For Immediate Release: June 11, 2020 Media Contact: Asya Pikovsky, [email protected], 207-522-2442 / Jason Schwartz, [email protected], 347-452-3752 Athena Statement: Amazon Temporarily Halts Rekognition Police Partnerships WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to Amazon’s pledge to place a moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology Rekognition, Athena released the following statements from member groups MediaJustice, …
For Immediate Release: April 7, 2020 Contact: Duncan Bartok, [email protected], (425) 780-9558 CIVIL RIGHTS ORGS TO FCC CHAIRMAN PAI: INCARCERATED PEOPLE MUST STAY CONNECTED TO FAMILIES DURING COVID-19 CRISIS Groups file formal comment with FCC to make calls for incarcerated individuals free as families fight to stay connected through health crisis Today, a coalition of …
During the COVID-19 pandemic incarcerated and detained individuals are being deprived of family visits across the country in conditions that make them uniquely at risk to contracting COVID-19. As such we urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to immediately: Request predatory prison phone companies offer free phone and video calls with no fees incarcerated and …
For Immediate Release: March 24, 2020 Contact: Melissa McCleery, [email protected], 484-201-3778 Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, FCC Must End Exploitative Profiteering on Prison Phone Calls, Say Civil Rights Advocates Groups call on FCC to make calls for incarcerated individuals free as families fight to stay connected through health crisis As incarcerated individuals are deprived of family visits …
Last weekend in Maryland, MediaJustice Network member Black Youth Project 100 (BYP 100), hosted its annual national convening, bringing together members from its chapters around the country. Founded in 2013 after George Zimmerman was found “not guilty” of murdering Trayvon Martin, BYP100 is a national, member-based organization of 18-35 year old Black activists and organizers …
I am writing today to remind you that, despite the horrific murders of at least 50 people, with 53 injured, during a deadly mass shooting at a popular local queer club in Orlando, Florida – our love is unlimited. It was Latin Night, and many of the dead are queer Latinos, Blacks, and other people of …
This blog was reposted with the permission of the authors, Joe Torres and Steven Renderos and was originally published on the Freepree.org site. Tom Wheeler, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, will soon decide whether to approve or deny Charter’s proposed $90 billion acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. We believe …
“When is the last time you have three days to think?” said Malkia. My brain was lit with ideas on the last day of the 6th annual Knowledge Exchange – hosted by the Consumers Union and Center for Media Justice in Washington DC.
“This [current] demographic shift provides a basis to transform the country, provided that we can become capable of the kind of struggle that is necessary for transformation. In order to overcome historic structures of domination and control, organized communities of color and low-wealth must become architects of policy and build a true majority capable of building and exercising power to bring about real change. This will require not only a clear and strategic analysis of structural racism, but also new forms of collaboration that can build accountable leadership…”