Digital Dialogues

Listen to April MAG-Net Digital Dialogue: "The Fight for a Just Education System: What's Media Got To Do With It?"

Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net ) April Digital Dialogue Co-hosted with Global Action Project

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All across this country from Seattle to Chicago to Philadelphia, public school education and teachers unions are under attack.  In the past year, hundreds of public schools have been closed down in mostly brown and black communities, in the name of budget cuts and improving the quality of education.  At the same time, millions of taxpayer dollars are put into building more prisons to incarcerate our youth, rather than closing the inequality divide and improving neighborhood schools. Structural change of the media system is integral to winning change in the educational system.  We need an accountable media system that is not driven by market forces, but rather by community needs.

This April Digital Dialogue helped uplift the voices of those directly affected by these issues that are fighting for better public schools, against the school to prison pipeline, and for teachers' rights and unionization.  It will convene community members who are working at the intersection of education justice/reform and media justice. On the call we heard from grassroots activists and organizers who are using media and culture to advance these fights.

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Listen to MAG-Net March 27th Digital Dialogue: "Women, Health & Our Families in the Media: Shifting Culture Through Storytelling and Media Making"

LISTEN TO OUR MAG-NET MARCH DIGITAL DIALOGUE PODCAST

TOPIC: "Women, Health & Our Families in the Media: Shifting Culture Through Storytelling and Media Making" 

Co-hosted by the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) and Media Literacy Project


Description of the Call: 
In today's media environment, we see mostly men making policy decisions and speaking about the health and lives of women, queer and transgender communities. The mainstream media gives a limited representation of what a family looks like in all forms of media. Telecommunications companies are making content decisions about which messages can be created and sent and which ones are blocked and kept invisible. We also see media messaging that attempts to solve “problems” in low income, LGBTQ and communities of color but instead misrepresents issues and stigmatizes individuals. All these stories and evidence show us even more how powerful media is in shaping ideas and opinions that impact our policies, our health, and our lives. 

The March Digital Dialogue was a special Women's History Month edition.  We heard from four organizations who reflected on their work and how they have shifted culture and the dominant narrative through media.  Participants learned about the great policy change and media production work happening in New Mexico and how young women of color are leading many of these changes.  The Digital Dialogue brought together media policy and local policy experts, media makers, community organizers, and reproductive justice advocates to discuss how media can be used to shift culture, support campaigns, foster collaboration, and build the social justice movement.

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Co-moderated by Andrea Quijada, Media Literacy Project and Betty Yu, Center for Media Justice
 
 
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Listen to MAG-Net January Digital Dialogue: Advancing Our Media Justice Agenda Under a New Administration"

"Advancing Our Media Justice Agenda Under a New Administration" 


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MAG-Net kicked off the New Year with a national dialogue that looks at the new administration and its media and telecommunication priorities. What does it mean for our media justice issues with President Obama in his second term. How might the likely transitions at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) impact our vision, and how will the changes in Congress, and in mayoral leadership affect our fights? Now more than ever, we have an opportunity to shape the public policy debate and influence communications and media policies that affect our communities and the social justice issues we care about.

Tune in to hear about what's coming down the pipeline for the media policies that impact our quality of life. How can we advance our fight for Internet freedom, mobile consumer protections, media ownership diversity, municipal broadband, public access television, community radio, and other issues? How do we increase media and technology access for low-income, native, rural and communities of color? This digital dialogue will feature media policy change and community media advocates who will shed light on the challenge and opportunities under this new administration.


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Mark Lloyd, Open Technology Institute (OTI) at New America Foundation
Gene Kimmelman, Global Partners & Associates
Matt Wood, Free Press
amalia deloney, Center for Media Justice 
Josh Stearns, Free Press
Lillie Coney, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Jeff Rousset, Prometheus Radio Project
Christopher Mitchell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Harold Feld, Public Knowledge 
Moderated by Betty Yu, Center for Media Justice
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Listen to MAG-Net November 27th Digital Dialogue: "Campaign for Prison Phone Justice - Year End Campaign Wrap-up"

 

 

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2012 has been a significant year for the Campaign for Prison Phone Justice. Successes include the nation-wide organizing and Congressional in-district delegation visits in support of the FCC Wright Petition to lower prison phone rates, an award winning film "Middle of Nowhere" used to advance this groundbreaking campaign, resolutions being passed on the state level in support of lower prison phone rates, and national media coverage, just to name a few.  The Campaign wouldn't have been able to make such tremendous strides without the leadership and involvement of MAG-Net members, major support from community groups, legal experts, policy advocates, civil rights leaders, faith-based organizations and prisoner families.

This Digital Dialogue highlighted a report back from our successful November 15th "Strong Families, Safe Communities" FCC Rally and Press Conference.  In addition, participants heard from key organizations, advocates, faith leaders, and others that have played an integral role in moving this campaign forward.  Campaign organizers shared next steps and ways individuals and organization can get plugged in.

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Moderated by Betty Yu, Center for Media Justice

Email betty [at] centerformediajustice [dot] org" moz-do-not-send="true">betty [at] centerformediajustice [dot] org for more info about the Digital Dialogue Series.

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