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CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE

Because a just media system, just can't wait

About Me

Our mission is to build the power of grassroots movements and disenfranchised communities to transform public debate and media policy in the service of social justice.
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My Interests

Holding corporate media accountable to communities of color, Hip Hop, radio, activism, racial justice, indy media, grassroots organizing, media justice

I'd like to meet:

Artists, media justice activists, producers, racial justice organizers, people who love hip hop, youth, journalists, social justice activists, folks willing to fight for their communication rights, agents for change.Join us: http://action.youthmediacouncil.org/

Music:

The Coup, Tupac, Jean Grae, Immortal Technique, Goapele, The Attik, all the All Stars at Youth Movement Records, Youth Radio, Hardknock Radio

Movies:

The Matrix, Wild Style, Manufacturing Consent, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, OutFoxed

Television:

Distortion 2 Static, Manhatten Neighborhood Network's Youth Channel

Books:

Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang, Broadcasting Freedom, The Future of Media, Addicted to War, Banana Republicans, Black Noise

Heroes:

Not Rupert Murdoch

My Blog

Tell Congress to Overturn the FCC’s New Rules Now!

On December 18th, 2007, the FCC voted 3-2 along party lines to gut the longstanding "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership" ban that prohibits a local newspaper from owning TV and radio stations in the ...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:35:00 PST

ACT NOW TO SAVE THE INTERNET!

Right now Congress is being pushed to abandon the First Amendment of the Internet -- a principle called Net Neutrality that keeps the Internet free and open. Congress needs to hear from you or they wi...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:33:00 PST

The Youth Media Council is now the CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE!!!

Friends, Allies and Good PeopleI want you all to be among the first to know some exciting news...The Youth Media Council(YMC) is now officially the CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE (CMJ).The YMC was launched ...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:51:00 PST

ACT NOW TO SAVE AFFORDABLE PUBLIC HOUSING

Tell LA Senator Vitter and NOLA City Council Members to stop putting families out on the streetsThere is an urgent situation in New Orleans that requires "all hands on deck." Thousands of families in ...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:13:00 PST

ACT NOW TO SUPPORT FAIR COVERAGE OF YOUTH

Thank you to everyone who sent a letter to Media News Group editors asking them to meet with community representatives about their coverage of the Oct 31st killing of Ichinkhorloo Bayarsaikhan in Alam...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 03:10:00 PST

Keep Don Imus off the Air, Keep Radio Hate-Free!

Don Imus will return to the airwaves December 3rd on New York's WABC-AM morning drive time show, only 9 months after being fired for calling the mostly Black women's basketball team at Rutger's "nappy...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:21:00 PST

Of organized truth, the Jena6, and immigrant rights

Of organized truth, the Jena6, and immigrant rightsPublished by: karlos schmieder @ www.youthmediacouncil.orgWe've been kicking around a quote at the YMC office since the POWER 10th Anniversary, em(Po...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

Of White Trees, Black Boys and Jena, Louisiana-by Mumia Abu-Jamal

Source: Davey D's Hip Hop CornerYou asked me two weeks ago if I've ever heard the name of a little town in Louisiana called 'Jena', I would've drawn a blank. Jena? Never heard of it. It made me think ...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:12:00 PST

Hip Hop delegation Headed to Jena-Free the Jena 6

from Davey D's Hip Hop BlogHIP HOP DELEGATION TRAVELS TO JENA TO ENSURE JUSTICE AND SCHOLARSHIP FOR JENA 6-A Delegation of the Hip-Hop Community to Impact Jena 6 DemonstrationBeyond Rally-A delegation...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:54:00 PST

Media Justice and Communications Rights at the First US Social Forum: Atlanta 2007

by Jonathan Lawson, Reclaim the MediaThe first US Social Forum [1], held in Atlanta this summer, was a historic event. Many thousands of social justice activists and community organizations from acros...
Posted by CENTER FOR MEDIA JUSTICE on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:44:00 PST