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.

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/

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

Lea en español abajo: El 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.

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.
 

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.

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.

 
(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.