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Revolutions: 5 Years of Media Change for Social, Racial, Gender and Economic Justice
July 12, 2008
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INVINCIBLE, SIAIRA, JAHI, ROOPA SINGH, Notorious East and West Coast DJ's SAKE1 and LAMUMBA to PERFORM AT REVOLUTIONS CMJ awards media leaders, media makers and journalists for dedicated commitment to making media that matters to low income, working and communitie...
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CMJ Director Malkia Cyril on Main Street at NCMR
June 9, 2008
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CMJ "pitches" in to statewide effort to protest proposed Ca education budget cuts
May 19, 2008
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Capitol rally promises 3,000 students Education may not have taken the biggest hit in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget, but advocates plan to continue their PR assault on the Capitol. Today, education officials have organized a noon rally on the South steps of th...
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This week's video of the week: Un poquito de tanto verdad
May 14, 2008
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YouTube Of the Week: Incarcerex
April 28, 2008
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Effin Brilliant. From the Drug Policy Alliance.
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Net Neutrality, Ideas and Racial Justice
April 18, 2008
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2 recent polls important for community organizers
April 10, 2008
karlos schmieder
The importance of this poll [Poll finds economy is Bay Area's top worry; Transportation, housing round out top three concerns] can be summed up by the following excerpt: Given the mortgage crisis, the flood of foreclosures and soaring fuel prices, it is not surprisin...
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It's YouTube vs Primetime Ads in '08 San Francisco Proposition Battle
April 10, 2008
karlos schmieder
SF, CA – The Proposition commercials seem to start earlier and earlier every election cycle. With two months before the June 3rd ballot, this year's first lob comes from Lennar Corporation – out with a commercial promoting Prop G, which would give waterfron...
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Tuesday's Media Penalty: For Latino Guv "Judas" Has More Legs than "Candidate"
April 6, 2008
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  Yellow Card:  For Latino Guv "Judas" Has More Legs than "Candidate" Cross-posted from SWOPblogger, which according to one ranking is this week's 5th most influential political blog in New Mexico. (It's a blog I helped found a few years back.) Haussamen's analysi...
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Thursday's Media Penalties...and Goals
April 3, 2008
karlos schmieder
  Today's Media Penalties, free kicks and goals.  Yellow Cards:   SF Chron headline writers: Hey, the "minority" designation just doesn't work in CA anymore.  The headline should have read People of Color doctors short in supply in state.  SF Chron: Minority doctors...
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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