Deborah Rudman’s (ACG ’09) film Yo! Taxi will be shown alongside Media Mobilizing Project’s Driving the American Dream: Philadelphia Taxi Industry’s Need for Workers’ Comp at Scribe Video Center (4212 Chestnut Street, 3rd Flr., Philadelphia, PA) on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 7 p.m. The screenings will be followed by a panel discussion with Ron Blount, President of the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania, and organizers from the Media Mobilizing Project and Termite TV Collective.
Join the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance, Scribe Video Center and PhillyCAM for a screening of two movies about the struggles of the Philadelphia taxi workers followed by a panel discussion. Learn about the ongoing fight for workers’ compensation within one of the most high-risk industries in the United States. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with organizers from the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance, the Media Mobilizing Project and Termite TV.
Yo! Taxi offers a firsthand account of the real issues, struggles, and circumstances on the job from members of the Unified Taxi Workers Alliance of Pennsylvania
Driving the American Dream: Philadelphia Taxi Industry’s Need for Workers’ Comp reveals the very hard and lived experiences of poor and working-poor drivers who struggle each day to provide for their families.
