The Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) exists to unleash the powerful combination of media making and organizing. We are organizers who engage in collaborative media making with organizations and individuals whose issues and experiences are purposely submerged from view. The media that we produce is designed 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.MMP recognizes that we have entered a new era of participatory communications. In this age, people are increasingly called into the media production process, through the ascendance of a range of mediums and technologies from blogs and podcasts to affordable video cameras, cell phones and digital software. But while people generally have increased access to media making, we live in an increasingly undemocratic society and world plagued by structural inequities. This is clearly illustrated by a mass media system which is rapidly consolidating, resulting in fewer communities having access to mass media and ultimately making the “right to be heard†more essential then the “right to free speech.†The root of this problem is not embodied in the media system alone, but rather in a highly stratified global economic order, which works to fragment communities, hindering the solidarity necessary for strong social and economic justice movements. Based on this analysis, we emphasize working at the grassroots level versus engaging in legislative and reform battles, and we concentrate on the communities most exploited by the current economic system.
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