Media Mobilizing Project

Before we became Movement Alliance Project, we were Media Mobilizing Project. Many of Media Mobilizing Projects founders came out of the welfare and homeless peoples organizing of the 1990s. Guided by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Poor Peoples Campaign 40 years earlier , it was clear to MMP founders that nothing less than a radical revolution... of values could bring about the change we would need. Media Mobilizing Project was founded in 2005, when online video and social media were in their infancy. Inspired by the Zapatistas a movement that organizes for justice for rural peasants in southern Mexico and their call for an independent media , Media Mobilizing Project founders participated in the development of the Global Indymedia Network, building our own media in the hope of connecting mass social movements. In those early years, our work was defined by organizing campaigns to stop gentrification and displacement win improved working conditions for service workers, gain citizenship for undocumented immigrants and obtain quality public schools for all. With a video camera in hand and a vision in heart, Media Mobilizing Project organized as both an intervention into the incomplete stories told about our communities and an invitation to build a network of community organizations working toward a shared vision of a more just world for us all. Because movements begin with the telling of untold stories, Media Mobilizing Project documented and shared stories to connect movement leaders from organizations and communities across Philadelphia and beyond. MMP also trained those most impacted by our societys failings to create their own media about their lives and struggles for justice. From 2007 to 2011, early projects like Hope in Hard Times documented parents organizing to maintain Head Start, Driving the American Dream showed the struggle of taxi drivers squeezed by the industry, and the public access television show MMPtv highlighted the organizing of the day and the leaders of our movements. We were succeeding ...Read More