Let's Put People First in Vermont, Pennsylvania, and beyond!
The Media Mobilizing Project sends it support and solidarity to the Vermont Workers Center and to all the vermonters who stood up for human rights on their historic May 1st mobilization in Montpelier...
MMPTV Update: Elimination of Safety Nets for 65,000 Pennsylvanians
This MMPTV update includes powerful stories from people who would be impacted by Governor Corbett's proposal to eliminate the statewide General Assistance Program and to cut the General Assistance...
Over 2,700 school bus drivers, mechanics, custodians, and other blue-collar workers – have recently received layoff notices, effective either sometime next fall or December 31, 2012. This is the...
En la escuela Nebinger en el sur de Philadelphia los estudiantes representaron la batalla del 5 de mayo de 1862, ocurrida en la ciudad de Puebla, por medio de una obra teatral. Casa Monarca por medio de su cofundadora, Dalia O'Gorman, fue responsable de montar la obra teatral y bailes folkloricos mexicanos.
Millones de personas son víctimas de la persecución, discriminación e intolerancia del estado por no tener un documento que los acredite como ciudadanos legales. Entonces nos preguntamos?... La dignidad y el respeto en este país lo determina el tener o no tener un documento.
Escucha las experiencias humanas de la comunidad afectada por la cancelación de sus licencias de conducir.
This MMPTV update features an informative discussion with Stan Shapiro, who spent 22 years as Chief Staff Attorney for Philadelphia City Council and currently co-chairs Neighborhood Networks. Stan talked with us about the new city and state budgets and how working families and communities are being impacted by proposed cuts to public services and safety nets. He also spoke with us about the ways that Philadelphia based institutions and corporations are contributing to the growing gap in the budget, and how this situation could be remedied.
El próximo 7 de mayo representantes de diferentes comunidades irán a Harrisburg para alzar sus voces frente al capitolio contra las leyes que pretenden imponerse en Pennsylvania, siguigendo el modelo de estados como Arizona y Alabama. Estas leyes han sido presentadas con medidas en contra la inmigración, pero son un ataque contra todos los trabajadores del estado de Pennsylvania, no solamente los inmigrantes. Este aviso fue producido por Radio Unidad.
Philadelphia is still mourning the loss of 2 of it's brave firefighters and 6 community leaders and children who lost their lives to fires in various sections of the city this month. Members of the Soryarangsky Temple, Cambodian Assocaiation of Greater Philadelphia and One Love Movement along with Media Mobilizing Project and Local 22 Firefighters and Medic Union will gather to pay tribute and honor all those lost in fires in this city and to continue the fight to keep our fire engines and ladders running in all of our neighborhoods.
This MMPTV update includes powerful stories from people who would be impacted by Governor Corbett's proposal to eliminate the statewide General Assistance Program and to cut the General Assistance related health care. 65,000 Pennsylvanians risk losing their only source of income--$205 a month. This represents the single biggest cut in the proposed state budget.
Considering that Pennsylvania spends an average of $42,339 per year on an inmate, versus $1,845 per year on a General Assistance recipient, we see this not as a matter of cost savings, but a matter of priorities.
In this MMPTV update we discuss the recent demonstration led by the Dream Activists of Pennsylvania. The protest focused on the release of Miguel Orellana, a 25-year old Dream Act eligible student who has been held in York County Prison for over 7 months. During this time in detention, Migeul sadly missed the birth of his second child. But many people are fighting alongside Miguel so that he can be released and return to his family. This event reveals the powerful unity across many immigrant and undocumented communities who are taking a stand for human rights.
Over 2,700 school bus drivers, mechanics, custodians, and other blue-collar workers – have recently received layoff notices, effective either sometime next fall or December 31, 2012. This is the entire membership of SEIU 32BJ Local 1201. These layoffs are just a few of the many cuts made to the Philadelphia School District over the last year.
37 families at the Riverdale Mobile Home Park in Jersey Shore, PA may lose their homes to make way for a water extraction plant that will supply natural gas drilling operations. The families have until June 1st to leave, and the compensation they are being offered does not cover the costs of relocating their trailers. The water extraction facility will be operated by Aqua PVR, a partnership of Aqua America and Penn Virginia Resources. They gathered on March 28th to speak out about how they will be affected.
Students from across Pennsylvania rallied demanding Equity in Education. This action was organized by Philadelphia Student Union, Project Peace, A+ Schools' TeenBloc & Juntos. Over the course of the last year, Governor Tom Corbett has cut public education in Pennsylvania by more than $1 Billion, all the while increasing funding for prisons. These unprecedented cuts have lead to school districts like Chester Upland laying-off fifty-three percent of their teaching staff, a precursor to the teachers finally working without pay beginning in January of this year.
In the midst of a long line of cuts to firefighters and fire services, the International Association of Fire Fighters PA and Local 22 have been fighting for the well being of the public and their members. Firefighters and medics have been coming together with community members in a fight to end the Fire Company Brownouts policy in this city, and to Put People First.
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