What's New

A diverse group of 38 organizations, including many Media and Democracy Coalition members have sent a letter to US Congressional Representatives requesting that they co-sponsor H.R. 2802, the bipartisan Local Community Radio Act of 2007.

The bill would authorize the Federal Communications Commission to license hundreds – if not thousands – of new Low Power FM (LPFM) radio stations in cities, towns, and suburbs across the country.

Read the full text of the letter and the list of signing orgnizations here.

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The Media and Democracy Coalition is hiring a full-time Organizing Project Director to oversee local, state and regional organizing and advocacy efforts on media and telecommunications issues.

For a full job description and application instructions, click here.

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Member Spotlight

Center for Media Justice
Recently renamed, CMJ was launched in April 2001, as the Youth Media Council, a Bay Area-based youth organizing, leadership development, media capacity-building and watchdog project dedicated to developing youth-led strategies for media justice. We believe that youth and other marginalized communities need the tools, resources, strategies and skills to become strong and effective media spokespeople and advocates for social justice.

CMJ continues to work closely with the Bay Area youth movement while expanding their work to an intergenerational constituency of disenfranchised communities and grassroots organizers nation-wide to transform the public debate on race and poverty- and build a powerful movement for media justice.

 

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Upcoming Events

July 21: FCC Hearing on Broadband and the Digital Future, Pittsburgh, PA

July 23-27: Unity Journalists of Color, Inc. 2008 Conference, Chicago IL

July 24-27: Grassroots Radio Conference, Portland, OR