CNPI Work

• 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 Abdulai Bah
• in 2008

On April 25, judge Arthur Cooperman cleared three NYPD police officers of all charges in the killing of Sean Bell, a 23-year-old Black male who was gunned down in November 2006 hours after his bachelor party in a Queens club. CNPI reporter Abdulai Bah files this report for FSRN.

• 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.