Articles, Speeches and Publications

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• Who Will Defend the Rights of People of Color to an Open Internet? We Speak for Ourselves.
  CMJ Executive Director Malkia Cyril on digital redlining and why some civil rights groups persist in taking positions against open Internet protections and against the interests of the communities they supposedly represent.
• The Strongest Open Internet Protections Possible: Yes, We Can.
  Malkia Cyril writes on the relationship between civil rights organizations and the telecommunications industry.
• A New Civil Rights Mandate: Champion Open Networks to Close the Digital Divide
  Malkia Cyril writes on the telecommunications industry's attempts to convince poor communities and communities of color that they must choose between fair representation and access to high-speed Internet networks. Published in the Huffington Post.
• Malkia Cyril at the Green Festival, March 29, 2009: Transcript
  The Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice explores the connections between environmental justice and media justice. Read her speech here.
• "Speaking for Ourselves," Yes magazine, Winter 2005
  Malkia Cyril and Taishi Duchicela on how young people in Oakland wanted to talk about real solutions to the poverty, racism, and powerlessness that they grew up with—but all the city’s hip-hop radio station offered was violence and mind-numbing entertainment.
• Malkia Cyril at the Free Press & Media Reform Conference, May 13, 2005
  The Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice outlines why a media justice analysis must be done through a racial, economic, and gender justice lens: "Our current media system reproduces and maintains the colonial power relations of its beginnings."