NOW OPEN: Whose City? An exhibition of poetry, music, video and visual art

NOW OPEN: Whose City? An exhibition of poetry, music, video and visual art

A collection of performance and visual work that illustrates the beauty and struggle of Philadelphia, organized by Media Mobilizing Project   Here are the details:When: Friday 9/3/2010,...
LISTEN: Fighting for Pennsylvania Jobs

LISTEN: Fighting for Pennsylvania Jobs

The Way to Work program is a statewide initiative that has put 12,000  adults back to work in full time employment and 14,000 youth into summer employment. This program is slated to be cut off...
Restorative Practices: Transforming School Culture & Ending the School to Prison Pipeline

Restorative Practices: Transforming School Culture & Ending the School to Prison Pipeline

Harsh disciplinary policies, such as zero tolerance, contribute to the school to prison pipeline by criminalizing students and pushing them out of school. Restorative practices, on the other hand,...
| Aug 08, 10

Labor Justice Radio reporter Amendu Evans recently interviewed representatives of Philadelphia Unemployment Project (PUP) about their role in fighting joblessness. Frank Wallace, who was unemployed for over a year until he recently found work through PUP, spoke about the stress of searching for a job. Ahnivah Williams, an organizer with PUP, shared information about the Way to Work program that is offering jobs to Philadelphians. This story includes their full, unedited interviews.

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| Aug 03, 10

I could not resist posting this video by George Carlin on the American Dream and education. Truer words have never been spoken by a comedian or otherwise. Here are some of the highlights:
 

We know what they want, more for themselves and less for everyone else… and they don't want an educated citizenry…. they want obedient workers… people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper work and just dumb enough to passively accept the increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they are coming for your social security money

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RScotland
| Aug 02, 10

Nearly 15 million people are unemployed across the US—and those numbers don't take into account the 1.2 million discouraged workers (workers whose unemployment benefits have run out), 8.6 million involuntary part-time workers, countless others who are underemployed, or those who are coming of age and have yet to find work.  Since the beginning of the year, the US has seen an increase of 593,000 jobs in the private sector, but that's still 7.9 million jobs fewer than there were in December 2007.
 
 

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On BLAST
| Jul 30, 10

On this month's show:
    •    Highlights and victories from PSU's '09-'10 school year
    •    Connecting the struggles of students and taxi workers
    •    Philly & Harrisburg students talk about ending violence
    •    Youth express themsleves through poetry
    •    Music and education news
 
This show was hosted by Azeem Hill and Gregory Jordan-Detamore. Matt Johnson was the engineer.

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| Jul 29, 10

 
Hoy, el dia de la implementación del SB1070 en Arizona, 15 grupos por todo el pais van a unir sus voces para un mundo con dignidad para todos.  Arizona es un estado en el medio de un crisis económica como todos las municipales y estados de este país. Un crisis en que la gente esta sufriendo y perdiendo sus trabajos, sus casas y todo que necesita para mantener sus familias.
 

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| Jul 29, 10

Miles de personas quienes vienen a Pennsylvania desde otros paises a trabajar no pueden obtener licencias de manejar. En diciembre 2009, el estado canceló las licencias de cienes de inmigrantes. En una reunion recién, la comunidad habló de como la política afectará su capacidad a sacar una ganancia y apoyar sus familias.

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desi.
| Jul 29, 10

La Alianza de Taxistas Unidas se organizó una vigilia en el Miercoles, 7 de Julio para apoyar las trabajadores y sus familias quienes eran vicimizados por una redada reciente de parte de la Autoridad de Estacionamiento de Philadlephia y ICE. Estudiantes, trabajdores y la comunidad religiosa llogo para apoyar las taxitas y sus familias y denunciar este injusticia.
 
Este reportaje fue producido por La Television del Proyecto de Medios en Movimiento con traduccion y doblaje por Radio Tlacuache
 
 

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desi.
| Jul 26, 10

Last Spring, Philadelphia-based food service provider, Aramark, came to the table and agreed to work with the Coaltion of Immokalee Workers in their pursuit of  curing an agriculture industry that by the CIW's estimation is ill to the core.  A system of work and profit, where "the norm is a disaster, and the extreme is slavery".  
 

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MMP
| Jul 19, 10

Media Mobilizing Project has covered the stories and movements of poor and working people across Philadelphia. This map brings that video work together in one place to create a view from above showing the closure of Northeastern Hospital, the organized efforts of taxi drivers for fair working conditions, the Temple Nurses strike, and more.

Created by Philly Student Union member Greg J-D.

 

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| Jul 15, 10

The taxi industry internationally is basically the same.  It is setup to avoid  labor laws and avoid unionism using  the big lie of being independent, free, with the ability to make as much as you want.  So I love those whom expose this industry for what it is.  Here is a special report from Austin Texas hot off the press.
http://www.texascbar.org/content/legal_library/pubs/downloads/TaxiDrivingAustinDriving2010.pdf

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| Jul 12, 10

The Philadelphia Student Union's Building A youth Movement (BAYM) Leadership Institute is happening again this summer! Every summer, high-school age young people from all over Philadelphia are invited to join Philly Student Union's youth leaders for a week of leadership, creativity and fun.
 

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| Jul 12, 10

On this episode of Labor Justice Radio:
+SEIU members fight for fair treatment in Delaware
+Philly responds to city budget cuts
+Queer immigrants talk about repression and resistance
+Day laborers speak about their right to work
+Music and local news

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RScotland
| Jul 09, 10
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The Unified Taxi Workers Alliance organized a prayer vigil on Wednesday, July 7th to support the drivers and families who were victimized in a recent raid by the Philadelphia Parking Authority and Immigration Customs Enforcement Authorities. Students, fellow workers, and members of the faith community stood with taxi drivers against the injustice.
 

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On BLAST
| Jul 08, 10

Yesterday, taxi drivers and their allies gathered for a prayer vigil to honor the taxi drivers who were recently victimized by the Philadelphia Parking Authority and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Members of many different organizations from across the city were there to demand justice for the drivers and their families. Religious and community leaders took the megaphone to send a message to the PPA that this kind of worker mistreatment won't be tolerated by the people of Philadelphia. Photos here.
 
Shania Morris, a rising high school freshman, represented Philadelphia Student Union at the vigil. She spoke about how this kind of harassment, especially when looked at alongside the long hours and constant mistreatment faced by taxi drivers, constitutes a form of structural violence similar to the kind faced by young people in our schools and communities.

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| Jul 07, 10

An Open Letter to Columbia University...
 
Dear Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation,
 
I had the wonderful experience of meeting some of your students this
weekend in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, along with some professors while
staying at my bed and breakfast.  They were a young and eager group
ready to fulfill whatever you set out for them to do and with full
confidence in your institution.  Every day they went out to measure,
excavate, and research on how to preserve three old buildings you plan
to restore for an art space in the Port of Rio, one of the poorest
neighborhoods in the city.  Well, in one of those homes on the second
floor, guess what… lives a family.

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