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@NCMR 2008: How can social networking technology support the work of grassroots organizers?
June 11, 2008
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
I hit up a lot in the last few days, but right now I am sitting in a panel of organizing the social web for change. The panel has Feministing's lovely tech lady, Deanna Zandt, along with Chris Rabb from Afro-netizen, Andrew Slack, Craig Newmark (craigslist) and Ruby Si...
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@NCMR 2008: No Justice without Media Justice
June 11, 2008
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
When we speak of a justice agenda we are talking about greater political, social and cultural changes that are plugged into an analysis of power that reform focused movements often times overlook. Many times it is a matter of semantics, since all of us working in justi...
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@NCMR: Great day of Media Justice
June 11, 2008
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
So, we are running out the door to the Media and Democracy Coalition party, but I had a great and fulfilling day including meeting some great bloggers (Jenn Pozner, Baratunde Thurston, Matt Stoller, and if I forgot any others than shout out in comments!) and shared our ...
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@NCMR 2008: Opening Plenary-Media at a Critical Juncture
June 7, 2008
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
I am watching the amazing Adrienne Maree Brown ED of the Ruckus Society, activist, singer and gal pal is keeping it real about the necessity for the media reform movement to be accountable to community organizers in this morning's key note. This is going to be a theme t...
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@National Conference for Media Reform 2008
June 6, 2008
Samhita Mukhopadhyay
I am in Minneapolis for the National Conference on Media Reform. If you are here, please come say hi! I am here with my organization the Center for Media Justice and will be repping at the MAGnet table tomorrow from 5:30-7. I am also live-blogging most of the conference...
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FCC Votes for More Media Consolidation
December 18, 2007
Michele Gutierrez
Today, despite public outcry, the Federal Communications Commission voted to remove the longstanding "newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership" ban that prohibits a local newspaper from owning a broadcast station in the same market. To read more about this, you can go here....
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Bay Area Media News Group Editor Responds to Community Concerns Around Youth Coverage
December 7, 2007
Michele Gutierrez
To the representatives of the Youth Media Council: We enjoyed out meeting today at the Tribune to discuss why the Alameda Journal, Oakland Tribune and other Bay Area News Group papers ran the names of the youths arrested and later cleared. We look forward to worki...
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Media Consolidation-Responding to the Other Side's Arguments, Jonathan Lawson
November 8, 2007
Michele Gutierrez
Our allies in the Northwest are doing a great job preparing for Friday, Nov. 8 when the last of FCC's Public hearings on Media Ownership will be held in Seattle where communities are voicing how harmful Media Consolidation and Deregulation is.  Jonathan Lawson of Rec...
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USSF 2007: Reflections on Another U.S.
July 3, 2007
Michele Gutierrez
While thousands of attendees, representing millions of people were coming together, finding points of unity, envisioning another U.S. and planning for its coming, there was a virtual media blackout on the scope and significance of the first ever social forum. USSF ...
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USSF 2007 Day 4: Laying the Groundwork for Strategic Action
June 30, 2007
Michele Gutierrez
The consciousness-raising and vision-making of the past few days were harnessed into strategy, commitment and action today.  Workshops of interest included:  * Media Justice Now! (Third World Majority) * Growing Grassroots Media Networks (Pacifica Foundation) * Th...
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