Media Alliance comments on the low-power radio MX process underway in Communications Daily on June 27 2014.
Category Archives: Press Room
Recent press releases issued by Media Alliance. Sometimes we’ll post newspaper, radio and broadcast interviews here as well.
Media Alliance Comments on Oakland Privacy Framework: Domain Awareness Center
These comments were submitted to the City of Oakland on March 2, 2014, prior to the March 4 vote to roll back the DAC to the Port of Oakland.
PEG Community Sees Challenges Coming From Combined Comcast/TWC
Communications Daily Feb 27 2014
The public, educational and government channel community plans to continue its push to protect the interests of PEG channels while monitoring Comcast’s efforts to buy Time Warner Cable for about $45 billion, PEG advocates said in interviews this week. If the companies combine, PEG channels could be negatively impacted, they said. Continue reading PEG Community Sees Challenges Coming From Combined Comcast/TWC
The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance – Bay Area Convergence
February 10, 2014
For Immediate Release
Contact – The Day We Fight Back – Bay Area Convergence
Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director, Media Alliance (510) 684-6853, tracy@media-alliance.org
David Solnit, SF Bay Projection Department (510) 967-7377, dsolnit@gmail.com
The Day We Fight Back – Bay Area Convergence February 11th
Shining A Light on the NSA: Outdoor Projection at Room 641A, NSA Interception Site at 611 Folsom Street
San Francisco-On Tuesday February 11th at 6:00pm, Bay Area residents will join people all over the world outraged by revelations about National Security Agency and private corporations blanket electronic surveillance in The Day We Fight Back, a national online protest.
The San Francisco event will be at AT&T, 611 Folsom Street in San Francisco. The AT&T building houses an NSA interception room in Room 641A. Continue reading The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance – Bay Area Convergence
Media Alliance Joins Off-Now, The Nullify NSA Coalition
Another organization is joining the team!
Media Alliance, a California based organization working toward a just, accountable and diverse media system, is the newest OffNow.org Coalition partner. They will be working with many other groups to fight back against unlawful NSA spying through local and state civic action.
Continue reading Media Alliance Joins Off-Now, The Nullify NSA Coalition
Feinstein Endangers Silicon Valley Prosperity
Originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle Dec 26 2013
It’s not a good feeling when your congressional representatives dip into your pocketbook, but that’s how thousands of California’s tech workers feel today. It’s an old story with a new twist, because we’re not talking about an unwanted tax increase or a regulatory action. We’re taking about the FISA Improvements Act, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Patriot Act for the next decade. Continue reading Feinstein Endangers Silicon Valley Prosperity
EFF Files 22 Firsthand Accounts of How NSA Surveillance Chilled the Right to Association
For Immediate Release: November 7th, 2013
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has provided a federal judge with testimony from 22 separate advocacy organizations detailing how the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass telephone records collection program has impeded the groups’ work, discouraged their members and reduced the numbers of people seeking their help via hotlines. The declarations accompanied a motion for partial summary judgment filed late Wednesday, in which EFF asks the court to declare the surveillance illegal on two levels—the law does not authorize the program, and the Constitution forbids it.
Continue reading EFF Files 22 Firsthand Accounts of How NSA Surveillance Chilled the Right to Association
Helen Thomas Speaks at MA Anniversary
The recently-deceased maverick reporter speaks at Media Alliance’s 30th Anniversary party in 2006
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