Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Media Alliance Advocacy for Democratic Communications ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://media-alliance.org/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [San Francisco's Stop Secret Surveillance Act](https://media-alliance.org/2019/03/san-franciscos-stop-secret-surveillance-act/) - San Francisco's proposed legislation would absolutely ban the use of facial recognition software by the City - [Black Agenda Report: The People v. The Information Monopolies: Case Continued](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/black-agenda-report-the-people-v-the-information-monopolies-case-continued/) - Democrats failed to get enough votes to repeal the FCC’s undoing of net neutrality, but there’s still time to change some member’s votes. - [Strengthening CCPA](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/strengthening-ccpa/) - We urge you to keep the focus on strengthening protections for your constituents, and to rejectefforts to diminish Californians’ privacy and security protections. - [The Purpose Of The Smart City Is To Kill Us](https://media-alliance.org/2018/11/the-purpose-of-the-smart-city-is-to-kill-us/) - I asked why they had to have this data. And the Smart City told me why. To count the number of people at protests, that’s why. Oh. - [Salesforce Faces Boycott Threat as RAICES Rejects $250,000 Donation Over CBP Contract](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/salesforce-faces-boycott-threat-as-raices-rejects-250000-donation-over-cbp-contract/) - We ask Salesforce to do the right thing, not the easy thing,” said Tracy Rosenberg, executive director at Media Alliance. - [An Open Letter To The Berkeley City Council](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/an-open-letter-to-the-berkeley-city-council/) - Since 1973, the Berkeley City Charter has provided explicit language mandating City Council approval of the terms and conditions of understandings, reflecting working relationships between the Berkeley Police Department and other law enforcement agencies, - [Alameda Weighs Pros And Cons Of License Plate Readers](https://media-alliance.org/2018/02/alameda-weighs-pros-and-cons-of-license-plate-readers/) - Tracy Rosenberg said, “When it becomes a question of taking my personal travel patterns and everywhere that I go and broadcasting it to — we’re not sure who — then you are really exerting a very high price on both my privacy and my freedom.” - [24 Social Justice Organizations Write That Kavanaugh Is A Threat to Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/24-social-justice-organizations-write-that-kavanaugh-is-a-threat-to-net-neutrality/) - Kavanaugh asserted that broadband providers should have the liberty to “exercise editorial discretion about what content to carry or favor." - [California's Net Neutrality War](https://media-alliance.org/2018/04/californias-net-neutrality-war/) - The battle in California, one of the biggest and most proposperous states and the Internet's literal birthplace is just getting started. - [Media Alliance Statement on 6th Circuit Decision to Repeal Nationwide Net Neutrality Rules](https://media-alliance.org/2025/01/media-alliance-statement-on-6th-circuit-decision-to-repeal-nationwide-net-neutrality-rules/) - Media Alliance, along with the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society (https://www.benton.org/) were intervenors in the federal court case against the FCC's latest attempt to establish nation-wide net neutrality for the Internet. Today we found out that the Sixth Circuit used the recent Supreme Court decision in Loper that weakened the Chevron Doctrine, to overturn net We call on the rest of the states to follow the lead of California - [Does “Broadband For All” Apply to California’s Tenants? It Should.](https://media-alliance.org/2024/12/does-broadband-for-all-apply-to-californias-tenants-it-should/) - By Tracy Rosenberg In the wake of the COVID pandemic revealing the cracks in the digital divide, the State of California made a historic investment in Internet infrastructure with the construction of a middle mile connection to enable high-speed Internet delivery all over the State. The program that encompasses the statewide middle mile network and More players in the market place equals more competition equals lower prices for everyone. - [Comments: Federal Trade Commission Proposed Rulemaking on Data Privacy and Commercial Surveillance](https://media-alliance.org/2022/11/comments-federal-trade-commission-proposed-rulemaking-on-data-privacy-and-commercial-surveillance/) - On November 21st, the newly filled out Federal Trade Commission accepted written comments on an Announcement of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) that asked a sweeping set of questions about what to do about the commercial data economy in the United States. The ANPRM was historic for the scope of issues it tried to tackle and the - [Social media beyond corporate control](https://media-alliance.org/2024/10/social-media-beyond-corporate-control/) - Originally published: Black Agenda Report on October 9, 2024 There’s no choice other than a distributed ownership model like Mastodon. - [Protecting Digital Discrimination Rules in the 8th Circuit](https://media-alliance.org/2024/03/protecting-digital-discrimination-rules-in-the-8th-circuit/) - Media Alliance, in partnership with Great Public Schools New and with legal representation by the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights (LCCR) has been granted intervenor status in the 8th Circuit of the Court of Appeals to protect the FCC's new digital discrimination rules. The DD rules are a historic first that define the discriminatory provision Our petition will allow us to file briefs and robustly participate in legal challenges to these critical rules. - [Bad Apple Open Source Suite: Tools for Police Accountability](https://media-alliance.org/2021/05/bad-apple-open-source-suite-tools-for-police-accountability/) - The Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project teamed up with Priveasy to create a set of tools designed to assist in the ongoing fight for police and sheriff accountability. Bad Apple (https://BadApple.tools) contains a) a searchable database of verified oversight commissions b) a searchable collection of public records act templates c) a growing database of - [New Bill Pushes California to Confront Digital Discrimination](https://media-alliance.org/2024/04/new-bill-pushes-california-to-confront-digital-discrimination/) - Even now, in an age when most of us use the Internet, one in five Californians lack reliable and affordable service. Most are lower-income people of color and rural residents. This afternoon in Sacramento, the Assembly Communications & Conveyance Committee takes up the latest salvo in this struggle, a bill designed to chip away at this form of digital "We are living in an unjust and inequitable moment of technology, where some have and some don’t" - [The Battle for Translators - Low Power FM](https://media-alliance.org/2023/08/the-battle-for-translators-low-power-fm/) - As the FCC ramps up to open the first Low-Power FM radio station licensing window in several years, LPFM advocates are asking the Commission to consider making a window for translator licenses exclusively for non-commercial licensees. Translators enable radio stations to broadcast at greater distances and help to circumvent geographic obstacles to radio waves, like A solely-noncommercial translator window would allow small stations to request translators they need on a more equilateral basis a - [Chrome Privacy Now! ](https://media-alliance.org/2022/06/chrome-privacy-now/) - Oakland Privacy, the Bay Area’s anti-surveillance coalition, has put up a new website at ChromePrivacy.org to call on Google to add a global opt-out signal to the world’s most used web browser, Chrome. Years into California’s effort to give people control over their online data via CCPA (2018) and CPRA (2020), Google has continued to - [Why We Can't Censor Our Way Out of Online Harms](https://media-alliance.org/2023/12/why-we-cant-censor-our-way-out-of-online-harms/) - by Tracy Rosenberg Online Harms Need A Structural Solution: Ham-Handed Censorship Won’t Fix It There is no doubt about it. Internet 2.0 made some people a lot of money. The quandary of the early 2000’s of how to monetize the Internet was answered by the rise of surveillance capitalism, and those positioned to grab the Online Harms Need A Structural Solution: Ham-Handed Censorship Won’t Fix It - [Internet Choice for the Entire United States](https://media-alliance.org/2021/08/internet-choice-for-oakland-and-berkeley/) - Local work to pass Internet Choice ordinances (in San Francisco in 2016 and in Oakland in 2021) have culminated in a new proposed FCC order (for the whole country!) to prohibit exclusive marketing agreements between property owners/managers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that limit or restrict choices for people residing in apartments. FCC Chair Jessica - [Cable Customer Service Under Review](https://media-alliance.org/2023/05/cable-customer-service-under-review/) - ACTION: After the first new cable regulation bill in 15 years, the public utilities commission can now consider cable's execrable customer service record when renewing licenses. In a proceeding at the CPUC, they are asking how best to do that. We have answers. If you'd like to help rein in the cablecos, you can sign - [Protect Community Media From Cable Lies](https://media-alliance.org/2022/05/protect-community-media-from-cable-lies/) - We need your help right now for community media. Cable industry lobbyists have swamped the state capital with lies and distortions to stop much-needed changes in the discriminatory treatment of public content on cable. They want to keep on degrading the signals of public community benefit TV channels to outdated technology that makes Zoom captions illegible and compresses images so they - [Facebook Users Union and Friends Chase Facebook out of Netroots Nation](https://media-alliance.org/2022/08/facebook-users-union-and-friends-chase-facebook-out-of-netroots-nation/) - The Facebook Users Union, a project of Media Alliance and Global Exchange, coordinated an attendee pushback at Meta's booth at the progressive convention at Netroots Nation. FUU campaign lead Brittany Williams was at Netroots to speak on a panel on social media accountability. Below she tells NewsOne why she was moved to take action against - [Check Big Tech: User and Worker Town Hall November 17th](https://media-alliance.org/2022/09/check-big-tech-user-and-worker-town-hall-oct-28/) - FUU People Power is committed to building a user led movement to hold Big Tech companies like Facebook accountable. We are launching our Check Big Tech: User and Tech Workers Town Hall. Will you join us on November 17th from 10:00am - 5:00pm? As we approach the 2024 presidential election we can no longer allow lawmakers - [Push to Refresh Record on MVPD Streaming Services Has Uncertain Future](https://media-alliance.org/2022/11/push-to-refresh-record-on-mvpd-streaming-services-has-uncertain-future/) - by Monty Tayloe and Matt Daneman - Consumer Electronics Daily Published November 21, 2022 https://consumerelectronicsdaily.com/news/2022/11/21/push-to-refresh-record-on-mvpd-streaming-services-has-uncertain-future-2211180059 (Paywalled) - [Two years of organizing for facebook accountability](https://media-alliance.org/2021/12/two-years-of-organizing-for-facebook-accountability/) - We made a video highlighting the last two years of Facebook accountability organizing. - [Oakland Renters Get Choice of Internet Providers Under New Law](https://media-alliance.org/2022/02/oakland-renters-get-choice-of-internet-providers-under-new-law/) - By Jennifer Wiley. Originally published in Oakland North. Renters in Oakland’s apartment buildings now have more control over their choice of internet service provider, a choice that San Francisco renters have had since 2016 and one that the Federal Communications Commission is currently addressing. The Internet Choice Ordinance was unanimously approved by the Oakland City - [Police Accountability Board Discusses  Public Surveillance Camera Use](https://media-alliance.org/2022/02/police-accountability-board-discusses-public-surveillance-camera-use/) - By Lily Button. Originally published in the Daily Cal The Berkeley Police Accountability Board, or PAB, discussed a successful perpetrator negotiation on Telegraph Avenue and delayed action for a proposal to expand public safety surveillance camera use in Berkeley at its regular meeting Wednesday. During the first public comment session, Berkeley resident Kitt Saginor raised - [How California is Building the Nation's First Privacy Police](https://media-alliance.org/2022/03/how-california-is-building-the-nations-first-privacy-police/) - by David McCabe. Originally published in the NY Times Ashkan Soltani, the head of California’s new online privacy regulator, needed help launching the first agency of its kind in the United States. So he called the state’s Horse Racing Board. Soltani asked Scott Chaney, executive director of the racing board, which oversees roughly 10 racetracks, - [The Official Project Censored Show](https://media-alliance.org/2022/04/the-official-project-censored-show/) - https://player.fm/series/the-official-project-censored-show/special-guests-tracy-rosenberg-sue-buske-and-simki-kuznick Looking ahead to the upcoming annual conference of the Alliance for Community Media West, Mickey speaks with two long-time activists in the community-media movement- Sue Buske and Tracy Rosenberg; they discuss the future of public-access cable channels, associated public/local media, and the role community media centers can play centering marginalized voices in local news - [National Campaign To End Shotspotter](https://media-alliance.org/2022/05/national-campaign-to-end-shotspotter/) - Privacy and criminal justice activists across the country are focusing on gun detection software, and specifically lead vendor, Shotspotter, after the company’s forensic reports threw two innocent men in jail and drew cops into a fatal encounter with 13 year old Adam Toledo in Chicago. The outdoor microphones, which are predominately deployed in lower income - [#CheckBigTech Instagram Live Series](https://media-alliance.org/2022/05/checkbigtech-instagram-live-series/) - The Facebook Users Union had big plans for the 2022 Facebook Shareholders Meeting, but it turns out the company decided to go all-virtual this year. But we can go virtual too. Join us all this week at @fbusersunited for a series of Instagram Live conversations on reclaiming the world's largest social media platform to meet - [New State Privacy Agency: Comments on First Rulemaking](https://media-alliance.org/2022/08/new-state-privacy-agency-comments-on-first-rulemaking/) - The CA State Privacy Agency enabled by Proposition 24 in 2020 (yep, we opposed it at that time, but here we are), is taking its first stab at refining the rules that govern the state data privacy laws CCPA and CPRA. And the news is good. The proposed rules by the agency are, in large - [Representatives Bush, Bowman, Tlaib Introduce Resolution Recognizing Access to Utilities as a Human Right](https://media-alliance.org/2022/09/representatives-bush-bowman-tlaib-introduce-resolution-recognizing-access-to-utilities-as-a-human-right/) - Washington D.C. (September 15, 2022) – Today Representatives Cori Bush (MO-01), Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) and Jamaal Bowman Ed.D (NY-16) introduced the Resolution Recognizing the Human Rights to Utilities, which would recognize access to water, sanitation, electricity, heating, cooling, public transit, and broadband communications as basic human rights and public services that must be accessible, safe, acceptable, sufficient, affordable, justly sourced and sustainable, - [CA Privacy Advocates Comments to CA Privacy Protection Agency 11/21/22](https://media-alliance.org/2022/11/ca-privacy-advocates-comments-to-ca-privacy-protection-agency-11-21-22/) - A coalition of privacy advocates, including Media Alliance, Oakland Privacy, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, ACLU Action, Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Consumer Federation submitted comments on the latest draft of CA Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) rulemaking. The rulemaking follows the Ca Legislature's 2018 enactment of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the 2020 ballot initiative - [Why Data Minimization Is The Privacy Principle We Need Now](https://media-alliance.org/2020/04/why-data-minimization-is-the-privacy-principle-we-need-now/) - Californians, if AB 3119 becomes law, could use a contact-tracing application to keep themselves and their loved ones safe, without having their location data and associations mined afterwards for commercial or surveillance purposes. - [Low Power Radio Power Increase: FCC Considering LP 250](https://media-alliance.org/2021/06/low-power-radio-power-increase-fcc-considering-lp-250/) - After many years of advocacy, the U.S. Low Power Radio community may be getting what it wants. The Federal Communications Commission has announced that they are considering a proposal to broadly authorize a power increase for many low power radio stations from 100 watts to 250 watts. So-called “simple LP250”, which would make the increased - [Ringing Alarm Bells](https://media-alliance.org/2020/11/ringing-alarm-bells/) - A study of implicit bias in consumer surveillance device use in San Francisco - [We're Hiring: Facebook Users Union Campaign Lead (CONTRACTOR)](https://media-alliance.org/2021/12/were-hiring-facebook-users-union-campaign-lead-contractor/) - We are excited to announce that we are looking for an experienced campaign lead to kick start our social media accountability work with the Facebook Users Union. Please see the job announcement below and help us find the perfect person! Powered By EmbedPress - [Facebook Users Union Launches #FIREZUCK Campaign: OCTOBER 17 Protest](https://media-alliance.org/2021/10/facebook-users-union-launches-firezuck-campaign-october-17-protest/) - Update: On October 17, Facebook Users Union members rolled a car caravan through Palo Alto demanding Zuckerberg step down from Facebook. Read the press coverage: KTVU: Protesters demand CEO Mark Zuckerberg leave Facebook KCBS: Protesters call for Mark Zuckerberg's resignation KRON: Facebook Users Union plans to protest Mark Zuckerberg Palo Alto Weekly: 'Get the Zuck out': Protesters call for - [Nov 10 – 13: Join the Facebook Logout](https://media-alliance.org/2021/11/nov-10-13-join-the-facebook-logout/) - We’re joining Kairos and dozens of other organizations in asking as many people as possible to log off of Facebook and Instagram from Nov. 10 – 13. Take the pledge to logout. For years Facebook has been rife with scandals and bad decisions, including Cambridge Analytica, ignoring disinformation for profit, poor content moderation, and being investigated for antitrust concerns. Every bad - [It’s About Giving People Tools So We Can Reach Transparency Critical Mass](https://media-alliance.org/2021/11/its-about-giving-people-tools-so-we-can-reach-transparency-critical-mass/) - Originally published by Counterspin/FAIR Janine Jackson: While an ethics fellow at Harvard, young programmer and activist Aaron Swartz downloaded articles en masse from the academic database JSTOR, triggering the aggressive pursuit of MIT’s IT department, and eventually what’s been described as a grand jury runaway train gone off the rails. Threatened with decades in prison and a seven-figure fine because, - [Turn Up the heat on facebook](https://media-alliance.org/2020/06/turn-up-the-heat/) - Please join us in urging these corporations to use the power of the purse to insist that Facebook protect the public from lies, hate, and disinformation on its platform. - [Amici Letter in USA Today v LA Superior Court](https://media-alliance.org/2021/11/amici-letter-in-usa-today-v-la-superior-court/) - After pop singer Brittney Spears testified dramatically about wishing an end to a lengthy conservatorship administered by her father, her remarks were smuggled from the courtroom into the public domain. In response, the LA Superior Court chose to end all remote access to all court proceedings for the media and members of the public. USA - [Victory. Oakland's City Council Unanimously passes internet choice](https://media-alliance.org/2021/10/victory-oaklands-city-council-unanimously-passes-internet-choice/) - originally published in Deep Links 10-21-21 Oakland residents shared the stories of their personal experience; a broad coalition of advocates, civil society organizations, and local internet service providers (ISPs) lifted their voices; and now the Oakland City Council has unanimously passed Oakland’s Communications Service Provider Choice Ordinance. The newly minted law frees Oakland renters from being constrained to - [The Robber Barons of Big Tech](https://media-alliance.org/2020/11/the-robber-barons-of-big-tech/) - Rosenberg says the petition is intended to “bring the struggle,” including that of the No Hate for Profit campaign, “home to Facebook’s territory.” - [The Gorgon Stare](https://media-alliance.org/2021/09/the-gorgon-stare/) - Interview with Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance and Oakland Privacy on wide angle surveillance planes, Baltimore and the Capital Police aired on Pacifica Radio's Covid, Race and Democracy. - [California Could Vastly Expand Affordable Broadband — If The Legislature Acts Now](https://media-alliance.org/2021/06/california-could-vastly-expand-affordable-broadband-if-the-legislature-acts-now/) - by Chris Witteman and Tracy Rosenberg. Originally published at 48 Hills. Fourteen months of COVID quarantine made one thing clear: we need our broadband. It used to be only media activists who insisted that Internet access was an essential service; now it’s accepted wisdom. Unfortunately, the last year has also made clear that the current - [Media Alliance comments on Section 230](https://media-alliance.org/2020/09/media-alliance-comments-on-section-230/) - Media Alliance categorically rejects that Section 230 should be abolished or ended. Just as categorically, we believe that tempered regulation of online platforms to address the viral spread of disinformation and online hatred is called for. - [SCOTUS: Prometheus vs FCC](https://media-alliance.org/2020/12/scotus-prometheus-vs-fcc/) - Long-running litigation about the media ownership rule has ended up at the Supreme Court of the United States - and so have we. - [Letter From Community Foundations About Newsom Broadband Budget](https://media-alliance.org/2021/06/letter-from-community-foundations-about-newsom-broadband-budget/) - [Letters from ISPs about Newsom Broadband Budget](https://media-alliance.org/2021/06/letters-from-isps-about-newsom-broadband-budget/) - [Senate Bill Aims to Protect Americans From Utility Shutoffs, Mounting Debt Crisis](https://media-alliance.org/2021/05/senate-bill-aims-to-protect-americans-from-utility-shutoffs-mounting-debt-crisis/) - For Immediate Release, May 20, 2021 Senate Bill Aims to Protect Americans From Utility Shutoffs, Mounting Debt Crisis WASHINGTON— Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) introduced a bill today that would place a national moratorium on the disconnection of electric, water and broadband utility service due to uncollected payments. An increasing number of people in the country are at - [KQED Forum - Facial Recognition's Pervasive Role In American Life](https://media-alliance.org/2021/05/kqed-forum-facial-recognitions-pervasive-role-in-american-life/) - Facial recognition software has become a common part of American life. It’s used by government employment agencies to verify an applicant’s identity, by landlords to monitor tenants, and by police in their investigations, which has resulted in some wrongful arrests. Indeed, studies show that facial recognition algorithms are often inaccurate when it comes to identifying - [Social Media Data Act](https://media-alliance.org/2021/05/social-media-data-act/) - Media Alliance is a proud supporter of the Social Media DATA Act, introduced into Congress by MA democrat Lori Trahan. The DATA Act would compel social media companies to preserve their ad libraries and make them available to academic researchers to study the impact of targeted advertising. See what people are saying about the Social - [Cameras in The Castro](https://media-alliance.org/2021/05/cameras-in-the-castro/) - United to Save the Mission, an umbrella coalition of community based organizations located in SF's Mission District wrote a letter of objection to a proposed private camera network from the Castro District Business Improvement District, joining the Harvey Milk and Alice B. Toklas Democratic Clubs and the Castro LBGTQ District in opposing the Castro cameras. - [Prop. 24 actually pokes holes in data privacy protections](https://media-alliance.org/2020/09/prop-24-actually-pokes-holes-in-data-privacy-protections/) - Proposition 24 pretends it is making CCPA stronger, but it is really poking holes in privacy protections and making it much harder for average people to exercise their rights. - [A Virtual Wall Is Trump’s Wall by Another Name](https://media-alliance.org/2021/02/a-virtual-wall-is-trumps-wall-by-another-name/) - 40 civil rights and immigration groups, including Media Alliance, wrote to the Biden Administration about plans to replace physical walls with surveillance walls at the Mexico border. The letter expressed concerns about a sharp increase in biometric data collection, immigrants taking more remote and deathly routes to avoid detection, and the use of the border - [Close the Gaps :California Leads on Privacy; Washington Should Catch Up](https://media-alliance.org/2021/02/close-the-gaps-california-leads-on-privacy-washington-should-catch-up/) - by Tracy Rosenberg. Originally published in the East Bay Express When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn into office, it marked the first time in American history that Californians held two of the three highest offices in the federal government. No, President Biden is not from the Golden State, but Vice President Harris and - [Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2021/01/net-neutrality/) - Net neutrality is the principle that the company that your Internet Service Provider does not get to control what you do on the Internet, and that an Internet user should be able to access all content and applications equally, without discrimination by the ISP.* This applies to everyone, including emergency first responders, teachers and students, city administrators, - [Court Upholds Legal Challenge Under California Statewide Stingray Law](https://media-alliance.org/2021/01/court-upholds-legal-challenge-under-california-statewide-stingray-law/) - by Marilyn Fidler. Originally posted on LawFare In late November, a California state court issued a final decision interpreting a 2015 California state law regulating government agency use of cell site simulators, devices that can be used to locate and track cell phones. The devices are commonly known as “stingrays.” The challenge—the first brought under - [Will COVID-19 Contact Tracing Expand State Surveillance?](https://media-alliance.org/2021/01/will-covid-19-contact-tracing-expand-state-surveillance/) - Originally published at BlackAgendaReport.org The US remains wholly incapable of tracing Covid-19 contagion, but if it tried, we might wind up with “the worst of both worlds” – a horror of coercion and confusion that still failed to stop the epidemic. “Communities have reasonable fears that at least some law enforcement agencies might use access - [Fresno Sheriff’s Office Accused of Ignoring Public Record Laws Over Drone Surveillance](https://media-alliance.org/2020/12/fresno-sheriffs-office-accused-of-ignoring-public-record-laws-over-drone-surveillance/) - by Nadia Lopez. Originally published in the Fresno Bee The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office is being sued for failing to release records about its use of surveillance equipment, location tracking technologies and data collection operations, according to a lawsuit filed last month. The Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project, a watchdog group named after the late - [Supervisors Approve Resolution To Condemn Naming Of Hospital After Mark Zuckerberg](https://media-alliance.org/2020/12/supervisors-approve-resolution-to-condemn-naming-of-hospital-after-mark-zuckerberg/) - Facebook's algorithm pushes its users toward harmful content and extreme views -- whether about public health issues like COVID-19 or disinformation about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election - [Criticism Mounts Over Trump’s Immigrant Biometric Data Plan](https://media-alliance.org/2020/10/criticism-mounts-over-trumps-immigrant-biometric-data-plan/) - The new regulation would expand the required biometric data to include iris scans, palm and voice prints, photos for facial recognition and of physical or anatomical features (such as scars, skin marks, and tattoos) and DNA. - [Presidential Transition may Effect US Decision Date](https://media-alliance.org/2020/12/presidential-transition-may-effect-us-decision-date/) - by Ryan Lynch. Originally published on Reorg. - [S.F. Supes Again Condemn Zuckerberg’s Name on City General Hospital](https://media-alliance.org/2020/12/s-f-supes-again-condemn-zuckerbergs-name-on-city-general-hospital/) - “We have sold off the name of our public health institution to an entity working at cross purposes,” said Tracy Rosenberg of the Protest Facebook Coalition during public comment. - [Good Riddance: Tech Worker's Flight From SF is a Relief to Some Advocates](https://media-alliance.org/2020/11/good-riddance-tech-workers-flight-from-sf-is-a-relief-to-some-advocates/) - Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of Media Alliance, a San Francisco nonprofit that is often critical of the power of tech companies, said she wonders whether tech workers will want to return to a place where they've received a mixed welcome. - [Anti-Muslim Hate Group Uses Same Name as State-Funded PVE Program](https://media-alliance.org/2019/11/anti-muslim-hate-group-uses-same-name-as-state-funded-pve-program/) - California's state legislature has removed state staffing funding for the Preventing Violent Extremism program from the 2021 CA state budget. - [Protest Facebook: Protecting the 2020 Elections in the age of facebook.](https://media-alliance.org/2020/10/protest-facebook-protecting-the-2020-elections-in-the-age-of-facebook/) - The Protest Facebook coalition presented a special webcast on October 6, 2020 about protecting election integrity, voting rights, and democracy in the age of Facebook - [Open Vallejo Podcast: Tiny Constables](https://media-alliance.org/2020/11/open-vallejo-podcast-tiny-constables/) - Oakland Privacy, the Bay Area's ant-surveillance coalition, sued the City of Vallejo to enforce state law and require the City to allow public comment and a City Council vote on the device's usage policy. - [Protest Facebook - Protect The Results November 4](https://media-alliance.org/2020/11/protest-facebook-protect-the-results-november-4/) - The Protest Facebook coalition organized a Protect the Results demonstration in front of Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters on the afternoon of November 4th. - [California to Vote on Privacy Proposal in Midst of Heated Debate](https://media-alliance.org/2020/10/california-to-vote-on-privacy-proposal-in-midst-of-heated-debate/) - Too much of a concession to privacy-abusive behaviour.” - [Experts Split on Californias Prop 24](https://media-alliance.org/2020/10/experts-split-on-californias-prop-24/) - “I don’t understand why you would want to make it so difficult to change things down the line, especially since technology and forms of data-collection change so frequently,” she said. “I don’t think it serves the interest of consumers.” - [As Reliance on Biometric Grows, So Does Opposition](https://media-alliance.org/2019/07/as-reliance-on-biometric-grows-so-does-opposition/) - Rosenberg told Truthout that efforts to curtail surveillance in the Bay Area go back to 2013 and were an outgrowth of Occupy. Activists, she reports, mobilized when they learned that the Department of Homeland Security had funded the Domain Awareness Center (DAC) — a security measure meant to oversee activity at the Port of Oakland — but had quickly expanded its surveillance far beyond the port. - [12 Consumer and Privacy Groups ask FCC not to Roll Back Telephone Metadata Protections](https://media-alliance.org/2020/10/12-consumer-and-privacy-groups-ask-fcc-not-to-roll-back-telephone-metadata-protections/) - 12 consumer and privacy groups asked the FCC not to roll back protections for sensitive telephone information including metadata (CPNI). - [SF Police Sued Over Public/Private Camera Use To Surveil BLM Protests](https://media-alliance.org/2020/10/sf-police-sued-over-public-private-camera-use-to-surveil-blm-protests/) - Three San Francisco residents who participated in protests that followed the death of George Floyd, have sued the San Francisco Police Department for use of the camera network of the Union Square Business Improvement District to monitor those protests. - [California Voters Get Say on Data Privacy Law. But Is It Tough Enough?](https://media-alliance.org/2020/10/california-voters-get-say-on-data-privacy-law-but-is-it-tough-enough/) - “As a privacy advocate, I don’t want to actually incentivize people to give up their privacy,” she said. - [Vallejo police expand community surveillance with license plate readers](https://media-alliance.org/2020/09/vallejo-police-expand-community-surveillance-with-license-plate-readers/) - "When cities collect data, documents show 99% of plates they select never ping because it's not associated with criminal activity," said Rosenberg. - [No On Prop 24](https://media-alliance.org/2020/07/no-on-prop-24/) - Sometimes the CPRA is very, very bad. And when it is bad, it is horrible. - [Nation State of Play Podcast: Ballot Initiative Masquerading as a "privacy" proposal](https://media-alliance.org/2020/09/nation-state-of-play-podcast-ballot-initiative-masquerading-as-a-privacy-proposal/) - Privacy and data expert Mary Stone Ross and Tracy Rosenberg, the Executive Director of The Media Alliance join us to discuss Proposition 24, a so-called "privacy" proposal that would in reality undo key parts of the California Consumer Privacy Act. - [A Nonprofit Alliance Becomes an Ally of Big Telecom](https://media-alliance.org/2019/11/a-nonprofit-alliance-becomes-an-ally-of-big-telecom/) - How well-meaning, public-serving groups wound up as part of an alliance aimed at undermining state regulation of broadband and privacy laws. - [What Are Trump and his goons up to?](https://media-alliance.org/2020/07/what-are-trump-and-his-goons-up-to/) - The use of federal forces is designed to weaken local accountability by freezing out local government that constituents can reach. - [Oakland ready for Trump attacks if Harris joins Democratic ticket](https://media-alliance.org/2020/08/oakland-ready-for-trump-attacks-if-harris-joins-democratic-ticket/) - “We have a strong history in Oakland for standing up to being bullied,” said Tracy Rosenberg, an Oakland activist and executive director of Media Alliance, a social justice activist organization. “That will continue.” - [Australian and European Delays Create Uncertainty](https://media-alliance.org/2020/08/australian-and-european-delays-create-uncertainty/) - All about the proposed Google/Fitbit merger - [Amici Filed in Defense of Open Technology Foundation](https://media-alliance.org/2020/07/amici-filed-in-defense-of-open-technology-foundation/) - Trump appointee Pack disbanded the entire board of OTF which creates and maintains encrypted software tools like Signal and Lets Encrypt, an open source website security protocol. - [TechDirt: Man Shot By Cops Claims Shotspotter Found Phantom 'Gunshot'](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/techdirt-man-shot-by-cops-claims-shotspotter-found-phantom-gunshot-to-justify-officers-deadly-force/) - Whatever it takes to ensure the revenue stream keeps flowing -- even if "whatever" means framing a gunshot victim for a crime he didn't commit. - [#ProtestFacebook](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/protestfacebook/) - On February 17, President's Day, activists organized by Media Alliance and Global Exchange took to the streets in San Francisco and Palo Alto to tell the world's biggest social network to stop sabotaging democracy for profit. - [Time's Up: Amici Brief in Dababneh vs Lopez](https://media-alliance.org/2020/06/times-up-amici-brief-in-dababneh-vs-lopez/) - Media Alliance joined the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press and 15 other media organizations in filing an amici brief in Sacramento Superior Court in support of Pamela Lopez. - [California AG submits New Privacy Rules at Deadline](https://media-alliance.org/2020/06/california-ag-submits-new-privacy-rules-at-deadline/) - No changes from the last draft is good and bad, emailed Media Alliance Executive Director Tracy Rosenberg. Privacy advocates are glad the AG rejected many business requests that would have weakened CCPA but “disappointed that a few changes we recommended were not incorporated,” including to accept browser do-not-track requests as opt outs. - [Coronavirus Sparks New Fight Over Privacy Law](https://media-alliance.org/2020/05/coronavirus-sparks-new-fight-over-privacy-law/) - Tracy Rosenberg, co-coordinator of the group Oakland Privacy, said behavior changes brought on by California’s stay-at-home order make people more vulnerable to having their data used without their knowledge or permission. For example, she said, more people are banking online and having conversations over video sites like Zoom. All of these things are creating a much larger data footprint for all of us,” Rosenberg said. “The more we are running our lives through computer screens, the more critical (the state law) becomes.” - [218 Groups Demand Affordable Broadband in Stimulus](https://media-alliance.org/2020/04/218-groups-demand-affordable-broadband-in-stimulus/) - Like food, water and electricity, everyone needs broadband during this unprecedented crisis. - [67 Social Justice Groups Demand Free Phone Calls From Prison](https://media-alliance.org/2020/04/67-social-justice-groups-demand-free-phone-calls-from-prison/) - The groups pointed to the FCC's Connect America pledge and asked why the prison telephone companies were not asked to help "keep America connected" during the crisis. - [Kick The Tires of the CCPA](https://media-alliance.org/2020/01/kick-the-tires-of-the-ccpa/) - In celebration of Data Privacy Day (earlier this week), privacy advocates invited CA legislators to take the law out for a spin. - [Breaking The Deal To Sell You Your Privacy: Privacy For All](https://media-alliance.org/2019/04/breaking-the-deal-to-sell-you-your-privacy-privacy-for-all/) - Holding the right to opt out hostage for a ransom is simply a bad deal. - [Access Now Recommendations on Privacy In The Age of COVID-19](https://media-alliance.org/2020/03/access-now-recommendations-on-privacy-in-the-age-of-covid-19/) - Chock full of case studies (the good and the bad) and sensible recommendations. - [Privacy Advocates Stay on CA AG to Tighten CCPA Rules](https://media-alliance.org/2020/03/privacy-advocates-stay-on-ca-ag-to-tighten-ccpa-rules/) - The statewide coalition of privacy groups asked the AG not to back down on the start of the enforcement period, as some industry groups have asked - [955 Nonprofit Leaders Ask Governor To Support CA Nonprofits During Coronavirus Crisis](https://media-alliance.org/2020/03/955-nonprofit-leaders-ask-governor-to-support-ca-nonprofits-during-coronavirus-crisis/) - 955 California not for profit organizations wrote to Governor Newsom and the California Legislature asking the state to support California's nonprofits through the emergency public health situation brought about by COVID-19. - [Tsuru For Solidarity Pilgrimage To Close The Camps](https://media-alliance.org/2019/11/tsuru-for-solidarity-pilgrimage-to-close-the-camps/) - Japanese Americans from across the country will gather next spring in Washington, D.C. on June 5-7, 2020 for a “National Pilgrimage to Close the Camps.” - [252 Groups Ask FCC To Expand Lifeline](https://media-alliance.org/2020/03/252-groups-ask-fcc-to-expand-lifeline/) - A massive coalition of justice and equity groups has asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to expand the Lifeline program to meet the challenges of the COVOD-19 epidemic. - [Activists tell Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ‘Zuck off’](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/activists-tell-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-to-zuck-off/) - “I think that kind of micro targeting is exactly the opposite of free speech and democratic dialogue,” Rosenberg said. “It is creating enormous stress in the civic dialogue process.” - [What Cities Can Learn from the Nation's Only Privacy Commission](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/what-cities-can-learn-from-the-nations-only-privacy-commission/) - It’s not like we’re going to find out just by looking up when they’re already flying over our heads.” - [25 Groups Object to Graham-Blumenthal Anti-Encryption EARNIT Act](https://media-alliance.org/2020/03/25-groups-object-to-graham-blumenthal-anti-encryption-earnit-act/) - The bill could create encryption backdoors. Backdoors to encryption make everyone in society more vulnerable to privacy, cybersecurity, and other risks.” - [California Flags Alienated, Idealistic Kids of Color as Potential Violent Extremists](https://media-alliance.org/2020/03/california-flags-alienated-idealistic-kids-of-color-as-potential-violent-extremists/) - Continuing to allow the program to go forward with cosmetic changes is lipsticking the pig of a CVE program that distorted desperately needed social support, educational support, and violence prevention programs into spying vehicles for rogue federal agencies that rely on racist stereotyping. - [Letter From New Hampshire: The Dangers of Disinformation](https://media-alliance.org/2020/03/letter-from-new-hampshire-the-dangers-of-disinformation/) - “Facebook has been concealing its vast profits from sabotaging democracy under a fig leaf of free speech,” said Tracy Rosenberg, one of the organizers. - [Bay Area protest urges Facebook not to run misinformation ads for U.S. politicians](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/bay-area-protest-urges-facebook-not-to-run-misinformation-ads-for-u-s-politicians/) - "We don't want distorted information fed to us day after day for your personal profit," Rosenberg stressed - [Protesters Gather Outside Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg's San Francisco Home](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/protesters-gather-outside-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerbergs-san-francisco-home/) - KCBS Radio: https://kcbsradio.radio.com/media/audio-channel/protesters-gather-outside-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerbergs-san-francisco-home - [‘Wake up Zuck’: Protesters gather outside of Facebook founder’s home, demand regulation of political ads](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/wake-up-zuck-protesters-gather-outside-of-facebook-founders-home-demand-regulation-of-political-ads/) - “We’re sick and tired of waiting for the government to regulate Facebook,” said Tracy Rosenberg, the executive director of Media Alliance and one of the protest’s organizers. “You’re profiting off of us — you’re selling our information.” - [Sprint-Mobile Merger: Can You Afford It?](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/sprint-mobile-merger/) - It calls for public participation hearings - where YOU can speak - and a robust public interest analysis that will address competition and impacts on the wireless market. - [40 Civil Rights Groups Ask Colleges to Keep Facial Recognition Off Campuses](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/40-civil-rights-groups-ask-colleges-to-keep-facial-recognition-off-campuses/) - On March 2, students and faculty at schools across the country will organize to reject facial recognition’s false promises of safety, and stand against the idea of biased 24/7 tracking and analysis of everyone on campus. - [KCBS: How a Truncated TV Clip Led to Backlash for Gayle King](https://media-alliance.org/2020/02/kcbs-how-a-truncated-tv-clip-led-to-backlash-for-gayle-king/) - MA ED Tracy Rosenberg occasionally comments on media happenings for KCBS Radio. This clip discusses the backlash to Gayle King's interview after the death of basketball legend Kobe Bryant. - [AT&T / T-Mobile Merger Bites the Dust](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/att-t-mobile-merger-bites-the-dust-2/) - Signaling the tail end of a regulatory process that hasn't been going AT&T's way, the telecom giant made formal the abandonment of plans to acquire T-Mobile - [Privacy Groups Preserve CA Consumer Privacy Act](https://media-alliance.org/2019/07/privacy-groups-preserve-ca-consumer-privacy-act/) - The statewide privacy coalition scored a remarkable set of victories that preserves intact the nation’s only comprehensive consumer privacy bill, the US GDPR so to speak. - [36 Major Netroots Groups Launch StopTheFCC.net To Save Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/36-major-netroots-groups-launch-stopthefcc-net-to-save-net-neutrality/) - StopTheFCC.net is an activism site that will drive hundreds of thousands of emails and phone calls to force a floor vote on the CRA resolution to restore net neutrality. - [40 Groups Ask Oversight Board For Facial Recognition Moratorium](https://media-alliance.org/2020/01/35-groups-ask-oversight-board-for-facial-recognition-moratorium/) - 40 groups, including Media Alliance, wrote to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) urging it to call for the suspension of all facial recognition use pending further review. - [Legal Battle on Trump's Public Charge Rule Not Over: Amici Curae in 9th Circuit Court](https://media-alliance.org/2020/01/legal-battle-on-trumps-public-charge-rule-not-over-amici-curae-in-9th-circuit-court/) - Media Alliance is one of several parties to an amici filing coordinated by the National Consumer Law Center - [US Senate Consumer Privacy Bills](https://media-alliance.org/2019/12/us-senate-consumer-privacy-bills/) - Here's a letter from privacy groups, including Media Alliance, about the batch from the US Senate - [Privacy Groups Comment on CA AG Privacy Regs](https://media-alliance.org/2019/12/privacy-groups-comment-on-ca-ag-privacy-regs/) - California's statewide privacy coalition weighed in on the regulatory plans for the California Attorney General to administer and enforce the California Consumer Privacy Act. - [Want fair elections? Help us protest Facebook.](https://media-alliance.org/2020/01/want-fair-elections-help-us-protest-facebook/) - We’re not willing to cede a communications network that reaches billions of people to the unfettered practices of a corporation that cares more about its profits than about our democracy. - [Facebook Faces Twin Protests in New Year](https://media-alliance.org/2019/12/facebook-faces-twin-protests-in-new-year/) - "Zuckerberg has wrapped himself in the mantle of free speech when he wants to let politicians lie in their ads and let extremism and hate speech run wild, but at the same time the company regularly won't allow nonprofit organizations to boost posts on 'political' issues like a transgender rights seminar," Rosenberg said. - [Meaningfully Connecting To Communities in Advocacy and Policy Work](https://media-alliance.org/2019/04/meaningfully-connecting-to-communities-in-advocacy-and-policy-work/) - Media Alliance was thrilled to be one two dozen nonprofits interviewed for this funder report on best practices in advocacy. - [Big Telecom Tries Another Deregulation Scam](https://media-alliance.org/2019/08/big-telecom-tries-another-deregulation-scam/) - So why do sometimes progressive legislators turn around and do corporate America’s dirty work? - [Who What Why Podcast: Watchdogs Challenge Surveillance in Berkeley](https://media-alliance.org/2019/10/who-what-why-podcast-watchdogs-challenge-surveillance-in-berkeley/) - Media Alliance ED Oakland Tracy Rosenberg speaks to Who What Why about recent revelations of Homeland Security spying on anti-fascist protesters in secret. - [Close The Camps at Palantir 9/13](https://media-alliance.org/2019/09/close-the-camps-at-palantir-9-13/) - On one of the hottest days of the year, protestors rallied at the company’s Palo Alto building, covered the ubiquitous security cameras with umbrellas, and marched to (one of) Palantir CEO Alex Karp’s houses in Palo Alto - [Using Criminal Databases On Observers: Urban Shield and CLETS](https://media-alliance.org/2019/04/using-criminal-databases-on-observers-urban-shield-and-clets/) - Accessing the sensitive data of these observers via CLETS discourages members of the community from participating in oversight activities. - [Astroturf Nonprofit Group Guns For Privacy-Friendly State Senator](https://media-alliance.org/2019/08/astroturf-nonprofit-group-guns-for-privacy-friendly-state-senator/) - A newly incorporated group calling itself the Nonprofit Alliance has called for the removal of jurisdiction over statewide privacy legislation from the CA State Senate's Judiciary committee - [Surveillance cameras to be installed along I-80, Hwy 4 in East Bay](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/surveillance-cameras-to-be-installed-along-i-80-hwy-4-in-east-bay/) - I think it was pretty clear that there's a lot of vagueness about where all of this data is ending up," said Tracy Rosenburg of Oakland Privacy - [Hope In The Dumpster Fire](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/hope-in-the-dumpster-fire/) - The fate of all our movements for justice, equity, fairness and for freedom will depend on preserving the ability to communicate, to organize, and to express dissent - [Oakland Officials and Advocacy Groups Prepare for Possible Immigration Raids](https://media-alliance.org/2018/01/oakland-officials-and-advocacy-groups-prepare-for-possible-immigration-raids/) - They [ICE] have gone so far that the notion of community self-defense against ICE has moved from more of a fringe idea to a much more mainstream idea. - [Fact Sheet on Border Searches of Devices](https://media-alliance.org/2018/02/fact-sheet-on-border-searches-of-devices/) - This handy fact sheet from ACLU tells you your options and gives you info on how to report what happened to you so civil rights lawyers can have the most up to date information - [Appeals Court Affirms Public Access TV Is A Public Forum](https://media-alliance.org/2018/02/appeals-court-affirms-public-access-tv-is-a-public-forum/) - The case involved banning from the public access channel's premises of Hallack and Melendez by MNN executive director Dan Coughlin and his employees - [55 Progressive Groups Urge Democrats To Support Net Neutrality CRA](https://media-alliance.org/2018/02/55-progressive-groups-urge-democrats-to-support-net-neutrality-cra/) - A free and open internet enables political dissidents and marginalized communities to make their voices heard on their own terms - [Radio Diaries: 99% Invisible Podcast: Border Wall](https://media-alliance.org/2018/02/radio-diaries-99-invisible-podcast-border-wall/) - This podcast looks at Trump's border wall with a shout out to Oakland and Abel Guillen's prohibition on city business with any border wall contractor. - [Alameda County Sheriff Hosted ICE at Urban Shield](https://media-alliance.org/2018/03/alameda-county-sheriff-hosted-ice-at-urban-shield/) - Recently released photographs show HSI officers taking part in the counterterrorism simulations. - [Victory Over Military Cop Convention](https://media-alliance.org/2018/04/victory-over-military-cop-convention/) - It is up to them to ask for what they think Alameda County truly needs and to insist that funds will be used for disaster preparedness, not war games and weapons conventions. - [Culture: The Gangster of Love](https://media-alliance.org/2018/04/culture-the-gangster-of-love/) - The play is about the different kinds of resilence and lack of resilence: coping strategies, where inspiration comes from, the ways that difference kills and the ways that difference can deliver us our full humanity. - [Civil Rights Advocates Urge Ethical Review of Axon’s Police Technologies](https://media-alliance.org/2018/04/civil-rights-advocates-urge-ethical-review-of-axons-police-technologies/) - The groups express serious concerns about the direction of Axon, including the integration of real-time face recognition with body-worn cameras. The letter states that this would be “categorically unethical to deploy,” asserting, “Axon must not offer or enable this feature.” - [Sinclair Tribune Merger Hits A Rock ... And Drowns](https://media-alliance.org/2018/04/3rd-circuit-may-kill-uhf-discount-used-to-enable-sinclair-tribune-merger/) - The Federal Communications Commission issued an order referring the proposed merger to an administrative review, a process generally described as a likely death knell for a merger. - [Ending Secret Surveillance in California](https://media-alliance.org/2018/05/ending-secret-surveillance-in-california/) - Secretive surveillance has opened the door to a laundry list of misuse and abuse, including racial profiling, stalking, the collection of massive amounts of data with no criminal predicate, invasive device searches and the terrorizing of immigrant communities. - [85 Human Rights Groups Ask Facebook Shareholders To Take Action](https://media-alliance.org/2018/05/85-human-rights-groups-ask-facebook-shareholders-to-take-action/) - A broad coalition of 85 human rights groups have asked Facebook shareholders to increase accountability at the social media giant. - [US Senate Passes Repeal of Net Neutrality Repeal 52 Yes Votes](https://media-alliance.org/2018/05/us-senate-passes-repeal-of-net-neutrality-repeal-52-yes-votes/) - 52 Votes to Revoke Ajit Pai's Repeal of Net Neutrality and An Open Internet - [Richmond Cuts Ties To ICE Data Brokers](https://media-alliance.org/2018/05/richmond-cuts-ties-to-ice-data-brokers/) - The Department of Homeland Security has indicated that these databases and technologies will also be used to track some naturalized citizens, legal residents and political targets such as Muslims and so-called “black identity extremists.” - [35 Civil Rights Organizations Tell Amazon To Get Out Of The Facial Recognition Business](https://media-alliance.org/2018/05/35-civil-rights-organizations-tell-amazon-to-get-out-of-the-facial-recognition-business/) - The company specifically describes the purpose of the technology to be "person-tracking." - [28 Privacy Groups Tell Companies US Residents Deserve a GDPR](https://media-alliance.org/2018/05/28-privacy-groups-tell-companies-us-residents-deserve-a-gdpr/) - There is no question that you are capable of applying the same protections worldwide. We insist that you do. - [Propaganda Review Issue 1, Volume 1 1987-1990](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/propaganda-review-issue-1-volume-1-1987-1988/) - Propaganda Review was a Media Alliance magazine that explored techniques of manipulation, our vulnerability to them, and a society obsessed with the engineering of consent. - [Propaganda Review Issue 1, Volume 4 1987-1990](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/propaganda-review-issue-1-volume-4-1987-1990/) - Propaganda Review,, was a Media Alliance magazine that explored techniques of manipulation, our vulnerability to them, and a society obsessed with the engineering of consent. - [Rust Belt Radio: E-Carceration and Digital Prisons](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/rust-belt-radio-e-carceration-and-digital-prisons/) - Rust Belt Radio features researcher James Kilgore and organizer Miyaisha Hayes (Center for Media Justice) talking about how mass incarceration is morphing into high-tech wall-less detention - [It's Time To Get A Spine, Sir.](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/its-time-to-get-a-spine-sir/) - Don’t come back to California if you haven’t demonstrated your leadership and your courage. - [The Online Privacy Quickie Sell-Out Deal](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/the-online-privacy-quickie-sell-out-deal/) - On June 21 word leaked of a secret deal to amend long-paralyzed AB375 and rush it through by June 28. Yes. This Thursday. This "deal" needs to go down. - [Propaganda Review Issue 1, Volume 2 1987-1990](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/propaganda-review-issue-1-volume-2-1987-1990/) - Propaganda Review was a Media Alliance magazine that explored techniques of manipulation, our vulnerability to them, and a society obsessed with the engineering of consent. - [Media Alliance Statement on the Passage of AB 375](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/media-alliance-statement-on-the-passage-of-ab-375/) - The voters might have done better, had they been given a chance. - [Counterspin: Tracy Rosenberg on ICE’s Corporate Collaborators](https://media-alliance.org/2018/06/counterspin-tracy-rosenberg-on-ices-corporate-collaborators/) - The spotlight on the White House’s inhumane agenda on immigration and immigrants is exposing more than the devastatingly cruel practices in force at the border, but also the big corporate players that are—often invisibly—enabling that agenda - [Profiles in Corruption: How Telecoms Control the State Legislature](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/profiles-in-corruption-how-telecoms-control-the-state-legislature/) - It is in this sense that we use the word “corruption”—i.e., conduct that eats away at the fiber of a democratic society. - [KCRA-TV: California Law Makers Pass Sweeping Data Privacy Bill](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/california-law-makers-pass-sweeping-data-privacy-bill/) - The current language authorizes pay for privacy schemes where prices can go up for consumers who try to use the bill's opt-out provisions. - [California Enacts Law Protecting Consumer Privacy, But There is Still a Ways to Go](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/california-enacts-law-protecting-consumer-privacy-but-there-is-still-a-ways-to-go/) - “I hope the 603,000 Californians who lose their right to vote on consumer privacy protections will raise their voices to demand a broad and inclusive process to restore some of the protections they lost when the ballot initiative was pulled." - [Propaganda Review Issue 1, Volume 5 1987-1990](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/propaganda-review-issue-1-volume-5/) - Propaganda Review was a Media Alliance magazine that explored techniques of manipulation, our vulnerability to them, and a society obsessed with the engineering of consent. - [Mondo 2000: The Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project #ASDPSP – Reports Back: Here’s #WhatWeFound In Sacramento](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/mondo-2000-the-aaron-swartz-day-police-surveillance-project-asdpsp-reports-back-heres-whatwefound-in-sacramento/) - Tracy Rosenberg, co-founder of the Aaron Swartz Day Police Surveillance Project, explains #whatwefound in #Sacramento using our project’s letter templates and Muckrock, an online platform for filing public records requests. - [24 Civil Rights Groups Write To Dems Demanding Intelligence Oversight](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/24-civil-rights-groups-write-to-dems-demanding-intelligence-oversight/) - Two dozen civil rights and liberties groups rose above party-based partisanship to insist Congressional Democrats stop trying to weaken congressional oversight of intelligence agencies. - [New Poll Shows Republican Swing District Voters Want Support For Net Neutrality CRA](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/new-poll-shows-republican-swing-district-voters-want-support-for-net-neutrality-cra/) - Net Freedom's poll says that 58% of undecided voters in Republican-held swing districts say they are more likely to vote for an incumbent who takes immediate action to force a vote to overturn the FCC - [The Altar At McArthur BART for Nia Wilson](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/the-altar-at-mcarthur-bart-for-nia-wilson/) - #SayHerName #BlackLivesMatter - [114 Civil Rights Groups on Pre-Trial Risk Asssessment](https://media-alliance.org/2018/07/114-civil-rights-groups-urge-caution-in-risk-assessment-tools/) - Pretrial “risk assessment” instruments – although they may seem objective or neutral – threaten to further intensify unwarranted discrepancies in the justice system. - [City Council Delays Decision On Citywide Parking Plan](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/city-council-delays-decision-on-citywide-parking-plan/) - Privacy advocates Chris Jasinski & Tracy Rosenberg with Media Alliance brought up concerns with the capturing of license plate data for enforcement purposes. - [Taming High Tech Law and Order in the Wild Wild West](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/taming-high-tech-law-and-order-in-the-wild-wild-west/) - And when I started to lobby my local government about the ways law enforcement surveillance and high-tech gadgetry were colluding to erode civil rights, I ran into the legacy of the autonomous sheriff. - [BART Board Tables Vote On Several Proposed Safety Measures](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/bart-board-tables-vote-on-several-proposed-safety-measures/) - "It's biased, it's inaccurate and it's dangerous," said Tracy Rosenberg of Oakland Privacy. - [Podcast: Redeye Radio: Thomson Reuters - One of ICE's Corporate Collaborators](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/thomson-reuters-one-of-ices-corporate-collaborators/) - The data is then sold to law enforcement agencies such as the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Tracy Rosenberg thinks Canadians should be aware of this. - [CA Law School Deans Support Surveillance Transparency](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/ca-law-school-deans-support-surveillance-transparency/) - Letter signers include Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Susan Freiwald, Interim Dean at the University of San Francisco School of Law and L. Song Richardson, Dean at the UC Irvine School Law, - [BART Delays Implementation of New Security Plan](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/bart-delays-implementation-of-new-security-plan/) - Members of ACLU, EFF, DSA, Oakland Privacy, APTP, East Bay For Everyone, Media Alliance, AROC, and the public spoke at BART's August 9th Board of Directors meeting with essentially one voice against BART proposals for increased surveillance on the transit system. - [Advocates Kick Back on Industry Attempts To Water Down CA State Privacy Bill](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/advocates-kick-back-on-industry-attempts-to-water-down-ca-state-privacy-bill/) - Business groups submitted a 20 page letter filled with substantive changes to the bill designed to make it more industry-friendly, which they suggested could be snuck in there at the last minute. - [Assembly Resolution 268 Prioritizes Educational Technology in Schools](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/assembly-resolution-268-prioritizes-educational-technology-in-schools/) - Media Alliance was happy to support local Assemblyperson Tony Thurmond (AD-15) in his effort to draw attention to educational technology needs in CA public schools with ACR 268. - [UC Samuelson Clinic Report: Electronic Monitoring of Youth In CA Justice System](https://media-alliance.org/2018/08/uc-samuelson-clinic-report-electronic-monitoring-of-youth-in-ca-justice-system/) - A useful report from UC Berkeley on the scope, scale and problematic aspects with the electronic monitoring of youth in the CA justice system. - [CA Passes Strongest Net Neutrality Legislation In The Nation](https://media-alliance.org/2018/09/ca-legislature-sends-strongest-statewide-net-neutrality-bill-to-governor-brown/) - After a saga worthy of a Greek sailing epic, the California Legislature sent Senate Bill 822, the strongest statewide Net Neutrality bill yet to the states governor, Jerry Brown, for a signature. - [Guidelines for Media Literacy Education - An Overview by MA's Interns](https://media-alliance.org/2018/09/guidelines-for-media-literacy-education-an-overview-by-mas-interns/) - MA spring/summer interns Keli Gabinelli, a recent graduate from NYU's Steinhardt School and Koroosh Darabi Farsi, a senior at NorthGate High School in Walnut Creek decided to write a little overview about why Media Literacy matters to young people and what they want to see in the schools. - [Thousands of License Plates Inadvertently Recorded at MacArthur BART Station](https://media-alliance.org/2018/09/thousands-of-license-plates-inadvertently-recorded-at-macarthur-bart-station/) - "I don’t think how many times I park at MacArthur BART is any of the business of the Department of Homeland Security. - [BART Directors Face Pushback On New Security Measures](https://media-alliance.org/2018/09/bart-directors-face-pushback-on-new-security-measures/) - They need to be transparent with the public about what the effect on crime is actually going to be and how any data collected will be protected. - [18 Privacy Groups Say Hearings Must Include Them](https://media-alliance.org/2018/10/18-privacy-groups-say-hearings-must-include-them/) - The letter states " There is little point in asking industry groups how they would like to be regulated. " - [National Park Service Proposed Limits on White House Protests](https://media-alliance.org/2018/10/national-park-service-proposed-limits-on-white-house-protests/) - New proposed rules from the National Park Service would make it substantially harder to hold rallies, demonstrations or protests in Washington and specifically on the streets and sidewalks surrounding the White House. - [Why San Franciscans Should Support Proposition B (Privacy First)](https://media-alliance.org/2018/10/why-san-franciscans-should-support-proposition-b-privacy-first/) - But if it comes down to a choice between a strong voter mandate for meaningful privacy protection legislation and getting a designated seat on a municipal body, our choice is clear. Privacy First. - [Notes From The Last Urban Shield As We Know It](https://media-alliance.org/2018/10/notes-from-the-last-urban-shield-as-we-know-it/) - So to mark this historic occasion, I decided to attend. This is easier said than done. - [A Look At Transparency On The Ballot This 2018 Midterm Election](https://media-alliance.org/2018/11/a-look-at-transparency-on-the-ballot-this-2018-midterm-election/) - Governmental transparency and privacy protections are not and have never been opposed interests. We can have both, said Rosenberg. - [34 Organizations Unite to Release Principles for Privacy Legislation](https://media-alliance.org/2018/11/34-organizations-unite-to-release-principles-for-privacy-legislation-2/) - Today, 34 civil rights, consumer, and privacy organizations join in releasing public interest principles for privacy legislation, because the public needs and deserves strong and comprehensive federal legislation to protect their privacy and afford meaningful redress. - [FCC Threatens Governmental and Public Channels](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/fcc-threatens-governmental-and-public-channels/) - Comcast doesn't need a discount on the pitifully small amount they provide in public benefits in exchange for the rights of way. - [Culture Watch: In Old Age](https://media-alliance.org/2019/04/culture-watch-in-old-age/) - At the Magic Theater, old age is when time and objective reality start to melt - [Urban Shield/UASI Task Force - Selected Recommendations](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/urban-shield-uasi-task-force-selected-recommendations/) - If you would like to comment, but cannot attend, we have pulled out a selection of the proposed recommendations for your review below - [16 Privacy Groups Tell The Feds Not To Pre-Empt The States](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/16-privacy-groups-tell-the-feds-not-to-pre-empt-the-states/) - 16 privacy and civil rights groups told the US Congress that the federal government should not interfere with efforts by the states to legislate strong local privacy regulations. - [CA Privacy Act: Protection Or A Slippery Slope?](https://media-alliance.org/2018/12/ca-privacy-act-protection-or-a-slippery-slope/) - Even if it is only $10 or $20 a year, how many of those would it take before your budget was busted and you lost interest in emptying your pockets to protect your privacy? - [Best of Counterspin 2018](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/best-of-counterspin-2018/) - MA's ED is very pleased to have been included in Counterspin's 2018 "Best of" wrap-up show and we encourage you to listen to the whole compilation - [Movement Technology Congress - Oakland](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/movement-technology-congress-oakland/) - A conversation about technology and movement work - [KPFA News: California Holds Forum To Kick Off New Privacy Law](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/kpfa-news-california-holds-forum-to-kick-off-new-privacy-law/) - Love or hate big data, the regulations are coming. Listen for the latest on California’s groundbreaking Consumer Privacy Act. - [Civil Rights Groups Pressure Tech Companies Not To Sell Face Surveillance To Cops](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/civil-rights-groups-pressure-tech-companies-not-to-sell-face-surveillance-to-cops/) - A coalition of more than 80 civil, human, and immigrants’ rights groups, including Media Alliance, today sent letters to Microsoft, Amazon, and Google demanding the companies commit not to sell face surveillance technology to the government. - [Public Utilities Commission Hearing for Northern California on T-Mobile/Sprint Merger](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/public-utilities-commission-hearing-for-northern-california-on-t-mobile-sprint-merger/) - It always breaks my heart that when there is an opportunity for public comment that it’s often dominated by those who have a really tight and close interest to the merger rather than the random folks who essentially are not involved in the merger but are going to bear the impact of it.” - [16 Civil Rights Group Press For Stronger Data Protections](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/16-civil-rights-group-press-for-stronger-data-protections/) - A new data privacy agency should be created to confront 21st century threats and address emerging concerns for digital customers, - [What We Know About Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition Software](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/what-we-know-about-law-enforcement-use-of-facial-recognition-software/) - Thanks for helping me give folks an update about what we know now about facial recognition. - [How FEMA Blew Up A Wildlife Refuge 35 Times](https://media-alliance.org/2019/01/how-fema-blew-up-a-wildlife-refuge-35-times/) - This failure of anything that resembles an authentic environmental screening process and which led multiple local, state, and federal agencies to blithely bomb a bird sanctuary is enabled by the lack of transparency around the annual Urban Shield exercise funded by $2 million of your taxpayer dollars. - [Groups Call on Congress to Refuse Funding for Border Surveillance “Smart Wall”](https://media-alliance.org/2019/02/groups-call-on-congress-to-refuse-funding-for-border-surveillance-smart-wall/) - 25 civil liberties and immigration organizations, including Media Alliance released an open letter to Congress calling on negotiators not to provide additional funding for border surveillance technologies - [43 Organizations Call On Congress To Protect Digital Civil Rights](https://media-alliance.org/2019/02/43-organizations-call-on-congress-to-protect-digital-civil-rights/) - Harmful practices noted in the letter included deceptive voter suppression, housing and employment discrimination in online advertising, and exploitative notice-and-choice practices. - [Urban Shield Ends](https://media-alliance.org/2019/03/urban-shield-ends/) - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 to transform the controversial weapon expo and war games drill into a "peacetime mobilization". DHS suspended the 2019 event. - [Trashing The Public Records Act](https://media-alliance.org/2019/03/trashing-the-public-records-act/) - A bill introduced in the CA State Legislature by Senator Ben Hueso, cloaks in reasonable-sounding language, a determined effort to trash the Public Records Act. - [400 Groups Band Together To Support the #NO BAN Act](https://media-alliance.org/2019/04/400-groups-band-together-to-support-the-no-ban-act/) - Sen. Chris Coons and Rep. Judy Chu are introducing the No Ban Act on Wednesday April 10, supported by over 400 civil and human rights groups, including Media Alliance. - [Protesters Block Palantir's Cafeteria To Pressure Big Data Company](https://media-alliance.org/2019/08/protesters-block-palantirs-cafeteria-to-pressure-big-data-company/) - "I'm concerned about the wholesale sweeping of data," Tracy Rosenberg of Oakland Privacy told Business Insider. It's a privacy nightmare. It's immigrants today, and could be any group tomorrow." - [Politico Pro: Privacy Bills Go Straight to Senate Floor](https://media-alliance.org/2019/08/politico-pro-privacy-bills-go-straight-to-senate-floor/) - The decision "essentially took away a whole bunch of opportunities for non-public shenanigans," said Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of Media Alliance, a San Francisco-based group that promotes greater transparency and consumer protections online. - [Le Show With Andres Soto: Police Killings in Contra Costa County](https://media-alliance.org/2019/08/le-show-with-andres-soto-police-killings-in-contra-costa-county/) - The committee recently met with new "progressive" DA Diana Becton to discuss the Terry Ammons death in Pittsburg and discovered the new DA is a lot like the old DA. - [Oakland Privacy - 2019 Pioneer Award](https://media-alliance.org/2019/08/oakland-privacy-2019-pioneer-award/) - Oakland Privacy, the Bay Area surveillance activism coalition that Media Alliance has been co-coordinating for the past five years, will be honored with a 2019 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on September 12th. - [Coalition Demands Privacy Protections For Teens on Facebook](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/coalition-demands-privacy-protections-for-teens-on-facebook/) - In Fraley v. Facebook, the company was sued for violating the privacy of users of all ages.Tthe company settled with class-action attorneys. - [80 Groups Demand Passage of the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act](https://media-alliance.org/2019/07/80-groups-demand-passage-of-the-stopping-bad-robocalls-act/) - 80 consumer groups across the country (including Media Alliance) have called for the passage of the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act (H.R. 3375). - [Fight To Change CA's Privacy Law Fizzles ... For Now](https://media-alliance.org/2019/07/fight-to-change-cas-privacy-law-fizzles-for-now/) - “The business lobby is extremely powerful,” Rosenberg said. “They were united in wanting to significantly water down (the law). And on the whole, they were unsuccessful.” - [Oakland Becomes Third U.S. City to Ban Facial Recognition](https://media-alliance.org/2019/07/oakland-becomes-third-u-s-city-to-ban-facial-recognitionuto-draft/) - “The problem with that is it essentially becomes an outsourcing of a problematic technology,” Rosenberg said. - [Industry Threatens To Neuter CCPA](https://media-alliance.org/2019/05/senator-bob-wieckowski-threatens-to-neuter-ccpa/) - Senator Bob Wieckowski is telling you he is going to ignore 94% of the voters, make your constitutional rights unenforceable, and won't meet with his own angry constituents because of a backroom deal with the the one percent - [Concerns About Facebook Currency](https://media-alliance.org/2019/07/concerns-about-facebook-currency/) - “The U.S. regulatory system is not prepared to address these questions. Nor are the regulatory systems of other nations or international institutions.” - [Culture Watch: Oedipus El Rey](https://media-alliance.org/2019/06/culture-watch-oedipus-el-rey/) - Is fate just another word for the prison-industrial complex? - [100+ Groups Demand A Senate Vote on Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2019/06/100-groups-demand-a-senate-vote-on-net-neutrality/) - The letter calls on Senator McConnell to “enact the will of the hundreds of millions of people who support Open Internet protections - [The Downfall of Roundup](https://media-alliance.org/2019/06/the-downfall-of-roundup/) - With thousands of lawsuits under way, Bayer may be seeing many more losses in the courtroom in the future. - [Oaksterdam University Raided By The Feds](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/oaksterdam-university-raided-by-the-feds/) - DEA agents with guns drawn as well as IRS agents swarmed the Oaksterdam campus as well as the store/cafe site, bringing much of Downtown Oakland to a halt. - [No PVE In California](https://media-alliance.org/2019/05/no-pve-in-california/) - A 70-strong coalition of civil rights groups civil rights groups (including Media Alliance) sent a letter to CA Governor Gavin Newson asking him to end the reinstatement of a washed-over version of the DHS Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program, - [These Four California Democrats Can Break Privacy](https://media-alliance.org/2019/04/these-four-california-democrats-can-break-privacy/) - What it comes down to is that these four CA Democrats might steal your right to sue tech companies when they sell your personal information without your consent. - [New: Quickie Activism Websites](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/quickie-activism-website/) - This frees up activists and organizers to go out and talk to people instead of huddling up in front of computers, while making a campaign digitally viable in real time. - [Need a Press List? Introducing Media Alliance's Press Service](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/need-a-press-list/) - The Northern California press list has 1,200 media contacts at print, broadcast, ethnic, hyperlocal news and alternative outlets. - [Sanctuary Journalism: ICE's Data Broker Thomson Reuters](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/sanctuary-journalism/) - Since September 2016, Reuters Thomsen has been providing “mission critical” access to their databases for ICE Enforcement and Removal Services. - [Oakland Police Department Rejects Predictive Policing](https://media-alliance.org/2017/02/oakland-police-department-rejects-predictive-policing/) - Bucking the nationwide trend, Oakland's police department voluntarily renounced the use of the software. - [Blackstone Group Subsidiary Files To Block KCSM-TV Sale](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/blackstone-group-subsidiary-files-to-block-kcsm-tv-sale/) - Locuspoint had been subsidizing the television station by paying the school district $900,000 a year since 2013 in exchange for 36.5% of spectrum sale proceeds - [Spectrum Speculator LocusPoint Files Injunction To Stop Sale Of KCSM-TV](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/spectrum-speculator-locuspoint-files-injunction-to-stop-sale-of-kcsm-tv/) - LocusPoint Networks, a subsidiary of the Blackstone Group, the largest hedge firm in the world, filed an injunction to block the sale of KCSM-TV - [Ajit Pai's Net Neutrality Roll Back - Read The Order](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/ajit-pais-net-neutrality-roll-back-read-the-order/) - Here is the FCC's Dumpster Fire Rollback of Network Neutrality - [Year End Special - Puerto Rican Hurricane Relief](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/year-end-special-puerto-rican-hurricane-relief/) - Teaming up to rebuild this essential tool using beautiful music, is the best way we could think of to renew and strengthen our decades-long commitment to community media. - [Pittsburg city council votes to allow police to monitor freeway cameras in hopes of stopping shootings](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/pittsburg-city-council-votes-to-allow-police-to-monitor-freeway-cameras-in-hopes-of-stopping-shootings/) - So, the question is, who has access to it? Who is it being shared with? And where is it ending up?” - [Who Will Pay For KCSM In The End?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/who-will-pay-for-kcsm-in-the-end/) - Inviting in an aggressive financial operator like Blackstone exposed the District and potentially placed public assets at risk. - [SF Says Yes To Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/sf-says-yes-to-net-neutrality/) - All we're talking about here is whether anyone gets to tell AT&T and Verizon what to do - [The Political Dumpster Fire Of Net Neutrality Is Just Heating Up](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/the-political-dumpster-fire-of-net-neutrality-is-just-heating-up/) - “There was heavy-duty fraud,” says Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of the press activist organization Media Alliance, - [Now That The FCC Has Scrapped Net Neutrality, Get Ready For The Legal Battles](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/now-that-the-fcc-has-scrapped-net-neutrality-get-ready-for-the-legal-battles/) - There are at least three courses they might take, and a suit could combine multiple strategies. - [The Time For Surveillance Transparency Is Now](https://media-alliance.org/2017/12/the-time-for-surveillance-transparency-is-now/) - Secret surveillance breeds paranoia in the community and invites waste and misuse - [Radio Group Alleges FCC Main Studio Vote Threatens Public Safety](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/radio-group-alleges-fcc-main-studio-vote-threatens-public-safety/) - Common Frequency says decision to eliminate the main studio rule is an "egregious" oversight when only 16% of Puerto Rico’s residents have regained electricity. - [First Amendment Rights Plastered In GlassDoor Ruling](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/first-amendment-rights-plastered-in-glassdoor-ruling/) - A disheartening ruling under seal was issued by by the Ninth Circuit when they stifled First Amendment protections for people posting online anonymously. - [Police Reform is Possible - And Crucial](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/police-reform-is-possible-and-crucial/) - Now and then you go to a city meeting and walk out afterward thanking your stars you were there. It doesn't happen often, but it happens - [Berkeley Officials Call for Increased Transparency on Police Use of Force](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/berkeley-officials-call-for-increased-transparency-on-police-use-of-force/) - “Interests in local government transparency and accountability to the community should be a joint decision making process,” - [Opponents and Supporters Criticize Richmond Mayor for ‘Doxxing’ his Political Adversaries](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/opponents-and-supporters-criticize-richmond-mayor-for-doxxing-his-political-adversaries/) - Many in the community were alarmed when the mayor used his regular “e-forum” to doxx political adversaries, - [Oakland Hearing on August ICE Raid Issue Indefinitely Postponed](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/oakland-hearing-on-august-ice-raid-issue-indefinitely-postponed/) - The director of an Oakland social justice advocacy group said today that she's unhappy that a public hearing on OPD's response to criticism of its involvement in an immigration raid has been put off indefinitely. - [FCC Defends UHF Discount Decision in Court](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/fcc-defends-uhf-discount-decision-in-court/) - Media Alliance is challenging FCC and Ajit Pai in court about the sudden rule changes to benefit Sinclair Broadcasting. FCC is challenging our standing. - [42 Civil Liberties Organizations Endorse USA Rights Act](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/42-civil-liberties-organizations-endorse-usa-rights-act/) - The USA Rights Act creates a search warrant requirement that closes the “backdoor” loophole - [IBT: Ajit Pai: FCC Voting To Remove Media Ownership Rules](https://media-alliance.org/2017/11/ibt-ajit-pai-fcc-voting-to-remove-media-ownership-rules/) - Rosenberg said. "If you want to know why American democracy is failing, the Trump FCC is a good place to look". - [Model State Broadband Privacy Law Introduced](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/model-state-broadband-privacy-law-introduced/) - The model is designed to provide Americans real choices over how broadband providers like AT&T and Verizon can use, disclose, and provide access to customer information. - [OTI Publishes Model State Legislation to Help States Protect Broadband Privacy](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/oti-publishes-model-state-legislation-to-help-states-protect-broadband-privacy/) - Using the Internet should not be a ticket to losing the ability to protect our personal privacy when we need to do so. - [Ajit Pai Welcome Committee - Save The Open Internet](https://media-alliance.org/2017/09/september-12-ajit-pai-welcome-committee-save-the-open-internet/) - Internet rights activists gathered in Downtown San Francisco to welcome FCC Chair Ajit Pai to the Bay Area - [4 Dozen Civil Rights Groups Demand Warrants for Section 702 Searches](https://media-alliance.org/2017/10/4-dozen-civil-rights-groups-demand-warrants-for-section-702-searches/) - The Section 702 reform bill being drafted fails to completely address concerns with the backdoor search loophole. - [Will New York’s Cable Strike Revitalize The Labor Movement — Or Kill It?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/09/will-new-yorks-cable-strike-revitalize-the-labor-movement-or-kill-it/) - With telecom-media conglomerates as successors of the Gilded Age trusts strangling us with the ever-higher price of connecting, we need those cartoons again. - [Right-Wing Extremist Group Had Booth at Urban Shield ‘To Explain Who They Are’](https://media-alliance.org/2017/09/right-wing-extremist-group-had-booth-at-urban-shield-to-explain-who-they-are/) - The Oath Keepers held a booth at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office’s Urban Shield training program last week to “explain who they are,” - [KCSM Sale: Public Records Request](https://media-alliance.org/2017/09/kcsm-sale-public-records-request/) - We did not receive KCRB's responsive bid to purchase the station or any other bids and per the San Mateo County Counsel, we won't, until November. - [238 Groups Urge Recision Of Third Muslim Ban](https://media-alliance.org/2017/09/238-groups-urge-recision-of-third-muslim-ban/) - 238 organizations demanded the White House rescind the latest iteration of the unconstitutional and discriminatory “Muslim ban” executive travel order. - [Broadband Privacy Redux](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/broadband-privacy-redux/) - After the Trump Congress invoked rarely-used Congressional Review Authority to revoke enormously popular broadband privacy rules, revolt broke out. - [What Exactly is Urban Shield Preparing Law Enforcement For?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/09/what-exactly-is-urban-shield-preparing-law-enforcement-for/) - Let’s talk about resiliency; changing weather conditions, mental illness and homelessness. Those are things that are in front of us every day.” - [Republican Op-Ed Space Costs $7 A Word](https://media-alliance.org/2017/08/republican-op-ed-space-costs-7-a-word/) - Contact X to start the Op-Ed process. An account executive will follow up and guide you through placing the ad and securing positioning within the section. - [Obscure UHF Discount Feeds Media Consolidation](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/obscure-uhf-discount-feeds-more-media-consolidation/) - They reinstated the old UHF discount rule which allowed UHF stations to get a pass from an ownership limitation of no more 39% of the available stations. - [Stopping STOPS: Urban Shield Vendor Vetoed Due To Racist Stereotyping](https://media-alliance.org/2017/08/stopping-stops-urban-shield-vendor-vetoed-due-to-racist-stereotyping/) - The Bay Area is not a battlefield. Law enforcement agencies are not at war with Alameda County. This kind of blatant racism does not reflect Bay Area values. - [Leading The Nation On Broadband Privacy](https://media-alliance.org/2017/08/leading-the-nation-on-broadband-privacy/) - -California, is acting to reinstate popular broadband privacy protections enacted by the FCC at the tail end of the Obama administration. - [The Police State Will Be Funded](https://media-alliance.org/2017/08/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. - [Pacifica's WBAI Tries To Fight Off Predatory Empire State Lease](https://media-alliance.org/2017/08/pacificas-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 - [Center for Policing Equity Report on Berkeley Police Department](https://media-alliance.org/2017/08/center-for-policing-equity-report-on-berkeley-police-department/) - The famously liberal city of Berkeley has been engaged in a dispute about the release of a Center for Policing Equity analysis of police stop data - [KCSM-TV Spectrum Pot Of Gold Dissolves Into Dueling Lawsuits](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/kcsm-tv-spectrum-pot-of-gold-dissolves-into-dueling-lawsuits/) - But every junker has a suitor, and a hedge firm came calling for KCSM-TV’s carcass.Here is how we got to dueling lawsuits. - [Private Prison Information Act of 2017](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/private-prison-information-act-of-2017/) - H.R. 1980, the Private Prison Information Act,would require private prisons to comply with the same FOIA requirements as their government-operated counterparts. - [Deporting ICE](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/deporting-ice/) - On July 18, Oakland's City Council voted unanimously to terminate the Police Department's law enforcement agreement with ICE. - [Iranian Dissent](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/iranian-bloggers-in-jail/) - Iran Sec, a program of Baroo, has been tracking the number of imprisoned bloggers in the theocratic Iranian republic. - [Section 702](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/section-702/) - This powerful tool was not intended for domestic law enforcement investigation of U.S. persons for matters unrelated to foreign intelligence." - [Dozen Media Change Groups Protest AT&T/Time-Warner Merger](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/dozen-media-change-groups-protest-atttime-warner-merger/) - A dozen prominent media advocacy groups wrote to AG Jeff Sessions asking him to protect us from the destructive impacts of the massive AT&T/Time-Warner merger. - [Stop Urban Shield](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/urban-shield/) - There are alternatives for public health and safety training that are demilitarized and free of racist narratives. - [Oakland Police - It Isn't Getting Better](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/oakland-police-it-isnt-getting-better/) - 13 years into a federal consent decree after Oakland police planted drugs on scores of Oakland residents, nothing has gotten better. - [Mediamarks Report](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/mediamarks-report/) - Report from MuckRack tracks and analyzes media hits for nonprofit organizations using a 50-org sample. - [DC Court of Appeals Kills Prison Phone Justice](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/dc-court-of-appeals-kills-prison-phone-justice/) - On June 13, the DC Court of Appeals dealt a big blow to years of organizing to reduce prices on phone calls in and out jails, prisons and detention centers. - [NWU Sues Ebony Magazine For Not Paying Freelancers](https://media-alliance.org/2017/07/nwu-sues-ebony-magazine-for-not-paying-freelancers/) - The National Writers Union is preparing to go to court against Ebony Magazine for non-payment of as much as $200,000 to freelance writers. - [The Federalization Of Local Police: Why The Urban Shield Vote Failed](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/the-federalization-of-local-police-why-the-urban-shield-vote-failed/) - The resistance failed to resist. In the nation’s heartland of dissent. What went wrong, and why? - [CalBIPA To Reinstate Broadband Privacy in CA](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/calbipa-to-reinstate-broadband-privacy-in-ca/) - The bill will allow Internet users to consent to the sale or disclosure of their Internet activities by their Internet service providers. - [Day Of Action To Save Network Neutrality July 12](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/day-of-action-to-save-network-neutrality-july-12/) - Join the Battle for the Net and participate in the July 12 Day of Action. What are we going to do? Whatever it is, we're doing it together and it will be big. - [Oakland Committee Voting on Ending Secret Surveillance](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/oakland-committee-voting-on-ending-secret-surveillance/) - On May 9, 2017, the public safety committee of the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in support of a comprehensive surveillance transparency ordinance. - [Body Cameras](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/body-cameras/) - Police body cameras are a double-edged sword. Handling and access to those videos is opening up a Pandora's box of problems with policy and law lagging behind. - [Reporters Sans Frontieres Roundup of Journalists Killed in 2016](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/reporters-sans-frontieres-roundup-of-journalists-killed-in-2016/) - Reporters Sans Frontieres 2016 report on journalists killed around the world. - [Worst Connected Cities](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/worst-connected-cities/) - An American Community survey using 2015 data provided a list of the 185 cities in the United States with the worst household broadband connectivity. - [Red State Legislatures Cracking Down On First Amendment](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/red-state-legislatures-cracking-down-on-first-amendment/) - Bills floating around legislatures across the country to limit and restrict the right to dissent and protest. - [The First Pai Speech](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/the-first-pai-speech/) - Trump's appointee credited high speed broadband with the democratization of entrepreneurship. - [Native Journalist Jenni Monet Still Facing Riot Charges](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/native-journalist-jenni-monet-still-facing-riot-charges/) - Monet wrote a lengthy description of her detention in Morton County for Indian Country today. You can read it here. - [Civil Rights Groups Oppose Terrorism Designation for Muslim Brotherhood](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/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. - [MA and National Lawyers Guild Oppose Loosening of 3rd Party Fundraising Rules](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ma-and-national-lawyers-guild-oppose-loosening-of-3rd-party-fundraising-rules/) - Media Alliance and National Lawyers Guild CDC filed comments opposing FCC plans to loosen restrictions on 3rd party fundraising by noncommercial broadcasters. - [Lifeline Rollback](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/lifeline-rollback/) - Here's the comments we filed for the reconsideration of the federal Lifeline order that added broadband and authorized 9 federal Lifeline broadband providers. - [Public Records Act Challenges](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/public-records-act-challenges/) - Here are three current California developments regarding CPRA. - [Blue Ribbon Report on San Francisco Policing](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/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. - [KCSM TV Spectrum Sale Dissolves Into Lawsuits](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/kcsm-tv-spectrum-sale-dissolves-into-lawsuits/) - The District's authorized bidder failed to make a bid at some point in the complex procedure and KCSM-TV was dropped from the auction. - [East Bay Stingray Use Restrictions](https://media-alliance.org/2017/06/east-bay-stingray-use-restrictions/) - Alameda's "hailstorm" precepitated the development of a use policy in 2015 followed by an even stronger memorandum of understanding in place with OPD. - [Video Visitation](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/video-visitation/) - The company proposing to provide services to Dallas had buried in its contract a requirement that the jail eliminate in-person visitation. - [FCC Responds to Radio Death - 9 Years Later](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/fcc-responds-to-radio-death-9-years-later/) - The FCC has finally convened a hearing on the 2007 death of Jennifer Strange. - [Forecasting Freedom Of Information](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/forecasting-freedom-of-information/) - A Knight Foundation study of the state of public access to government information. - [Digital Denied](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/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". - [The Color of Freedom Report](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/the-color-of-freedom-report/) - Media Action Grassroots Network (www.mag-net.org) met in Washington to grapple with the police state and use racial justice strategies to fight surveillance. - [Climate Accountability Scorecard](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/climate-accountability-sccorecard/) - This helpful report from the Union of Concerned Scientists ranks fossil fuel companies on climate deception, disclosure and action. - [AT&T's Digital Redlining](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/atts-digital-redlining/) - A pattern of long-term systematic failure to invest in the infrastructure required to provide equitable Internet access to residents of the central city - [Asset Forfeiture Report from Dept of Justice](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/asset-forfeiture-report-from-dept-of-justice/) - We found that the Department neither collects nor evaluates the data necessary to determine whether its seizures advance or relate to federal investigations. - [Engaged Art](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/engaged-art/) - It is a time of turmoil for arts funding, so perhaps a good time to think about what the future holds. - [CPUC Slaps Charter](https://media-alliance.org/2017/04/cpuc-slaps-charter/) - In a decision on March 23 issued by one of the PUC's administrative law judges, Charter was told all of the California-specific conditions apply. Period. - [DC Oversight Hearing on Facial Recognition Software](https://media-alliance.org/2017/03/dc-oversight-hearing-on-facial-recognition-software/) - Approximately half of adult Americans’ photographs are in a FRT database. - [And It's Back: Bulletproof Warrior Bay Area](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/and-its-back-bulletproof-warrior-bay-area/) - The Calibre trainings are scheduled for February in Santa Rosa and Sacramento. - [73 Groups Challenge Facebook Censorship](https://media-alliance.org/2017/02/73-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 - [Pacific Felt Factory Leads Bay Area Response To Ghost Ship Fire](https://media-alliance.org/2017/02/pacific-felt-factory-leads-bay-area-response-to-ghost-ship-fire/) - A free anonymous fire safety workshop for Bay Area artists featuring a host of safety supplies and equipment and demonstrations from the SF Fire Department - [](https://media-alliance.org/2017/02/1735-2/) - [](https://media-alliance.org/2017/02/1728-2/) - [MEDIA ALLIANCE STAYS TRUE TO ITS ROOTS. by Makani Themba.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-alliance-stays-true-to-its-roots-by-makani-themba/) - Thanks for making us think, making some noise when we were dumb, and making sure we never stopped believing in the potential of media that matters. - [Remaking Media](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/remaking-media/) - The Nation recognized Media Alliance in San Francisco as one of several 'crucial organizations' for building media democracy in the US. - [Fusing California](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/fusing-california/) - Welcome to the terrorism database. You are in it. This is not rhetoric. - [Fighting the Beast on Bryant at City Hall](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/fighting-the-beast-on-bryant-at-city-hall/) - The activist-dubbed “Beast on Bryant” adds 196 more luxury units to a neighborhood already built out way in excess of the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan - [Fruitvale Youth On The DTV Transition](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/fruitvale-youth-on-the-dtv-transition/) - Video testimonial from the Centro Legale created by the Raising Our Voices Training Program. - [Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/oscar-grant-memorial-arts-project/) - Over three dozen artists have contributed to the Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project - [Never Will Be Forgotten](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/never-will-be-forgotten/) - The Oscar Grant Memorial Arts Project was co-sponsored by Media Alliance and Race Poverty & The Environment - [Radio Shack](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/radio-shack/) - They requested digital television converter boxes be made available for the $40 federal coupon price for low-income populations - [Media News - Tracy Rosenberg](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/media-news-tracy-rosenberg/) - Host: Al Kielwasser, Guest: Tracy Rosenberg, Subject: The Changing Nature Of Media Advocacy - [Media News - SF Public Access - Kwan Booth](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/media-news-sf-public-access-kwan-booth/) - Host: Tracy Rosenberg Guest: Kwan Booth Subject: Citizen Journalism Producer: Lars Aaberg - [Media News - SF Public Access - Regina Costa](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/media-news-sf-public-access-regina-costa/) - Net Neutrality and the Future of the Internet - [Single Payer Broadband](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/single-payer-broadband/) - The plan sets a course for the future of the online communications system — It’s not exactly the public option. - [A Week of Truthiness and Media](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/a-week-of-truthiness-and-media/) - Ever had one of those weeks where the distance between what was said and what was done stretches way out into the blue yonder? - [Road Trip](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/road-trip/) - MA teamed with the LA Media Reform group to travel down to Orange County and the Inland Empire and speak to Dems who aren't supporting net neutrality. - [Be Careful What You Wish For](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/be-careful-what-you-wish-for/) - So your laptop is theoretically on neutral territory when you have it plugged into a wall. Take it on the road, however, and you're in a different ballpark - [Online Learning: The Answer To The Digital Divide](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/online-learning-the-answer-to-the-digital-divide/) - The question arises, how can online learning close the educational access gap if there is still a great digital divide in low-income communities - [College Radio: You Will Be Assimilated](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/college-radio-you-will-be-assimilated/) - One hates to think that behind the solidarity is a plan for the long-term absorption of all licenses outside the master ship. - [KPFA News Criticized](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/kpfa-news-criticized/) - KPFA Radio received complaints from 3 Berkeley City Council members and 6 workers on two different incidents of problematic coverage in a week - [Astroturf Up Close And Personal](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/astroturf-up-close-and-personal/) - I was out-gunned 30-1. As a public interest advocate, I’m used to being the underdog. But I didn’t expect it to be this bad. - [AT&'s Anti-PEG Product](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/ats-anti-peg-product/) - This 2011 videoclearly demonstrates AT&T's failure to deliver basic functionality for public, educational and government (PEG) channels on its U-Verse system. - [Black Voices For Internet Freedom](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/black-voices-for-internet-freedom/) - Watch the video of the 2011 DC Launch of Black Voices for Internet Freedom. - [LibroTraficante-Banned Books](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/librotraficante-banned-books/) - Tony Diaz, a co-founder of Nuestra Palabras, discusses the Arizona book ban on Latino Studies texts and the 2011 Libro Traficantes caravan in the video below. - [Why Community Broadband?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/why-community-broadband/) - This short video talks about community/municipal/coop options for high speed internet and wireless communication services from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. - [Kill The Copper](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/kill-the-copper/) - Verizon CEO: The vision I have is we are going to kill the copper. We are just going to take it out of service - [Controlling The Web](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/controlling-the-web/) - An incisive look at how anti-piracy proposals threaten computer users privacy and freedom from Fault Lines in 2012. - [Massive Open Online Education: How Free is it?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/massive-open-online-education-how-free-is-it/) - The impact on the quality of education and the institutions who provide it is completely unknown in this moment and that is scary. - [Project Censored The Movie](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/project-censored-the-movie/) - Trailer for the documentary film on the media literacy project based at Sonoma State University. - [LowJack The Power](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/lowjack-the-power-2/) - A fun video about radio, where it's been and what low-power radio means. - [Keeping It Real: An LPFM Pioneer](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/keeping-it-real-an-lpfm-pioneer/) - He is most proud of a 2000 restraining order signed by former U.S. District Court Judge Jeanne Scott, who commanded him to get a license or get off the air. - [Somas Una Americas: The SOA Protests](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/somas-una-americas-the-soa-protests/) - A short film on the years of protests against the military-training academy that has seeded a half a century of imperialism in Central and South America. - [Girls, Video Games And The Damsel In Distress](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/girls-video-games-and-the-damsel-in-distress/) - A 20-minute video identifying the use of damsel in distress imagery in video games. Great for schools or the young girl in your life. - [Unfairness Is Universal](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/unfairness-is-universal/) - This delightful video shows monkeys reacting to inequity when one gets compensated with cucumber and another with the better pay rate of a grape - [Community Broadband All Over The Place](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/community-broadband-all-over-the-place/) - This short video from the Open Technology Institute features community broadband projects: Brooklyn, Detroit, and Dharmasala. - [Your Privacy On-Line: Why Should You Care?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/your-privacy-on-line-why-should-you-care/) - What do you gain and what do you give up when you accept the Terms and Conditions of your favorite app? And why should you care? - [Talking About Spying With Nancy Pelosi](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/talking-about-spying-with-nancy-pelosi/) - Did we get an answer to the question? Not really. And It wasn't because we didn't ask. - [Communications Safety Net: Lifeline](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/communications-safety-net-lifeline/) - This DC panel deconstructs the myths about Lifeline and defines why we all need to care about affordable communications for all. - [NSA Clip Archive](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/nsa-clip-archive/) - A terrific compilation by the Internet Archive of 700+ clips on surveillance, spying and the Snowden revelations. A huge help for anyone writing about the NSA. - [FCC Commissioner Pai Stands With ALEC](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/fcc-commissioner-pai-stands-with-alec/) - Posted by Ajit Pai on December 20th, 2013 Federal Communications Commission In case anybody was wondering, new Republican FCC commissioner Ajit Pai had astonishingly warm words for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) duringa meeting with their telecom task force. Pai began his effusive greeting with "I am honored to be with you today - [A Tale Of Two Prisoners](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/a-tale-of-two-prisoners/) - Posted by Tracy Rosenberg on January 10th, 2014 Huffington Post Meet Prisoner A: Incarcerated at Soledad Prison in California for a botched armed robbery committed in the thrall of an expensive drug addiction, Prisoner A is 3 years into a 10-year sentence. Committed to rehab and clean and sober for two years, A tries - [Our Almost Orwellian State](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/our-almost-orwellian-state/) - The Bill of Rights Defense Committee, EFF, Daniel Ellsberg and Norman Solomon discuss the legal, ethical and political impact of the Snowden disclosures. - [A Thousand New Radio Stations: Whose Will They Be?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/a-thousand-new-radio-stations-whose-will-they-be-2/) - The future of democratic media may come down to a bunch of lawyers. - [The Center for American Progress and the Nullify NSA Movement](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/the-center-for-american-progress-and-the-nullify-nsa-movement/) - The Dems at The Center for American Progress also seem stricken by an attack of amnesia about the long tradition of local disinvestment movements - [The Day We Fought Back](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/the-day-we-fought-back/) - Video from the San Francisco Convergence at AT&T's NSA Facility on February 11, 2014 - [Mergers Lock In The Status Quo](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/mergers-lock-in-the-status-quo/) - The local media system which indulges in the self-congratulatory blather is itself a retrograde example of corporate consolidation and dominance - [DAC As Planned Was A Serious Case Of Mission Creep](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/dac-as-planned-was-a-serious-case-of-mission-creep/) - What isn't so well-established is what the center was for in the first place, and what policies would prevent the Orwellian nightmare presented by DAC opponents. - [The Compact with Capitalism: Wheeler's Net Neutrality Dodge](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/the-compact-with-capitalism-wheelers-net-neutrality-dodge/) - Surprisingly for someone so upset that if I lived closer to DC I'd have been camping in front of the FCC, I agreed with much of what Wheeler wrote. - [Without Net Neutrality, How Are Oakland's Communities Affected?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/without-net-neutrality-how-are-oaklands-communities-affected/) - Trying to watch that season finale of Game of Thrones or that premiere of Orange is the New Black could become an experience based on how much you’re willing to pay. - [Obama In The Back Seat](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/obama-in-the-back-seat/) - This video is a quick tour of the two July 2014 rallies, where activists made sure the visiting president had an open internet on his mind. - [KCSM-TV Update](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/kcsm-tv-update/) - We've been following the station's fate into the final May 2014 decision, when the trustees signed on the dotted line with the Blackstone Group - [What's Up At Comic-Con?](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/whats-up-at-comic-con/) - The distribution of press passeshas long been a fraught process that can confer, or by contrast, remove "credibility" from sectors of the journalistic community. - [Bay Area Speaks: A People's Hearing On The Internet](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/bay-area-speaks-a-peoples-hearing-on-the-internet/) - The second community town hall on net neutrality: thrown by the media justice community because the FCC would not. - [Ferguson Is An Indictment](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/ferguson-is-an-indictment/) - The fake conversation about Ferguson goes like this. - [Some Internet Activists Think Obama Didn't Go Far Enough](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/some-internet-activists-think-obama-didnt-go-far-enough/) - Structural separation means that providers of an Internet connection can't have a financial interest in what's carried on that connection. - [Google Bus In The Slow Lane](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/google-bus-in-the-slow-lane/) - They put the Google bus in the slow lane on the highway, just like a non-neutral Internet will put all of us in an Internet slow lane. - [May First/PeoplesLink Gag Order](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/may-firstpeopleslink-gag-order/) - Our friends and Media Action Grassroots Network colleagues May First/Peoplelink's statement on their federal gag order. - [More Reform On Prison Phone Rates](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/more-reform-on-prison-phone-rates/) - MAGNet submitted a letter today supporting further reforms to end predatory prison phone rates - [Information-Sharing In The Bay Area](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/information-sharing-in-the-bay-area/) - The January meeting of the Urban Area Strategic Initiative (UASI) featured this informative slide show about how the Bay Area's fusion centers work together. - [Social Justice Media: The Case of Occupy](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/social-justice-media-the-case-of-occupy/) - A study of social justice media as used in the Occupy Movement - [Blog: No Slow Lanes On The Internet. Ever](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/blog-no-slow-lanes-on-the-internet-ever/) - On February 26, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission reclassified broadband services ("the Internet") under Title 2 enshrining digital equality - [RIP Mediachannel.org Founder Danny Schechter](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/rip-mediachannel-org-founder-danny-schechter/) - Schechter was an innovator and an insightful media critic, in addition to being a talented journalist and documentary filmmaker. - [Private Thoughts: On Fusion Centers, UASI and Fed/State Privacy Legislation](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/private-thoughts-on-fusion-centers-uasi-and-fedstate-privacy-legislation/) - Private Thoughts is a new privacy series of short videos on surveillance and privacy from Restore the Fourth SF Bay Area - [American Daydream: A Review](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/american-daydream-a-review/) - What would you say to the person who tells you reality isn't real? Would you love them or hate them, or both at the same time? - [Diversity in Television: An FCC Principle Now Being Reconsidered](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/diversity-in-television-an-fcc-principle-now-being-reconsidered/) - The Commission is in the process of reexamining rules which allow broadcasters to negotiate the terms of use for broadcast content to be disseminated to cable providers. - [Lifeline Story Bank](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/lifeline-story-bank/) - The Lifeline Story Bank will collect written testimonies, pictures and short audio or video clips and deliver them directly to the policy makers and the press - [Interrupting Surveillance-In Silicon Valley and Beyond](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/interrupting-surveillance-in-silicon-valley-and-beyond/) - That's why it's pretty remarkable when activists use public government processes to attack a scary and overwhelming problem like surveillance – and it works. - [Media Action Grassroots Network](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/media-action-grassroots-network/) - Every year, media justice organizations from all over the country convene under the name The Media Action Grassroots Network. - [Alliance For Community West Annual Conference - March 2017 - In Fresno](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/alliance-for-community-west-annual-conference-march-2017-in-fresno/) - Community Media Centers across the Western States will meet at the annual conference in nearby Fresno in March of 2017. - [Charter Deal Conditions Could Run Gamut From MFN Clauses to Rate Hike Caps](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/charter-deal-conditions-could-run-gamut-from-mfn-clauses-to-rate-hike-caps/) - multiple broadband and cable matters likely will be brought up by and before regulators as Charter seeks approval to buy Bright House Networks and Time Warner. - [The Push Is On For LP 250](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/the-push-is-on-for-lp-250/) - A power-increase proposal is stirring new debate about low-power FM broadcasters and has LPFM and translator advocates again taking up positions - [MA Interview on Stop CISA (CISPA Without The "P")](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ma-interview-on-stop-cisa-cispa-without-the-p/) - Discussion of CISA (CISPA Without The "P") - [MA Interview on Global Research News Hour - May 22 2015](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/ma-interview-on-global-research-news-hour-may-22-2015/) - In the second half hour, Kellia Ramares-Watson brings us a marvelous conversation with Tracy Rosenberg, executive director of the progressive media advocacy group Media Alliance - [Why The Death Of Comcast-Time Warner Merger Won’t Help Consumers](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/why-the-death-of-comcast-time-warner-merger-wont-help-consumers/) - Comcast’s defeat answers the question of whether “the regulatory agencies are going to say yes to any merger, no matter how bad,” - [The Comcast-Time Warner Deal is Officially Off](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/the-comcast-time-warner-deal-is-officially-off/) - Comcast announced today that the proposed merger with Time Warner is officially off, and local and national civil rights organizations couldn’t be happier. - [Proposed CPUC Rejection of Comcast/TWC Adds Wrinkle to California’s Review of Deal](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/proposed-cpuc-rejection-of-comcasttwc-adds-wrinkle-to-californias-review-of-deal/) - CPUC Commissioner Mike Florio’s filing Friday further unsettles the commission’s review of the merger. - [CPUC Should Say No To Supersizing Comcast](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/cpuc-should-say-no-to-supersizing-comcast/) - If something takes two dozen onerous conditions to prevent significant damage, then maybe the public is better off without it - [KWMR: Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/kwmr-net-neutrality/) - March 1 2015 on West Marin Community Radio - Network Neutrality - [90,000 Californians Sign Petition Calling on PUC to Block Comcast Merger](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/90000-californians-sign-petition-calling-on-puc-to-block-comcast-merger/) - Consumer groups announced that they had collected 90,000 petition signatures from Californians opposed to the deal. - [Changing Oakland's reputation With The Development Of A Privacy Policy](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/changing-oaklands-reputation-with-the-development-of-a-privacy-policy/) - The fruits of this process include a comprehensive privacy policy - [San Leandro Police Face Opposition in Push for New Armored Vehicle](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/san-leandro-police-face-opposition-in-push-for-new-armored-vehicle/) - San Leandro residents sounded off Thursday night about the potential purchase of an armored transport known as a BearCat, - [New Members Flock to Stop Mega Comcast Coalition](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/new-members-flock-to-stop-mega-comcast-coalition/) - Our continued growth will serve to amplify our message that this merger must be blocked.” - [Radio World: LPFM Application Tally Surprises](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/radio-world-lpfm-application-tally-surprises/) - The FCC said some 2,819 applications were filed in the LPFM window, which closed in November - [Low Income, Consumer, & Media Advocacy Groups Urge California PUC to Reject the Comcast – Time Warner Cable Merger](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/low-income-consumer-media-advocacy-groups-urge-california-puc-to-reject-the-comcast-time-warner-cable-merger/) - Regulators should stand up for consumers, and stand against this anti-competitive merger.” - [All We Want Is Equal Representation Online](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/all-we-want-is-equal-representation-online/) - The FCC is considering a legally dubious “hybrid” approach to new open Internet rules that would allow some forms of discrimination. - [KPFA News: Comcast/Time Warner Merger](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/kpfa-news-comcasttime-warner-merger/) - Pacifica Evening News October 28 2014 - [Grassroots activism brings reform to California](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/grassroots-activism-brings-reform-to-california/) - On Tuesday September 30th, California governor Jerry Brown signed SB 828 , otherwise known as the Fourth Amendment Protection Act, into law. - [Medium Rare TV Questions Comic-Con Press Pass Policy](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/medium-rare-tv-questions-comic-con-press-pass-policy/) - Medium Rare TV is objecting to the refusal to issue a press pass to Medium Rare for the large San Diego Comic-Con exposition last month, - [LPFM Hopefuls Weigh Time-Sharing Options](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/lpfm-hopefuls-weigh-time-sharing-options/) - Media Alliance comments on the low-power radio MX process underway in Communications Daily on June 27 2014. - [Media Alliance Comments on Oakland Privacy Framework: Domain Awareness Center](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/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](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/peg-community-sees-challenges-coming-from-combined-comcasttwc/) - The public, educational and government channel community plans to continue its push to protect the interests of PEG channels - [The Day We Fight Back Against Mass Surveillance - Bay Area Convergence](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/the-day-we-fight-back-against-mass-surveillance-bay-area-convergence/) - The convergence will feature giant projected visuals by the SF Projection Department, Bay Area Light Brigade human billboard signs, and a Stop Watching Us parachute. - [Media Alliance Joins Off-Now, The Nullify NSA Coalition](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/media-alliance-joins-off-now-the-nullify-nsa-coalition/) - Media Alliance believes constitutional protections do not vanish in the digital sphere nor get thrown in the garbage in the name of an ever-expanding war on terrorism. - [Feinstein Endangers Silicon Valley Prosperity](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/feinstein-endangers-silicon-valley-prosperity/) - Saving pennies all year long to put the latest techno-gadget under the Christmas tree wasn't supposed to be an audition for a starring role in Orwell's "1984." - [EFF Files 22 Firsthand Accounts of How NSA Surveillance Chilled the Right to Association](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/eff-files-22-firsthand-accounts-of-how-nsa-surveillance-chilled-the-right-to-association/) - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has provided a federal judge with testimony from 22 separate advocacy organizations - [Helen Thomas Speaks at MA Anniversary](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/helen-thomas-speaks-at-ma-anniversary/) - The recently-deceased maverick reporter speaks at Media Alliance's 30th Anniversary party in 2006 - [86 Organizations Petition Congress To Counter Unconstitutional Surveillance](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/86-organizations-petition-congress-to-counter-unconstitutional-surveillance/) - A letter signed by 86 public interest and civil liberties organizations was delivered to Congress this morning, in the wake of a week of explosive reports - [Scandalous Privatizaton of Noncommercial TV Spectrum](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/scandalous-privatizaton-of-noncommercial-tv-spectrum/) - Two years ago, Congress made the fateful decision to allow noncommercial stations to cash out of their spectrum when it goes up for auction to wireless providers - [District Refuses To Be Open About KCSM-TV Sale](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/district-refuses-to-be-open-about-kcsm-tv-sale/) - A public records request filed by Media Alliance (MA), this time accompanied by the Palo Alto Daily Post newspaper, has been denied by the Board of Trustees. - [Keep KCSM TV In Public Hands](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/keep-kcsm-tv-in-public-hands/) - Article in the American Federation of Teachers newspaper on the KCSM-TV threatened dissolution via spectrum sale. - [KCSM-TV Sale Postponed](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/kcsm-tv-sale-postponed/) - The SMCCD voted unanimously to reject the final two bidders (of an original six) for the broadcast license for KCSM Television - [Groups Urge Congresswoman Lee To Push Back Against Kickbacks](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/groups-urge-congresswoman-lee-to-push-back-against-kickbacks/) - On August 23, 2012, a delegation of organizationa met withCongresswoman Barbara Lee to discuss the high cost of phone calls from a prison, jail or detention center. - [Save KUSF and MA Advocate Against Loopholes in Fundraising Rules](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/save-kusf-and-ma-advocate-against-loopholes-in-fundraising-rules/) - Save KUSF and MA filed comments with the FCC pointing out loopholes in a proposed rule change which puts public airwaves at risk of further consolidation. - [Questioning The KCSM Sale](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/questioning-the-kcsm-sale/) - As part of an epidemic of higher education institutions ridding themselves of educational licenses, the SMCCD has announced the upcoming sale of KSCM-TV, - [LA Clearchannel hosts John and Ken Suspended for Calling Whitney Houston a Crack Ho](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/la-clearchannel-hosts-john-and-ken-suspended-for-calling-whitney-houston-a-crack-ho/) - Los Angeles-AM shock-jock hosts John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou were suspended by management at Clearchannel station KFI-AM in Los Angeles on Thursday - [Public TV For Sale](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/public-tv-for-sale/) - A January 10th walk-though for potential bidders was attended by the Christian broadcasting giant Daystar Television. - [California Public Utilities Commission Suspends Approval of AT&T /T-Mobile Merger](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/california-public-utilities-commission-suspends-approval-of-att-t-mobile-merger/) - The CPUC suspended automatic 30-day approval of the plan and agreed to move forward with an informational proceeding on the impact of the merger - [Local Organizations Advocating for Real Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/local-organizations-advocating-for-real-net-neutrality/) - Members of Media Alliance are meeting with Representative Barbara Lee's office to urge her to demand consumer protections for wireless - [The Low-Access People: Tiny Grey-Garcia's Notes on the NCMR](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-low-access-people-tiny-grey-garcias-notes-on-the-ncmr-2/) - Tech-embedded words like, White space, Bit Torrent, Net Neutrality and Blogosphere floated past my ears - [DTV Help Centers Team Up To Deal With E-Waste](https://media-alliance.org/2017/01/dtv-help-centers-team-up-to-deal-with-e-waste/) - The digital television transition, completed on June 12, 2009, is generating a large flow of electronic waste as consumers upgrade their televisions. - [Predictive Policing' Isn't In Science Fiction, It's in Sacramento](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/predictive-policing-isnt-in-science-fiction-its-in-sacramento/) - The launch in October of a “real-time crime center,” a central location from which officers could monitor all their existing surveillance technologies - [Media Cross-Ownership Rules Upheld by FCC](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/media-cross-ownership-rules-upheld-by-fcc/) - The rules that were at stake in the case included prohibitions on the number of radio and TV stations that can be owned by one company in the same market, - [MA Supports the Speak Free Act](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/ma-supports-the-speak-free-act/) - SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation and describe lawsuits filed primarily to discourage, harass and intimidate public participation and free speech. - [Berkeley Teacher Put Through The Wringer For Protesting](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/berkeley-teacher-put-through-the-wringer-for-protesting/) - Berkeley USD teacher Yvette Felarca has been subjected to extremely punitive actions by the school district after participating in an anti-white-supremacy protest - [PUC Needs Consumer Advocates: Reappoint Sandoval](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/puc-needs-consumer-advocates-reappoint-sandoval/) - Catherine Sandoval is one of the most qualified commissioners to ever serve on the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). - [DirecTV Sued For Anti-Competitive Collusion](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/directv-sued-for-anti-competitive-collusion/) - The Department of Justice filed suit against DirecTV (commonly known as AT&T after the recent merger) for anti-competitive collusion in violation of antitrust law. - [Facial Recognition Software: Biased as Hell](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/facial-recognition-software-biased-as-hell/) - An October letter to the Department of Justice by 52 civil rights and civil liberties organizations cited identifiable anomalies in the algorithims used. - [Un-Ban The Bayview](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/un-ban-the-bayview/) - The Bay View newspaper is undergoing a series of official and unofficial bannings as prison strike activism continues. - [Choice for SF Apartment-Dwellers](https://media-alliance.org/2016/12/choice-for-sf-apartment-dwellers/) - A new ordinance before SF's Supervisors requires SF landlords to provide a choice of telecom providers to tenants. - [SMCCD Board Liquidates KCSM-TV](https://media-alliance.org/2016/06/smccd-board-liquidates-kcsm-tv-2/) - Members of the public objecting were threatened with removal by armed security prior to the board vote. - [San Mateo Community College District Refuses to Be Open About KCSM TV Sale](https://media-alliance.org/2016/06/san-mateo-community-college-district-refuses-to-be-open-about-kcsm-tv-sale/) - For the second consecutive time, a public records request filed by Media Alliance (MA) has been denied by the Board of Trustees. - [KGO Feature on Low-Power Radio and Common Frequency](https://media-alliance.org/2016/06/kgo-feature-on-low-power-radio-and-common-frequency/) - The ABC Evening News featured low-power radio, Common Frequency and Media Alliance and the Local Community Radio Act. - [Media Change: Project Censored Radio](https://media-alliance.org/2016/06/media-change-project-censored-radio/) - Corporate media hegemony, top down managed news and grassroots resistance with Robert Hackett of Simon Fraser University and Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance. - [California's 5th Largest Public TV Station May be Scrapped for Wireless Spectrum](https://media-alliance.org/2016/06/californias-5th-largest-public-tv-station-may-be-scrapped-for-wireless-spectrum/) - The Community College Board proposed auctioning off all the station's spectrum to wireless companies and searched for a for-profit partner. - [MA and NLG-Committee on Democratic Communications File LPFM Comments](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ma-and-nlg-committee-on-democratic-communications-file-lpfm-comments/) - Comments filed o by the National Lawyers Guild-CDC and MA in the final FCC rulemaking on the Local Community Radio Act. - [Low-Power Radio Final Rulemaking: Common Frequency Comments](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/low-power-radio-final-rulemaking-common-frequency-comments/) - West coast radio support group and LPFM gurus Common Frequency submitted these comments to the final FCC rulemaking on the Local Community Radio Act. - [MA and NLG-Committee on Democratic Communications File Wireless Shutdown Comments](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ma-and-nlg-committee-on-democratic-communications-file-wireless-shutdown-comments/) - Several prominent national and California groups filed formal Comments with the (FCC) condemning the 2011 wireless shutdown by BART. - [AT&T / T-Mobile Merger Bites the Dust](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/att-t-mobile-merger-bites-the-dust/) - "Regulators regulated. There is no better Christmas present. Hopefully, this is only one of many public interest victories to come". - [Regulators Focus Eye on the Sale of KUSF by Reyhan Harmanci](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/regulators-focus-eye-on-the-sale-of-kusf-by-reyhan-harmanci/) - For over three decades, 90.3 had been home to the much-loved University of San Francisco station KUSF, which was yanked off the airwaves to make room for KDFC - [The Public Access Crisis by Eric Arnold](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-public-access-crisis-by-eric-arnold/) - BAVC made an "aggressive move toward a virtual studio as opposed to a community media center." This resulted, he says, in a lack of community engagement. - [Making Contact: Race, Immigration and the Fight for an Open Internet](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/making-contact-race-immigration-and-the-fight-for-an-open-internet/) - The topic? Net neutrality. What is it? Who will it impact most? And why should we care? - [Fox News Is No News Outlet](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/fox-news-is-no-news-outlet-2/) - People can have differing opinions about the meaning of what is said. There's a problem when we're debating what was said. - [Why Public Access Television Is Important and You Should Fight For the CAP ACT](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/why-public-access-television-is-important-and-you-should-fight-for-the-cap-act/) - The reason it was bad timing is that the nation’s more than 3,000 public access centers are on the verge of extinction. - [Media News - SF Public Access - Juan Barajas](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-juan-barajas/) - Subject: Prop 8, the Media and the GLBT Community Guest: Juan Barajas, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Host: Al Kielwasser - [Media News - SF Public Access - Nathan James](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-nathan-james/) - Subject: One Web Day , Guest: Nathan James - [Media News - SF Public Access - Richard Hopson](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-richard-hopson/) - Subject: Media Coverage of ACORN, Guest: Richard Hopson, ACORN - [Media News - SF Public Access - Henry Norr](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-henry-norr/) - Subject: Community Radio and Media Democracy: KPFA Elections, Guest: Henry Norr - [Media News - SF Public Access - Aurora Grajeda](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-aurora-grajeda/) - Subject: SF Hate Speech Resolution, Guest: Aurora Grajeda, Hispanic/Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition - [Media News - SF Public Access - Jackie Wright](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-jackie-wright/) - Subject: Loss of Public Affairs Desks in Broadcast Television,Guest: Jackie Wright - [Media News - SF Public Access - Shanina Shumate](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-shanina-shumate/) - Subject: The Allied Media Conference, Guest: Shanina Shumate, TEMPO - [Media News - SF Public Access - Ron Vincent](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-ron-vincent/) - Subject: San Francisco Public Access, Guest: Ron Vincent, City of San Francisco Information Technology Department - [Media News - SF Public Access - Roshan Pourabdullah](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-roshan-pourabdullah/) - Subject: Media Coverage of Iranian Election, Guest: Roshan Pourabdollah - United for Iran NC - [Media News-SF Public Access: Tommy Morahan](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-news-sf-public-access-tommy-morahan/) - Subject: The Media and Male Body Image Guest: Tommy Morahan, San Francisco State University - [National Broadband Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Thoughts from the Grassroots](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/national-broadband-policy-for-the-twenty-first-century-thoughts-from-the-grassroots/) - This Media Alliance report is a compilation of several events where grassroots groups and members of the community gathered to discuss the the Internet. - [KQED News - Digital Television Transition](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/kqed-news-digital-television-transition/) - Brief interview on KQED News with Tracy Rosenberg, director of Media Alliance on the digital television transition in September of 2008. - [Digital switch goes smoothly for local stations](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/digital-switch-goes-smoothly-for-local-stations/) - Media Alliance in Oakland, which provides free help to residents who need to make the upgrade, said the alliance was on pace to get about 200 calls Wednesday, - [4 Bay Area Stations to Shut Off Analog Signals Early](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/4-bay-area-stations-to-shut-off-analog-signals-early/) - Television is part of what knits us together as a nation. Access to information is a right, not a privilege with a ticket price of $40”. - [Digital Infrastructure: By the Community, For the Community by Eloise Lee](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/digital-infrastructure-by-the-community-for-the-community-by-eloise-lee/) - You really have to build that whole base of value within a community for people to access technology. - [The FCC Bus: One Person's Story](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-fcc-bus-one-persons-story-2/) - A tour bus that was commissioned by Media Alliance to transport a cross section of folks to tesify in the meeting of the F(FCC) on net neutrality. - [Media Alliance Joins With 19-Associations To Sue the NSA, DOJ and FBI Over Telephone MetaData Collection](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-alliance-joins-with-19-associations-to-sue-the-nsa-doj-and-fbi-over-telephone-metadata-collection/) - The lawsuit cites the freedom of association clause in the 1st Amendment to the Constitution and NAACP vs Alabama (1958). - [What's Left of the Dial](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/whats-left-of-the-dial/) - For a surreal stretch of hours last June, a radio tuned to 91.1 FM in Nashville did nothing but emit bottomless, hissing static - [Groups Ask FCC and DOJ to Investigate Law Enforcement’s Warrantless Use of Cellular Surveillance Devices](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/groups-ask-fcc-and-doj-to-investigate-law-enforcements-warrantless-use-of-cellular-surveillance-devices/) - 45 public interest organizations will deliver a letter demanding FCC and DOJ investigate law enforcement’s unregulated use of cellular surveillance devices. - [UC Berkeley ASUC Passes Resolution Campus Police Should Not Participate in Urban Shield](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/uc-berkeley-asuc-passes-resolution-campus-police-should-not-participate-in-urban-shield/) - ASUC (UC Berkeley undergraduate student government) unanimously passed a resolution asking for campus police to be banned from participating in Urban Shield - [Surveillance Equipment Transparency Ordinance May Debut in Santa Clara County](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/surveillance-equipment-transparency-ordinance-may-debut-in-santa-clara-county/) - Santa Clara County may be the first in the nation to implement a transparency ordinance controlling the purchase and use of all spying equipment in the county. - [New Lethal Injection Regulations from CDCR](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/new-lethal-injection-regulations-from-cdcr/) - MA commented on CDCR's proposed lethal injection regulations, specifically on access for journalists and witnesses to executions. - [Press Credentialing](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/press-credentialing/) - MA submitted these comments to the Berkeley Police Review Comm on the events of December 2014, when local rallies were dealt with violently by the Berkeley PD. - [Justice is Not For Sale Act Introduced to Congress](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/justice-is-not-for-sale-act-introduced-to-congress/) - Media Alliance is proud to join the national coalition supporting the Justice is Not For Sale Act. - [MA Supports the Speak Free Act of 2015](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ma-supports-the-speak-free-act-of-2015/) - As long-time advocates for civic engagement, public participation, and whistleblower rights, we see the Speak Free Act as a needed corrective - [Civil Rights Principles for Police Body Cameras](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/civil-rights-principles-for-police-body-cameras/) - A broad coalition of civil rights, privacy, and media rights organizations released civil rights principles for the use of body worn cameras by law enforcement. - [Oakland Passes Privacy Policy At 3:00AM](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/oakland-passes-privacy-policy-at-300am/) - Oakland's City Council, nearing the end of a 9 hour marathon meeting on June 3 2015, approved unanimously the nation's first citizen-developed privacy policy. - [Court of Appeals Rules Bulk Metadata Collection Illegal](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/court-of-appeals-rules-bulk-metadata-collection-illegal/) - A Federal Appeals Court in NY ruled the bulk metadata collection program attached to Section 215 of the Patriot Act is "‘irreconcilable with the statute text’. - [55 Organizations Support The Re-Introduction of The Private Prison Information Act](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/55-organizations-support-the-re-introduction-of-the-private-prison-information-act/) - MA is proud to join HRDC and 54 other organizations to support PPIA, HR 5838, which requires private prisons and detention centers to comply with FOIA. - [Improving FOIA](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/improving-foia/) - MA joined with over 50 civil liberties organizations to press Congress to reform and improve FOIA to facilitate government transparency. - [Fixing Congressional Oversight of National Security](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/fixing-congressional-oversight-of-national-security/) - A coalition of 50+ organizations (including Media Alliance) released a letter and a white paper with recommendations to make improvements. - [Muzzle Mumia Law Falls Outside the US Constitution](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/muzzle-mumia-law-falls-outside-the-us-constitution/) - A prisoner gag law in Philadelphia is being challenged in court as an unconstitutional abrogation of the right of speech. - [Bay Guardian Shut Down](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/bay-guardian-shut-down/) - The San Francisco Media Company suddenly and with no notice shut down the San Francisco Bay Guardian, the city by the Bay's alternative newspaper for decades. - [SB 828 - Turn The Water Off On The NSA Bill Signed by Jerry Brown](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/sb-828-turn-the-water-off-on-the-nsa-bill-signed-by-jerry-brown/) - California Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill SB-828 that was originally intended to deny resources to federal agencies engaging in unwarranted and illegal spying. - [Barbara Lee Relocates Fundraising Event from Oakland Marriot During Urban Shield](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/barbara-lee-relocates-fundraising-event-from-oakland-marriot-during-urban-shield/) - Babara Lee has relocated her fundraising event from the Oakland Marriot. Urban Shield has announced the 2015 expo will not be held at the Marriot. - [Declassified Documents](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/declassified-documents/) - As courts release formerly classified documents, albeit heavily blacked out, the extent of surveillance overreach gets a bigger paper trail. - [CA Corrections Department Proposes New Sweeping Prison Censorship Rules](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ca-corrections-department-proposes-new-sweeping-prison-censorship-rules/) - The vague and over-reaching regulation characterize all political materials as "oppositional to society and authority". - [Reset The Net - San Francisco](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/reset-the-net-san-francisco/) - Bay Area Shame on Feinstein activists delivered thousands of petitions to Dianne Feinstein's office asking her to stop undermining real surveillance reform. - [Oakland Domain Awareness Center (DAC): Scaled Back](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/oakland-domain-awareness-center-dac-scaled-back/) - After a community revolt, the Oakland City Council voted to postpone and look into scaling back implementation of the planned city-wide surveillance system. - [Credo Mobile: 1st Cellular Carrier To Tell Users of Surveillance Requests](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/credo-mobile-1st-cellular-carrier-to-tell-users-of-surveillance-requests/) - CREDO Mobile announced it is releasing a transparency report detailing the number of governmental requests it has received to turn over customer information. - [Jeremy Hammond Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Hacktivism](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/jeremy-hammond-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-for-hacktivism/) - Activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10-years in prison. Here is his statement before entering prison to serve a 10 year sentence. - [Video Highlights from DC Stop Watching Us Rally](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/video-highlights-from-dc-stop-watching-us-rally/) - Video Highlights from DC Stop Watching Us Rally - [Tim Redmond Sacked from Bay Guardian After 30 Years](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/tim-redmond-sacked-from-bay-guardian-after-30-years/) - After 30 years as the voice of progressive San Francisco, new Bay Guardian owners have sacked the editor of the publication. - [The Constitution? Fuggedaboutit. Guardian Breaks Multiple Stories on Widespread Warrantless Surveillance](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-constitution-fuggedaboutit-guardian-breaks-multiple-stories-on-widespread-warrantless-surveillance/) - Glenn Greenwald and Ewan Mcaskill break stories about NSA surveillance of phone calls and virtually unlimited access to every major computer server in the US. - [62 Public Interest Groups Demand Answers on AP Seizures](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/62-public-interest-groups-demand-answers-on-ap-seizures/) - More than 60 public interest groups sent a letter to Eric Holder demanding a full account of the Justice Dept’s targeting of journalists and whistleblowers. - [Urban Habitat Suspends Publication of Race Poverty and the Environment](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/urban-habitat-suspends-publication-of-race-poverty-and-the-environment/) - Urban Habitat has announced the suspension of Race Poverty and the Environment, their journal of 20+ years which chronicled movements for social justice - [30-Year New Mexico Public Access Center Evicted by Police](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/30-year-new-mexico-public-access-center-evicted-by-police/) - Staff of Quote Unquote showed up to the station to find their public access revoked by an armed officer placed there by the City of Albuquerque. - [Al-Jazeera - Under Fire for Distorted Coverage](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/al-jazeera-under-fire-for-distorted-coverage/) - Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-funded international news bureau, has been accused by its own reporters of intentionally distorting coverage of Syria and Libya. - [Hikers Freed from Evin Prison](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/hikers-freed-from-evin-prison/) - Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were freed from Tehran's Evin Prison after serving more than two years. The two were arrested - with Sarah Shourd in Kurdistan. - [A Left Mayoral Forum](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/a-left-mayoral-forum/) - MA joined with a dozen Oakland community groups to sponsor an October 11th forum hosted by Wilson Riles Jr. Watch the video! - [Toronto Police Give Journalists the Once-Over at G-20 Summit](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/toronto-police-give-journalists-the-once-over-at-g-20-summit/) - Numerous reports have been filed on the over-the-top behavior of the Canadian police during the G-20 summit in Toronto. Journalists received a fair share. - [Last Words](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/last-words/) - The eloquent last words of the assassinated Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickramatunga. - [On The Police and Nadra Foster](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/on-the-police-and-nadra-foster/) - This is a transcript of a talk by noted civil rights attorney Osha Neumann at La Pena at a benefit for the volunteer journalist. - [The Battle of St Paul](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-battle-of-st-paul/) - Twin Cities Indymedia assembled a 30 minute video documenting surveillance, pre-emptive raids and arrests at the 2008 Republican Convention in St Paul, MN. - [Comcast-Time Warner Merger Falls Apart](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/comcast-time-warner-merger-falls-apart/) - “The merger would have been a disaster for consumers already burdened with high prices and lousy service - [CA Public Utilities Commission Buries Net Neutrality Vote](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ca-public-utilities-commission-buries-net-neutrality-vote/) - Only hours before a vote to authorize the CPUC to weigh in on the federal network neutrality debate, the item was suddenly withdrawn for undisclosed reasons. - [A Thousand New Radio Stations: Whose Will They Be?](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/a-thousand-new-radio-stations-whose-will-they-be/) - The future of democratic media may come down to a bunch of lawyers. - [Lowjack The Power](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/lowjack-the-power/) - A fun video by Bay Area radio veteran David Gilton Soma on the low power radio revolution. - [SMCCD Board Liquidates KCSM-TV](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/smccd-board-liquidates-kcsm-tv/) - Members of the public objecting to the District's lack of transparency, were threatened with removal by armed security prior to the board vote. - [Censored KCSM-TV Bids Released by Community College District](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/censored-kcsm-tv-bids-released-by-community-college-district/) - In response to MA's public records request, censored bid information was released by KCSM-TV's owner, the San Mateo Community College District. - [Low-Power Radio: No Urban Blackout Zones](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/low-power-radio-no-urban-blackout-zones/) - MA filed these comments asking for lower watt service in urban markets where the band is too crowded including: San Jose, Detroit, and New York City. - [KCSM TV To Be Sold Off By Notorious Blackstone Group](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/kcsm-tv-to-be-sold-off-by-notorious-blackstone-group/) - The San Mateo Community College District plans to liquidate peninsula public television in partnership with the Blackstone Group hedge fund. - [No More Media Consolidation!](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/no-more-media-consolidation/) - MA's comments on the FCC plan to relax media cross-ownership rules, without even finishing the analysis of their own data on media ownership and diversity. - [KCSM TV Bids](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/kcsm-tv-bids/) - In response to Media Alliance's public records request, the six bids received for KCSM-TV's broadcast license have been provided by the San Mateo CCD. - [Maui Condos Or Public Trusts?](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/maui-condos-or-public-trusts/) - Even an agency as bureaucratic as the FCC points to localism as a broadcast priority. I agree. Let's not lose another one to the Borg. - [Clearchannel Public File Inspection](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/clearchannel-public-file-inspection/) - Media Alliance ED Tracy Rosenberg's report from a public file inspection for Clearchannel Radio in San Francisco. - [Radio Summer Bay Area](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/radio-summer-bay-area/) - The opportunity to apply for licenses for hundreds of new local radio stations that will come to life in suburban and urban neighborhoods across the country. - [Broadcast Ownership Data Released](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/broadcast-ownership-data-released/) - The Federal Communications Commission finally released long-delayed Form 323 data, which tracks female and minority ownership of broadcast outlets. - [KUSF License Sold](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/kusf-license-sold/) - The University of San Francisco sold the broadcast license of KUSF as a new frequency for the nonprofit iteration of classical station KDFC. - [Towards A Just Communications Structure: Pacifica Radio's Never Ending Battle](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/towards-a-just-communications-structure-pacifica-radios-never-ending-battle/) - I would make the case that anything that generates as much sound and fury as Pacifica has for the last 20 years cannot possibly be irrelevant. - [Looking for Journalism in all the Wrong Places](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/looking-for-journalism-in-all-the-wrong-places/) - The news is full of the lack of news. - [Raising Our Voices Rises Again!](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/raising-our-voices-rises-again/) - Participants will build their skills base in a variety of media technology – from computer and online basics to podcasting video and audio on the Internet. - [The Day TV Goes Away: The Digital Television Transition](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-day-tv-goes-away-the-digital-television-transition/) - For some, the switch forces them to replace televisions, subscribe to cable they may not be able to afford, or install a converter box. - [Finishing Prison Phone Reform](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/finishing-prison-phone-reform/) - An open letter signed by 50 social justice groups, including MA, detailing the final phases of federal prison phone reforms. - [Special Customer Service For You](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/special-customer-service-for-you/) - Internal documents leaked contain instructions to transfer customers who ask about network neutrality or data caps to a special customer service division. - [Real Cable Franchising in California](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/real-cable-franchising-in-california/) - The CPUC's Division of Rate Payers Advocates has filed a petition asking the State of California to go above the boilerplate cable franchise renewal process. - [35 Human Rights Groups Denounce Global Citizenship Award to Chevron CEO John Watson](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/35-human-rights-groups-denounce-global-citizenship-award-to-chevron-ceo-john-watson/) - Media Alliance is pleased to join 34 human rights groups in demanding the Commonwealth Club withdraw its Global Citizenship Award to Chevron CEO John Watson. - [Keeping Broadcast TV Accessible](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/keeping-broadcast-tv-accessible/) - Note sent to the House Energy/Commerce Committee about keeping local broadcast channels on the low price tiers of cable and satellite systems. - [30 Groups Object To Chevron Humanitarian Nomination](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/30-groups-object-to-chevron-humanitarian-nomination/) - MA joined 30 groups to object to Chevron's nomination for a corporate excellence award for humanitarian activities. - [MA Joins 17 Advocacy Orgs in Chevron RICO Amicus Brief](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ma-joins-17-advocacy-orgs-in-chevron-rico-amicus-brief/) - Media Alliance is proud to have joined an important 1st Amendment challenge after Chevron filed racketeering charges against advocacy groups. - [Bill To Rescue Public Access TV Passed in Sacramento](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/bill-to-rescue-public-access-tv-passed-in-sacramento/) - AJR 39 calls on US Congress to change laws restricting the way PEG community centers can spend money to help residents tell the stories of their communities. - [Keep Broadcast Access Affordable](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/keep-broadcast-access-affordable/) - This brief statement was submitted by MA to the House Judiciary Committee asking for full broadcast access on the lowest-priced cable system tiers. - [Shame on Feinstein: CA Senator Responds To The Campaign](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/shame-on-feinstein-ca-senator-responds-to-the-campaign/) - Bay Area-based activist groups launched "Shame on Feinstein", an open letter objecting to her attempts to block meaningful reform to the NSA. - [Verizon's Version of Freedom of Information: 300 Blacked-Out Pages](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/verizons-version-of-freedom-of-information-300-blacked-out-pages/) - Verizon responded to a NY consumer Freedom of Information Act request with 300 Blacked-out Pages on Voice Link Deployments - [NSA Audit 2012](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/nsa-audit-2012/) - Documenting 2,776 incidents in the preceding 12 months of unauthorized collection, storage, access to or distribution of legally protected communications. - [Restore The Fourth (Amendment) - San Francisco](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/restore-the-fourth-amendment-san-francisco/) - Famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg was one of the featured speakers at the August 4th anti-spying protest in the heart of San Francisco. - [MA and National Lawyers Guild CDC File Comments Opposing Wireless Shutdowns](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/ma-and-national-lawyers-guild-cdc-file-comments-opposing-wireless-shutdowns/) - Media Alliance and the National Lawyers Guild CDC (joined by 10 other organizations filed comments opposing wireless shutdowns. - [200+ Protest at Fox Shareholders Meeting in LA](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/200-protest-at-fox-shareholders-meeting-in-la-2/) - Change to Win, CWA, Media Alliance, Media Action Center, Free Press. Avaaz, Occupy LA and others joined to welcome Rupert Murdoch to Los Angeles - [Supreme Court Comes Down on the Side of Video Games in Brown vs. EMA](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/supreme-court-comes-down-on-the-side-of-video-games-in-brown-vs-ema/) - The Supreme Court struck down a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to children under 18. - [AT&T / T-Mobile : Looking Like a Disaster](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/att-t-mobile-looking-like-a-disaster/) - AT&T / T-Mobile : a disaster any way you look at it. - [16 Million Dollar Verdict in Strange Wrongful Death Case](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/16-million-dollar-verdict-in-strange-wrongful-death-case/) - Entercom was assessed a 16 million dollar wrongful death verdict in the Jennifer Strange case. - [Pictures from Stop Media Hate Speech Picket](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/pictures-from-stop-media-hate-speech-picket/) - Before the Bay Area premiere of Broadcast Blues, community members gathered to advocate for an FCC docket and study of the impact of media hate speech. - [Future of Music Coalition Study on the Impact of Payola Policies on Playlists.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/future-of-music-coalition-study-on-the-impact-of-payola-policies-on-playlists/) - Future of Music Coalition announces the release of a report that analyzes radio playlists to determine whether payola investigations have had any effect - [Request for Hate Speech Inquiry Launched](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/request-for-hate-speech-inquiry-launched/) - More than 30 organizations argue in a letter to the FCC that syndicated radio and cable television programs "masquerading as news" use hate as a profit model. - [What Will They Do About The Internet?](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/what-will-they-do-about-the-internet/) - Media Alliance joined 38 organizations to call for political debate moderators to ask candidates how they plan to improve high-speed Internet access. - [Don't Undermine Encryption: Apple vs. NSA](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/dont-undermine-encryption-apple-vs-nsa/) - The issue broke when the FBI got a court order to compel Apple Computer to break its own smartphone encryption. - [The Internet You Need](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/the-internet-you-need/) - New animated short on net neutrality by filmmaker Mark Farinas. Great for explaining net neutrality to young people! - [Open Letter to Twitter About Politwoops](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/open-letter-to-twitter-about-politwoops/) - Twitter shut down a tool that helps people hold politicians accountable in 29 countries around the world. - [International Webtivists Question Facebook's Internet.org](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/international-webtivists-question-facebooks-internet-org/) - 67 civil society groups write open letter to Facebook questioning Internet.org program to provide walled garden Internet service to underserved populations. - [Media Alliance Filing - Net Neutrality](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/media-alliance-filing-net-neutrality/) - Here's our individual filing in the FCC Net Neutrality proceeding. - [Big Data and Privacy](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/big-data-and-privacy/) - It is vitally important that the emerging policy framework for big data explicitly acknowledges and address issues of racial discrimination". - [Pew Cell/Phone Internet Survey Documents Impact of Data Caps](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/new-pew-cellphone-internet-survey-documents-impact-of-data-caps/) - Trends towards the imposition of data caps will hit the smart-phone dependent population especially hard. - [Insurrection at the e-G8](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/insurrection-at-the-eg-8/) - The press conference addressed US government influence on the e-G8's discussion of IP issues, digital rights, and openness on the Internet - [The Emerging World of Broadband Public-Private Partnerships](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-emerging-world-of-broadband-public-private-partnerships/) - The Coalition for Local Internet Choice wrote thiis guide for local municipal governments teaming up with private companies to provide high speed Internet. - [The Drone Report from Stop LAPD Spying](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-drone-report-from-stop-lapd-spying/) - This report was written by Stop LAPD Spying on drones in LA and the community response. - [Who Makes The News: Global Media Monitoring Project 2015](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/who-makes-the-news-global-media-monitoring-project-2015/) - This UN-Sponsored report has some limitations, but also some useful statistics about gender and global media in several parts of the world. - [Media in Action](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-in-action/) - A new report by Global Action Research, with support from the Data Center and Research Action Design on media and youth organizing in the United States. - [CURB Decarceration Report](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/curb-decarceration-report/) - Communities United For a Responsible Budget (CURB) puts out an annual report on how California is doing in making strides towards lower rates of imprisonment. - [Digital Culture Shift Report](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/digital-culture-shift-report/) - A report from the Center for Media Justice says the answer depends on the strategy — and offers new approaches and recommendations. - [Artificial Scarcity: How Data Caps Harm Consumers and Innovation](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/artificial-scarcity-how-data-caps-harm-consumers-and-innovation/) - New America’s Open Technology Institute released this report examining the use of data caps on wired and mobile broadband service in the United States. - [Digital Divide in CA - Field Poll](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/digital-divide-in-ca-2014-field-poll/) - This Field Poll updates digital divide stats in California. Internet usage in California has plateaued at 87% of the population, with no increase since 2012 - [Not To Be Trusted](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/not-to-be-trusted/) - ColorOfChange partnered with Media Matters for America to study how accurately local news stations are covering the role of Black people in crime. - [World Press Freedom Index 2015](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/world-press-freedom-index-2015/) - The Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to a range of criteria . - [Smart About Surveillance](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/smart-about-surveillance/) - A model ordinance for community control over surveillance equipment acquisitions, uses and practices from ACLU. - [Rise of the Renter Nation](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/rise-of-the-renter-nation/) - Solutions to the housing affordability crisis from the Right To The City Alliance - [Surveillance Costs: The NSA's Impact on the Economy, Internet Freedom and Cybersecurity](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/surveillance-costs-the-nsas-impact-on-the-economy-internet-freedom-and-cybersecurity/) - This report from the Open Technology Institute focuses on the economic costs of blanket mass surveillance. - [With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large Scale US Surveillance is Harming Journalism, Law and American Democracy](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/with-liberty-to-monitor-all-how-large-scale-us-surveillance-is-harming-journalism-law-and-american-democracy/) - A report co-authored by the ACLU and Human Rights Watch that focuses on the impact of US surveillance on journalism, law and the exercise of democracy - [Inside the Big Oil Playbook](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/inside-the-big-oil-playbook/) - Case study from Environment Maine on the tar sands and a local resistance campaign. - [The Latino Media Gap](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-latino-media-gap/) - Study on Latino media exclusion from the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP). - [Who's In Danger?](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/whos-in-danger/) - An analysis of the highest vulnerability zones for chemical accidents and the policy reforms to reduce the disparate impacts on low-income communities - [White House: Big Data and Privacy Report](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/white-house-big-data-and-privacy-report/) - White House report on the era of Big Data - [Status of Women in the US Media](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/status-of-women-in-the-us-media/) - This report by the Women's Media Center shines a light on the status of women in media and underscores the need to hold media accountable for equity. - [First Unitarian vs NSA](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/first-unitarian-vs-nsa/) - A presentation on this important First Amendment case (MA is one of the plaintiffs). First Unitarian vs NSA helped to end blanket metadata sweeps by the NSA. - [Another Take on the IP Transition](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/another-take-on-the-ip-transition/) - A report from the Greenlining Institute on the telephone transition. - [IP Transition - Phones in the 21st Century](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/ip-transition-phones-in-the-21st-century/) - A report from Public Knowledge and Center for Media Justice on transformation from legacy phone lines to mobile communications - and the winners and losers. - [Data Due Process](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/data-due-process/) - Report from the NYU School of Law - "Big Data and Due Process: Toward a Framework to Redress Predictive Privacy Harms" - [Undressing Patriarchy: A Report from the Institute of Development Studies](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/undressing-patriarchy-a-report-from-the-institute-of-development-studies/) - Peport from a Brighton UK Conference on patriarchy and how to undo the harmful effects on girls, boys, men, women and the transgendered. - [Sexy Avatars and The Real World](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/sexy-avatars-and-the-real-world/) - A fascinating study at Stanford University documents the impact of using sexy avatars in computer games on female self-objectification. - [Copyright and Fair Use](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/copyright-and-fair-use-2/) - A handy guide to fair use and copyright for multimedia producers from LAMP (The Learning About Multimedia Project). - [Doubling Digital Opportunities: Enhancing the Inclusion of Women and Girls in the Information Society](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/doubling-digital-opportunities-enhancing-the-inclusion-of-women-and-girls-in-the-information-society/) - This report closely examines critical gender issues with respect to new information and communication technologies (ICTs) and broadband. - [Friends of The Earth - Tiny Ingredients, Big Risks](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/friends-of-the-earth-tiny-ingredients-big-risks/) - This report from Friends of the Earth documents a tenfold increase in unregulated, unlabeled “nanofood” products on the American market since 2008. - [Oakland Digital Inclusion Summit (ODIS) Reader](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/oakland-digital-inclusion-summit-odis-reader/) - Click here for the summit reader: some of the best resources on community broadband implementation around. - [New Toolkit Makes Digital Inclusion Advocacy Easier](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/new-toolkit-makes-digital-inclusion-advocacy-easier/) - Media Alliance's "Digital Inclusion Advocacy Toolkit provides useful information for communities who want to advance digital inclusion in their neighborhoods. - [Commercial Broadcaster Public Interest Obligations](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/commercial-broadcaster-public-interest-obligations/) - Here is the updated and revised manual explaining the public interest obligations of broadcasters. - [National Broadband Policy for the Twenty-First Century: Thoughts from the Grassroots](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/national-broadband-policy-for-the-twenty-first-century-thoughts-from-the-grassroots-2/) - This Media Alliance report is a compilation of several events in California where grassroots groups gathered to discuss the the Internet. - [Copyright and Fair Use](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/copyright-and-fair-use/) - This on-line guide from the Stanford University Library and Nolo Books covers most of the important information on copyrights, fair use and permissions. - [E-Waste: What to do with that old TV, Phone or Computer](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/e-waste-what-to-do-with-that-old-tv-phone-or-computer/) - Recycling resources in the East Bay that are responsible and community-oriented. For analog TV's, old computers and cell phones ... and more. - [Pew Study: Word of Mouth Frequent Source of News](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/pew-study-word-of-mouth-frequent-source-of-news/) - While local TV news remains the most popular source for local information, adults rely on it for just three subjects -- weather, breaking news and traffic. - [Designing for Impact: The Rise of High-Impact Social Justice Documentaries](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/designing-for-impact-the-rise-of-high-impact-social-justice-documentaries/) - This report, from the Center for Social Media at American University, provides 6 in-depth case studies of the documentary film process and how to evaluate impact. - [Trends in Latino Mobile Phone Usage](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/trends-in-latino-mobile-phone-usage/) - This report is a comprehensive compilation of data on how the Latino community is using mobile phones. - [University of Minnesota Study on Online Piracy](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/university-of-minnesota-study-on-online-piracy/) - Univ of Minnesota study on the impact of online piracy on international box office sales. News flash: there isn't much of one. - [Connected: Poverty Stretches the Digital Divide](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/connected-poverty-stretches-the-digital-divide/) - A series of studies by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University on the links between poverty, rural life and lack of broadband access. - [Digital Inclusion and Data Profiling](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/digital-inclusion-and-data-profiling/) - This paper focuses on specific examples of commercial data profiling against the history of low–tech data profiling of chronically underserved communities. - [ARC Report: Milennials Activism and Race](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/arc-report-milennials-activism-and-race/) - A report from the Applied Research Center on Millenials, Activism and Race. - [Rules of the Road: Ethics and Local On-Line Journalism](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/rules-of-the-road-ethics-and-local-on-line-journalism/) - Report that collates experiences from several online local journalism sites around the country. Put out by J-Lab at American University - [Report: On-Line Engagement for News Sites](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/report-on-line-engagement-for-news-sites/) - Surveyed outlets include Urban Milwaukee, the Twin Cities Daily Planet and the Great Lakes Echo in this J-Lab report. - [Families Unlocking Futures: A Report on the Juvenile Justice System](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/families-unlocking-futures-a-report-on-the-juvenile-justice-system/) - This Data Center report spells out how professionals can learn from the experiences of families, and how to include them as partners in juvenile justice. - [Echoing Justice: Communication Strategies for Social Justice in the 21st Century](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/echoing-justice-communication-strategies-for-social-justice-in-the-21st-century/) - A publication on communication strategies with useful case studies. Free! From some of the best in the business in social justice communications. - [BAVC: Impact Playbook: Best Practices for Understanding the Impact of Media](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/bavc-impact-playbook-best-practices-for-understanding-the-impact-of-media/) - Toolkit on metrics for evaluating the impact of media pieces put out by the Bay Area Video Coalition. - [Broadband 101: An Infographic To Talk Tech](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/broadband-101-an-infographic-to-talk-tech/) - A very handy infographic from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance so you can speak broadband babble with the best of them. - [Counter-Brand Work: Legal Issues, A BEN Webinar](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/counter-brand-work-legal-issues-a-ben-webinar/) - A very useful webinar from BEN (The Business Ethics Network of Corporate Ethics Intl) on legal issues with doing counterbrand anti-corporate organizing. - [Civic Engagement in the Digital Age](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/civic-engagement-in-the-digital-age/) - Pew study highlights that traditional income barriers that impact levels of political activity manifest less in online political activity than offline. - [A Guide to Digital Copyright](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/a-guide-to-digital-copyright/) - A short guide to digital property rights from Public Knowledge. - [Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI's Unchecked Abuse of Authority](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/unleashed-and-unaccountable-the-fbis-unchecked-abuse-of-authority/) - A report by the ACLU on FBI surveillance tactics with a specific emphasis on the increased use of racial profiling since September 11, 2001. - [Not a Happy Birthday: ALEC at 40](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/not-a-happy-birthday-alec-at-40/) - An opportunity to reflect on the havoc caused by ALEC in its 40 years of existence, thanks to this comprehensive report by the Center for Media and Democracy - [American Hate Radio Report](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/american-hate-radio-report/) - This report from the National Hispanic Media Coalition sheds light on the prevalence and the dangers of American hate radio. - [Better Than Anything On Tv](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/better-than-anything-on-tv/) - Three terrific documentaries available free and online. Enjoy! - [MEDIA RACISM. By Salim Muwakkil.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-racism-by-salim-muwakkil/) - This blindness to racial bias is given sanction by the notion of justifiable "race fatigue," which is perpetrated by right-wing commentators - [METHODS OF MEDIA MANIPULATION, by Michael Parenti](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/methods-of-media-manipulation-by-michael-parenti/) - Media bias does not occur in a random fashion. The corporate media seldom stray into territory that cause discomfort to those who hold economic power, - [MEDIA SERVE GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD INDUSTRY. by Jane Akre and Steve Wilson.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-serve-genetically-modified-food-industry-by-jane-akre-and-steve-wilson/) - There is no shortage of evidence that the industry itself has become the master of the message, manipulating and massaging the facts wherever they must. - [MEDIA IS THE MIRAGE, by Mumia Abu-Jamal](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-is-the-mirage-by-mumia-abu-jamal/) - American mass media is a marvel of technology. It is whiz bang, sparkle glitter. It is a master plan of methods, and a pauper's worth of substance. - [ANTI-IMMIGRANT RACISM AND THE MEDIA. by Arnoldo Garcia.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/anti-immigrant-racism-and-the-media-by-arnoldo-garcia/) - A new malaise has, indeed, infected the U.S. body politic, where the war against terrorism and racism feed on each other. - [JUSTICE JOURNALISM: JOURNALIST AS AGENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE. by Terry Messman.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/justice-journalism-journalist-as-agent-of-social-change-by-terry-messman/) - Many forms of politically engaged journalism have arisen to fight social injustices in the course of U.S. history. - [MANY VOICES, ONE WORLD. by Dee Dee Halleck.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/many-voices-one-world-by-dee-dee-halleck/) - Media corporations are key targets in the ongoing struggle against globalization. - [MEDIA, OIL, AND POLITICS: ANATOMY OF THE VENEZUELAN COUP. by Eric Quezada.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-oil-and-politics-anatomy-of-the-venezuelan-coup-by-eric-quezada/) - It appears that the U.S. embassy in Caracas has been a busy meeting place of coup plotters. - [MEDIA LOCKOUT: PRISONS AND JOURNALISTS, by Helene Vosters](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-lockout-prisons-and-journalists-by-helene-vosters/) - The prison industrial complex- fueled by billions in tax dollars and millions of devastated lives--operates largely without public scrutiny. - [WHAT'S CENSORED? Project Censored Fights for Media Freedom, by Peter Phillips](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/whats-censored-project-censored-fights-for-media-freedom-by-peter-phillips/) - In medicine, it's called Managed Care. In media, it's Managed News. - [PINOCHET AND THE AMNESIA OF THE U.S. PRESS, by Roger Burbach](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/pinochet-and-the-amnesia-of-the-u-s-press-by-roger-burbach/) - There is still virtually no discussion in the mainstream press of the complicity of the U.S. government in Pinochet's coup and long reign of terror. - [THE MORE TIMES CHANGE . . . THE BAY AREA ALTERNATIVE PRESS '68 - '98, by Marcy Rein](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-more-times-change-the-bay-area-alternative-press-68-98-by-marcy-rein/) - Whatever the era, the alternative press gives voice to communities more often spoken about--or simply ignored--than allowed to speak for themselves. - [GREENS SHUT OUT BY NATIONAL MEDIA. by Peter Hart.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/greens-shut-out-by-national-media-by-peter-hart/) - The pain the establishment media felt over Green Party candidate Ralph Nader's challenge to the two-party system was evident in CBS's election night coverage. - [INFORMATION WARRIORS: PENTAGON'S MINISTRY OF TRUTH SHAPES WAR COVERAGE. by Danny Schechter, MediaChannel.org](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/information-warriors-pentagons-ministry-of-truth-shapes-war-coverage-by-danny-schechter-mediachannel-org/) - The Pentagon has set out to win at least three wars, the one on the battlefield , the so-called war for hearts and minds and "the media war.", - [CALCULATED CHAOS: Inside the Mobilzation that Rocked Pacifica, by Van Jones](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/calculated-chaos-inside-the-mobilzation-that-rocked-pacifica-by-van-jones/) - To some observers, the broad protest movement that erupted this summer to defend Bay Area community radio station KPFA (94.1 FM) looked like a near riot. - [Commentary: S.F. DAILY PAPERS PIT MIDDLE CLASS AGAINST HOMELESS, by Ben Clarke](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/commentary-s-f-daily-papers-pit-middle-class-against-homeless-by-ben-clarke/) - The Chronicleconsistently chooses or stories in a way that engenders hostility toward the homeless from working- and middle-class San Franciscans. - [DISTORTED MEDIA COVERAGE FUELS ANTI–YOUTH PROP. 21, by A. Clay Thompson](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/distorted-media-coverage-fuels-anti-youth-prop-21-by-a-clay-thompson/) - When searching for the perpetrators behind this nation's current cops-and-incarceration boom, media workers need only look in the mirror. - [CORPORATE MEDIA, ALTERNATIVE PRESS, AND AFRICAN AMERICANS, by Salim Muwakkil](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/corporate-media-alternative-press-and-african-americans-by-salim-muwakkil/) - For African Americans and others who have been victimized by a biased and distorting media, this environment presents yet another barrier to social justice. - [THE STATE OF OUR UNIONS, by David Bacon](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-state-of-our-unions-by-david-bacon/) - Thrown into a defensive position by aggressive monopolies, media workers unions seek new sources of strength. - [YOU'RE THE PUBLIC, SO GET CABLE ACCESS, by Lisa Sousa](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/youre-the-public-so-get-cable-access-by-lisa-sousa/) - Local access stations are virtually the only opportunity for individuals and communities to have some control over television programming. - [TAKING JOURNALISM TO JAIL: an interview with David Gaither, by Elton Bradman](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/taking-journalism-to-jail-an-interview-with-david-gaither-by-elton-bradman/) - The Beat Within is a weekly newsletter by and for incarcerated youth in the Bay Area, - [PLATFORM FOR MEDIA REFORM. by Robert McChesney and John Nichols.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/platform-for-media-reform-by-robert-mcchesney-and-john-nichols/) - Robert McChesney and John Nichols argue for a broad-based media reform movement that can make media democracy a central political issue in the United States. - [TAKING BACK THE MEDIA: NOTES ON THE POTENTIAL FOR A COMMUNICATIVE DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT. By Bob Hackett](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/taking-back-the-media-notes-on-the-potential-for-a-communicative-democracy-movement-by-bob-hackett/) - Of all contemporary popular struggles, the struggle to democratize the communication media is arguably one of the most important and least recognized. - [NOAM CHOMSKY: BEHIND THE HEADLINES ON COLOMBIA. AN INTERVIEW by David Barsamian.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/noam-chomsky-behind-the-headlines-on-colombia-an-interview-by-david-barsamian/) - U.S. Policy in Colombia: Towards a Vietnam Quagmire." Do you think that's an appropriate analogy? - [WHO WILL COUNT THE DEAD? U.S. MEDIA FAIL TO REPORT CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN. By Marc W. Herold.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/who-will-count-the-dead-u-s-media-fail-to-report-civilian-casualties-in-afghanistan-by-marc-w-herold/) - The only casualty reports considered "real" by the mainstream U.S. press are those issued by a western organization. - [PBS SHUTS OUT INDEPENDENT PRODUCERS. by Jerold M. Starr.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/pbs-shuts-out-independent-producers-by-jerold-m-starr/) - PBS was supposed to compensate for the inadequacies of advertiser-driven network programming by providing, in the words of its mandate, an alternative. - [ACTIVISTS FIGHT MEDIA CONSOLIDATION: FCC DROPPING OWNERSHIP LIMITS by Aliza Dichter](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/activists-fight-media-consolidation-fcc-dropping-ownership-limits-by-aliza-dichter/) - These rules are intended to protect diversity of viewpoints, competition and local ownership. - [STREET SOLDIERS SILENCED BY MEDIA MERGER, by Laura Saponara](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/street-soldiers-silenced-by-media-merger-by-laura-saponara/) - But after seven years on the air, the risk-taking, straight-talking, award-winning, nationally syndicated show can no longer be heard over Bay Area airwaves. - [INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS WIN VICTORIES, by Dorothy Kidd](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/international-media-campaigns-win-victories-by-dorothy-kidd/) - The emergence of a well-organized and increasingly sophisticated network of internationalist media campaigners based both in and outside the media world. - [MUMIA'S TRIAL -- THE SMELL OF SMOKE, by Margot Pepper](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/mumias-trial-the-smell-of-smoke-by-margot-pepper/) - Mumia had a reputation among the Philadelphia police for writing about police repression in the black community. - [REPORTING ON DISABILITY, by Suzanne C. Levine](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/reporting-on-disability-by-suzanne-c-levine/) - More often than not, reporting on disability perpetuates negative stereotypes or fails to tell the story from the perspective of people with disabilities. - [WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH WELFARE REFORM?, by Camille Taiara](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/whats-happening-with-welfare-reform-by-camille-taiara/) - The people, the vast majority of them children, whose lives have been irrevocably altered by benefit cut-offs simply aren't worthy of public attention - [TIPS FROM A PRO ON INVESTIGATING DEATH ROW CASES, by A. Clay Thompson](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/tips-from-a-pro-on-investigating-death-row-cases-by-a-clay-thompson/) - MediaFile asked a prominent local defense investigator for tips on digging into death-row cases. - [DISSENTING VOICES OF THE STREET, by Terry Messman](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/dissenting-voices-of-the-street-by-terry-messman/) - An outspoken brand of iconoclastic journalism has emerged from the harsh experiences of people living on the streets in dozens of cities in the United States. - [REPORTER'S FILE: Using Tax Returns to Investigate Nonprofit Organizations, by Mónica L. López](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/reporters-file-using-tax-returns-to-investigate-nonprofit-organizations-by-monica-l-lopez/) - For reporters investigating nonprofit organizations Form 990 and Form 990 Schedule A are gold mines of information - [CUAUHTÉMOC CÁRDENAS MEETS THE PRESS, by John Ross](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/cuauhtemoc-cardenas-meets-the-press-by-john-ross/) - Inside Mexico, the media have mounted a sustained attack on the capital's left-leaning mayor that could help squash chances for democratic reform. - [THE MEXICO CONNECTION, by Sharon Donovan and the Media Alliance Latin America Committee](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/the-mexico-connection-by-sharon-donovan-and-the-media-alliance-latin-america-committee/) - A survey of mainstream media reporting on U.S. military aid, the "drug war," and human rights in Mexico. - [TOP 10: BEST MOVIES ABOUT MEDIA, by MiHi Ahn](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/top-10-best-movies-about-media-by-mihi-ahn/) - Picking the top ten anything is a pretty daunting task, and selecting ten top media movies proved to be more of a challenge than I was expecting. - [STUDENTS STRUGGLE AGAINST CENSORSHIP, by Lian Cheun](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/students-struggle-against-censorship-by-lian-cheun/) - High school students continue to find that their First Amendment rights are invisible to school administrators, despite years of struggle against censorship. - [HAVANA JOURNAL, by Elaine Elinson](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/havana-journal-by-elaine-elinson/) - A delegation of nine journalists organized by Media Alliance and Global Exchange visited Cuba for eight days. - [WHY PROGRESSIVES KEEP LOSING CALIFORNIA'S INITIATIVE WARS, by Hunter Cutting and Kim Deterline, photos by Scott Braley](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/why-progressives-keep-losing-californias-initiative-wars-by-hunter-cutting-and-kim-deterline-photos-by-scott-braley/) - The results of these battles contain profound lessons about the difference between winning and losing campaign strategies and media messages. - [HE SAYS, SHE SAYS: HOW CALIFORNIA'S MAJOR PAPERS HAVE COVERED PROP. 227, by Manisha Aryal](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/he-says-she-says-how-californias-major-papers-have-covered-prop-227-by-manisha-aryal/) - This is what coverage of Prop 227--a ballot initiative that would eliminate bilingual education in California --boils down to in the state's opinion-leading dailies. - [FALLING THROUGH THE CRACKS: why labor actions are not news, by Akilah Monifa](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/falling-through-the-cracks-why-labor-actions-are-not-news-by-akilah-monifa/) - I wonder: Why is a major, ongoing union demonstration not news? - [READ 'EM AND THINK (CRITICALLY): A media criticism reading list, by Gabe Martinez and Akilah Monifa](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/read-em-and-think-critically-a-media-criticism-reading-list-by-gabe-martinez-and-akilah-monifa/) - Media bashing has become a reflex for many, but critical analysis of what we read, listen to, and watch is what's essential. - [BAY AREA GROUPS MONITOR MAINSTREAM, by Samantha Calamari.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/bay-area-groups-monitor-mainstream-by-samantha-calamari/) - Their efforts take media criticism a step beyond analysis and are beginning productive steps towards media democracy and public access to balanced news - [INTERNATIONAL NEWS: WHERE IS IT COMING FROM? by Franz Schurmann.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/international-news-where-is-it-coming-from-by-franz-schurmann/) - American newspaper readers traditionally haven't taken much interest in "foreign" news - [NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE MEDIA: WHO'S LEFT? by Andrea Buffa.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/national-progressive-media-whos-left-by-andrea-buffa/) - When it comes to the question of why progressive national media outlets reach such a small percentage of their potential audience, progressives are conflicted. - [DEMOCRATIZING THE MASS MEDIA: AN ASSESSMENT AND PROPOSAL. by Randy Baker](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/democratizing-the-mass-media-an-assessment-and-proposal-by-randy-baker/) - The ways in which progressives are currently approaching the issue seem unlikely to substantially change the status quo. - [WHOSE MEDIA? OUR MEDIA! by Dorothy Kidd.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/whose-media-our-media-by-dorothy-kidd/) - Our aim was to start envisioning a democratic media that was accessible, inclusive, and accountable and independent of both corporate and government control. - [FANG'S EXAMINER. by Harrison Chastang.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/fangs-examiner-by-harrison-chastang/) - "You get what you pay for," was the opinion of one reader looking at the first edition of the "new" San Francisco Examiner. - [FCC EMBRACES MONSTER MERGER: AGENCY IMPOSES MILD OPEN ACCESS PROVISIONS ON AOL TIME WARNER. by Marshall Runkel.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/fcc-embraces-monster-merger-agency-imposes-mild-open-access-provisions-on-aol-time-warner-by-marshall-runkel/) - What do Bugs Bunny, Batman and Steve Case have in common? They are all now brothers in the same corporate family - [YOUTH MEDIA: THE POLITICS OF SELF-EXPRESSION. by Twilight Greenaway.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/youth-media-the-politics-of-self-expression-by-twilight-greenaway/) - Much of today's youth media stems from a long tradition of DIY (Do-it-Yourself). Look at the zines of the 1980s and '90s - [TENANT ACTIVISTS WIN MARKET STREET BUILDING, MEDIA YAWNS. by Randy Shaw.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/tenant-activists-win-market-street-building-media-yawns-by-randy-shaw/) - Media coverage of the victory of the Grant Building Tenants Association (GBTA) again shows how the media can diminish the role of activism in shaping the world. - [ANTI-REPARATIONS ADS BUILD RIGHT-WING MOVEMEMENT. by Bill Berkowitz.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/anti-reparations-ads-build-right-wing-movemement-by-bill-berkowitz/) - Sounds like the old Vietnam War saw about "bombing the village to save it." What's up with this Master of Mean, Prince of Conservative Politics? - [25 YEARS: MA EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS COVER THE DECADES. by Rich Yurman.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/25-years-ma-executive-directors-cover-the-decades-by-rich-yurman/) - The accomplishments, crises, and controversies that make up Media Alliance's 25-year history are reflected in its eight very different executive directors. - [NORTH AMERICAN STREET NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION. by Challa Tabeson.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/north-american-street-newspaper-association-by-challa-tabeson/) - The North American Street Newspaper Association (NASNA) gathered for three days of meetings and workshops to strengthen the street newspaper movement. - [GLOBAL MEDIA GIANTS LOBBY TO PRIVATIZE ENTIRE BROADCAST SPECTRUM. by Jeremy Rifkin.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/global-media-giants-lobby-to-privatize-entire-broadcast-spectrum-by-jeremy-rifkin/) - Most of us never give the spectrum a passing thought. We regard it, more or less, like the oxygen we breathe. - [WATT'S UP? BEHIND THE MEDIA'S COVERAGE OF THE ENERGY CRISIS. by Andrea Buffa.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/watts-up-behind-the-medias-coverage-of-the-energy-crisis-by-andrea-buffa/) - In analyzing media coverage of the California energy "crisis," the one crucial tool you must have on hand is a flashlight - [UNDERMINING EFFECTIVE REPORTING: NEW FCC PROPOSALS. by Jeffrey Chester.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/undermining-effective-reporting-new-fcc-proposals-by-jeffrey-chester/) - Just two days after terrorist attacks in the U.S., the FCC moved ahead with plans to weaken several policies designed to promote diversity of media ownership. - [COLOMBIAN JOURNALISTS UNDER ATTACK BY PARAMILITARIES. by Frank Smyth.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/colombian-journalists-under-attack-by-paramilitaries-by-frank-smyth/) - Since 1999, forces under Castaño's command have been linked to the murders of at least four journalists - [MEDIA JUSTICE, by Makani Themba-Nixon.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-justice-by-makani-themba-nixon/) - The movement that calls itself media justice today is just getting back to civil rights roots. - [MEDIA DEMOCRACY: PACIFICA VICTORY LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR MOVEMENT. by Juan Gonzalez.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/media-democracy-pacifica-victory-lays-groundwork-for-movement-by-juan-gonzalez/) - The battle to save Pacifica, the victory won by the network's listeners, was much more than the resolution of another internal squabble. - [INTERVIEW: LINDA FOLEY, PRESIDENT NEWSPAPER GUILD. by David Bacon.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/interview-linda-foley-president-newspaper-guild-by-david-bacon/) - Do media unions play an important role in the fight for media justice? Could that role be strengthened? - [STAYING HOME TO ORGANIZE THE GLOBAL STRUGGLE FOR INFORMATION JUSTICE. By Dorothy Kidd.](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/staying-home-to-organize-the-global-struggle-for-information-justice-by-dorothy-kidd/) - The demonstration of a half-million people in the street was the culmination of a week of European Social Forum workshops - [Palestinian Media Bulldozed - by Cherine Badawi and Marc Sapir](https://media-alliance.org/2016/05/palestinian-media-bulldozed-by-cherine-badawi-and-marc-sapir/) - When Israeli soldiers entered, Al-Jazeera's director opted to go live, saying: "If we are going to die here, the whole world might as well know about it." - [Verizon Abandons Fire Island: Not Yet Says The FCC](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/verizon-abandons-fire-island-not-yet-says-the-fcc/) - FCC rejected Verizon's "fast track" request to not rebuild phone lines on Fire Island and forcibly transition residents to Voice-Link "wireless-only" service - [Strange Bedfellows: Bush Security Apparatus Letter to Congress](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/strange-bedfellows-bush-security-apparatus-letter-to-congress/) - Several prominent Democrats who heeded the request to vote no on the amendment -- were on the record voting in 2011 NOT to reauthorize the Patriot Act. - [County Allows Outrageous Charges for Inmate Phone Calls](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/county-allows-outrageous-charges-for-inmate-phone-calls/) - Having a mother, father, brother or a sister in jail is an upsetting experience. What makes it worse are sky-high phone rates for calls that bust the budget - [Alameda County Board Of Supervisors Passes Most Comprehensive Cell Phone Interceptor Privacy Policy In the Country](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/alameda-county-board-of-supervisors-passes-most-comprehensive-cell-phone-interceptor-privacy-policy-in-the-country/) - The Alameda County Board of Supervisors passed a comprehensive privacy policy regulating the county's use of cell phone interceptor equipment - [Digital Infrastructure, By the Community, For The Community](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/digital-infrastructure-by-the-community-for-the-community/) - You really have to build that whole base of value within a community for people to access technology. - [Fox News is no news outlet](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/fox-news-is-no-news-outlet/) - Fox News should be seen for what it is, not as a news outlet. - [When Is A Phone Call Not a Phone Call? (When ALEC Says So)](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/when-is-a-phone-call-not-a-phone-call-when-alec-says-so/) - Which makes it really puzzling when mandates for less utility regulation start sailing through the California legislature. - [Deceptive Digital Marketing Claim Filed Against Pepsi](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/deceptive-digital-marketing-claim-filed-against-pepsi/) - Consumer groups filed a complaint against Pepsico and Frito-Lay for online marketing to teens that included immersive games and intrusive social media. - [200+ Protest at Fox Shareholders Meeting in LA](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/200-protest-at-fox-shareholders-meeting-in-la/) - Change to Win, CWA, Media Alliance, Media Action Center, Free Press. Avaaz, Occupy LA and others joined to welcome Rupert Murdoch to Los Angeles. - [Collateral Murder: The Debut of Wikileaks](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/collateral-murder-the-debut-of-wikileaks/) - Wikileaks came into being with a bang when they released a classified military video showing US service members shooting 2 Reuters reporters in New Baghdad, - [Anti-Hate Speech Resolution Passes SF Board of Supervisors Unanimously](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/anti-hate-speech-resolution-passes-sf-board-of-supervisors-unanimously/) - San Francisco became the first municipality in the country to support the petition for an FCC docket on media hate speech and its impact on hate crimes. - [Bailouts For The Media Moguls: Thinking Outside The Newspaper Box](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/bailouts-for-the-media-moguls-thinking-outside-the-newspaper-box/) - Rethinking public media. 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Check out the video. - [AT&T and Verizon: What Digital Divide?](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/att-and-verizon-what-digital-divide/) - AT&T and Verizon rejected subsidies from the “Connect America Fund," which pays for high-speed Internet deployment in rural areas - [Fahrenheit 451](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/fahrenheit-451/) - Enter Tim Bray, a software developer at Google who has proposed a solution: a “451″ error code that displays when you visit a site blocked by the government. - [SXSW Misfire - The Human Hotspot](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/sxsw-misfire-the-human-hotspot/) - Advertising agency BBH transformed some of Austin’s homeless people into mobile hotspots during SXSW Interactive. - [The Capacity Crisis Myth](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/the-capacity-crisis-myth/) - Anybody who warns of an unavoidable capacity crisis on wireline or wireless networks is lying in order to sell you something. - [Did The Cable Industry Pay Ralph Reed Millions of Dollars?](https://media-alliance.org/2015/12/did-the-cable-industry-pay-ralph-reed-millions-of-dollars/) - The National Cable and Telecom Association (NCTA) has provided Reed’s lobbying firm with at least $3,462,117 worth of contracts in the last three years alone. ## Pages - [Media Alliance At The Pacific Felt Factory](https://media-alliance.org/) - Welcome to our website! 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Media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/fcc-media/) - [Ownership](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ownership/) - [9-11](https://media-alliance.org/tag/9-11/) - [Jeff Chester](https://media-alliance.org/tag/jeff-chester/) - [Michael Powell](https://media-alliance.org/tag/michael-powell/) - [andrea buffa](https://media-alliance.org/tag/andrea-buffa/) - [energy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/energy/) - [environment](https://media-alliance.org/tag/environment/) - [PG&E](https://media-alliance.org/tag/pge/) - [TURN](https://media-alliance.org/tag/turn/) - [FERC](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ferc/) - [deregulation](https://media-alliance.org/tag/deregulation/) - [spectrum](https://media-alliance.org/tag/spectrum/) - [jeremy rifkin](https://media-alliance.org/tag/jeremy-rifkin/) - [North America Street Newspaper Association](https://media-alliance.org/tag/north-america-street-newspaper-association/) - [NASNA](https://media-alliance.org/tag/nasna/) - [Street Sheets](https://media-alliance.org/tag/street-sheets/) - [Street Spirit](https://media-alliance.org/tag/street-spirit/) - [Ben Bagdikian](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ben-bagdikian/) - [homelessness](https://media-alliance.org/tag/homelessness/) - [media alliance](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-alliance/) - [ken mceldowney](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ken-mceldowney/) - [Daniel Ben-Horin](https://media-alliance.org/tag/daniel-ben-horin/) - [Karen Wickre](https://media-alliance.org/tag/karen-wickre/) - [Fred Stout](https://media-alliance.org/tag/fred-stout/) - [Micha Peled](https://media-alliance.org/tag/micha-peled/) - [Ann Wrixon](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ann-wrixon/) - [Erika Wudkte](https://media-alliance.org/tag/erika-wudkte/) - [david horowitz](https://media-alliance.org/tag/david-horowitz/) - [reparations](https://media-alliance.org/tag/reparations/) - [ramparts](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ramparts/) - [college newspapers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/college-newspapers/) - [center for the study of popular culture](https://media-alliance.org/tag/center-for-the-study-of-popular-culture/) - [tenants](https://media-alliance.org/tag/tenants/) - [san francisco](https://media-alliance.org/tag/san-francisco/) - [grant building](https://media-alliance.org/tag/grant-building/) - [randy shaw](https://media-alliance.org/tag/randy-shaw/) - [Twilight Greenaway](https://media-alliance.org/tag/twilight-greenaway/) - [wiretap](https://media-alliance.org/tag/wiretap/) - [youth media. YO](https://media-alliance.org/tag/youth-media-yo/) - [youth radio](https://media-alliance.org/tag/youth-radio/) - [DIY](https://media-alliance.org/tag/diy/) - [zines](https://media-alliance.org/tag/zines/) - [AOL](https://media-alliance.org/tag/aol/) - [mergers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/mergers/) - [Examiner](https://media-alliance.org/tag/examiner/) - [newspapers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/newspapers/) - [JOA](https://media-alliance.org/tag/joa/) - [sf chronicle](https://media-alliance.org/tag/sf-chronicle/) - [asian week](https://media-alliance.org/tag/asian-week/) - [Ted Fang](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ted-fang/) - [media democracy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-democracy/) - [independent media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/independent-media/) - [Pacifica Radio](https://media-alliance.org/tag/pacifica-radio/) - [Alternet](https://media-alliance.org/tag/alternet/) - [progressive media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/progressive-media/) - [international news](https://media-alliance.org/tag/international-news/) - [foreign news](https://media-alliance.org/tag/foreign-news/) - [walter lippman](https://media-alliance.org/tag/walter-lippman/) - [council on foreign relations](https://media-alliance.org/tag/council-on-foreign-relations/) - [peace corps](https://media-alliance.org/tag/peace-corps/) - [vietnam](https://media-alliance.org/tag/vietnam/) - [media monitoring](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-monitoring/) - [Retro Poll](https://media-alliance.org/tag/retro-poll/) - [Youth Media Council](https://media-alliance.org/tag/youth-media-council/) - [If Americans Knew](https://media-alliance.org/tag/if-americans-knew/) - [media criticism](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-criticism/) - [reading list](https://media-alliance.org/tag/reading-list/) - [reporting](https://media-alliance.org/tag/reporting/) - [CNA](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cna/) - [Marriot](https://media-alliance.org/tag/marriot/) - [SEIU](https://media-alliance.org/tag/seiu/) - [education](https://media-alliance.org/tag/education/) - [bilingual](https://media-alliance.org/tag/bilingual/) - [ron unz](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ron-unz/) - [messaging](https://media-alliance.org/tag/messaging/) - [proposition 209](https://media-alliance.org/tag/proposition-209/) - [we interrupt this message](https://media-alliance.org/tag/we-interrupt-this-message/) - [Havana](https://media-alliance.org/tag/havana/) - [cuba](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cuba/) - [high school](https://media-alliance.org/tag/high-school/) - [movies](https://media-alliance.org/tag/movies/) - [Mexico](https://media-alliance.org/tag/mexico/) - [latin america committee](https://media-alliance.org/tag/latin-america-committee/) - [john ross](https://media-alliance.org/tag/john-ross/) - [investigative reporting](https://media-alliance.org/tag/investigative-reporting/) - [990](https://media-alliance.org/tag/990/) - [nonprofits](https://media-alliance.org/tag/nonprofits/) - [street newspapers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/street-newspapers/) - [homeless](https://media-alliance.org/tag/homeless/) - [death penalty](https://media-alliance.org/tag/death-penalty/) - [welfare reform](https://media-alliance.org/tag/welfare-reform/) - [disability](https://media-alliance.org/tag/disability/) - [mumia abu-jamal](https://media-alliance.org/tag/mumia-abu-jamal/) - [international media activism](https://media-alliance.org/tag/international-media-activism/) - [wto](https://media-alliance.org/tag/wto/) - [OnFire](https://media-alliance.org/tag/onfire/) - [McSpotlight](https://media-alliance.org/tag/mcspotlight/) - [street soldiers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/street-soldiers/) - [kmel](https://media-alliance.org/tag/kmel/) - [media mergers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-mergers/) - [angels of the public interest](https://media-alliance.org/tag/angels-of-the-public-interest/) - [mediachannel](https://media-alliance.org/tag/mediachannel/) - [PBS](https://media-alliance.org/tag/pbs/) - [Citizens for Indepependent Broadcasting](https://media-alliance.org/tag/citizens-for-indepependent-broadcasting/) - [war](https://media-alliance.org/tag/war/) - [civilian casualties](https://media-alliance.org/tag/civilian-casualties/) - [collateral damage](https://media-alliance.org/tag/collateral-damage/) - [noam chomsky](https://media-alliance.org/tag/noam-chomsky/) - [david barsamian](https://media-alliance.org/tag/david-barsamian/) - [academia](https://media-alliance.org/tag/academia/) - [Its the Media Stupid](https://media-alliance.org/tag/its-the-media-stupid/) - [david gaither](https://media-alliance.org/tag/david-gaither/) - [the beat within](https://media-alliance.org/tag/the-beat-within/) - [youth media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/youth-media/) - [mass incarceration](https://media-alliance.org/tag/mass-incarceration/) - [public access television](https://media-alliance.org/tag/public-access-television/) - [comunity media centers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/comunity-media-centers/) - [PEG](https://media-alliance.org/tag/peg/) - [City Visions](https://media-alliance.org/tag/city-visions/) - [freelancers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/freelancers/) - [african americans](https://media-alliance.org/tag/african-americans/) - [alaternative media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/alaternative-media/) - [proposition 21](https://media-alliance.org/tag/proposition-21/) - [youth](https://media-alliance.org/tag/youth/) - [military propaganda](https://media-alliance.org/tag/military-propaganda/) - [danny shecter](https://media-alliance.org/tag/danny-shecter/) - [green party](https://media-alliance.org/tag/green-party/) - [elections](https://media-alliance.org/tag/elections/) - [alternative media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/alternative-media/) - [Chile](https://media-alliance.org/tag/chile/) - [Pinochet](https://media-alliance.org/tag/pinochet/) - [Allende](https://media-alliance.org/tag/allende/) - [project censored](https://media-alliance.org/tag/project-censored/) - [criminal justice](https://media-alliance.org/tag/criminal-justice/) - [prisons](https://media-alliance.org/tag/prisons/) - [Venezuela](https://media-alliance.org/tag/venezuela/) - [globalization](https://media-alliance.org/tag/globalization/) - [media activism](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-activism/) - [justice journalism](https://media-alliance.org/tag/justice-journalism/) - [genetically modified foods](https://media-alliance.org/tag/genetically-modified-foods/) - [GMO's](https://media-alliance.org/tag/gmos/) - [propaganda](https://media-alliance.org/tag/propaganda/) - [distortion](https://media-alliance.org/tag/distortion/) - [racial bias](https://media-alliance.org/tag/racial-bias/) - [Nanotechnology](https://media-alliance.org/tag/nanotechnology/) - [documentaries](https://media-alliance.org/tag/documentaries/) - [stream](https://media-alliance.org/tag/stream/) - [Oakland Digital Inclusion Summit](https://media-alliance.org/tag/oakland-digital-inclusion-summit/) - [Media Alliance Digital Inclusion Toolkit](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-alliance-digital-inclusion-toolkit/) - [broadcaster public interest obligations](https://media-alliance.org/tag/broadcaster-public-interest-obligations/) - [Grassroots Internet Policy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/grassroots-internet-policy/) - [copyright](https://media-alliance.org/tag/copyright/) - [fair use](https://media-alliance.org/tag/fair-use/) - [E-waste](https://media-alliance.org/tag/e-waste/) - [Recycling](https://media-alliance.org/tag/recycling/) - [Electronics](https://media-alliance.org/tag/electronics/) - [Pew Knight Local News Report](https://media-alliance.org/tag/pew-knight-local-news-report/) - [talk radio](https://media-alliance.org/tag/talk-radio/) - [latinos](https://media-alliance.org/tag/latinos/) - [films](https://media-alliance.org/tag/films/) - [online piracy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-piracy/) - [profiling](https://media-alliance.org/tag/profiling/) - [voting](https://media-alliance.org/tag/voting/) - [race](https://media-alliance.org/tag/race/) - [millenials](https://media-alliance.org/tag/millenials/) - [online journalism ethics](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-journalism-ethics/) - [online engagement](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-engagement/) - [social media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/social-media/) - [hyperlocal](https://media-alliance.org/tag/hyperlocal/) - [online news sites](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-news-sites/) - [juvenile justice](https://media-alliance.org/tag/juvenile-justice/) - [communication strategies](https://media-alliance.org/tag/communication-strategies/) - [progressive public relations](https://media-alliance.org/tag/progressive-public-relations/) - [metrics](https://media-alliance.org/tag/metrics/) - [evaluation](https://media-alliance.org/tag/evaluation/) - [media impact](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-impact/) - [broadband terminology](https://media-alliance.org/tag/broadband-terminology/) - [legal](https://media-alliance.org/tag/legal/) - [anti-corporate](https://media-alliance.org/tag/anti-corporate/) - [counter branding](https://media-alliance.org/tag/counter-branding/) - [community organizing](https://media-alliance.org/tag/community-organizing/) - [civic engagement](https://media-alliance.org/tag/civic-engagement/) - [online activism](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-activism/) - [online copyright](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-copyright/) - [digital copyright](https://media-alliance.org/tag/digital-copyright/) - [alec](https://media-alliance.org/tag/alec/) - [american legislative exchange council](https://media-alliance.org/tag/american-legislative-exchange-council/) - [fbi](https://media-alliance.org/tag/fbi/) - [gender](https://media-alliance.org/tag/gender/) - [multimedia](https://media-alliance.org/tag/multimedia/) - [video games](https://media-alliance.org/tag/video-games/) - [online gaming](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-gaming/) - [avatars](https://media-alliance.org/tag/avatars/) - [IP Transition](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ip-transition/) - [nsa va first unitarian](https://media-alliance.org/tag/nsa-va-first-unitarian/) - [environmental justice](https://media-alliance.org/tag/environmental-justice/) - [media producers](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-producers/) - [Oil](https://media-alliance.org/tag/oil/) - [tar sands](https://media-alliance.org/tag/tar-sands/) - [nsa spying](https://media-alliance.org/tag/nsa-spying/) - [gentrification](https://media-alliance.org/tag/gentrification/) - [housing](https://media-alliance.org/tag/housing/) - [transparency ordinance](https://media-alliance.org/tag/transparency-ordinance/) - [video visitation](https://media-alliance.org/tag/video-visitation/) - [journalist safety](https://media-alliance.org/tag/journalist-safety/) - [strategic communications](https://media-alliance.org/tag/strategic-communications/) - [drones](https://media-alliance.org/tag/drones/) - [municipal broadband](https://media-alliance.org/tag/municipal-broadband/) - [Media How To Guide](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-how-to-guide/) - [press list](https://media-alliance.org/tag/press-list/) - [encryption](https://media-alliance.org/tag/encryption/) - [apple va nsa](https://media-alliance.org/tag/apple-va-nsa/) - [election 2016](https://media-alliance.org/tag/election-2016/) - [payola](https://media-alliance.org/tag/payola/) - [Occupy Fox](https://media-alliance.org/tag/occupy-fox/) - [Fire Ismand](https://media-alliance.org/tag/fire-ismand/) - [Voicelink](https://media-alliance.org/tag/voicelink/) - [Shame on Feinstein](https://media-alliance.org/tag/shame-on-feinstein/) - [STELA](https://media-alliance.org/tag/stela/) - [cable access](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cable-access/) - [Chevron](https://media-alliance.org/tag/chevron/) - [customer service](https://media-alliance.org/tag/customer-service/) - [prison phones](https://media-alliance.org/tag/prison-phones/) - [digital television transition](https://media-alliance.org/tag/digital-television-transition/) - [KUSF](https://media-alliance.org/tag/kusf/) - [Radio Summer](https://media-alliance.org/tag/radio-summer/) - [Low Power Radio](https://media-alliance.org/tag/low-power-radio/) - [kcsm](https://media-alliance.org/tag/kcsm/) - [Third Party Fundraising](https://media-alliance.org/tag/third-party-fundraising/) - [Protest](https://media-alliance.org/tag/protest/) - [Election](https://media-alliance.org/tag/election/) - [whistleblower](https://media-alliance.org/tag/whistleblower/) - [Bay Guardian](https://media-alliance.org/tag/bay-guardian/) - [FOIA](https://media-alliance.org/tag/foia/) - [CISA](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cisa/) - [Slapp](https://media-alliance.org/tag/slapp/) - [Urban Shield](https://media-alliance.org/tag/urban-shield/) - [media news](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-news/) - [bayview](https://media-alliance.org/tag/bayview/) - [prison media](https://media-alliance.org/tag/prison-media/) - [facial recognition](https://media-alliance.org/tag/facial-recognition/) - [direcTV](https://media-alliance.org/tag/directv/) - [bulletproof warrior](https://media-alliance.org/tag/bulletproof-warrior/) - [police](https://media-alliance.org/tag/police/) - [freedom of expression](https://media-alliance.org/tag/freedom-of-expression/) - [right to dissent](https://media-alliance.org/tag/right-to-dissent/) - [slider](https://media-alliance.org/tag/slider/) - [DTV](https://media-alliance.org/tag/dtv/) - [prison phone calls](https://media-alliance.org/tag/prison-phone-calls/) - [phone justice](https://media-alliance.org/tag/phone-justice/) - [kscm](https://media-alliance.org/tag/kscm/) - [policing](https://media-alliance.org/tag/policing/) - [media consolidation](https://media-alliance.org/tag/media-consolidation/) - [american daydream](https://media-alliance.org/tag/american-daydream/) - [structural separattion](https://media-alliance.org/tag/structural-separattion/) - [community broadband](https://media-alliance.org/tag/community-broadband/) - [online education](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-education/) - [piracy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/piracy/) - [landline](https://media-alliance.org/tag/landline/) - [public access](https://media-alliance.org/tag/public-access/) - [college radio](https://media-alliance.org/tag/college-radio/) - [oscar grant](https://media-alliance.org/tag/oscar-grant/) - [slideshow](https://media-alliance.org/tag/slideshow/) - [ghost ship](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ghost-ship/) - [artists](https://media-alliance.org/tag/artists/) - [pacific felt factory](https://media-alliance.org/tag/pacific-felt-factory/) - [predictive policing](https://media-alliance.org/tag/predictive-policing/) - [predpol](https://media-alliance.org/tag/predpol/) - [racism](https://media-alliance.org/tag/racism/) - [face recognition](https://media-alliance.org/tag/face-recognition/) - [uhf discount](https://media-alliance.org/tag/uhf-discount/) - [sinclair](https://media-alliance.org/tag/sinclair/) - [locuspoint](https://media-alliance.org/tag/locuspoint/) - [blackston](https://media-alliance.org/tag/blackston/) - [smccd](https://media-alliance.org/tag/smccd/) - [ora](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ora/) - [CPCUC](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cpcuc/) - [irvine](https://media-alliance.org/tag/irvine/) - [arts](https://media-alliance.org/tag/arts/) - [engagement](https://media-alliance.org/tag/engagement/) - [asset forfeiture](https://media-alliance.org/tag/asset-forfeiture/) - [redlining](https://media-alliance.org/tag/redlining/) - [cleveland](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cleveland/) - [cuyahoga](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cuyahoga/) - [climate change](https://media-alliance.org/tag/climate-change/) - [corporate accountability](https://media-alliance.org/tag/corporate-accountability/) - [access](https://media-alliance.org/tag/access/) - [freedom of information](https://media-alliance.org/tag/freedom-of-information/) - [california public records](https://media-alliance.org/tag/california-public-records/) - [cpra](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cpra/) - [public records](https://media-alliance.org/tag/public-records/) - [standing rock](https://media-alliance.org/tag/standing-rock/) - [free expression](https://media-alliance.org/tag/free-expression/) - [first amendment](https://media-alliance.org/tag/first-amendment/) - [broadband privacy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/broadband-privacy/) - [FISA](https://media-alliance.org/tag/fisa/) - [ICE](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ice/) - [Oakland Privacy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/oakland-privacy/) - [police militarization](https://media-alliance.org/tag/police-militarization/) - [ethics](https://media-alliance.org/tag/ethics/) - [UASI](https://media-alliance.org/tag/uasi/) - [muslim ban](https://media-alliance.org/tag/muslim-ban/) - [islamaphobia](https://media-alliance.org/tag/islamaphobia/) - [Section 702](https://media-alliance.org/tag/section-702/) - [online privacy](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-privacy/) - [online speech](https://media-alliance.org/tag/online-speech/) - [anonymity](https://media-alliance.org/tag/anonymity/) - [sanctuary](https://media-alliance.org/tag/sanctuary/) - [border](https://media-alliance.org/tag/border/) - [cell phones](https://media-alliance.org/tag/cell-phones/)