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Art, Culture and White Vinegar

In this guest blog, MediaJustice Network member and comrade Erick Boustead (formerly of Line Break Media) reflects on being connected to the broader MediaJustice community and how it has inspired their subversive use of art, media and culture to highlight injustice and better imagine the new world we are building toward. April 15, 2014. I …


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Senators Markey and Merkley, and Reps. Jayapal, Pressley to Introduce Legislation to Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition, Other Biometric Technology

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Giselle Barry (Markey) 202-224-2742 Martina McLennan/Ray Zaccaro (Merkley) 202-224-3753 Chris Evans (Jayapal) 206-795-5504 Ricardo Sanchez (Pressley) 202-836-0022 Senators Markey and Merkley, and Reps. Jayapal, Pressley to Introduce Legislation to Ban Government Use of Facial Recognition, Other Biometric Technology Legislation stops federal entities’ use of facial recognition tools and effectively strips federal …


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Team Media Justice at the Allied Media Conference

The Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) is holding its annual Membership Assembly at the Allied Media Conference this week! Our Membership Assembly, happening June 14th in Detroit, is the largest convening of the year and will unite dozens of members from around the country to strategize and strengthen the movement for our digital civil rights – …


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MAG-Net Media Justice Salon: Abolition in the Digital Age

On November 29, the Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) hosted a Media Justice Salon, Abolition in the Digital Age. Guest speakers Mariame Kaba of Project NIA, Ricardo Levins Morales of MPD150 and Hamid Khan of Stop LAPD Spying Coalition discussed abolitionist organizing to end the prison-industrial complex. Together, we learned how to fight law enforcement’s …



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MAG-Net is heading to AMC. Join us from near or far!

The Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net) is holding its annual Membership Assembly at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, MI on June 15, 2017! Our Membership Assembly is the largest convening we hold. This year, nearly 60 members hope to strategize together and strengthen our movement for digital and media rights currently under threat. In …


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The Antidote to Authoritarianism

Reposted from The Atlantic My first known ancestor in the Americas was an Ashanti woman called “the African.” We don’t know her name, but through records kept by slaveholders, we know she existed. We know she was transported to Jamaica, where my known lineage began. These records of property bought and sold were a form …


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e-Carceration: Race, Technology, and the Future of Policing and Prisons in America

Keynote speech delivered at Fusion Magazine’s Real Future Fair in Oakland, CA on November 15, 2016. Video of the speech can be found here.  19th century Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci said: “the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” On November 8th, election day in …


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The Digital CultureSHIFT: Moving from Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice

Reposted with permission from 18 Million Rising If you missed the livestream of this discussion, check out the full video here. The following is an edited transcript of the Netroots Nation 2016 keynote plenary “The Digital CultureSHIFT: Moving from Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice,” which took place in St. Louis on Friday, July …