Media Mobilizing Project

The NEPAOC and PA Organizing Network have been instrumental in the development of the Media Mobilizing Project (MMP). Based in NEPA and Philadelphia, the MMP uses the production of media (video, web, etc.) to build a community/non-profit media infrastructure that connects our movement and allows for the distribution of documentaries, news reports, organizational updates, and other materials.

The Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) believes that media must be connected to the economic and social realities of everyday life. The right to free speech means little without the right to be heard. By sharing our own stories for the purposes of education, outreach, and organizing, we can disrupt the fragmentation of our issues and the isolation of our communities, and build the networks necessary to address the root causes of the problems we face.

The MMP exists to unleash the powerful combination of communications, media making and organizing in order to clarify the issues at stake, document lived human realities, and act as a tool to inspire and unite those who have a vested interested in change.

Today, people are increasingly called into the production process through the ascendance of a range of technologies from blogs and podcasts to affordable video cameras and cell phones. Paradoxically, while people have increased access to media making, we live in an increasingly undemocratic society plagued by structural inequities. The root of this problem, is not embodied in the media system alone, but in a highly stratified global economic order, which works to divide communities, hindering the solidarity necessary to build strong social and economic justice movements.