Amalia Deloney, grassroots media policy director for the Center for Media Justice, says with everyday lives so connected to the Internet, there's too much at stake to give that much power to the service providers.
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At last week's "Money for our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference" at Mills College in Oakland, California, Center for Media Justice hosted a dialog over lunch with media justice and media reform advocates to talk raising resources for media activism, production and strategic communications.
Yesterday, CMJ and Consumers Union hosted a webinar on Universal Service Fund Reform. Amalia Deloney, Bob Williams and Joel Kelsey gave everyone a run down of the Universal Service Fund, broadband adoption and how it connects to other social justice issues.
CMJ, along with our partners at smartMeme, the Praxis Project, Progressive Communicators Network and more convened a "Peoples' Movement Assembly" at this year's US Social Forum in Detroit as part of a movement building participatory research project to define a media policy and media narrative agenda for social movements in the US.
Want to know what CMJ and MAG-Net are up to in Detroit this summer? You found the right spot!
On Tuesday June 2, and June 3, 2010, CMJ hosted a two digital dialogs with some core allies to get ready for the US Social Forum.
CMJ's communications strategist and program director of justice communications has been a part of a few exciting funder briefings over the last month. In May we helped shape and participated in "The State of Grassroots Communications: Shifting the Landscape Toward Justice." In June we were asked by Public Interest Project's Alliance-Building program to participate in a donor briefing on communications strategies for alliance building.
Interested in the Future of Journalism, Public Media and the Internet? Join the Free Press Policy Summit today, a day long summit of speakers, thinkers, policy makers and media makers presenting on the future of journalism, public media and the internet. Our very own Malkia Cyril and Amalia Deloney will be speaking at 2:30 pm. Read more