In District Visits to Protect #NetNeutrality
August was a busy month for us! MAG-Net Members across the county went and visited their congress person, urging them to Protect #NetNeutrality.
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MAG-Net’s FCC Comments on Lifeline Program
Lifeline is the only federal program that provides discounts to low-income families for telephone service. It annually supports 12 million families in the United States through a monthly subsidy that makes telephone or cell phone service more affordable. Recently, the Federal Communications Commission announced it would expand the program to also include a discount for Read more
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Report: Why Organizers of All Stripes Need to Fight for Digital Rights
This post was written by Amy Kroin originally posted on Freepost.net Anyone who’s watched an online petition or hashtag go viral can testify to the Internet’s power to effect change. A must-read report from our friends at the Center for Media Justice poses a provocative question about this phenomenon: “Is the Internet building power for Read more
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Online for Power? Shifting Our Movements Toward the Future
“Last year, San Francisco released BART Watch, an app for reporting crimes on the Bay Area’s main transit system. After filing a California Public Records Act request to see what people were reporting, the East Bay Express found a disturbing pattern: Of the 763 alerts sent to BART, 198 included a description of the race Read more
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REPORT: How to Leverage Social Media Moments Into Offline Movements
“From #YouOKSis to #QueridaKellyOsbourne, hashtags are helping to advance political ideas and support real-world social justice movements. But a new report says that those movements will never have maximum impact if activists don’t marry what they do online with the offline fight to gain universal Internet access for people of color. Created by the Center for Media Justice, ColorOfChange.com Read more
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The Senate Wants to Make Internet Companies and Providers Spies
New Article written by MAG-Net Anchor, Alfredo Lopez, about Provision 603 of the Senate Intelligence Authorization Act. The law, which is going to be passed by the Senate (and probably by the House if we don’t get moving on it) essentially forces Internet providers to turn over any information they believe may be linked to Read more
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Magazine: Black Panther cub on new era of civil action
What I remember most viscerally is the fear. It had been almost four hours, and I couldn’t get the handcuffs off. The lights in the underground subway station were flickering, and I had an almost phobic fear of the dark. The white cop who had cuffed me to the gate inside the subway station was Read more
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MAG-Net member Cyber Attacked
Written by MAG-Net member Alfredo Lopez: Attackers continued their assault on May First/People Link operations Monday evening shutting down the organization’s website at https://mayfirst.org. All other services continue operating. The Denial of Service attack targeted the website but, as collateral damage, much of May First’s hosting system was paralyzed for a short time about 11:00 Read more
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Imagine Life Without The Internet
CNN contributor, Van Jones describes how access to fast and reliable broadband is just as essential now as electricity was during the last century. “Can you imagine a life without electricity? For most people, the answer is probably no. What about a life without broadband Internet? It would mean: no emails; no ability to quickly Read more
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Joseph Torres, CMJ Board Member Being Honored
Congratulation to Joseph Torres; Senior External Affairs Director of Free Press, CMJ Board member and long time media justice champion. Joe will be honored at the 33rd annual Everett C. Parker Lecture and Breakfast by the United Church of Christ’s media justice ministry on October 20th at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 945 G Read more