Media Mobilizing Project News Breaks Tune in Tuesdays & Thursdays (noon & 5 PM) for information and analysis from the movement to end poverty in Philadelphia and beyond. Each Media Mobilizing Project News Break features stories from Labor Justice Radio and On Blast.
Labor Justice Radio brings you news from the perspectives of working people. This show is produced collaboratively by members of Unified Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania, SEIU 32BJ, Philadelphia Joint Board/Workers United, District Council 33 and Media Mobilizing Project.
On Blast is the youth-produced radio show of the Philadelphia Student Union, offering education news and analysis from high school students who are organizing to improve public education.
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MMP News Breaks are back! G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM).
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called The campaign for Working Families Offers Free Tax Preparation. The Campaign for Working Families boost the number of people who receive free tax filing assistance and do not have to pay sky-high fees to commercial tax preparers. Over the past eight years, The Campaign for Working families has brought $146.4 million into the homes of low-income working families. And saved these families an estimated $20.2 million in interest, fees and charges for tax preparation. A second Labor Justice Radio piece this week is called 'I had no sick days, no health care benefits, and no respect or dignity'. Private security officers in Philadelphia are joining together in a civil rights campaign for fair wages, benefits and dignity on the job. Guards are signing up with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32BJ and anticipate upcoming employer contract negotiations. Produced by Kistine Carolan. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM).
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Kids Programming Lose Out in Light of Budget Cuts. A toddler storytime program at the Norristown library is scaled back, just another consequence of government budgets cutting funding for educational and emergency services. The program uses song and books to introduce toddlers to numbers, animals and language, in a setting that promotes socialization with other children. As noted by the father interviewed in this segment, the program is also an opportunity for families to meet and create community. Produced by Kistine Carolan. A second Labor Justice Radio piece this week is called Food Pantries Struggle to Serve the New Poor. Food pantries across the Philadelphia region have seen rising demand and falling donations since the start of the recession. Philabundance, the region's largest food assistance organization, has had to expand its services to several suburban communities for the first time. Now, the organization expects another surge in demand as more unemployed people run out their 99 weeks of insurance. A report by Milena Velis. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM).
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called The Right to Heal. Interviews with workers without sick time benefits on proposed legislation in city council that would extend a minimum number of paid sick days to the 40% of Philadelphians who currently lack them. Produced by Kistine Carolan. OnBlast Radio this week features a piece called The Struggles of the Homeless in Philadelphia (1995-96). In January of 2010, the Poverty Initiatve, a group based in New York that aims to reignite Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, visited Philadelphia for an immersion tour. The tour highlighted the history of the struggles of poor people in this city. Willie Baptist and Liz Theoharis shared stories about the struggle of the homeless in 1995 and 1996, which included a "tent city" and the takeover of an abandoned church. This piece was produced by Gregory Jordan-Detamore. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM).
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Longshoremen Fight to Restore Safe, Union Jobs. Del Monte Fresh Produce Company recently left their union-run Camden operation for a non-union competitor. The move is expected to cost the International Longshoremen's Union 200-300 local jobs and result in lower safety standards for workers. In the words of one union member who has worked for Del Monte in Camden for more than a decade, "In the end it will create more working poor." In response, the International Longshoremen's Association has called for a boycott of Del Monte. In this piece, William Kevin Jones, a member of International Longshoremen's Association (ILA), speaks about his union's battle with Del Monte. Amendu Evans produced this story. A second Labor Justice Radio piece this week is called New Rights for Working Moms. Hourly workers wishing to feed their infants breastmilk are now protected by law to take unpaid breaks and have a private space that is not a bathroom to pump milk while at work. As of March 23, the Affordable Care Act, known as health reform, began requiring employers to support breastfeeding employees. Three local businesses are models of how employers can give the time and space necessary to support working mothers in providing the best nutrition to their babies. For more information, visit www.momobile.org. Produced by Kistine Carolan. There will be no On Blast segment this week.
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM). This week's On Blast segment is called Art for Social Change: Conversations with Young Artists. What's the connection between art & organizing? And how can artists use their talents to create social change? Amber Marie Felton & Simone Waller spoke to musicians, poets, organizers and artists to hear what they had to say.
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Labor Monument Dedicated in Philadelphia. A Monument to worker's was recently dedicated in Elmwood Park in Southwest Philadelphia. It commemorates the contributions of organized labor nationwide and Philadelphia's working class. The artwork transforms Elmwood Park into a community gathering space and an outdoor history lesson. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM). This week's On Blast segment is called What Does it Mean For Our City Now that SugarHouse Casino has Opened. SugarHouse Casino opened September 23, 2010 at Frankford and Delaware Avenues despite years of strong public opposition. This has not deterred activists but made them more determined in their fight against casinos in Philadelphia. In this segment, I spoke to Lai Har Cheung, Reverend Jesse Brown, and Francesca Lo Basso. Produced by Cécile Ürményházi.
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Family and Friends of Detained Refugees Speak. The Cambodian community of Philadelphia gathered across from City Hall and Love Park on October 8th to speak out against a recent wave of detentions and deportations. They called on immigration officials and politicians to take a look at these cases and allow valuable members of their community to stay united with their families. Joe Hanzsum of AZI fellas explains the origins of Cambodian immigration to Philadelphia. He explains that these community members came here as child refugees, fleeing the Khmer Rouge genocide. Ria Cruz, the pregnant wife of a detained refugee, speaks about her family's struggle to stay together. The October 8th rally was organized by the One Love Movement. For more information and updates visit Anti-Deportation Organization and the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia. The audio in this report was recorded by members of Media Mobilizing Project TV. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM). This week's On Blast segment is called Making Music to Tackle the Drop Out Crisis. Have you heard Pushed Out, the 5 track album that Philadelphia Student Union members created? The album tells the story of one student who is dealing with Philadelphia's nearly 50% drop out rate. After finishing the cd, students helped design a curriculum that teachers and others can use along with the cd to talk about the drop out crisis. The curriculum engages young people, helps them identify the root causes of why so many students are dropping out, and talks about student-driven solutions. This new curriculum is being used in some of Philly's classrooms and community centers, but PSU is still working towards our goal of copying and distributing the CD to over a thousand public high school students. Visit PSU's Movement Music page to listen to the songs or make a donation that will go towards the next album that students will be producing this summer: http://home.phillystudentunion.org/Student-Programs/Soundtrack-Donations-mp3.html
In this piece, Candace Carter and Koby Murphy talk about the process of writing and recording Pushed Out. This piece was recorded by Lawrence Jones Mahoney and produced by Othella Stanback.
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called No One Wants A House Without Water. Recently members of Labor Justice Radio and On Blast travelled to Dimock, a small town in Northeastern PA known locally as "ground zero" of Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling. We spoke to local residents about the effects of the hydraulic fracturing drilling process on their health, their groundwater, and their right to housing. This report was produced by Milena Velis. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM). This week's On Blast segment is called Organizing Across Race Lines: From Ridgeville to Ridge's Mansion! Willie Baptist, a leader in the movement to end poverty, shares some of his experiences working with the Kensington Welfare Rights Union in Philadelphia. Much of the work that the KWRU did relied on its being a cross-racial movement, and Mr. Baptist explains how deep racial divisions are overcome when the focus is put on people's common struggles. This piece was produced by Dan Jones. Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Rally for Jobs. On September 15th, Jobs with Justice held a rally in front of Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce as part of a national day of action for living wage jobs. Members of many local unions and community organizations came together to demand jobs with living wages and healthcare. Charles Clarke produced this radio piece, which includes highlights from the rally. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM). This week's On Blast segment is called The Alliance for Educational Justice: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline. Students from across the country are coming together to stand up against the school to prison pipeline and demand positive school discipline policies that address young peoples' needs. Instead of zero tolerance policies, students are organizing for the adoption of restorative justice models that promote counseling, mediation and conflict resolution. Leading this fight is the Alliance for Educational Justice (AEJ), a national alliance of youth organizing groups that includes the Philadelphia Student Union (PSU). Amirah Williams, a Philadelphia Student Union member, recently interviewed AEJ organizer Mustafa Sullivan about the effects of harsh discipline policies and AEJ's vision for change. This radio piece also features highlights from a national youth speak out that the Alliance for Educational Justice held outside of the U.S. Capitol building this summer.
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called One Man's Story of Homelessness in Camden's Tent City. When officials closed down Camden's Tent City this past May, they promised the 54 homeless residents that it was not an eviction, but the first step to a better life. Now, less than 6 months later, many of them are once again homeless and some have created a new Tent city encampment near the original site. Back in April, when Camden's Tent City was still intact, members of Media Mobilizing Project & Poor Voices United visited the encampment. They recorded an interview with James Luddy about how he became homeless and life in Tent City. |
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G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project. You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM). This week's On Blast segment asks What's the Biggest Problem with Philadelphia Public Schools? During PSU's summer leadership program, Building A Youth Movement (BAYM), students hit the streets to ask people their opinions about public education in Philly. There were a lot of different thoughts about the problems and the solutions for our school district. Students took these answers and created this Vox Pop. Listen and see if you agree with what Philly residents had to say. Carina Flaherty, Tatiana Griffin and Dan Jones recorded and produced this piece.
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Nutter's Firestation Brown-Out Policy Claims a Life. After a tragic fire near 55th & Sansom (West Philadelphia) took the life of a 12 year old named Frank Marasco, neighbors and firefighters gathered for a vigil in front of the home. Those who spoke at the vigil blamed Mayor Nutter's 'brown-out' policy for the firefighters' unnecessarily long response time. The policy, which involves temporarily closing fire stations around the city, was part of Nutter's plan to cut the city budget. Though Engine 57 is located only blocks from Frank Marasco's home, it had been shut down the evening of the fire, as part of the 'brown-out' policy. The audio in this piece was taken from a video produced by Rebecka Scotland and narrated by Eric Yates, for MMPTV.
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