Participants of 'Our City Our Voices' Release First Videos

Todd Wolfson
9:55 PM | bio | Comments: 0

The participants of "Media Mobilizing Project":http://www.mediamobilizing.org/ and "Juntos's":http://vamosjuntos.org/ Immigrant and Low-Wage worker video project have finished their first batch of videos. The videos tell a wide array of stories focusing on health in the community, discrimination against immigrants, the role of unions in protecting immigrant workers and community outreach. Please check out the first video "Does Discrimination Exist Against Immigrant Workers":http://ourcityourvoices.blogspot.com/2008/06/trabajadores-imnigrantes-existe-la.html continued...

Topics: Audio/Visual, Diversity, Education, Participation, Technology
Tagged: community journalism, immigrants, media mobilizing project, philadelphia, public journalism, video, workers

Our City, Our Voices Graduates Second Round of Students

Todd Wolfson
12:41 PM | bio | Comments: 1

On Sunday April 13th, Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) and Juntos will graduate a second round of twelve students from an English Speaking video and web workshop. The graduation will take place at Songhai City Cultural Center at 3117 Master Street in Philadelphia at 3pm. Like their counterparts from the previous Spanish speaking workshop, members of this class learned web skills, video-making skills and media literacy. continued...

Topics: Audio/Visual, Participation
Tagged: Citizen Journalism, Community, Digital Inclusion, Media Mobilizing Project, Philadelphia, Video Production

Philadelphia's Latino Immigrants Tell Their Life Stories

Todd Wolfson
9:01 AM | bio | Comments: 3

We finished the first round of video production training! On Monday December 3rd, 20 Spanish-speaking immigrants received diplomas for successfully completing the first in a series of workshops in which they were trained in video production and basic web skills. This project, developed by the Media Mobilizing Project with Mexican immigrant community based organization JUNTOS is called, Our City, Our Voices: Immigrant Newscasts in the Digital Age. To remind people, the goal of the project is to give Philadelphia's newest inhabitants the capacity to tell their own stories and document their struggles through short digital videos. At the forefront... continued...

Topics: Audio/Visual, Participation, Philosophy
Tagged: community journalism, Latino, municipal wireless, Philadelphia, urban media, webcasts

Our City, Our Voices: Video Newscasts in the Digital Age

Todd Wolfson
1:54 PM | bio | Comments: 2

Here is an image of the posters and flyers we have put out across Philadelphia as we prepare for the beginning of our video and basic web trainings on November 11th. The Media Mobilizing Project is planning to start with two classes of approximately 8-10 people which will take place from November into early December. In these classes people will learn how to use a video camera, write a script, edit and many other skills. Thus far we have been getting the project off the ground while holding a series of forums/conversations within the Mexican immigrant community to find... continued...

Topics: Audio/Visual, Education, Participation
Tagged: citizen journalism, immigration, municipal wireless, philadelphia, video, wifi