The Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) believes that media must be connected to the economic and social realities of everyday life. The right to free speech means little without the right to be heard.
By sharing our own stories for the purposes of education, outreach, and organizing, we can disrupt the fragmentation of our issues and the isolation of our communities, and build the networks necessary to address the root causes of the problems we face.
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Stand With Cab Drivers: This Media Mobilizing Project Production examines taxi drivers in Philadelphia that demand the Philadelphia Parking Authority be accountable to drivers and Philadelphians
Our City Our Voices: Immigrant Video Newscast of Project in Philadelphia
The Student United Will Never Be Defeated
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About me: The Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) exists to unleash the powerful combination of media making and organizing. We are organizers who engage in collaborative media making with organizations and individuals whose issues and experiences are purposely submerged from view. The media that we produce is designed to clarify the issues at stake, document lived human realities, and act as a tool to inspire and unite those who have a vested interested in change.
MMP recognizes that we have entered a new era of participatory communications. In this age, people are increasingly called into the media production process, through the ascendance of a range of mediums and technologies from blogs and podcasts to affordable video cameras, cell phones and digital software. But while people generally have increased access to media making, we live in an increasingly undemocratic society and world plagued by structural inequities. This is clearly illustrated by a mass media system which is rapidly consolidating, resulting in fewer communities having access to mass media and ultimately making the “right to be heard” more essential then the “right to free speech.” The root of this problem is not embodied in the media system alone, but rather in a highly stratified global economic order, which works to fragment communities, hindering the solidarity necessary for strong social and economic justice movements. Based on this analysis, we emphasize working at the grassroots level versus engaging in legislative and reform battles, and we concentrate on the communities most exploited by the current economic system.
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Join Dennis Brutus and Scott Nova this Saturday with women garment workers at National Anti-Sweatshop Rally in Philly!
11:00-12:30pm Worker Rights Board Hearing: Sweatshops & State Purchasing Practices @ Broad Street Ministry, 315 S. Broad Street
Come learn more about experiences and working conditions faced by garment workers who decided to take a stand and fight for their rights!
Speakers at the events will include: Carmencita "Chie" Abad, former sweatshop worker in U.S. territory of Saipan Kalpona Akter, former child garment worker from Bangladesh, Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity Dennis Brutus, human rights anti-apartheid activist Fabricio Rodriguez, Philadelphia Area Jobs with Justice Elisa Rios, Eagles Industries garment worker Maria, Doris and Carmita from NJ Headwear, local garment worker Deb Milcarek, Presbytery Baltimore Bishop Dwayne Royster, Pastor of the Living Water United Church of Christ Peter Bloom, JUNTOS, local Latino community organizer Rabbi Soloff, Philadelphia Jewish Labor Committee Friedrich M. Pinguel, Philadelphia Student Union Scott Nova, executive director of Workers Rights Board Consortium
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12:30 - 1:00pm National Anti-Sweatshop Rally @ Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad Street
Urge all 50 governors at the National Governor's Association Meeting to join the Sweatfree Consortium and stop tax dollar in support of sweatshops!
For more information: Dorian Lam lumkitchee@phillyjwj.org
Read and sign the Coalition of Immokalee Worker's Petition to End Modern Day Slavery here: www. petitiononline. com/1penny/petition. html Learn more about their campaign against fast-food giant Burger King and how you can stand with the CIW in this fight: www. ciw-online. org ”>
"We are the workforce of tomorrow so we join the struggle today" -Dan Jones, Philadelphia Student Union Dan Jones participates in SEIU & UNITEHERE! protest of Aramark on Nov. 15th, 2007
