When the media does us wrong and community accountability
ColorOfChange partnered with Media Matters for America to study how accurately local news stations are covering the role of Black people in crime. The result is an outrageous level of distortion: news stations report that Black people are involved in murder, assault and theft an average of 75% of the time in New York City, which exceeds the actual NYPD arrest rates for those crimes by 24 percentage points.
Update: Wisconsin senator Tammy Duckworth is trying to get a bill going to regulate video visitation and preserve in-person visitation rights.
Sign the petition to show support for her efforts.
A case study by the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition and Grassroots Leadership.
In September 2014, a group of Dallas-area advocates led a fight against an initiative that would have introduced video visitation capability to the Dallas County jail. The company proposing to provide services to Dallas had buried in its contract a requirement that the jail eliminate in-person visitation, thus leaving those who wished to visit prisoners only one option – visit by video. Or, don’t visit at all.
Case study from Environment Maine on the tar sands and a local resistance campaign.
Study on Latino media exclusion from the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP).
An analysis of the demographics and social characteristics of the highest vulnerability zones for chemical accidents and the policy reforms to lower the likelihood of such accidents and reduce the disparate impacts on low-income communities. From the Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform.
This report by the Women’s Media Center shines a light on the status of women in media and underscores the crucial need to hold media accountable for an equal voice and equal participation.
Interesting report from a Brighton UK Conference on patriarchy, the system, and how to undo the harmful effects on girls, boys, men, women and the transgendered.
A fascinating study at Stanford University documents the impact of using sexy avatars in computer games on female self-objectification.
