Features

• 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.