Q&A with Edyael Casaperalta of the Center for Rural Strategies

The Center for Rural Strategies is a media and communications non-profit that seeks to portray compelling portraits of rural America and addresses rural issues via policy advocacy.

Antoine Haywood of People TV, Inc., on Media Justice and MAG-Net

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.

Malkia Cyril on Media Justice: Interview by Samhita Mukhopadhyay

“Through media, we learn about race and racism, about poverty and what we deserve in terms of jobs, housing, health care. We learn about migration and about the rest of the world. Through media we learn how to govern, what kinds of economic systems work or don’t, and to define the limits of what’s possible. George Clinton, the P-Funk superstar, said (I’m paraphrasing), ‘Whoever controls the news shapes our destiny.’ We must fight for our media, as well as use it strategically to transform the worldview that supports structural racism, an undemocratic democracy, corporate control and global inequity, and the devolution of cities and public institutions.”