Will you stand with Commissioner Clyburn, President Obama, the Center for Media Justice, the Media Action Grassroots Network, the Open Internet Coalition, Color of Change, Center for Community Change, Applied Research Center, National Hispanic Media Coalition and others to encourage the FCC to be bold and ensure their jurisdiction by defining broadband as a Title II Universal Service?
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.
For the past two months, Presente.org, together with more than 40 local and national partners, including the Center for Media Justice and severalMAG-Netgroups, 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.
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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