“Last year, San Francisco released BART Watch, an app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system. After filing a California Public Records Act request to see what people were reporting, the East Bay Express found a disturbing pattern: Of the 763 alerts sent to BART, 198 included a description of the race Read more
“From #YouOKSis to #QueridaKellyOsbourne, hashtags are helping to advance political ideas and support real-world social justice movements. But a new report says that those movements will never have maximum impact if activists don’t marry what they do online with the offline fight to gain universal Internet access for people of color. Created by the Center for Media Justice, ColorOfChange.com Read more
“Last year, as the uprising in Ferguson and the movement for Black lives sparked direct action all across the country, many of us turned out on the streets – and actively spread the word to others via the Internet. On our organization’s Facebook page we planned to broadcast information about actions as far and wide Read more
New Article written by MAG-Net Anchor, Alfredo Lopez, about Provision 603 of the Senate Intelligence Authorization Act. The law, which is going to be passed by the Senate (and probably by the House if we don’t get moving on it) essentially forces Internet providers to turn over any information they believe may be linked to Read more
What I remember most viscerally is the fear. It had been almost four hours, and I couldn’t get the handcuffs off. The lights in the underground subway station were flickering, and I had an almost phobic fear of the dark. The white cop who had cuffed me to the gate inside the subway station was Read more
Written by MAG-Net member Alfredo Lopez: Attackers continued their assault on May First/People Link operations Monday evening shutting down the organization’s website at https://mayfirst.org. All other services continue operating. The Denial of Service attack targeted the website but, as collateral damage, much of May First’s hosting system was paralyzed for a short time about 11:00 Read more
CNN contributor, Van Jones describes how access to fast and reliable broadband is just as essential now as electricity was during the last century. “Can you imagine a life without electricity? For most people, the answer is probably no. What about a life without broadband Internet? It would mean: no emails; no ability to quickly Read more
Congratulation to Joseph Torres; Senior External Affairs Director of Free Press, CMJ Board member and long time media justice champion. Joe will be honored at the 33rd annual Everett C. Parker Lecture and Breakfast by the United Church of Christ’s media justice ministry on October 20th at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 945 G Read more
Our friends at Faithful Internet released a new video through Thunderclap and generated a social media reach of over 1 million people. The video targeted the Congressional Black Caucus and demonstrates why our communities need an Open Internet to organize for racial and social justice.
For over three decades the Lifeline program has helped millions of low-income Americans gain access to the phone services they need. Now the Federal Communications Commission would like to apply this successful model to help address the greatest communications need of our time: high speed Internet. We believe the Lifeline program can help close the Read more