Giving to MMP is not just a way to support our work, it is a direct part ofthe work. With your help, we have pulled together an expanding anddeepening network of grassroots community organizations that are usingnew technologies to share stories, address the common roots of ourproblems, and mobilize in support of each other's struggles. Somehighlights of our work in 2008 include:

• Conducting eight six-week video and audio workshops for over 200 low-income leaders. Many of the participants now produce media for their organizations, building a grassroots media infrastructure for Philadelphia. For example, MMP's Labor Justice Radio, produced by taxi drivers, janitors, and hotel workers, airs news and analysis from workers' perspectives on WPEB 88.1 FM. You can listen to the show anytime by going to the Labor Justice Radio podcast.

• Co-producing videos with Unified Taxi Workers Alliance, Asian Americans United, Philadelphia Student Union, SEIU Healthcare PA, Juntos, UNITE HERE!, African American Business and Residents Association. These groups have been able to use these videos for advocacy and organizing.

• Creating new spaces for social interaction and movement building, both online and off-line, including a new website with five interconnected multimedia blogs where groups in our network can reflect and strategize about labor, education, housing, media-and the places where those issues overlap. 

• Organizing a weekend-long MMP Network Leadership and Communications School, bringing together over 120 participants representing 12 community organizations to build a shared strategy for creating a more just Philadelphia.

• Organizing a digital inclusion coalition that has worked to save Philadelphia's wireless Internet network, and is now crafting a vision for a city where all residents have access to the Web.