Posted in Action Center, Actions | 2 Comments »One of the highlights of the recent Media Justice Leadership Institute was a song written by our partners in the Bay Area. “Broadband in Yo Face” brought the message we delivered to the FCC three days before that to a space I could connect to….music. Many of us realized that the song was too special and too good not to record it. So we busted out our Zoom recorder.
Media Literacy Project celebrated a victory on November 11th when longtime CNN anchor Lou Dobbs announced his resignation.
Thanks to everyone who joined the campaign at buildingpower.org, the US Senate voted down the Vitter Amendment—an effort to change Census forms, forcing people to answer questions about their citizenship, 60-39. Of course, this is only a first step. The pressure needs to stay on so that the 2010 Census policies are fair and just.
For the past two months, Presente.org, together with more than 40 local and national partners, including the Center for Media Justice and several MAG-Net groups, has organized the Basta Dobbs campaign, demanding that CNN fire anti-immigrant and anti-Latino host Lou Dobbs. On the evening of Wednesday, November 11, Dobbs announced his resignation, effective immediately.
Interview by amalia deloney
This October, People TV, Inc., of Atlanta joined MAG-Net. Recently (albeit virtually) I was able to talk with Antoine Haywood, Director of Community Development about media justice, public access issues, and what media justice and MAG-Net offer to the Southeast.
[ September 21, 2009 to September 24, 2009. ] Sponsored by the Center for Media Justice, the Consumer’s Union and newly sponsored by the Media and Democracy Coalition, Knowledge Exchange, will bring together 20 grassroots media activists, national advocacy groups, academics, and beltway policy advocates to exchange ideas, deepen relationships, and develop best practices and collaborative strategies to advance a national plan for universal [...]
Sponsored by the Center for Media Justice, the Consumer’s Union and newly sponsored by the Media and Democracy Coalition, Knowledge Exchange, will bring together 20 grassroots media activists, national advocacy groups, academics, and beltway policy advocates to exchange ideas, deepen relationships, and develop best practices and collaborative strategies to advance a national plan for universal broadband access and deployment. Taking place in Washington, D.C., September 21-24, 2009, the convening will feature presentations on the broadband stimulus package, digital inclusion dialogues, discussions on race and related equity issues, a landscape of current legislation on broadband and the Internet, and more. Participants are movement leaders who will address movement challenges, and develop winning strategies for media policy change from the grassroots to the beltway!
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