Chevron did not win. Coke did.
MA joined 30 groups to object to Chevron’s nomination for a corporate excellence award for humanitarian activities. Chevron is not a leader in in socially responsible activities, in Myanmar or anywhere else in the world. Continue reading 30 Groups Object To Chevron Humanitarian Nomination
Media Alliance is proud to have joined with Amazon Watch, 350.org, Food and Water Watch, Global Exchange, Amnesty International, Center for Environmental Health, CT Citizen Action, Friends of the Earth, Global Inititative, Greenaction, International Accountablity Project, Justice in Nigeria Now, Marin Interfaith Taskforce on the Americas, Pachamama, RAN, Rights Action and the Sunflower Alliance, in an important 1st Amendment challenge after Chevron filed racketeering charges against the attorneys and advocacy groups working with Ecuadorians on oil excavation in the Amazon. Continue reading MA Joins 17 Advocacy Orgs in Chevron RICO Amicus Brief
Assembly Joint Resolution 39 was passed by the California legislature. The Resolution will be forwarded to the federal government as a direct policy recommendation from the State of California.
AJR 39 calls on US Congress to change laws restricting the way PEG community centers can spend money to help residents with training and equipment to tell the stories of their communities. Continue reading Bill To Rescue Public Access TV Passed in Sacramento
This brief statement was submitted by MA to the House Judiciary Committee asking for full broadcast access on the lowest-priced cable system tiers.
Continue reading Keep Broadcast Access Affordable
Senator Dianne Feinstein finally responded to the Bay Area-wide Shame on Feinstein campaign. In her letter, the senator makes several questionable statements notably “The NSA does not conduct mass surveillance on US citizens”, that she “supports measures to improve oversight of US intelligence programs” and that she “take seriously my responsibility to ensure that national security programs honor the privacy and Fourth Amendment rights of U.S. citizens”. The letter is attached below.
Continue reading Shame on Feinstein: CA Senator Responds To The Campaign
Verizon responded to a NY consumer Freedom of Information Act request with 300 Blacked-out Pages on Voice Link Deployments
“You are telling me that among the 300 pages nothing was made available?” Robert Freeman, executive director of the Committee On Open Government, asked incredulously” Continue reading Verizon’s Version of Freedom of Information: 300 Blacked-Out Pages
Here is the May 2012 NSA audit documenting 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications.
Change to Win, CWA, Media Alliance, Media Action Center, Free Press. Avaaz, Occupy LA and others joined to welcome Rupert Murdoch to Los Angeles.
Press Coverage: NY Times, London Guardian, UK Telegraph, The Nation, Al Jazeera English, Wall Street Journal, CNN, Salon.com.
Demonstration Video provided by Firedog Lake.
Fair and Balanced Newscast Video provided by Brave New Films
