Art can be a powerful force to mobilize strategic frames, it can be welded with the strength of a weapon of mass destruction. This post is a showcase of some of the art and music dedicated to Trayvon Martin that has moved me.
Today, we're catching up with MAG-Net Anchor Community Media Workshop's Senior Trainer Diana Pando. Read on to find out more about the work of the organization, what drives her and to get a good news tip.
California legislature is currently considering a bill that would stop the Public Utilities Commission from regulating internet service providers. With the internet becoming a basic necessity in our ability to navigate our everyday lives, this bill would leave our communities without any consumer protections and in the hands of corporations.
Longtime members of the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net), Southwest Workers Union (SWU) and Martinez Street Women’s Center (MSWC), were just named the two new co-anchor organizations for the San Antonio chapter. Join me in welcoming them!
One of the first things I learned as a young writer was “show, don’t tell.” Images, actions, and dialogue—core components of a narrative—are some of the most powerful ways to ignite a reader’s response.
Background The Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to educate the public and policy makers about the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system and advocate for systemic reform. In 2011, DWN was gearing up for its annual conference of member groups. DWN reached out to the Center Read more
Billboards and posters like the one above began popping up in black communities Background In 2011, religious conservatives funded an antiabortion campaign that included billboards that cropped up across the country, targeting black women and communities with anti-choice messages like: “The most dangerous place for an African American child is in the womb,” and Read more
Imagine a world where the death of children is the sport, vicious economic inequity and competition is the game, and culture is created and manipulated through the daily mechanization of a highly controlled political and media system.
Like many, I awoke yesterday to the disturbing (and depressing) news that Facebook bought Instagram for $1billion dollars. Yes, ONE-BILLION-DOLLARS! Setting aside my feelings about Capital--and the more pressing and justice-based issues that $1 billion could address--the bottom line is that it’s a lot of money. Facebook clearly has it, and is using it to get more. How American.
Wearing hoodies will not overturn the vicious Stand Your Ground laws that have proliferated throughout U.S. states in the last year, only organized pressure can change the law.