Reports and Publications – MediaJustice

Electronic Monitoring Guidelines

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 20:43:35 +0000

The criminal justice system’s use of electronic monitors, typically in the form of ankle bands, has more than doubled in just over a decade. Electronic Monitoring threatens to become a form of technological mass incarceration, shifting the site and costs of imprisonment from state facilities to vulnerable communities.

No More Shackles: Why We Must End the Use of Electronic Monitors for People on Parole (2018)

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:27:23 +0000

In this report, we call for the elimination of the use of electronic monitoring for people on parole. When people have done their time, they should be cut loose, not made to jump through more hoops and be shackled with more devices, punitive rules and threats of re-incarceration.

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October 2, 2018

Why We’re Demanding #NoMoreShackles

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April 30, 2019

History in the Making: Illinois Bill to Eliminate Use of Electronic Monitoring Passes Vote in the House

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June 17, 2019

The Marshall Project: The Case for Abolition

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“Spoiler Alert – How Progressives will break through Pop Culture” (2014)

Imran Siddiquee — Fri, 20 Jun 2014 02:37:00 +0000

“Spoiler Alert” is the warning you receive when a major plot point is about to be revealed. This report reveals the major strategic investments that progressives can make into pop culture and creative activism to achieve transformative societal and politcal change.This report was written by Tracy Van Slyke as a fellow of The Opportunity Agenda and is the director of The Culture Lab at the Citizen Engagement Lab.

A List of Endorsers for Challenging E-carceration Guidelines

Imran Siddiquee — Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:01:07 +0000

In March 2018, led by MediaJustice Fellow James Kilgore, the #NoDigitalPrisons campaign’s Challenging E-Carceration project released a set of guidelines to support advocates and policymakers protect the human rights of those who are monitored. Over 50 racial justice, criminal justice and civil rights organizations endorsed the guidelines. These guidelines were developed via a consultation process that included organizers, attorneys, policy makers, researchers and individuals critically impacted by electronic monitoring.

Consumers, Big Data, and Online Tracking in the Retail Industry: A Case Study of Walmart (2013)

Imran Siddiquee — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:14:00 +0000

Consumers, Big Data, and Online Tracking in the Retail Industry is the first independent analysis of Walmart’s efforts to gather and track consumer information online, and use that information to shape marketing strategies. The report found that Walmart tracks the personal data of up to 145 million Americans, and shares that data with at least 50 third party companies. Frighteningly, the personal data of consumers is gathered easily and secretly, and shared without accountability. Communities of color and poor consumers are especially at risk. Read the report here.

Proceedings of the 2009 Midwest Rural Assembly (2009)

Imran Siddiquee — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:27:00 +0000

In August 2009, a group of 170 people gathered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to launch the Midwest Rural Assembly—a network of community leaders, organizations, and policymakers dedicated to creating a stronger rural America. They discussed the issues that mattered most to them, assessed policy opportunities and challenges, and committed to action. amalia deloney of MediaJustice made a presentation at the gathering on the lack of access to broadband technology in rural areas, particularly for people of color and those living on low incomes.

Displacing the Dream: A Report on Bay Area Newspaper Coverage of Development and Gentrification (2006)

Imran Siddiquee — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:30:00 +0000

As of 2006, Oakland and San Francisco had each lost 20 to 25 percent of their African-American populations. Displacing the Dream exposes the failure of Bay Area newspapers to adequately cover the crisis of gentrification and displacement facing the Bay Area today. What did newspaper coverage of housing and development include? Whose voices were heard and whose got left out?

The Leadership We Need: How People of Color Are Leading the #CultureSHIFT for Racial Equity (2014)

Imran Siddiquee — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 21:48:00 +0000

Article by MediaJustice founder Malkia Cyril for the Philanthropic Initiative for Racial Equity.

Digital Discrimination: Big Data, Surveillance, & Racial Justice (2014)

Imran Siddiquee — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:54:00 +0000

A field-report from the 2014 Knowledge Exchange by the Center for Media Justice and Consumers Union. “As we speak, our movements are being tracked, and our personal information sold to the highest bidder. More and more we see the militarization of police departments and the tragic consequences are clear from New York, to L.A., to Ferguson. While the platforms and methods may be new, we know that there is a long history of surveillance as a means to track, control and discredit social and racial justice movements. But in an increasingly digital age, the information being collected is even more invasive than decades prior and the stakes are especially high for communities of color and organizers fighting for justice.”