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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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 Building A Youth Movement Youth Leadership Institute. Student Union's week-long leadership institute BAYM (Building A Youth Movement) is entering into its 7th year. The program includes political education, leadership development and media trainings. BAYM is youth developed, youth driven, and youth facilitated. The program is 100% free, and participants will be provided with breakfast, lunch and tokens.
Building A Youth Movement Leadership Institute
August 9th to August 13th
10am-4pm
Philadelphia Student Union office
4205 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Pre-registration is recommended. Register now! Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Prayer Vigil for Detained Taxi Drivers. 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. This segment was adapted using video produced by Rebekah Scotland for MMPTV. Edited 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). This week's On Blast segment is called Students Stand with Taxi Workers. On Wednesday June 30th, the Philadelphia Parking Authority and Immigration and Customs Enforcement lured 26 taxi drivers to the PPA headquarters by telling them that they were to be reimbursed for previous credit card transactions. Instead, they were met with handcuffs and were immediately detained. There are still four drivers being held. 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.
Rising Freshman and Student Union member Shania Morris spoke at a prayer vigil held for the detained drivers.
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Protecting the Right to Unionize: The Employee Free Choice Act. Every day, corporations deny workers the freedom to form unions. They routinely intimidate, harass, coerce and even fire workers who try to form unions and bargain for economic well-being. The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041) would allow employees to form unions by signing union cards. It would also set stronger penalties for companies that violate the rights of workers who are organizing. Charles Clarke produced this piece. |
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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 Wide Angle Media: Young People Making Media. While Philly Student Union was in Baltimore they met other young people making media and using it as a tool for change. Produced by Eric Yates & Matt Johnson. Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called LGBT Immigrants' Rights in Philadelphia. In this segment we hear the stories of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Asian Americans and Latino immigrants. Experience of repression is often a driving force for immigration. The Asian Arts Initiative sponsored this event and coordinated a presentation by these panelists to help inform the national fight for immigration reform. This segment was 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). This week's On Blast segment is called Philly Student Union's Year in Review. Philly Student Union had a powerful year. As the school year comes to a close, we created this montage to capture the highlights of the 2009-2010 school year. Thanks to all of the people who helped make this school year so successful and congratulations to all of our graduating members! Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Residents Battle Service Cuts at City Hall. Philadelphia includes cuts to library services and firefighters, and a ten percent property tax increase. At a rally at City Hall, the Coalition for Essential Services called for a stop to cuts, and more taxes for big business. 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). This week's On Blast segment is called UNITE HERE Begins Battle with Aramark. Aramark provides food service for prisons, schools, and venues across the country. But do they provide health care, adequate pay, and a good environment for their workers? (PS: We know from experience, their food is crappy.) Produced by Dan Jones and Matt Johnson. Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Demanding Fair Treatment of Domestic Workers. Domestic Workers United (DWU) is an organization that fights for the rights of nannies, elderly caregivers, housekeepers and other workers who work inside people's homes. In this interview, Yvonne, a live-in nanny and member of DWU shares stories that illustrate the need for domestic workers to have equal labor protections and benefits-- two things that they are currently not getting under the law. The Domestic Workers Bill of Rights would change that. This interview was conducted by Dan Jones of On Blast, and produced by LJR's 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). This week's On Blast segment is called Statewide Connections: Bringing Harrisburg Students into Our Campaign. Members of PSU recently traveled to Harrisburg PA to meet with students from Harrisburg's William Penn High School and engage them in our Campaign for Nonviolent Schools and our Campaign for Equitable School Funding. We led a participatory workshop that explored the root causes of violence in our schools and communities. We also talked about conditions inside our schools, and students from both Philly and Harrisburg agreed that underfunding of schools is a root cause of many of the problems we face. By sharing our experiences, students came to the realization the problems we see in our schools are not isolated to our own districts; that the struggle for a high quality education is a statewide struggle.
In this piece, we hear from some Harrisburg students about how they view violence and how the Nonviolence workshop changed their perceptions of this issue. Cherelle Reed conducted the interviews, Justin Carter recorded the narration, and Greg Jordan-Detamore edited this piece. Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called May Day 2010: Philly Labor Leaders Reflect on US Wars. Labor Justice Radio joined hundreds of local union members and labor leaders for a May Day celebration in Southwest Philadelphia this month. Several local labor leaders spoke about the impact of war on the local economy and the labor movement. A piece 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 The Meaning of May Day. On May 1st, Labor Justice Radio participated in Philadelphia's May Day celebration in Elmwood Park. Union workers, community members, and other members of Philly's labor movement came out to celebrate International Workers Day, and witness the groundbreaking of a new workers memorial being built in the park. Charles Jones (of SEIU 1199C) interviewed two of the organizers of the May Day celebration, Cathy Brady and Fabrizio Rodriguez, who speak about the significance of May Day and the current reality faced by Philly workers. Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called We Have a Moral Obligation to House People. Picture the Homeless is a grassroots organizing group led by homeless people in New York City. From their website: "We are organizing for social justice around issues like housing, police violence, and the shelter-industrial complex. Our name is about challenging images, stigma, media (mis) representation - as well as putting forward an alternative vision of community."
LJR sat down with organizer Rob Robinson to speak with him about Picture the Homeless' Housing Not Warehousing campaign and their struggles with banking giant JP Morgan Chase. This piece was recorded and produced by Dan Jones
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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 Baltimore Algebra Project: Our Ally in the Fight for Equal Education. Last June, PSU visited Baltimore Algebra Project as part of our Immersion Trip. We learned about the work that Baltimore Algebra Project is doing and saw a lot of similarities to the struggles we face in Philly. This piece was produced by Eric Yates & Matt Johnson. Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called The Ten Year Tax Abatement: Who Really Pays?. In this piece, Robin Tasco and Amendu Evans explore the ten year tax abatement that the city hands out to new developments, and how this policy affects the city as a whole. To hear some different perspectives on this issue, Amendu and Robin spoke to three people: Councilman Curtis Jones Jr., an ACORN organizer who works on affordable housing issues, and a Philly resident who has seen the effects first hand. |
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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 Students Stand with Temple Nurses on the Picket Line. On April 8th, The Philadelphia Student Union, along with The Unified Taxi Workers Alliance and The Media Mobilizing Project, went to the front lines of the Temple nurses strike to show support and stand with PASNAP, the Temple nurses' union. Justin Carter, a member of PSU and a senior at West Philadelphia HS, spoke to the crowd about the connections between students' struggles & nurses' struggles. He called attention to the problems with the 'gag clause' that Temple is trying to put on nurses, saying, "Just like students have the right to speak out about the conditions in our schools, nurses have the right to speak out about the working conditions in their hospitals." Recorded Greg Jordan-Detamore & produced by Justin Carter.
Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Aramark Accused of Wage Theft. The Philadelphia Joint Board has filed a complaint in court that accuses Aramark of not paying earned overtime to workers at Citizens Bank Park, home the Phillies baseball team, Lincoln Financial Field, home of the Eagles NFL football team, and the Wachovia Center, home of the Flyers NHL hockey team. The complaint further alleges that Aramark deducts a half hour from any worker who puts in six hours or more whether they took a break or not. The Philadelphia Joint Board says this is "wage theft" plain and simple. This report was produced by Charles B Clarke |
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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 Powerful Union of the Poor: United Workers. Greg, from the United Workers in Baltimore, speaks about the values and philosophy of this union, which is run by poor people for poor people. He also talks about their campaigns and about gentrification in Baltimore. Produced by Eric Yates & Amber Marie Felton. Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called Temple Risks Patients' Lives for Profit. Nurses and other healthcare professionals share stories that expose the impact on patients when Temple Hospital maximizes profits by cutting medical supplies, under-staffing and decreasing patients' length of stay at the hospital. PASNAP (Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals) are striking over a contract that would institute a 'gag clause,' effectively barring these health professionals from advocating for patient safety. For more information on PASNAP's strike, visit TempleWatch.org. Produced by Kistine Carolan. |
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