The Washington Post provided this list of bills floating around legislatures across the country to limit and restrict the right to dissent and protest.
Continue reading Red State Legislatures Cracking Down On First Amendment
Category Archives: Accountability and Representation
When the media does us wrong and community accountability
Civil Rights Groups Oppose Terrorism Designation for Muslim Brotherhood
82 human rights and faith groups, including Media Alliance, wrote to object to Trump Administration plans to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
The letter states “Designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization could lead to a witch-hunt against Muslim civil society in the U.S. It could also open the door to the threat of legal action by the government against Muslims and civil society organizations by invoking overbroad and unfair laws and executive orders regarding designated entities. For example, individuals could
be criminally prosecuted for providing support, services, resources, expert advice or assistance to the Muslim Brotherhood without any intent to support terrorist activity. A designation could also result in unconstitutional asset seizures and effective shut-downs of civil society and rights groups”. Continue reading Civil Rights Groups Oppose Terrorism Designation for Muslim Brotherhood
Lifeline Rollback
Ajit Pai’s FCC, which is by its own description, taking a weed-whacker to the last 40 years of broadcast regulation, moved to rapidly dismantle the Lifeline modernization program put into place by his predecessor.
Blue Ribbon Report on San Francisco Policing
This Fall 2016 report reviews the state of policing in San Francisco and includes some 80 recommendations to improve the Department.
Digital Denied
This report from Free Press looks at the impact of systemic racism on home Internet adoption and the persistence of the “digital divide”.
AT&T’s Digital Redlining
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) did a study based on block census data submitted to the Federal Communications Commission by AT&T about broadband services offered in the City of Cleveland and its outlying suburbs in Cuyahoga County.
The results? “A pattern of long-term systematic failure to invest in the infrastructure required to provide equitable mainstream Internet access to residents of the central city (compared to the suburbs) and to lower-income neighborhoods. When lending institutions have engaged in similar policies and practices, our communities have not hesitated to call it redlining. We see no reason to hesitate to call it digital redlining in this case”.
73 Groups Challenge Facebook Censorship
More than 70 media justice groups wrote to Facebook, the ubiquitous social network, to challenge the company’s growing censorship of user-generated content. A disturbing chain of incidents has included the deactivation of Korryn Gaines account before she was shot by police, the removal of iconic photos of Agent Orange attacks by the US military in Vietnam, and the disabling of several Palestinian journalists accounts after Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Continue reading 73 Groups Challenge Facebook Censorship
Fruitvale Youth On The DTV Transition
Video testimonial from the Centro Legale created by the Raising Our Voices Training Program.