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NEWS & UPDATES: July 2008 The Boston Action Tank is an experimental "think tank" for social justice advocates to develop strategies and tools for shaping the media/communications future. We recently partnered with MayFirst/PeopleLink to present visioning and strategy sessions at the Grassroots Use of Technology Conference.
A collaborative, 20-year timeline at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit was the basis for this workshop discussion about developing strategies for our media & justice movements.
The "Knowledge Exchange" is a pilot project by the Media Justice Fund, Consumers Union and the Center for Media Justice to bring together national advocates and community organizers working on media policy. CIMA's helping participants and planners assess and improve the program as it develops.
For more on these and other current CIMA projects, click here
We want to hear from you! Click here to contact us.
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discover upcoming events and opportunities; post your announcements
Opportunities:
(deadline July 21) $250,000 Nonprofit Collaboration Prize (deadline July 25) Media Justice Fund-- Capacity Building and Community Media Collaboration grants (deadline September 8) "Necessary Knowledge" grants for activist-academic research collaborations on media/communications issues
Upcoming Events:
(deadline July 21; October 5- 8 conference) Rural Telecommunications Congress (Vermont)
July 25-27, Blogging While Brown (Atlanta, GA)
July 23-27, "UNITY Journalists of Color (Chicago, IL)
July 24-27, "Grassroots Radio Conference 13 (Portland, OR)
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a collaborative library for sharing ideas, recommending readings, building on history and learning from other movements
Recent highlights
Creating Sustainable Funding for Radical Media Reform Michael Barker looks at the "problematic nexus between liberal philanthropy and progressive media reform"
Strong Movements, Sustainable Organizations: Reflections on Organizational Development for Social Change, from Zak Sinclair, Lisa Russ and others at the Movement Strategy Center.
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find and post tools, guides, books and other materials to help make your work more effective
Recent highlights
Using A Racial Equity Theory of Change: A collective assessment, strategy and planning guide from the Aspen Roundtable on Community Change.
Strategic Communications Guide for Media Activists: A team of media organizers and strategists
contributed to this SPIN Project toolkit: "Whose Media? Our Media!"
Help your community face the February 2009 "DTV Transition" when old televisions will stop working and people have to buy new tech.
Media Activist Tools for LGBT Rights
include and ensure rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as you work to improve the media system.
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networking tools for organizations advocating better media and communications: who they are, what they do and how to contact them
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