NMASS Video Project

Watch the video Interview with Maria Hernandez, an injured Ground Zero cleanup worker.

Watch the video These are two interviews with injured workers who have a lot to say about the new governor and their hopes for long awaited justice from the New York state government on worker's compensation.

Watch the video The Justice Will Be Served campaign recently celebrated many victories, including those of the Silver Palace and Zen Palate workers! 

Watch the video While much attention has been focused on the emerging health crisis of 9/11 rescue workers, more than 40,000 clean up workers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants, have been forgotten.  On September 6, 2006, Ground Zero clean up workers mobilized in a rally at site.

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Watch the video NMASS and Chinese Staff & Workers Association organized the largest marches on this historic day. 

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Arek Tomaszewski of NMASS testifies before NYC City Council Watch the video

Mrs. Eng from CSWA testifies in support of Public Access TV Watch the video Community Access TV and Manhattan Neighborhood Network (MNN) are under threat by Congressional legislation! Why do we care?  Because: NMASS receives extensive support from MNN which have enabled us to produce stunning videos which help advance our organizing efforts! MNN and Community Access TV are one of the few avenues for immigrant communities and workers to get our views across -- uncensored and unedited! Verizon and other phone companies that are pumping millions of dollars into Congress to push the C.O.P.E. bill, which threatens to de-fund and destroy Community Access TV. NMASS is coming out in support of a NYC City Council resolution against the COPE bill. Mrs. Eng testified at the May 4, 2006th City Council hearing on the resolution.

Dr. Reibman, of Bellvue Hospital and the 9/11 Health Clinic, explains athsma, who gets it, why -- especially in relation to 9/11, what it does to your body, as well as what treatments are available. Part 1 and Part 2.

This one minute trailer tells the story of garment workers who continue to fight unjust working conditions by Liberty Apparel. From Haliburton to Liberty Apparel, employers across the U.S. are attempting to deny responsibility for bad working conditions based on subcontracting. Learn more about the campaign to boycott Liberty at www.aintiawoman.org

A video clip from the Break the Chains coalition, a broad alliance of community-based organizations that have come together to address the deteriorating working and living conditions faced by all working people. The alliance calls for the repeal of the modern-day slave law known as the Employer Sanctions Provision; especially in light of the newly introduced McCain – Kennedy immigration proposal. More info is available at: www.nmass.org

Celebrate International Women's Day this Friday, March 4th at NMASS' First Friday Celebration 7 pm @ Brooklyn YWCA @ State and Third Streets See the Women's Day video tribute that our Video Project workshop participants produced!

Our Voices/Nuestras Voces is a series of bilingual (English/Spanish) short video oral history documentaries made by, for and about the residents and workers of the Lower East Side. Through a grant from the Manhattan Neighborhood Network Community Media Grant and funding from the NorthStar Fund and the New York Foundation, the NMASS Lower East Side Worker's Center has offered a series of video production and editing workshops. The videos posted below were produced by workshop participants. Watch the video introduction of the series (4 minutes).

Carmen tells the story of her more than seventy decades, coming from Puerto Rico to the Lower East Side and her emergence as a leader in the community's fight for health and housing in the wake of 9/11. Watch the video (Part 1) and (Part 2) (18 minutes).

Wendy is a young woman struggling with her own and her family's health problems in the wake of 9/11, yet she still says of the Lower East Side, "You couldn't get me to leave here with a forklift!" Watch the video (part 1) and (part 2) (13 minutes).

Herminia is a mother of four beautiful children struggling with her family's health in the wake of 9/11. Watch the video is 7 minutes long.

Sara, a Lower East Side resident for 20 years, worries about the changes in her neighborhood and what will become of low-income housing for herself and her neighbors. Watch the video (9 minutes)