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Changing the Story...

On Race | On Youth | On Media

On Race—In early 2009, the Center for Media Justice played a pivotal role in the organizing efforts surrounding the police murder of Oscar Grant, a young black man on his way home from a New Year’s party in Oakland, California. Our communications team helped change the story with tested strategies and a new narrative on race.

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On Youth—You know the official story: Prisons are full of young people of color because they are violent, make poor choices and lack proper role models and stable families. Media coverage tells us our safety depends on getting “tough on crime.” To change the story on youth and race, CMJ is partnering with networks, alliances and groups working to bring accountability to the criminal justice system.

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On Media—In public debate, the U.S. media has been framed as a watchdog of power, a vehicle for democratic participation and governance, and a means to connect with a world and communities beyond our own. However, the voices, policy priorities, and visions of communities of color and poor people have oft been systemically pushed to the margins of debate.

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Features

LISTEN UP! Race, Immigration, and the Fight for an Open Internet

Press Briefing on What's at Stake for Immigrant Communities and Communities of Color:  On Tuesday, March 2, 2010 over 40 journalists joined the Center for Media Justice, New America Media, the G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism, the Bay Area Black Journalists Association, and the Northern California Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for a press briefing.  Download these recordings to hear Malkia Cyril, James Rucker, Eloise Rose Lee, Eric Arnold and others discuss the importance of an open Internet in our communities and lives.

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CMJ is hiring!

We have three positions open: Deputy Director, Associate Director (Programs), and an Americorp/Vista position with the Digital Arts Service Corp. More information is here. Please help us spread the word!

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Give Every Voice a Fighting Chance, Become a Digital Inclusion Champion!

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See Who Has Taken the Pledge for Digital Inclusion

Support full broadband access and adoption and defend an open Internet.

Across the Unites States, organizations based in, or working with, people of color, poor communities, and other marginalized groups, are raising their voices for rules that will defend an open Internet that is fast, affordable, and fair.

If you represent an organization that cares about economic opportunity for marginalized communities and small businesses, download the pledge (English) (Spanish) to become a Digital Inclusion Champion. Type in your organizational information, and click here to email it to CMJ.

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Change Your Story

Training and PR Services

The Center for Media Justice is a leader in change-based communications services for organizations and campaigns across the country. Through our robust resource library and training services, organizers and grassroots policy advocates have placed new and innovative stories about racial and economic justice, and sharpened their campaigns with strategies and tools for everything from building relationships with journalists to creating great press events.

By strengthening communications infrastructure and developing full-scale communications strategies with stakeholders, we create new narratives on race, justice, and citizenship.

How can we help change your story?

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From Justice Point 

Big media companies, Internet Service Providers trying to make Internet closed, gated community; placing innovation, opportunity and democracy at risk

Posted April 8th, 2010

Will you stand with Commissioner Clyburn, President Obama, the Center for Media Justice, the Media Action Grassroots Network, the Open Internet Coalition, Color of Change, Center for Community Change, Applied Research Center, National Hispanic Media Coalition and others to encourage the FCC to be bold and ensure their jurisdiction by defining broadband as a Title II Universal Service?

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About CMJ

The Center for Media Justice is a media strategy and action center that uses strategic communications and media activism to build a powerful movement for racial justice, economic equity, and human rights. Through two long-term strategic initiatives, CMJ strengthens the communications effectiveness of grassroots groups and builds a powerful, integrated movement for media justice and communication rights.

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