MediaJustice

🗓️ Registration Open | Join us June 25-27 at the 2024 Alliance for Community Media (ACM) Conference hosted by at Open San José in California.

The conference will bring together many community media practitioners to celebrate the work of community media organizations. Among the insightful workshops and technical presentations, our own Jai Dulani (aka Dulani), National Political Education Manager at MediaJustice, will be speaking on the following panel:

💻 “Media Literacy; Community Media Centers and Mis/Disinformation” which will focus on the increase and impact of mis- and dis-information over the last several years when it comes to elections, public health, and the wellbeing of our communities. In this panel we'll explore the question "How can we leverage this expertise and provide tools for the next level of media literacy, combating mis and dis-information?"

Dulani will be joined by:

🎙️Ellina M. Yin, CEO, Founder and Host of Only in San Jose ()
📚Nolan Higdon, Lecturer at and and author

Don’t miss their discussion!
🗓️ Wednesday, June 26
⏰3:15 - 4:45pm
Learn more + register via link in bio.

Today, May 29, Meta is holding its AGM, an annual meeting for shareholders –– and an important time to get the company’s attention on pressing human rights issues.

In the face of Israel’s heinous attacks on Rafah and ongoing assault on Gaza, Meta hasn’t taken a single action to address its systematic censorship of Palestinians, its removal of content documenting Israel’s war crimes, and its failure to moderate Hebrew language content that fuels and exacerbates the violence Palestinians are facing on the ground.

Shareholders must know that Meta is continuing to blatantly violate and disrespect Palestinian human rights, and it’s time to hold the company accountable.

Join Palestinian rights defenders around the world in demanding: Meta, ! Sign and share the petition at fftf.link/meta.

⏰DEADLINE TONIGHT⏰ [Reposting our event partner ]

Have some important research around technology you’d like to share? 👀

Are you exploring creative and innovative ways to use technology for the well-being of our gente? 🐜🔥

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to facilitate a a workshop at Take Back Tech II in Chicago, happening on June21st-23rd 🗓️

Submit your workshop idea by May 13th and be part of this amazing opportunity to Take Back Tech! 💥

🚨 For submissions, click the link in our bio and fill out the interest form!

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¿Tienes alguna investigación importante sobre el tema de la tecnología que quisieras compartir? 👀

¿Estás explorando formas creativas e innovadoras de utilizar la tecnología para el bienestar de nuestra gente? 🐜🔥

No te pierdas esta gran oportunidad de facilitar un taller en Take Back Tech II en Chicago, que se llevará a cabo del 21 al 23 de junio 🗓️

¡Envía tu idea para el taller antes del 13 de mayo y se parte de esta increíble oportunidad para Take Back Tech por nuestra gente! 💥

🚨 ¡Para someter tu idea, haz clic en el enlace de nuestra biografía y llena el formulario!

Deeper Than A Div/de launches TODAY April 30th at 3pm ET✨🎉 Join us for the world premiere of MediaJustice Production’s first documentary short film on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/7ZXCE9EKzM4
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Want to learn more about the Digital Divide? Have questions on how to help your community get accessible internet? Check out our Deeper Than A Div/de Viewing Guide now available on our website.

Happening TODAY at 6:30pm CT/7:30pm ET‼️⤵️

Join us with Pueblos for the launch of the graphic novel "Unshackling Freedom". Learn about EM, hear first hand testimonies from the community, & get a sneak peak at the graphic novel!

Need Spanish to English translation? Join from our zoom link for ENG interpretation: https://mediajustice.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcod-2qrj4uGtxUC5CuHy6YUbuUVGxgKt4Y #/registration

Presentación en Español a través de Facebook Live.

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, advocates, academics, and workers who are looking for a space to deepen the connections and strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.

We will be opening registration for Take Back Tech TODAY! Click the link in our bio for more information.

Visit takebacktech.com and sign up today!

Knock knock… who’s there? It’s Team and every one in our communities and the movement to end surveillance capitalism.
Hit the link in our bio to read our full statement on Amazon Ring finally deciding that doorbells shouldn’t be back doors for anti-Black police surveillance and Amazon should have never cashed in on turning neighbors against each other. Shout out to everyone who campaigned, wrote, signed or shared a petition, called your legislators and told your family that cameras don’t keep us safe, we do.
ID: [SCREENSHOT] STATEMENT on Amazon’s announcement to end program allowing law enforcement to request Ring doorbell camera footage from users through its Neighbors app

Free Download! Our recent collaboration with “Fighting Copaganda Means Solidarity: Asian Americans, Anti-Blackness, and Police Disinformation” is now live on our blog for you and your community to use as we build solidarity for the fight against racialized disninfo. Link in bio 📥

We’re coming into 2024 still celebrating all the connections we carry with us from the last. Keep the New Year vibe going as you get as excited about 2024 as we are by checking out our 3-part recap of our 2023 MediaJustice Network Fellowship Graduation Convening. The links in our bio pair well with champagne, coffee, and brand new calendars waiting for your plans to join us in the fight for media justice. Happy New Year!🍾☕️✨🎉

From pushing Meta to encrypt Messenger to sparking an FTC antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, our was bold. We challenged Big Media and Tech, fostering a safer online space for activists. 🌐💪

We also equipped 400 organizers with the Copaganda Clapback! Curriculum, countering harmful narratives. Our disinformation research fellowship graduated 12 amazing fellows in 2023, and our commitment to combating e-carceration continues.

As we gear up for 2024, we need your support! Donate to MediaJustice and join us in advancing digital equity, community-led media, and social movements for liberation. 🌐✊ classy.org/give/538942/ #!/donation/checkout

This year, we’re rewinding 2023 to jump into 2024! We trained 100+ journalists, media makers, and organizers on defeating Copaganda and educated over 200 on analyzing electronic monitoring.

Your support sustains 14+ years of movement building into the new year. Donate before ends!

classy.org/give/538942/ #!/donation/checkout

2023 showed us that our movements for liberation need media and tech justice now more than ever. From the struggle for Palestinian liberation to the fight to , racial justice organizers are on the front lines against the collusion of Big Tech, the military-industrial complex, and the State.

This , we are raising $25,000 to equip organizers for liberation with the essential skills, resources, and connections to take on media and technology challenges. Donate today to help MediaJustice reclaim power from Big Media and Big Tech so we can fight on our own terms.

classy.org/give/538942/ #!/donation/checkout

Register now to join us 10/19 6:30 EST!
Learn about the mental, physical, and social harms e-carceration is causing our communities and how folks are taking action to fight for wellness and liberation. From sharing their stories as part of organizing, to collective healing practices, this session will include tools and tactics helpful for people who are directly impacted by e-carceration as well as supporting communities.

Conoce los daños mentales, físicos y sociales que la encarcelación electrónica está causando a nuestras comunidades y cómo las personas están tomando medidas para luchar por el bienestar y la liberación. Desde compartir sus historias como parte de la organización hasta prácticas de sanación colectiva, esta sesión incluirá herramientas y tácticas útiles para las personas que se ven directamente afectadas por la e-carcelación, así mismo en cómo podrás apoyar en las comunidades.

This event will offer ASL interpretation, live captioning, and Spanish translation.

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1- [GRAPHIC] Thursday, October 19th, 6:30 PM ET Unshackling Freedom Learning Series: Turning Pain into Power Learn about the mental, physical, and social harms e-carceration is causing our communities and how folks are taking action to fight for wellness and liberation. From sharing their stories as part of organizing, to collective healing practices, this session will include tools and tactics helpful for people who are directly impacted by e-carceration as well as supporting communities.

2- [GRAPHIC] Conoce los daños mentales, físicos y sociales que la encarcelación electrónica está causando a nuestras comunidades y cómo las personas están tomando medidas para luchar por el bienestar y la liberación. Desde compartir sus historias como parte de la organización hasta prácticas de sanación colectiva, esta sesión incluirá herramientas y tácticas útiles para las personas que se ven directamente afectadas por la e-carcelación, así mismo en cómo podrás apoyar en las comunidades.

Urgent mutual aid support request from our network! Venmo for the family at
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1. Urgent Mutual Aid Update! This family is in need of support of housing assistance & groceries. Ongoing Action: Almost met our goal, support a family from eviction. Our community member is a Black mother of 4. She recently left everything and moved to another state to safety due to a previously unsafe domestic housing situation. Our community efforts met up to $1318 of $1771 (74%) to cover June Rent! DM for Zelle [unfortunately mediajustice does not have this info on hand!] homelessness does not discriminate. Help a family stay together!
2. URGENT Housing Eviction Consultation Needed! Pls boost & share with your networks! Legal support/consult needed. Transparency posting [screenshots of email and text conversations]
3. Transparency posting. TY!TY!TY! We can’t thank you enough! [screenshots of very grateful text messages and updates about payments made with previous funds collected] By reaching our initial goal of $1k we were able to get the family an extension on their rental debt. [screenshot reads:] “thank you it’s crazy people who don’t know me is helping and it hard to get my family to help” Your support has a direct impact! By supporting our community action, you are participating in mutual aid. Our collective resources help in preventing limitations to the family’s access to future rental applications!
4. Thank you for your support! The family is still in need of the following resources (as of 8/30):
housing/legal support services/ lawyer familiar with lease interpretation and hardship application
Financial support - our community member received an additional $85 fine and must offset costs that were not raised at the time
GOAL of $400 REMAINING: additional supplies: $100 school supplies $250 food.
Venmo the family at . Please use an emoji in the submission.
5. SUPPORT WHAT YOU CAN REPOST BOOST SHARE THANK YOU!

BlackStar Film Fest is HAPPENING THIS WEEK!✨ MediaJustice is proud to be one of the festival sponsors this year. Get your tickets to watch some great films, including some of the few on our list: Beneath the Surface, What These Walls Won’t Hold, and Fire Through Dry Grass🎥🍿

Check out the full schedule and pick up your tickets at blackstarfest.org/festival. We can’t wait to see you there!

🚨HAPPENING THIS WEDNESDAY🚨

Team MediaJustice is launching our latest project- Copaganda Clapback! A Resource to Fight Back✊🏽 This Wednesday, we will be hosting a live event to discuss with our MediaJustice Network members and co-authors of this curriculum why this work is so important right now.

You don’t want to miss out! Check the link in our bio to join us.

When nonprofits settle for “easier said than done”, we leave our political values on the table. We also miss a real opportunity to put our people first by challenging norms and demonstrating that it’s possible. Hit the link in our bio to see what MediaJustice’s Team learned from their commitment to getting from “said” to “done”.

ID: [Graphic] MediaJustice’s logo is too right above the text: Jumpstaring the justice movement from within by considering what our people need to thrive.

I’m lucky to have been around in some capacity for the last 14yrs of MediaJustice. I’ve been a board member, a member of our network, a national organizer and now an ED. I’ve worked with and learned so much from our founding ED, Malkia Devich Cyril. I’m inspired by the leadership of the current generation of staff who are taking this org beyond the edges of my imagination.

Will you help us celebrate the last 14yrs by donating $14? Donate here: https://support.mediajustice.org/give/472681/ #!/donation/checkout

Today, MediaJustice celebrates 14 years of cultivating grassroots action! We’re looking back at how we’ve developed over the years from the Youth Media Council thanks to the support and partnership of our community.

A lot has changed since 2009, but one thing hasn’t - MJ is all about our people. From our founders and leadership to our staff, as well as our network members, supporters, allies, alumni, and more — this birthday milestone is a reflection of us all, and the collective power we yield when we come together. Today is a celebration for all the work we do every day.

Our staff members are pledging to donate or raise $14 to invest in our work championing community power in tech and media issues. We invite you to join our team of grassroots organizers and invest in reimagining a future of media justice.

MediaJustice added a button to help you learn more about them.

Team was here & q***r during in San Francisco! 5 of our staff and many more of the MJ family attended . Like many attendees, our time was full of tender reconnections & new relationships, opportunities, & learning. Here’s some highlights ✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
We got to receive brilliance and messages of love from ALOK, & watched ’s founders receive their flowers 💐💖
We also celebrated ’s birthday and got a history lesson on Southern q***r organizing 30 in the making. Happy birthday SONG! 🥳🍑
And of course we reconnected with members presenting & attending : CA LGBT Arts Alliance, and . We even ran into MediaJustice Network Fellow alumni Michae and Nashauba, & our friends from ! 🌈✨

MediaJustice’s Campaigns Team invites you to the State of MediaJustice March 7th, from 7:00-8:15pm EST to discuss the most pressing issues in our digital age! This is a space to review what we got done in 2022 & all we hope you’ll join us for in 2023. Come through for a fun event featuring conversations with our campaign partners and a dive deep with us into MediaJustice’s place in this movement moment. We’ll hear from:

Frankie Enzler,
Akina Younge, Center on Race and Digital Justice
Janice Gates,
Karla Arredondo and Melky Recinos,
As well as our MediaJustice Advisor, Alfredo Lopez and our Executive Director, Steven Renderos.

[Hit the link in our bio /click to] register and find out more info. **ASL and Spanish-English interpretation will be available**

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: [Graphic] “the State of MediaJustice” is centered in block letters over a comic book cloud with graphic shapes and lines floating out. Red, gold and white blocks make up the background, and the bottom half includes detail text: “ASL and Spanish-English interpretation available!” And “March 7, 7:00- 8:15pm EST”

Our 2023 Fellows are here! (2/2) Get to know them as they step into the lab with us this week to kick off 8 months together innovating a future free from racialized disinformation.
Disinfo doesn’t stand a chance.

1. Lorie “LB” Bryant (she/her) Nominated by:
2. Trinity McFadden (she/her) Nominated by:
3. Maliyah (or JOY) (they/them/he/him) Nominated by:
4. Yoon Grace Ra (they/them) Nominated by:
5. Bria Thurman (she/they) Nominated by: .imc
6. Anne Marie Collins (she/her) Nominated by:

Hit the link in our bio to learn more about them and our ‘23 MJNF Mentors on our blog!

IMAGE DESCRIPTIONS: [GRAPHICs] Headshots of the 2023 MediaJustice Network Fellows surrounded by a variety of stylized “share” icons, and at the bottom center of each a “search bar” with each fellows’ name, in the order named above