United Workers Association

(BALTIMORE) After more than a year of planning and preparation, hundreds of Baltimore's low-wage workers and community allies will tell the "people's history of the Inner Harbor" on May 1, 2010 through a series of elaborate storytelling performances to draw attention to poverty-wages and poor working conditions at Baltimore's premiere tourist and entertainment district. The day, dubbed "Our Harbor Day," will include street plays, giant puppets, neighbourhood parades, musical performances and a concluding rally and march from City Hall to the Inner Harbor.

Florida Farmworkers visited Aramark's headquarters in Philadelphia
earlier this month to call for justice and dignity for the people who
pick the tomatoes Aramark buys. The event was part of the Fair Food
Solidarity Tour, a national campaign with the United Workers of
Baltimore, Maryland, who work in the service sector. Amendu Evans
brings us an interview with Gerardo Reyes of the Coalition of Immokalee
Workers.

A number of Philadelphia groups MMP is connected with are gathered with others from around the country and the world to develop leaders of a movement to end poverty. Here is some coverage of the School in the mainstream press. 

http://wvgazette.com/News/200908090058

http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news/state/pennsylvania/52903102.html

Stay tuned for reports from the School participants at:

http://pileadershipschool.wordpress.com/

On April 19th, about 40 members of Media Mobilizing Project traveled down to Baltimore to stand with our allies, the United Workers Association (UWA), as they declared Baltimore's inner harbor a Human Rights Zone. This declaration launched UWA's campaign to reclaim dignity and fair treatment for the low-wage workers employed at the Inner Harbor's restaurants and stores. Milena Velis was one of the MMP members who was at the historic Human Rights Zone March.

THE TAGLINE:What you're really giving is a way out.

The man was washing dishes. Now, thanks to the charity raised by United Way, he' in a skilledjob. The old self is torn in shreds, replaced by the new self with betterjob.While education and the means to learn new skills is a human right, what' wrong with this picture is that dishwashing is presented as a job without value. Read more at United Workers Association Leadership Organizer Tom Kertes' blog