We have a dream that one day, all work
will be valued equally.
Founded in 2000, Domestic Workers United [DWU] is an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect, fair labor standards and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression for all.
DWU Collaboration with CNPI
11 Apr 2008
DWU is excited and proud of our ongoing collaboration with Community News Production Institute (CNPI). The Community News Production Institute is the nation's only radio news bureau of grassroots community organizers! CNPI trains grassroots community organizers and workers in radio production and media advocacy. The CNPI trainees learn production, writing, editing and research skills, and use them all to support local organizing campaigns. Through technical assistance from CNPI, immigrant workers learn radio journalism skills to document issues affecting their own communities, as well as the broader society in New York. CNPI aims to not just have historically excluded communities tell their own stories and represent themselves, but to also join the city's reporter pool and change mainstream coverage of their issues, using both the independent and mainstream media to win their organizing goals. CNPI is a project of People's Production House.
DWU Leaders have been hard at work creating news pieces on issues relevant to our communities, told on our terms. Check out our Media section for some recent productions created by domestic workers about domestic workers.
http://peoplesproductionhouse.org/communitynewsproductioninstitute