News and Events

PPH and its various programs are regularly featured at conferences, and we're often featured in news articles. Check out some recent highlights!

Women, Action, and Media! 2008

PPH Co-Director Deepa Fernandes and CNPI Member Debra Cole of Domestic Workers United presented at the recent Women, Action, and Media in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The panel, titled "Raising Women’s Voices/Building Women’s Power: Collaborative Approaches to Strategic Communications for Social Justice" also featured Ellen Braune of the Ms. Foundation for Women, and Makani Themba-Nixon of the Praxis Project.  Deepa and Debra talked about the collaboration between PPH's Community News Production Institute and Domestic Workers United, and how DWU is using media and radio journalism to support their struggle for a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.

Left Forum

Kat Aaron and Abdulai Bah of PPH joined Lisa Rudman of the radio show Making Contact and Nijmie Dzurinko of the Media Mobilizing Project for a session at the Left Forum.   Titled 
"Unembedded from Corporate Journalism at Home - Grassroots Media-Making", the session tackled how groups in Philly and New York are using the media to support organizing work, without sacrificing creativity and artistry.  

NYC Grassroots Media Conference 2008

Radio Rootz held a "Media Pop Justice" workshop at the GMC presented by Radio Rootz veterans, Kyra Joseph, Navi Sandhu, Mihai Malciu, Arturo Contreras, and Kristal Graham.  Our workshop included how to produce a vox pop (a man-on-the-street, short montage of interviews) and the creation of two vox pop’s for the GMC’s use; What Does Media Justice Mean to You? and Reflections on the GMC. This hands on approach to creating media also supported the workshop’s discussion around how media, specifically the vox pop format, can promote media justice.

Meanwhile, CNPI presented a great workshop on how workers can use media to support their organizing campaigns.  Members of Domestic Workers United, Families for Freedom, and Nah We Yone played excerpts of their radio work, and broke participants into small groups to learn how to use recording equipment.  Participants interviewed each other, asking "What is the hardest job you have ever done." 

And PPH Co-Director Kat Aaron participated in a panel discussion on funding the media justice movement, along with Hye-Jung Park of the Media Justice Fund, Sophia Silao of North Star, Courtney Young of Chica Luna, and Jaewon  Chung of the Social Sciences Research Council.

Coming up, you can catch PPH staff and members at:

The Allied Media Conference, June 20-22 in Detroit, Michigan

The National Conference for Media Reform, June 5-8 in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Radio Rootz and CNPI featured on the 411 show

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