The media is littered with stories depicting poor neighborhoods as one plagued by drug trafficking, disease and violence, reinforcing a mainstream narrative that fails to account for the full experience of those who live in the community.
Through our community-based journalism using cell phones and social media we counter mainstream narratives, document abuses, and report police violence in the inner cities.
In contrast with the mainstream narrative of the marginalized and poor communities, we think our neighborhoods are places with a lot of power and amazing idea. This is a space of resistance for the poor who fight every day to combat the larger, very intentional, systems that seek to profit from the lives of marginalized residents.