Last time I visited my mother, I taught her how to text and Skype. It means this year I have the luxury of being able to call, text, or Skype my mom for Mother’s Day. But because of the inflated costs to call from prison to home - thousands of kids and parents this year won't have that same luxury. Find out what you and the FCC can do to change that.
Today, protestors, advocates, and unhappy customers are gathering together in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the Bank vs. America shareholders meeting, to tell CEO Brian Moynihan that BofA must pay up or break up. . .do you have your ringside seats?
Recently AT&T made a request to the Louisiana Public Utility Service Commission, to stop the delivery of residential white pages to every home. Could this be about *insert shocked face* a larger profit margin for AT&T?
Did you know Mothers Day started as an anti-war rallying cry during the U.S. Civil War? Strong Families/Forward Together show us that a day to celebrate mothers is much more than a day for flowers and pancakes. Framing with images - now that's how you do it.
Even though the Los Angeles riots officially ended on May 4th 1992, the frustrations didn’t. I definitely grew up having a healthy distrust of the police, a feeling further re-affirmed through several experiences of “driving while brown”. My mom is right, los disturbios were a wake up call…a call that didn’t end on May 4th but that’s still relevant 20 years later.
Today, hundreds of thousands of people across the globe are coming together to challenge the status quo. While social movements haven’t received this much airtime in a while, mainstream media continues to portray progressive movements like the Arab Spring, the Wisconsin labor movement, and Occupy, using the same rightwing frames that seek to discredit the possibilities of real change.
For communities of color, migrant and refugee communities we must view CISPA against the backdrop of a national security system that is already deeply racialized. Until the institutional design of this current security system is addressed, we should only expect the same type of profiling—but now extended to the cybersphere. Sound dangerous? It is!
Tomorrow, Wednesday April 25th, MAG-Net will be hosting a special Digital Dialogue and Webinar featuring activists from May First/People Link who will give a briefing recent attacks on our Internet free speech, privacy and security.
This potentially harmful bill is going to be coming up for a vote soon in Congress and in order to ensure that our information and rights online are protected, YOU must speak up today! Whether we’re artists, organizers, or even the casual Internet user our information online doesn’t deserve to be tracked and shared.
Every year news magazine the Advocate features Forty Under 40, which they define as "budding powerhouses, leaders in media, politics, sports, and science that are facilitating our future." This year Executive Director Malkia Cyril was selected as one of the forty people changing the world we live in.