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THIRD WORLD MAJORITY (TWM) is currently working on the historic first MEDIA JUSTICE curriculum and anthology. The anthology portion of this book will feature case studies and interviews from organizers in the field talking about the way their communities grapple with the joint struggle of fighting for a just media and a just society. This includes organizers from present campaigns as well as important, hidden his/herstories of strategies past movements have created to incorporate media and cultural work into their organizing. The curriculum portion of the book will include politicized introductions to video, radio, Web, and graphic design production from leading women of color artists, producers and organizers in the field. We are currently looking for artists, organizers, poets and writers who are interested in sharing their stories and strategies for MEDIA JUSTICE. If you are tired of media abuse and want to be part of the movement, send in your submission idea now! WHAT IS MEDIA JUSTICE? Media Justice is not new. It is an urgent struggle born by movements lead by the most marginalized communities (i.e. indigenous, immigrant, communities of color, LGBTQ, working-class) all over the country--in the streets, on reservations, in barns and churches--wherever people were fighting for a just world and needed to share that vision of justice with others. It is the chants we sing in resistance that have kept the memory of our movements alive. It is the streets we bomb with resistance graffiti. It is the strategy sessions we have to keep media accountable. It is the radio, video, Web, and theater pieces we create to validate our experiences and use our culture as resistance. Media Justice is our people fighting for and reclaiming our basic right to communicate our stories with, by and for each other. WHO IS MEDIA JUSTICE? Here is a sample of some of the Media Justice profiles and campaigns we are interested but not limited to. Add your community to this new his/herstory! rally in East Los Angeles in 1970 before he was killed by a tear gas projectile. succeeding in holding the NBC affiliate WLBT accountable for its racist stereotyping and censorship of public interest programming sympathetic to Black communities. Their organizing resulted in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revoking its license in 1969'dcthe only time in FCC history that it took a license because of racial bias in programming. discrimination in Mississippi for the first time on national networks, using song and chants as part of the vision for the civil rights movement. currently working to create fair and equal representation of the diversity of Hip Hop Culture. Their vision including keeping HOT 97 accountable for their racist depiction of Tsunami victims, demanding more time for community driven public affairs on publicly owned airwaves, and looking at how the record industry is pimping a culture without any of the benefits going back to the artists or the community. schools. and the media blackout of their struggles and the American role in support of Central American dictatorships and organizing to their farmworker membership in Florida. Struggle in Los Angeles using effective video documentation and strategic messaging to put pressure on the school board in Los Angeles to improve conditions in schools and win Ethnic studies. Francisco while community members fought to keep it open for low-income elderly immigrants. Philadelphia. Reel Newz, telling the real stories of immigrant families and detainees in Jackson Heights, New York fighting the Immigration enforcement agents and the embedded media. your graf pieces, stickering and flyering your art, telling your stories and breaking through corporate media to tell it like it is. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR: Writers: If you are a writer, poet, organizer, or wordsmith who is interested in submitting a story about an individual or about a current or past media justice campaign/strategy in your community, please contact us below. INDIGENOUS, IMMIGRANT, PEOPLE OF COLOR, YOUTH, AND LGBTQ FOLKS ARE HIGHLY ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Interviewees: If you would like to be interviewed to tell your story, or know of a media justice organizer who should be interviewed, please contact us below. A writing sample is not necessary for interviews. SUBMISSIONS: Please provide one (1) writing sample (maximum 1 page), one (1) bio/resume and/or one (1) one-page synopsis of a story idea about yourself or other media justice activist. Be sure your submission includes the information below. Print and electronic submissions in an attached rich-text format (.RTF) document are accepted. All submissions require a NAME, ADDRESS, TELEPHONE and/or EMAIL information. This application is also available for download from our Web site: www.cultureisaweapon.org. CLICK HERE to submit your form online. Please send all submissions by NO LATER THAN 31 May 2005 to: THIRD WORLD MAJORITY 912 E. Third Street, Suite 101 Los Angeles, CA 90013 213.237.9944 tel mediajustice@cultureisaweapon.org www.cultureisaweapon.org |