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COMMUNICATE JUSTICE 101: PREVIEW!
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© 2007

We finally did it!  Our five years of conducting communications for grassroots organizing campaigns is captured in this comprehensive how-to toolki...

DISPLACING THE DREAM: Preview!
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Displacing the Dream: A report on Bay Area newspaper coverage of development and gentrification

The YMC has spent much of this year analyzing 3 months of coverage in ...

SPEAKING FOR OURSELVES: A Youth Assessment of Local News Coverage
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© 2002
Conducted by Bay Area high school students, Speaking for Ourselves examines coverage of youth on local Fox-affiliate KTVU Channel 2. The report present...

IS KMEL THE PEOPLE'S STATION? A Community Assessment of 106.1 KMEL
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© 2002
How does the most listened to hip-hop/R&B station in the Bay Area present our vibrant hip-hop community and youth efforts for social change? This study cond...

LOOKING DEEPER: Visibility and Invisibility of Youth, Policy and Race in San Jose Mercury News
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©2005
How does one of the Bay Area's leading newspapers cover issues important to youth and their communities? YMC worked with San Francisco's Youth Justice Pr...

REFRAMING POWER: An Evaluation of the Youth Media Council's First Three Years
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© 2006
Reframing Power takes a look at the media and social conditions that led to YMC's formation, and the strategies YMC tested in creating an innovative model f...

COMMUNICATING FOR HEALTH JUSTICE: A Communications Strategy Curriculum for Advancing Health Issues
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© 2007

Communicating for Health Justice is a curriculum designed to help health advocates fight for a more equitable health system. We now know that the healthiest na...

MEDIA JUSTICE or MEDIA CONTROL: Curriculum from a Conference organized by the Appalachian Community Fund
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© 2007

“Media is not the issue. Justice is the issue. Media is the infrastructure for how we communicate about the issue of justice. We need to be able to use t...

Hawai‘i People’s Fund: Media Justice Initiative 2007-2008
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© 2007

Among the many contradictions in Hawai‘i,often called paradise by outsiders, is our media landscape. In a geographically small area, community involvemen...



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