Communication is Your Right! (2024)

03/10/2018

Opinion | The tech industry is suddenly pushing for federal privacy legislation. Watch out.

Companies see an opportunity to kneecap state privacy efforts with weak federal protections.

28/09/2018

Ranking Digital Rights

We evaluated 22 of the world’s most powerful internet, mobile, and telecommunications companies on their commitments and disclosed policies affecting users’ freedom of expression and privacy. Some companies have made improvements in the past year, but internet users are still being left in the dark across the board. Learn more in our 2018 Corporate Accountability Index: https://rankingdigitalrights.org/index2018

21/09/2018

Now Hiring: Tech & Civil Liberties Fellow | ACLU Northern CA

Full-time, one-year legal fellowship with a focus on the intersection of gov't surveillance, immigrants’ rights, and racial justice.

07/09/2018

YouTube, Netflix Videos Found to Be Slowed by Wireless Carriers

The largest U.S. telecom companies are slowing internet traffic to and from popular apps like YouTube and Netflix, according to new research from Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

07/09/2018

China Institute in America

Will China’s censorship nip the feminist awakening in the bud?
Join Leta Hong Fincher, author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, and Pin Lu, founding editor of Feminist Voices, a Beijing NGO that promotes gender equality, for this timely discussion on China’s awakening feminist.

https://www.chinainstitute.org/event/girl-power-feminist-awakening-china/

25/05/2018

How the Trump family sold U.S. foreign policy to the highest bidder | Will Bunch

The sometimes-bizarre foreign policy shifts of Donald Trump's first 16 months as president are finally beginning to make sense: They were part of a vast criminal conspiracy to sell America's power and good name to the highest bidder. The winners were not just Putin's Russia but also Saudi Arabia, th...

25/05/2018

J. Cole Calls for Boycott of the NFL: 'You and Me Have the Power to Deny Them Our Attention'

J. Cole stands with Colin Kaepernick.

24/05/2018

Malkia Cyril on Facebook’s Civil Rights Audit & How Amazon Sells Facial Recognition Tools to Police

Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice discusses Facebook’s plans to conduct a civil rights audit, activists’ demands for Amazon stop selling their facial recognition service to law enforcement, and a proposal to restore net neutrality rules.

22/05/2018

Center for Media Justice

As our movements continue to be surveilled and silenced online -- as technology is increasingly used to criminalize and incarcerate activists of color on the frontlines -- our network is coming together to strengthen how we protect our digital civil rights in the Trump era. But they need your help.

Donate today to help send leaders to next month's Allied Media Conference!

17/05/2018

Civil Rights Activists Applaud Bipartisan Senate Vote to Preserve Net Neutrality

As the Senate votes to overturn the FCC's decision on Net Neutrality, civil rights groups turn their attention towards winning in the HouseContact Info: [email protected], DC — Racial justice advocates claimed a small but crucial victory on Wednesday as the Senate voted in fav...

17/05/2018

OTI Applauds Senate Vote to Protect Net Neutrality

Today's Senate vote reflects what we've been hearing from millions of Americans for months: the desire for strong net neutrality rules.

05/04/2018

Spotify is Looking for New Female Podcasters of Color

Are you ready to be the new "2 Dope Queens"? Spotify is looking for you.

27/02/2018

Youth civic group eyes Old Town Eureka Wi-Fi

A youth civic group wants to bring free, public internet to Old Town.Next Generation Eureka is currently looking into the feasibility of installing a router to provide a Wi-Fi signal to people in Clarke Plaza and in Opera Alley as a pilot proje

14/02/2018

Democracy Now!

A woman in West Virginia had her microphone cut off and was ordered removed from a state House chamber as she read aloud the names of legislators taking money from the oil and gas industry. http://ow.ly/lNBY30insKx

12/02/2018

Tucker Carlson

Google is tracking you. Even when you're in Airplane Mode. It knows when you get out the car. When you're walking. We now have proof.

04/01/2018

Native Americans in Philanthropy

Check out our Spotify playlist of Native American artists, curated by Taboo (Black Eyed Peas), Native Americans in Philanthropy, and The California Endowment! Listen and then put on repeat. It’s that good. Support Native American artists! ✊🏽 Link to playlist: bit.ly/INM_Spotify

29/12/2017

Media Matters for America

Loved when Christiane Amanpour stressed that the Trump team sounds like a totalitarian regime, and the media won't bow to it: "Of course we're not going to shut up, and why should we?"

29/12/2017

The Indypendent

The Indy is growing like never before. Check out this short video and help us make 2018 our best year ever!

27/10/2017

The Root

"The Internet gave us a chance a to speak truth to power."

honoree Malkia A. Cyril is on the front line fighting for net neutrality and equal media representation: http://trib.al/Bpbmlso

15/09/2017

Free Press

Without , racial justice movements could lose their ability to organize. Watch now and find out why.

Interested in joining the fight to save internet freedom? Take action → https://www.battleforthenet.com/jointeaminternet/

17/08/2017

ACLU of California Statement: White Supremacist Violence is not Free Speech

Our country’s greatest strengths are the diversity of its people and the principles of equal dignity and inclusion that unite us all. There are troubling events planned in our state in the coming weeks. This is an incredibly painful and difficult time for millions of Californians. For those who are...

14/08/2017

Democracy Now!

Dr. Cornel West says anti-fascist and anarchist protesters protected clergy from being "crushed like cockroaches" by white nationalists Friday night in Charlottesville: "They saved our lives, actually… I will never forget that."

30/07/2017

Media Mobilizing Project

Hannah won this competitive fellowship for her work on algorithmic accountability in criminal justice, joining an incredible cohort of organizers, artists and activists working toward transformative social change.

24/07/2017

Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University

What does the future hold for the misinformation (aka "fake news") conundrum? Thoughts by researchers from the Wikimedia Foundation here:https://goo.gl/mL52Sa

20/07/2017

NowThis Her

This record label is operated by a badass woman paving the way for more artists of color

17/07/2017

The Root

Ariell Johnson is one of the first black women in the country to own a comic book shop and she's just getting started.

12/07/2017

The Empire Files

CLIP // Media & politicians assert there is "no free press" in Venezuela. So Abby Martin bought all the newspapers she could find in Caracas. Watch as she reads the headlines to see if the claim is true!

[Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/GHc7yegaCmc]

10/05/2017

Free Press

In 2017, access to broadband internet is an undeniable civil right. Tonight we’re meeting with FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to let the Trump Administration know as well. Turn on your live video notifications so you can tune into the livestream, right here on FB at 10 pm ET / 7pm PT.

Join 18 Million Rising, Color Of Change, Free Press, National Hispanic Media Coalition and Center for Media Justice in the conversation to defend . Let’s the Trump administration on this important conversation.

03/05/2017

Benton Foundation

The latest chapter of the long-running net neutrality began this week. How did we get here -- and where are we headed?

28/04/2017

MediaJustice

Enemies of the State keynote conversation on digital threats and resistance featuring Ernesto Falcon of Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cayden Mak of 18MR, Joe Torres of Free Press and Malkia Cyril of CMJ! Keynote moderated by Davey D.

30/03/2017

NowThis Politics

'History is not on your side' – Watch this heroic Holocaust survivor confront Trump's ICE director

30/03/2017

Set up a VPN in 10 minutes for free—and yes, Americans urgently need one, thanks to Congress

Thanks to the GOP, ISPs can now sell your entire web browsing history to anyone without your permission. Who does this benefit? No one. There's a way to protect yourself.

29/03/2017

Upworthy

Misha Collins has a bold $500-million plan to get back at Congress over a recent vote.

27/03/2017

You have one day to stop Congress from giving away your web browsing history

Last week, on a party-line vote, the Senate voted to repeal the Federal Communications Commission’s 2016 broadband privacy rules giving consumers the power to choose how their ISPs use and share...

24/03/2017

U.S. Senate to America: Yeah, we’ll let internet providers pimp out your personal data

Yes, they are going to be watching you.

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