238 national and state immigration and human rights organizations, (including Media Alliance) law offices, educational institutions, elected officials, and faith based groups demanded that the White House rescind the latest iteration of the unconstitutional and discriminatory “Muslim ban” executive travel order. Continue reading 238 Groups Urge Recision Of Third Muslim Ban
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Will New York’s Cable Strike Revitalize The Labor Movement — Or Kill It?
By Robert Hennelly
An ongoing strike by 1,800 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 3 in New York, against the cable giant Charter/Spectrum, could well determine whether the American labor movement has a fighting chance for a revival. The strike has gone on for almost six months, and many of the union families face foreclosure or eviction. For decades, these workers worked with the company’s corporate predecessors, made a living wage, had decent benefits, sent kids to college and made profits for their employer.
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What Exactly is Urban Shield Preparing Law Enforcement For?
Originally published at ktvu.com
By Andre Torres
ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. (KTVU) – Tracy Rosenberg jumped up and down holding her protest sign outside the Alameda County Fairgrounds gate in Pleasanton last year. “I was not arrested,” she said.
Rosenberg, executive director at communications advocacy group, Media Alliance, admits to protesting the annual “Urban Shield” law enforcement disaster training event in 2016. This year was her first time actually attending the expo, although she had previously read several accounts from journalists who had documented Urban Shield.
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Right-Wing Extremist Group Had Booth at Urban Shield ‘To Explain Who They Are’
Originally printed in the East Bay Express 9-15-2017
By Jessica Lynn
Right-Wing Extremist Group Had Booth at Urban Shield ‘To Explain Who They Are’
The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies the Oath Keepers as an extremist anti-government group
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Ajit Pai Welcome Committee – Save The Open Internet
On September 12, Internet rights activists gathered in Downtown San Francisco to welcome FCC Chair Ajit Pai to the Bay Area and tell him to stop handing the Internet over to corporations and preserve net neutrality.
Here’s what happened. Continue reading Ajit Pai Welcome Committee – Save The Open Internet
The Police State Will Be Funded
The 2017 Bay Area UASI grants have been announced. The full PDF for the Bay Area is below. 44 total projects were funded.
Here are some particular grants of interest.
Pacifica’s WBAI Tries To Fight Off Predatory Empire State Lease
July 26, 2017
For Immediate Release
Contact: Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director, Media Alliance Email: tracy@media-alliance.org Tel: (510) 684-6853
Pacifica’s WBAI Tries To Fight Off Predatory Empire State Lease
15-Year Lease At Quadruple The Market Rate Threatens Radio Network
New York- On July 13, numerous prominent NY politicians joined producers and supporters of New York’s WBAI-FM on the steps of NY’s City Hall to say to the uber-wealthy owners of New York’s iconic skyscraper, the Empire State Building, that enough was enough.
Long trapped in a lengthy 15 year antenna space rental lease set at a ruinously high price with a 9% annual hike, WBAI supporters implored the billionaires to stop suing for a multi-million dollar summary judgment and sit down at the negotiating table to make a fair settlement and preserve not for profit community radio. Continue reading Pacifica’s WBAI Tries To Fight Off Predatory Empire State Lease
Center for Policing Equity Report on Berkeley Police Department
The famously liberal East Bay city of Berkeley has been engaged in a lengthy dispute about the release of a Center for Policing Equity analysis of police stop data that indicated significant racial profiling.
The decision to release the report went all the way to the City Council which overrode the Chief of Police to make the report public.
Here it is. The report is preceded by a memo from the Berkeley Police Chief explaining his thoughts and concerns about the draft report.
It is probably fair to say that most, if not all, municipal police departments would yield similar or worse results when stop data is analyzed. It is to Berkeley’s credit that they proceeded with the report. Now the question is what will be done as a result.