The 2007 National Conference for Media Reform was held in Memphis over the weekend of January 12-14, one day before Martin Luther King Day. CNPI reporter James Williams, with the Street Vendor Project, interviewed D'Army Bailey, a civil rights pioneer and founder of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, housed in the Lorraine Motel where King was shot.
Housing advocates in Brooklyn, New York are raising the red flag after the country's largest subsidized housing complex has been sold. James Williams of the Community News Production Institute reports.
James Williams Reports on NYPD Officer Involved in Sean Bell Killing
CNPI's James Williams, with the Street Vendor Project, reports on the indictments of three officers who were charged with the killing of Sean Bell and the shooting of Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman.
CNPI's James Williams, of the Street Vendor Project, reports from the Red Hook Festival in Brooklyn.
CNPI's James Williams of the Street Vendor Project reports on the formation of an International Tribunal to investigate crimes against humanity by the government's failures post Hurricane Katrina.
The US Social Forum had over 10,000 activists from all types of struggles gathering for a common cause of social justice. CNPI's James Williams, with the Street Vendor Project, kicks off our coverage with the Forum's opening march where he caught up with several of the marchers.
Why have the USSF in Atlanta? CNPI's James Williams speaks with one of the main organizers of the forum Alice Lovelace to find out.
At the USSF conference there are informational tables staffed by people talking about an end to war, an end to racism, an end to hunger, an end to homelessness and poverty. But just stroll outside the conference and you are suddenly confronted with the reality that poverty and homelessness is all around us here in Atlanta, Georgia. This afternoon homeless and worker activists gathered down town to demand fair wages for many of the city's construction workers who are living either in the streets or the city's dilapidated shelter system. James Williams was there and he brings us this report.