Posts in 'Movement Media'

To support the film "Fox Chase Boy", which gathers a Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood Catholic community into reflection around a long unspoken history of collective trauma and abuse, and to support community screenings of the film.

To create two mini-documentaries highlighting mobile crisis units and the commutation process, and to craft narratives of people who are serving death by incarceration.

To distribute "No Way Out," a short documentary that complicates narratives of victims wanting retribution, and season 2 of the "Move It Forward" podcast exploring gun violence and its root causes.

To support the Craft of Campaigns podcast, which amplifies stories of successful issue-based campaigns, highlighting tactics, strategy, challenges, and lessons learned.

To support Spiral Q's general operations and core programming.

To integrate a suite of abolitionist media production, archiving, and media-based organizing methods into the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School curriculum.

To support the archiving of the history of marginalized communities and social movements in Philadelphia.

To support a multimedia project that connects the global to the local through the lens of photography of 20 years of the Apartheid Wall in Palestine, disrupting mainstream narratives about Palestinians, and thus building a larger solidarity movement with a local community focus.

Three-year grant for continued support of Leeway’s Media Artist-in-Residence Program which pairs media artists with nonprofits to work collaboratively on media projects important to their communities. Also support for the “Care Fund” and general operating support.

To build community narrative power rooted in a cooperative nonprofit community bookstore and social center movement space. This project will feature an open access library, archive, and reading room; a year-long oral history and lecture series around Philadelphia’s Black Radical Tradition; political education around media systems and community media literacies around policing, housing, education, care, and food issues; and community-based media content creation licensed under creative commons for community use.