Why is it that instead of promoting healthy families, working towards curbing recidivism, and cutting short and long-term state and federal costs, the government is working with corporations to pad their pockets?
Jamilah King, News Editor at Colorlines, drops a new article which takes a compelling and thorough look at the $190 billion dollar telecom industry and why people of color and poor communities need to take up the fight for Internet freedom.
Juan Gonzalez and Joe Torres' bestseller News for All the People takes the reader on a sweeping yet thorough journey through the history of the American media. They show that race has not been a marginal issue to the American press, but instead has been a main theme. . .
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Oakland in solidarity with the 99 percenters demonstrating all over the world. Here's a slideshow of some photos taken over the last week.
The Occupy Oakland sit-in was raided by police, they surrounded the area and forced everyone out. Here are some photos.
Trainers at the Take Back the Dream Conference were offering interview tips for folks being interviewed by mainstream press. There was a strong emphasis on framing messages that would speak or appeal to the middle – that is the white middle class. Where then, I wonder, would the hundreds of people I work with through the Media Action Grassroots Network fit in?
As my mom always told me, and as my co-worker Malkia Cyril always reminds me, our core motivations are safety and belonging.
As the 99 percent movement spread and progressives gathered to Take Back the American Dream, another important convening took place in the capitol: The Echo Justice Initiative's first convening. And our opponents should be shaking in their boots.
Crossposted from the Center for Rural Strategies website - Rural broadband advocates from five states and Washington D.C. gathered in rural Eastern Kentucky on Tuesday, October 11, 2011, for the first Rural Broadband Summit, cosponsored by the Center for Media Justice, the Center for Rural Strategies, and Free Press.