Nurses Campaign at Hahnemann and the Lasting Effect of Northeastern Hospital...
While Temple has gotten away with closing Northeastern Hospital--against the life and death concerns of doctors, community members and health care experts--it seems like the after effects of the NEH...
View ArticleWolf in Scribes Clothing: The SEPTA Strike and the Subterfuge of...
Political Scientist Michael Parenti catalogued seven generalizations about the way the news media create anti-union messaging--from painting workers as greedy, to omitting the salary of management or...
View ArticleEighty-seven Souls: Reflections on Tough Times and Tight Choices in 2009
On Monday people across the city remembered the eight-seven souls that died in this last year either living on the streets or in shelters. Eighty-seven people! This is a dramatic rise from the previous...
View ArticleVideo on Movement Building Work in Philadelphia in 2009
MMP's 2009 video montage documents some of the amazing work of people building movements and taking control over the conditions of their lives across Philadelphia in 2009: From the struggle over the...
View ArticleMLK Day, PSU and the Cynicism of Reporting at The Philadelphia Weekly
On Monday January 15th, the amazing young leaders at the Philadelphia Student Union held a "Call to Witness and Action" to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr's Birthday. The theme of the event was to call...
View ArticleMedia and Democracy? Senator Franken Warns of Dangers in Comcast/NBC...
On Thursday February 4, the Senate held hearings on the potential merger of Comcast and NBC Universal. During the hearings Senator Al Franken warned that we should be nervous about the companies that...
View ArticleTaxi Workers, Nurses and Jobs: Big day in Philadelphia tomorrow
Friday March 19th is a big day across the City with a bunch of important events focused on the state of Philadelphia's employed and unemployed.First, tomorrow at 10AM in room 400 of City Hall, the PA...
View Article$11,000 per week for One RN: The Appalling Practices of Temple to Break the...
On Wednesday, 1,500 nurses and staff in Temple University Health System (TUHS) will go on strike demanding higher quality patient care, the right to free speech, reasonable health care costs, cost of...
View ArticleDouble Jeopardy!: The Case of the Philadelphia Parking Authority, Taxi...
by Milena Velis and Todd WolfsonDespite having already been exonerated on assault charges, Ronald Blount, President of the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance (UTWA) will stand trial for a second time this...
View ArticlePREMIERE: Infection in Our Health Care System
This Friday, Media Mobilizing Project is premiering "Infection in Our Health Care System" at the Freedom Theatre as part of our launch of MMP TV. The hour-length investigative report focuses on the...
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