Grassroots Perspectives on Media Justice Organizing
Grassroots Perspectives on Media Justice Organizing Radical History Review: Interviews Betty Yu, Todd Wolfson, and Rusita Avila. By Lyell Davies Building a National Media Justice Movement: An Interview...
View ArticleFrom FAIR: Malkia Cyril on Ferguson, Jeff Cohen on James Risen
JUSTICE FOR MICHAEL BROWN NATIONAL MOMENT OF SILENCE Anti-Police Brutality Rally at Meridian Hill Park, NW, Washington DC on Thursday evening, 14 August 2014 by Elvert Barnes Protest Photography This...
View ArticleNational Latino Congreso Resolution on Hate Speech and Corporate Responsibility
Resolve to support companies that refrain from advertising on anti-Latino programming; and boycott companies that underwrite anti-Latino hate rhetoric. Submitted by Latinos for Internet Freedom. The...
View ArticleMAG-Net Fundraising Toolkit
A toolkit on how to raise money for our movements and your organization. The post MAG-Net Fundraising Toolkit appeared first on The Center for Media Justice.
View Article2014 Knowledge Exchange Report
2014 Knowledge Exchange Report from the Center for Media Justice & Consumers Union- Digital Discrimination: Big Data, Surveillance & Racial Justice. Participants grappled with the queston, what...
View ArticleWorksheet: Branding and Slogans for Organizing Campaigns
Movements can brand campaigns to evoke meaning, call people to action, and show a vision for a new, more just future. Use this tool to develop a branding strategy for your organization to move your...
View ArticleOn Message: Using Strategic Communications to Advance Social Change in Black...
This publication highlights examples of efforts involving Black- and Latino-serving nonprofit organizations that utilize strategic communications to enhance their advocacy work and improve...
View ArticleYoung People and Decent Wages
Best communications practices for organizers conducting campaigns for a living wage. The post Young People and Decent Wages appeared first on The Center for Media Justice.
View ArticleEchoing Justice: Communications Strategies for Community Organizing in the...
In a media environment dominated by stereotypes and special interests, network driven communications strategies powered by grassroots organizing are more vital than ever. Use the share button to join...
View ArticleCivil Rights, Big Data, and Our Algorithmic Future
Key decisions that shape people’s lives—decisions about jobs, healthcare, housing, education, criminal justice and other key areas—are, more and more often, being made automatically by computers. As a...
View ArticleDigital CultureSHIFT: From Scale to Power How the Internet Shapes Social...
The strategies and approaches in the Digital CultureSHIFT report provide a path forward for addressing the way social movements integrate new approaches , or remain stuck in a cycle that limits our...
View Article2015 Heroes & Villains of Human Rights and Communications Surveillance
Malkia Cyril was recently named one of 2015 Heroes & Villains of Human Rights and Communications Surveillance by Access, an organization that according to their mission defends and extends the...
View ArticleA Police Body Worn Cameras: A Police Scorecard
The Center for Media Justice and others worked with the Leadership Conference and Upturn to produce this great report check it out! In the wake of high-profile incidents in Ferguson, Staten Island,...
View ArticleBREAKING DOWN RURAL – URBAN BARRIERS
Check out this great profile of MAG-Net anchor Appalshop in the Daily Yonder, below is a snippet of the article and you can read the whole profile here. Josh May of Appalshop, left, and Savannah...
View ArticleHow a unique community radio station serves listeners in Appalachia
AS FAR BACK as Kelli Haywood can remember, Appalshophas been a part of her life. The storied arts, media, and education center was founded in 1969 in her hometown of Whitesburg, a small county seat in...
View ArticleFoundation Maps for Media Funding
Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center have launched a new mapping and research tool that reveals the full scope of philanthropically-funded media projects worldwide since 2009. The map features...
View ArticleMAG-Net’s Annual Membership Gathering at the Allied Media Conference
On June 16th, MAG-Net member organizations from across the country gathered at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit for our annual MAG-Net Membership Assembly. We were lucky to have Highlander...
View ArticleLetter to Mayor de Blasio on Queens Murders
The Center for Media Justice joined Muslim Advocates & 35+ organizations urging NYC Mayor de Blasio to thoroughly investigate the tragic murders of two Muslim men in Queens, New York. The post...
View Article2016 Annual Report on Media Rights & Justice
Leaders of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) convened in Oakland, California, April 7th and 8th, 2016 as part of MAG-Net’s annual Governance Retreat. Read the report here. The post 2016...
View ArticleNYPD Body Cameras Fail to Deliver Accountability
What started off as a wellness check in the Bronx resulted in 16 rounds fired at Miguel Antonio Richards, who lost his life earlier this month. Miguel, a college exchange student from Jamaica, was 31...
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