Peoples Media Consortium

strengthening voices from below

VOICES FROM BELOW

The People’s Media Consortium (PMC) contributes towards raising awareness and building strong democratic organizations within local communities in which women play a central role based on principles of unity, independence, democracy and non-discrimination and ensure greater impact for the NGO partners’ developmental work.

We promote and protect human, democratic and labour rights by strengthening the media and organising capacity of poor communities and unemployed/vulnerable workers in South Africa to take up their own interests through democratic mass media interventions.

We develop democratic community based alternative mass media platforms, gain access to mainstream media platforms, and campaign for media freedom

OUR MEMBERS

Members of the Peoples Media Consortium are leading human, environmental, and labour rights organisations committed to social and economic justice.

EXPANDING REACH

We develop the media production capacity of our members and create opportunities for them to reach expanding audiences. Our current projects include:

The Labour Community Radio Project on up to 40 community radio stations with options for productions in 5 languages (Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Sesotho). (Estimated audience: 3 million)
The consolidation and growth of TV shows on Cape Town TV (Estimated monthly audience: 3 million).
The continued production, improvement and distribution of the community newspaper, Elitsha.
Vuka.news, a news aggregator website featuring content from a wide range of progressive organisations.

We advocate for the inclusion of marginalised voices and views on mainstream public and commercial media, especially the public broadcaster, the SABC.

MEDIA FREEDOM
4 ALL

Freedom is merely a paper privilege, unless enjoyed by everyone. We defend and advance freedom of expression and media freedom for the marginalised majority.