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Millions march against Columbia rebels (online networking)

Submitted by Elsa on Sat, 2008-03-01 03:55.

Categories: Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Article | Movement-Building, General | Community Media | Global/International | Grassroots/local organizing | Latin America / Caribbean | Video | Global media/communication movement(s)

Summary:
Facebook social networking boosts international protest against FARC

URL:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/04/colombia.demos.ap/index.html

A New Weave of Power, People and Politics (Reprint 2007)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2008-02-28 02:26.

Summary:
a well-tested approach for building people’s participation and collective power that goes beyond influencing policy and politics to transforming public decision-making altogether

URL:
http://www.justassociates.org/ActionGuide.htm

What is Success? Measuring and Evaluating the Impact of Social Jusctice Advocacy and Citizen Organizing Strategies

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2008-02-28 02:08.

Categories: Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Action Research | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Local Organizing | Community organizing for policy change | Constituency-building | Global/International | Grassroots/local organizing | Handout/flyer | Organizers' Tools | United States

Summary:
an approach for evaluating advocacy action and impact

URL:
http://www.justassociates.org/publications_files/evaluation%20excerpt.pdf

Rising Voices: An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2008-01-31 00:07.

Categories: Report (series) | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Case Studies | Movement-Building, General | Book Recommendation | Community Media | Global/International | Web | Key Technologies for Media Activists

Summary:
The first in a series of outreach guides meant to explain the fundamentals of citizen media to a non-technical readership.

URL:
http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2008/01/16/a-introductory-guide-to-global-citizen-media/

Collaborations for Social Justice: Professionals, Publics and Policy Change (book)

Submitted by Elsa on Wed, 2007-10-31 15:02.

Categories: Activists & Academics | Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Local Organizing | Movement-Building, General | Role of research & academic theory | Community organizing for policy change | Book Recommendation | Coalitions | Grassroots/local organizing | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

Summary:
focus on mobilizing the public, this book attempts to bridge the widely publicized gap between professional advocates and grassroots organizations.

URL:
http://www.amazon.com/Collaborations-Social-Justice-Professionals-Publics/dp/0742559327/ref=sr_1_1/102-7409051-0044950?ie=UTF8&s

Communicating Justice at USSF 2007 (Malkia Cyril, YMC)

Submitted by Elsa on Fri, 2007-07-27 01:20.

Categories: Report-backs | Media Justice | The Field & What's Needed | Multicultural alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Article | Movement-Building, General | Access | Coalitions | Community Media | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Grassroots/local organizing | Independent media | Organizers' Tools | Representation | United States | Global media/communication movement(s)

Summary:
Youth media leader and media justice advocate, Malkia Cyril, reports on her experience of the 2007 U.S. Social Forum.

URL:
http://youthmediacouncil.org/blogs/posts/view/46

Another World or Another Mistake? (tiny aka Lisa Gray-Garcia)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:55.

Summary:
Poverty, Race, Disability, Youth and Indigenous Scholars from POOR Magazine travel to the 2007 US Social Forum to realize a new world of media production..By Any Means Necessary

URL:
http://www.poormagazine.org/index.cfm?L1=news&story=1806

Reflections on the US Social Forum (Int'l Relations Center)

Submitted by Elsa on Thu, 2007-07-26 14:23.

Categories: Report-backs | Multicultural alliances | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Article | Movement-Building, General | Leadership | Coalitions | Diversity | Gatherings & Meetings | Globalization | Grassroots/local organizing | Organizers' Tools | United States

Summary:
Two perspectives from the IRC Americas Program (Laura Carlsen and Katie Kohlstedt).

URL:
http://americas.irc-online.org/am/4411

MAG-Net - Media Action Grassroots Network - Website Launched!

Submitted by Elsa on Wed, 2007-07-25 14:36.

Categories: Multicultural-Multiracial Alliances | Popular Education | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Advocacy & Organizing Tools | Local Organizing | Movement-Building, General | Changing Policy | Interactive feature | Coalitions | Community Media | Constituency-building | Grassroots/local organizing | United States | Working Together & Collaboration Tools

Summary:
MAG-Net organizations are regionally-based media activist and cultural arts groups who share a primary commitment to social justice values.

URL:
http://mediagrassroots.net/

What's Going On in Community Media (Benton Foundation Report 2007)

Submitted by Elsa on Tue, 2007-07-24 21:07.

Categories: The Field & What's Needed | Report/White Paper | Working in networks & models for coordinated efforts | Movement-Building, General | Nonprofit Organizations & Social Change | Access | Community Media | United States | Global media/communication movement(s)

Date:
Tue, 2007-07-24 21:00

Issue:
community media (state of)