It’s officially been one year since the repeal of Net Neutrality rules protecting our rights online formally went into effect. According to FCC Chairman Pai, Internet users in America should feel freer now that corporate Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are free to block lawful content, slow down speeds unnecessarily, and prioritize certain content no matter Read more
Today, critically acclaimed and Academy Award nominated director, Ava Duvernay, releases her latest project detailing the devastating consequences and impacts our criminal legal system has on Black people in the U.S. When They See Us, a drama miniseries on Netflix, examines the high-profile “Central Park Five” case, in which Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Read more
The Mandatory Supervised Release Reentry Freedom Act (HB 1115) took a major step toward becoming a law on April 11. With a 62-47 vote, the state’s lower house passed the bill, after considerable wrangling and discussion on the house floor. The bill’s chief sponsor, Rep. Carol Ammons and members of the Illinois Coalition to Challenge Read more
Today, many tech-savvy youth are at least somewhat aware of the limits of their privacy online. Memes about FBI agents watching us through our cell phone cameras have been popular recently. However, this isn’t anything new. This has been a part of a long history of youth criminalization and surveillance. Most young people are unaware Read more
The fight continues to ensure the right to communicate extends to everyone, not just those who can afford the minutes and gigabytes. Last week, we took that fight directly to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) where Chairman Pai and other majority FCC commissioners are working to dismantle Lifeline—a program that more than 15 million people Read more
The FBI is using the invented label “Black Identity Extremists” to justify its ongoing surveillance of Black activists. They have refused to provide the information we requested to learn more about why this label exists and which Black people and organizations are being targeted as a result. So today we partnered with the ACLU to Read more
With Women’s History Month underway, our country has a lot to grapple with regarding the status of women and non-binary people. We have a rich and vibrant herstory of women making the world better in science, technology, organizing, and pretty much every other aspect of life. As we kick off this celebration of women’s Read more
This past weekend, Team #MediaJustice joined over 200 survivors, organizers, and advocates to participate in the Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures convening, hosted by Survived and Punished, to end the criminalization of gender-based violence survivors. For many survivors, domestic violence, rape, and other forms of gendered violence are entangled with systems of incarceration, police violence, and Read more
Mrs. Martha Wright-Reed’s fight for prison phone justice started more than 20 years ago when the Lorton Correctional Facility in Virginia was closed. Under the 1997 National Capital Revitalization and Self Government Improvement Act, those incarcerated at Lorton Correctional Facility were to be sent to for-profit private prisons. Among those incarcerated people was Mrs. Martha Wright-Reed’s Read more
This past weekend, tons of actors, actresses, filmmakers and Hollywood’s biggest stars descended on the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the biggest night in media and film, the 91st Academy Awards. The annual culmination of “awards season,” this year’s Oscars made history by boasting many firsts: Black Panther’s Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beachler Read more