As the year comes to a close, we’re sharing some of the top victories we accomplished together over the past 12 months. Thank you for your ongoing support of Team Media Justice and all that we do!
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In the Twitter thread below we capture some of the top op-eds and media appearances from our staff this past year, and the impact they’re making in shifting national narratives around the fight for the digital rights of people of color.
In September, our own @culturejedi was profiled by @Snowden, for "fighting against the surveillance of activists and people of color before anyone knew my name": https://t.co/2XXIkw9CV0 (in @WIRED) #WeSignalChange
— MediaJustice (@mediajustice) December 31, 2018
In the @sacbee this September, Campaign Director @stevenrenderos explained why #NetNeutrality was essential for communities of color in California, helping push Gov. Brown to sign #SB822 https://t.co/uRNzuXcosp #WeSignalChange
— MediaJustice (@mediajustice) December 31, 2018
Malkia expanded on this issue —why it's critical that we stop @Amazon from selling facial recognition to law enforcement— in this recent piece for @Blavity https://t.co/5XT0TiO57k #WeSignalChange #MediaJustice
— MediaJustice (@mediajustice) December 31, 2018
That #NoDigitalPrisons work was also cited by Michelle Alexander of @thenewjimcrow in a November @nytimes op-ed: https://t.co/jQnclOMXUA #WeSignalChange
— MediaJustice (@mediajustice) December 31, 2018
"Though this battle against being watched is as old as this country, there is a more horrifying future on the horizon, and none of us can afford to look away." In July @stevenrenderos wrote about gov. surveillance of communities of color: https://t.co/DzXg53sxgr #WeSignalChange
— MediaJustice (@mediajustice) December 31, 2018
In July, we helped gather 300,000+ signatures calling on @Microsoft to cancel its contract with ICE. "In the face of such inhumanity there is no other way.” – @stevenrenderos https://t.co/CaRezP9p5w #WeSignalChange
— MediaJustice (@mediajustice) December 31, 2018
.@outline later spotlighted #DefendOurMovements, and our ongoing digital security trainings for people of color nationwide, in a piece titled "OpSec for Activists" https://t.co/nooovw1iy3 #WeSignalChange
— MediaJustice (@mediajustice) December 31, 2018
