Welcome to MAG-Net Forums, where people who care about making media change for social justice come together to connect online to build a movement! We all know the media conditions in our communities pose a challenge, but sometimes we need help figuring out how to change them.
Across the country, the media justice community uses our forums to strategize, exchange ideas, and offer support to one another. Check out the forum topics below now- and start changing media conditions one connection at a time. Join the conversation about media justice today!
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Communications and media should be a core part of any group's organizing and advocacy strategy. It's not just about raising money for your organization's programmatic work, but developing resources to communicate to all your target audience and constituency is just as important. Please share your challenges and successes in fundraising for media and communications.
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How is your organization or region using the Internet and other digital technologies to fight poverty, eliminate the wealth gap, and create jobs for low-income communities? Join the conversation about how poor and working class people are using an open Internet to create safe, living wage economic opportunities.
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1 | 1 | 9 weeks 1 day ago by amalia_deloney |
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Last year the Obama economic stimulus package directed more than 7 billion dollars to expand broadband adoption and create economic opportunity in unserved and under-served communities nationwide. Join the conversation to discuss how stimulus money for broadband is working in your community.
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Forced migration, poverty, and racism have created a historic gap in access to telephone service. At the same time, big media companies are providing old phone service on new, mobile platforms like cell phones, calling cards, and digital video/voice services. Join the conversation about phone access at the margins, and how local communities are demanding corporate accountability, consumer protections, and real access to mobile technology.
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1 | 1 | 4 weeks 5 days ago by DeAnneC |
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In every community public schools are in crisis. Rather than providing our children with the tools and skills to thrive in an information economy- students from poor communities and communities of color are being left behind. Join the conversation about schools, education policy, and the fight to use media/digital literacy as a tool to demand and provide a 21st century education.
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With news outlets bought and traded on the open market, traditional forms of journalism are under siege. Journalists have lost jobs by the millions, every community has lost print newspapers, and the Internet has become the new medium for news and information. Join the conversation about the costs and benefits of emerging models for journalism, and the rules that make sure journalism supports real democratic engagement.
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Throughout history, both the conservative right and movements for democratic social justice have used arts and culture as a tool for ideological battle. Join the conversation to share your stories, songs, and strategies for cultural content, infrastructure, and policy that supports a vision for social justice and transformative change?
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4 | 4 | 2 weeks 1 day ago by bettyyu |
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This is where you can suggest new forum topics about media justice! Forum topics should be issues that you think many people would like to discuss, and broad enough to engage a wide and diverse audience. Suggest a forum topic now!
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1 | 1 | 2 weeks 1 day ago by bettyyu |