Workers' World Media Productions decided to expand its media productions to include video in 2006.
Sharon McKinnon, an ex shopsteward of NUMSA who joined the Labour Community Radio Project of WWMP as a labour radio host and later started assisting the project coordinator at WWMP on the project - expanded her skills to include video training as this was a passion of hers.
She now heads up the video unit at WWMP and is actively involved, along with the Director, Martin Jansen, in producing the CTV Labour Show.
WWMP is excited by the development of Community TV in Cape Town, and the further development of its film and video unit is underway to produce material for the labour slot WWMP will host. This is a development WWMP has been working towards for a long time.
WWMP would like to continue to develop its film and video work, as well as continuing to host the Labour Film Festival.
SEE BELOW - CLIPS THAT HAVE BEEN PRODUCED by Sharon McKinnon
Gender Justice - Do you mean it? A pre-election Panel Discussion with representatives of the political parties, gender activists and feminists was held on 7 April 2009, at Community House(Salt River) in Cape Town.
The African Gender Institute of the University of Cape Town, The International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) and the Gender Equity Unit of the University of the Western Cape hosted an interactive discussion with different political parties on women’s rights, gender justice and their political manifestos.
Discussion topics included:
- Taking back the economy, the bitterness, the disappointments – houses? Better resourced hospitals? Well-paid nurses, teachers, municipal workers, farm workers?
- Gender tensions – explosions in the home, abuse, unemployed fathers, exhausted mothers
- Where is the safe and cheap transport…. Or does it have to be a BMW?
- Women’s access to the justice system (police, courts, counselling, etc), and what about the police who have no transport and no State support, and the 8 social workers assigned by the Department of Social Welfare for the whole of Khayelitsha?
- Time for walking the talk…. Women in parliament next to soaring levels of rape and other forms of violence against women
- Living our sexualities without fear… Zoliswa Nkonyana’s killers are still not sentenced… three years and counting…
Parties that were represented at this debate included the African National Congress (ANC), Congress of the People (COPE), Democratic Alliance (DA), Independent Democrats (ID) and the Women Forward party (WF).
The Palestine Solidarity Group in Cape Town organised a mass rally on Sunday 8th February 2009 The Mass rally was in support of the Palestinians struggle for liberation and ending the siege of Gaza. Whilst the attendance was not great the speakers were excellent...check it out.
