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Malkia Amala Cyril
Director
Malkia Amala Cyril is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Media Justice in Oakland, CA.- a national media strategy and action center building a powerful grassroots movement for racial and economic justice through media change.  Key projects include the ... > > read more

Karlos Gauna Schmieder
Media Strategist
Karlos Gauna Schmieder is a community organizer and media strategist from Albuquerque, NM. For nearly a decade, Karlos worked as a community and communications organizer with SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP). He is the former editor of Voces Unidas. He now works as ... > > read more

Mervyn Marcano
An accomplished communicator and organizer, Mervyn Marcano has worked on a variety of local and national campaigns. Most recently, Mervyn was Communications Director at ColorOfChange.org, the 400,000 member Black online advocacy group founded in the wake of Hurrica... > > read more

Samhita Mukhopadhyay
Si Se Puede Training and Technology Coordinator
A 29-year-old resident of San Francisco, Samhita grew up in New York and did her undergraduate at SUNY Albany in Sociology and Women's Studies. For six years she worked as a San Francisco public school teacher, teaching in Hunter's Point, the Fillmore and Potrero Hill.... > > read more

Oshen Turman
Executive Assistant
Oshen Turman is a 27 year old East Oakland native. She is a writer, artist, activist and student of healthy living. She has been involved in social justice work for the past 9 years, beginning during her senior year of high school through speaking on panels on issues su... > > read more

Caifornia Props. 6 & 9 Bad Deals say LA Activists
October 6, 2008
Shirley Hawkins

Prop 6 Hurts Black Youth
September 16, 2008
Nikki Jones

CA Groups Say Freedom of the Press Should Mean "Free the Press" at RNC
September 3, 2008
Lori Abbott/Craig Eicher

Californians Marking Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Say Same "Storm" Brewing Here
August 29, 2008
Lori Abbott/Don Mathisen

Housing Fund Seen as Grassroots Victory
August 28, 2008
Matthew Cardinale and Jonathan Springston

Foreclosure's hidden victims
August 15, 2008
James Temple

S.F.'s black students lag far behind whites
August 15, 2008
Jill Tucker

State's schools improve, achievement gap widens
August 15, 2008
Nanette Asimov

Radio host drops lawsuit
August 15, 2008
Bob Egelko

U.S. People of Color Population Will Be Majority by 2042, Government Says
August 14, 2008
By Thomas Penny