hospitals
Los Trabajadores
Posted July 19th, 2007 by GretjenCATA (El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas),
El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA)
They didn't get mad. They got organized. Los Trabajadores (The Workers) tells the stories and day-to-day experiences of mushroom farm laborers based in Kennett Square and Reading, PA and examines their efforts to improve working and living conditions through organizing. The video illustrates the weighty challenges faced by Pennsylvania-area migrant farmworkers -- from migration and arrival in the United States to difficult labor, housing and health conditions -- and the benefits and victories that organizing collectively can produce.
El Comite de Apoyo a Los Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA) is a migrant farmworker organization governed by and comprised of farm workers who are actively engaged in the struggle for better working and living conditions. CATA still actively uses the bilingual video documentary in its outreach work.
December 4, 2002 - Brief mention in Philadelphia Weekly's Reperatory Film section
December 11, 2002 - Part of Community Visions Premiere at Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
September 10, 2003 - Part of Street Movies screening that was in turn part of Hala Cine Latino Film Festival (Philadelphia, PA)
September 16 & 20, 2003 - Part of WYBE-TV 35's Philadelphia Stories series (Philadelphia, PA)
1199C @ 25
Posted July 18th, 2007 by GretjenProduced by Maida Cassandra Odom and Heshimu Jaramogi, Editor: Julian Berrian, Post-Production Supervisor: Pam Hooks, Percussion Score: Doc Gibbs
Journalists Maida Odoms and Heshimu Jaramogi teamed up to film this moving portrait of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees Local 1199C as it marked its 25th anniversary. Today many Americans take unions (and the benefits they've helped make a normal part of the country's workplace culture) for granted. 1199C @ 25 travels back more than 25 years to the early 1970s when voting to form a union was an invitation to job loss, blacklisting and other punishments from area hospital management.
Maida Odom was reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years, and is currently a professor at Temple University's School of Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising. She is also an active member of the Scribe Video Center board of directors.
Heshimu Jaramogi , a 20-year journalism professional, is the publisher of The Neighborhood Leader and the Frankford News, two community newspapers in Philadelphia. He is a longtime broadcast journalist, producing news (WDAS, WPEN, WCAU) and public affairs (WPEN, WRTI & WHYY) programs for commercial and public radio stations in Philadelphia. This includes stints covering the city administration and City Council in Philadelphia for WDAS radio, serving as a local correspondent for the American Urban Radio Network. He also served as a local correspondent for the National Black Network and Sheridan Broadcasting Network in the 1980s. Jaramogi has worked as a public relations consultant to the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, and several community-based clients in Philadelphia and Chicago.
June 13, 2002 - Brief mention in repertory listings of Philadelphia City Paper
June 21, 2002 - "Union Celebrates with Documentary," by Bobbie Booker, The Philadelphia Tribune
June 15, 2002 - Prince Music Theater (Philadelphia, PA)
