Workers at Presbyterian Inspired Care Nursing Home have been trying to settle their first labor contract for a year and a half. In this report we hear from one of the workers talking about the struggle. We also hear what Occupy Philly had to say to management.

As workers uprisings grow around the world and here at home, this panel explored the innovative organizing models used by excluded workers of color to win justice at work and build a movement to challenge neoliberalism. The panel was part of the Nation al Lawyers Guild Convention held in Philadelphia.

Frabricio Rodriguez has been organizing since 1998. During the National Lawyers Guild Convention he was part of a panel titled "Philly Workers Rising Up". He shared some of his organizing feats and offered some suggestions on organizing at a time when labor is being attacked on all quarters.
Submitted by Charles B Clarke

MMP's Working People's Media and Communications brought togther over a hundred leaders from across the region who stand up and fight for the lives of poor and working people daily.  Together we reflected on the role the mainstream media often plays in distorting, ignoring and trivilalizing the struggles people of the region are coming up against and the fights we wage for our diginity and human rights.  Below are remarks from the MMP Labor Committee on the role of media and communications in building a movement by and for the 99%.