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,...
| May 18, 10
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In this video by Huffington Post Investigative Fund, we learn the story Vicky Valentine who had her home seized by Sunrise Atlantic LLC, an arm of Bank Atlantic, because of an unpaid water bill of $362.  Ms Valentine's bill was owed to the City of Baltimore, which then sold the right to collect on the bill to a series of banks and real estate companies (third party investors) in a tax lien auction that quickly inflated the bill to over three thousand dollars. Investors then seized the home and put Ms Valentine and her family on the street. As the video details, this is a growing practice between strapped city governments and private investors (usually banks) which is dispossessing the poor and working class of their property.

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| May 16, 10

Radio Tlacuache habló con jornaleros afuera de un Home Depot en Philaldephia sobre los cambios de las leyes migratorias y como va a afectar trabajadores y la comunidad inmigrante.

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| May 12, 10
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Okay, not actually Lady Gaga. But, Hotel Workers in San Francisco are organizing with boycotts taking place across the city. At the Westin St. Francis a flashmob infilitrates and performs an adaptation of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance. Their song and dance number lets people visiting the city during Pride Week know they shouldnt be caught in a Bad Hotel.

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| May 12, 10
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Media Mobilizing Project is excited to announce the launch of our monthly TV news broadcast - MMPtv.

The first episode centers on the growing health care crisis in our country - "Infection in Our Health Care System," covers the recent Temple Nurses Strike, national organizing for Health Care as a Human Right, and nurses organizing to protect their patients.


Watch MMPtv this Tuesday, May 18th at 7pm. Here's how:

In Philadelphia, on your TV - PhillyCAM Channel 66 on Comcast Every Tuesday at 7pm, Sundays at 11am

Anytime Anywhere - http://vimeo.com/channels/mmptv

When you want it on iTunes - itpc://mmptv.blip.tv/rss/itunes/

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| May 11, 10

With new jobs numbers coming in it is clear things aren't getting better for most in America. While the economy is starting to gain more jobs than lose jobs, with a gain of 231,000 jobs in April, people are going longer without work than any other time in history.

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| May 11, 10

The Internet as a Universal Service, the Conservative and Corporate Backlash, and the Struggle Over How We Communicate.

 

Lea en español abajoEl Internet como Servicio Universal, el contraataque corporativo, y la lucha por nuestra comunicación. 

For the past month the most important telecommunications platform of our time, the Internet, has gone without any form of regulation or government oversight. This situation didn't cause some downward spiral collapsing email and leading to tolls for visiting pages across the web - thank goodness. But, after the ruling in the Comcast Bit Torrent case an opening was presented for Broadband Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to brush off government authority. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for D.C. ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) doesn't have the authority to impose regulation on ISPs. If this situation sticks ISPs have clearly stated what they intend to do - charge whatever they like for any content they like, while limiting traffic for those who don't pay high premiums.

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On BLAST
| May 07, 10

On this show:

  • Picture the Homeless organizes for the right to housing in NYC
  • PSU brings students together for a nonviolent 'flash mob'
  • Students stand in solidarity with Temple nurses & techs
  • Temple University Health System tries to limit college access for nurses' kids
  • Plus music and local education news

This show was hosted by Greg Jordan-Detamore & Shania Morris. Dan
Jones engineered.

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| May 05, 10
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Leading up to the recent strike at Temple University Hospital, Carolyn Humphries, a GI technician at the hospital and member of PASNAP, studied video-making and citizen journalism.  She wanted to tell the powerful stories and experiences of she and her coworkers as they stood up to Temple's Administration on behalf of their patients.
 
Throughout the strike Carolyn reported on the struggle, in an effort to keep up morale at the picket line and rally deep and widespread community support.
 

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| May 04, 10

 
With the Mayor's budget still under review Essential Services Coalition is leading a call for an alternative to the sugary drinks tax and trash fee. 
 

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mica
| May 04, 10

Big problems necessitate big solutions. Media Mobilizing Project’s work has focused on connecting the struggles of poor and working people in Greater Philadelphia in order to build a more powerful force for change than any single organization or sector could create on its own. We also recognize that the problems we face are not limited to this region. And we know that if we are to be successful, the solutions we are building cannot be smaller than the problems we face.

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| May 04, 10

 
PA State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe just introduced an "Arizona-style" immigration bill that would make it a state crime to be undocumented and dramatically expand the ability of state and local authorities to enforce immigration laws.  

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| May 04, 10

On Sunday the Washington Post reported that FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski was "leaning towards" not reclassifying broadband, which would mean that the FCC would not have the right to regulate the Internet. If Genachowski makes this decision ultimately it would mean that communities would have to depend on the goodwill of Comcast, Verizon and other Internet Service Providers to regulate themselves… good luck with that.

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Kistine
| May 03, 10

Radio Tlaucuache and Labor Justice Radio (LJR) joined two celebrations for May Day weekend to share these worker-produced radio shows with larger communities impacted by the issues we cover on air. You can catch the shows on 88.1 FM WPEB: Radio Tlacuache airs on Tuesdays, 2-5 pm. Labor Justice Radio airs Mondays 7-8 pm and Tuesdays 1-2 pm.  You can also listen to LJR online at www.laborjusticeradio.podomatic.com 

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| Apr 30, 10

 
(BALTIMORE) After more than a year of planning and preparation, hundreds of Baltimore's low-wage workers and community allies will tell the "people's history of the Inner Harbor" on May 1, 2010 through a series of elaborate storytelling performances to draw attention to poverty-wages and poor working conditions at Baltimore's premiere tourist and entertainment district. The day, dubbed "Our Harbor Day," will include street plays, giant puppets, neighbourhood parades, musical performances and a concluding rally and march from City Hall to the Inner Harbor.

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MMP
| Apr 30, 10

 
In honor of International Workers Day, Crossroads presents veteran labor singer Anne Feeney and rising young songwriter Evan Greer of the Riot-Folk! Collective – joined by special guest Roy Zimmerman – celebrating multiple generations of community resistance through high-energy radical folk music on their fourth tour together. The concert will take place at 7:30 pm at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street. Tickets are $20-30 and are available both at the concert and in advance from our website and at Last Word Bookshop at 220 South 40th Street. 

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