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By Betty Yu. This past weekend in New York City, activists and organizers came together to celebrate thirty years of Paper Tiger Television (PPTV). They were one of the nation’s first radical and independent media collectives started back in 1981. Founded on the fundamental principles of media activism and social justice, Paper Tiger Television’s guerilla making style and groundbreaking videos inspired generations of independent media makers.
Tags: Activism, Betty Yu, Community Media, Digital Inclusion, Featured, MAG-Net, Media, New York City
March 30-31, 2012 | New York City, NY
February 23rd, 2012 | Washington, DC
Check out some blogs from yesterday’s historic online action to protect internet freedom. SOPA and PIPA are part of a larger agenda for communication and media rights to end poverty and racism. Join the movement, and as always click the like button above if you feel me!
Tags: Activism, Digital Inclusion, Featured, Internet, Media Justice, Obama Administration
I know there is a lot to unpack here. Let me just say for the sake of a short blog post that 512 years of occupation should encourage us to weigh in on ANY laws that impact the knowledge, creativity, unique world views and ways of being that reside in our communities. We should be especially vigilant about any laws that could limit our ability to transmit this information—through any medium–between and among ourselves and to future generations through specific cultural channels and designated community knowledge holders.
Tags: Activism, Digital Inclusion, Featured, Latinos for Internet Freedom, Media Justice, Race
The Internet isn’t freedom, but it’s promise is a path to freedom for black communities- and both the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), and the Protect IP Act (PIPA), threaten that promise. That’s why the Center for Media Justice faded to black yesterday- to protest censorship of black voices, brown voices, and the voice of innovation in this country.
Tags: Activism, Black Voices for Internet Freedom, Digital Inclusion, Featured, Internet, Media Justice, Race
Tomorrow, the Center for Media Justice website will go dark to protest the U.S. House of Representatives’ Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its companion bill in the Senate, the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). Both of these bills would alter the technical operations of the Internet, and threaten Internet Freedom and openness online. If these bills pass, they will change the Internet as we know it. Neither bill would be effective at stamping out online piracy, but both will have consequences for how the Internet functions as a whole.
Tags: Activism, Featured, Internet, Media Policy
Pew Research Center releases study documenting increased perception amongst Americans that the gross inequalities between rich and poor are a growing source of tension in the country.
Tags: feature, Featured, Polls, Race
March 15th-17th, 2012 | Columbus, OH
January 17th, 2012 | New York, NY
