November E-News: Massey Media Celebrates Peace and Justice

Join us this Saturday to Celebrate the Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act and Applaud an Employer Doing the Right Thing
If you know us at Massey Media, you’ve seen us protesting bad employers and assisting workers in their struggles to realize justice at the workplace. That’s all about to change this Saturday. Instead, we’re going to celebrate a DC employer who is instituting the paid sick days benefit for all workers. How do we celebrate? We’ll be “mobbing” their business and spending our money there to cheer them on to keep up the good work.

The big idea is to use a “carrot” to encourage other business to emulate (vs. the “stick” of a picket). DC’s first carrotmob was developed by the DC Employment Justice Center, where Sarah Massey is a Board Member. The DC Employment Justice Center is one of the lead groups that advocated for the Accrued Sick and Safe Leave Act, one of two laws in the nation that makes it mandatory for employers to offer paid sick days. But, there was a loophole for restaurants. The carrotmob sponsors, including Massey Media, set out to find DC restaurants that embraced the important workplace standard of paid sick days and celebrate them for it. If you’re in DC, please join us this Saturday, starting at 10 AM at the (yummy!) Teaism in Penn Quarter. Learn more here: http://dc.carrotmob.org

More Celebrating for Peace
Please join us for the 10-year anniversary of One Common Unity, a celebration of epic proportions. Massey Media is a sponsor of this dynamic evening of musical and dance performances hosted by HawaH and featuring internationally acclaimed artists: Farafina Kan, Mikuak Rai, Beat Ya Feet Kings, and Maimouna Youssef. One Common Unity is an organization whose mission is to create and nurture sustainable communities through innovative peace education, arts, and media. The 10-year celebration and showcase will be at U Street Music Hall on Saturday, December 4. Learn more here: http://www.onecommonunity.org

And, as always, please check out these fabulous press results for our clients, and please call us if you want to make great headlines, too.

• 11/8/10: Washington Post, D.C. Artists Open Up
• 11/5/10: ReadySetDC, FIVE THINGS: Scott Brooks
• 9/21/10: PBS Newshour, What Happened to Hope and Change?