Features

• produced by Kristofer Ríos
• in 2008

On Thursday October 23rd, Amnesty International organized a worldwide rally to support Troy Davis, the African-American man accused of killing a police officer in Savannah, Georgia.

• produced by CNPI
• in 2008

The Community News Production Institute in partnership with Global Movement Urban Struggles aired its monthly show on Tuesday October 28th at 10am on WBAI 99.5 FM. The hour-long show features Amy Gottlied of the American Friends Service Committee talking about immigration, an issue both presidential candidates have less addressed in their campaigns. Billy Wharton of The Coalition Against Privatization and Martin Holland of The Transport Workers Union address the privatization plan of GHI/HIP, two major health care providers servicing more than 4-million New Yorkers.

• produced by Christine Lewis
• in 2008

Next year, television broadcasters will move to digital broadcasting, automatically creating enormous unused spectrum between the channels. The unused spectrum, otherwise known as White Spaces, will allow the public to use it with broadband-enabled mobile devices that would significantly reduce the digital divide.

CNPI reporter, Christine Lewis of Domestic Workers United files this report for Free Speech Radio News.

• produced by Christine Lewis
• in 2008

CNPI reporter, Christine Lewis of DWU was recently in South Carolina for the commemoration of late Reverend Joseph Armstrong DeLaine, a Civil Rights Activist who led a crusade to desegregate public schools. Rev. DeLaine was one of the victorious plaintiffs in one of the cases that constituted the Brown decision, Briggs vs Elliot.

Christine files this story for Free Speech Radio News.

• produced by CNPI
• in 2008

The Community News Production Institute in partnership with Global Movements Urban Struggles aired its monthly show on Tuesday August 26th at 10 am on WBAI 99.5 FM. This month's show features Lynn Lewis, director of Picture the Homeless, Edgar DeJesus of District Council 37, Katrina evacuee Lena Beard, and Brumit DeLaine, the son of late Rev. Joseph Armstrong of South Carolina.

• produced by PPH Gulfcoast Trainees
• in 2007

It's Called Renaissance Village. But don't let the name fool you. It's the largest FEMA trailer park in the country. It's located about a hundred miles north of New Orleans in Baker, Louisiana.  RIght after Hurricane Katrina and Rita, thousands were sent to live there.  PPH trainees in the Gulf Coast produced stories that were aired by the nationally syndicated program Making Contact.

• produced by Christine Lewis
• in 2008

On June 26th, a judge sentenced a Long Island couple for the abuse of two Indonesian domestic workers. Christine Lewis (Domestic Workers United) files this report for Free Speech Radio News.

• produced by CNPI
• in 2008

The Community News Production Institute in partnership with Global Movements Urban Struggles aired its monthly show on Tuesday June 24th on Pacifica station WBAI, 99.5 on your FM dial. The show featured voices from the fourth-annual National Conference for Media Reform held in Minneapolis early this month, the first ever National Congress held by domestic workers in NYC, and the impact gentrification is having on drummers in Harlem.

• produced by Christine Lewis
• in 2008

Domestic Workers staged a protest in front of the home of an employer who is said to have abused her nanny. CNPI reporter Christine Lewis was there to compile these voices.

• produced by Abdulai Bah
• in 2008

In celebration of workers' international day, CNPI reporters take a look at how Domestic Workers and Day Labors are being treated in their work place here in NYC.

• produced by Donald Anthonyson, Teresa Gonzalez, Abdulai Bah
• in 2008

CNPI reporters, Donald Anthonyson of Families for Freedom, Teresa Gonzalez of The Street Vendor Project and Abdulai Bah of Nah We Yone recently interviewed victims of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids that are becoming increasingly prevalent in many immigrant communities here in NYC and other cities across the country. These raids are not just leading to the arrest and deportation of immigrants, but they are also tearing families apart. The interviews were made into a radio story that recently aired on Making Contact.

• produced by Debra Cole
• in 2008

In this powerful and lyrical piece, Debra Cole, a member of Domestic Workers United, explores the long history of music as a tool for resistance and social change.  Tracing the role of music in struggle from slavery through the civil rights movment to the present, Debra mixes interviews, songs, and her own beautiful voice to create a unique meditation on the fight for a domestic workers bill of rights.  Debra is a reporter for the Community News Production Institute, where she reports from the streets and parks of New York City, the gathering grounds for the city's domestic workers.

• produced by James Williams
• in 2007

CNPI's James Williams, of the Street Vendor Project, reports from the Red Hook Festival in Brooklyn.

• produced by Christine Lewis
• in 2007

Hundreds of nannies and caregivers marched in New York over the weekend to call for State lawmakers to pass a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Currently domestic workers, who are mostly immigrant women of color, are written out of most standard labor laws. But there is a new movement spurred by the workers themselves to change that. CNPI's Christine Lewis reports.

• produced by Christine Lewis & Radha Kanan
• in 2007

New CNPI Documentary Takes Domestic Worker Voices to a National Audience

CNPI's Christine Lewis and Radha Kanan produced a 13 minute Mothers' Day special on domestic workers for the nationally syndicated program Making Contact.