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Social Justice and Media Action Blog Roundup
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!
Why should Latin@s care about SOPA?
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.
Black on Black Digital Freedom: Why I Participated in Yesterday’s Internet Strike
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.
We’re fading to black
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.
CMJ’s Executive Director Malkia Cyril featured in San Francisco Chronicle’s “Change Makers” series
“I don’t say ‘net neutrality,’ that bores me, too. But when I tell people their ability to communicate and connect is threatened, they care about that,” Malkia Cyril talks to the San Francisco Chronicle about systemic reform in media justice.
Media Justice and the 99 Percent Movement
As evictions and raids of Occupy encampments take place through out major cities this country, one thing is evident “You can’t evict an idea who’s time has come”.
SmartMeme’s: Story-Based Strategy
December 14th, 2011 | San Francisco, CA
Photos from Occupy Oakland
Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Oakland in solidarity with the 99 percenters demonstrating all over the world. Here’s a slideshow of some photos taken over the last week.
Occupy Oakland shut down
The Occupy Oakland sit-in was raided by police, they surrounded the area and forced everyone out. Here are some photos.
As the 99% are #OccupyingEverywhere. . .
Trainers at the Take Back the Dream Conference were offering interview tips for folks being interviewed by mainstream press. There was a strong emphasis on framing messages that would speak or appeal to the middle – that is the white middle class. Where then, I wonder, would the hundreds of people I work with through the Media Action Grassroots Network fit in?
