagram story.
LL Cool J says he won't perform at Wawa Welcome America until the strike in Philadelphia ends. Donald Trump welcomed Tiffany, 31, with his ex-wife, Marla Maples. Fresh off her getaway to Venice for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s lavish wedding, Kylie Jenner headed to Tuscany to continue her Euro holiday with her kids.