Events – MediaJustice

#ProtectBlackDissent 101

Imran Siddiquee — Tue, 11 May 2021 21:01:00 +0000

#ProtectBlackDissent 101, facilitated by Myaisha Hayes, Campaign Strategies Director at MediaJustice. Participants learned about the history of criminalizing Black and brown dissent, the work MediaJustice has done to ProtectBlackDissent, and how we are strategizing to Defend our Movements.

E-Carceration 101

Imran Siddiquee — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 20:58:00 +0000

E-Carceration 101, facilitated by James Kilgore, Media Fellow at MediaJustice. This session drew on the work of MediaJustice’s Challenging E-Carceration project and our engagement with impacted individuals. In this workshop, we will describe how electronic monitoring functions on a daily basis, why it represents an alternative form of incarceration, and how we can struggle for more transformative options in the fight for abolition.

Racialized Disinfo 101

Imran Siddiquee — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:57:00 +0000

Racialized Disinfo 101, facilitated by Erin Shields, National Field Organizer at MediaJustice. Join us for a workshop on the history of racialized disinformation in the U.S. and how this impacts our approach to fighting disinfo in our own communities today. Click here to watch the recording.

Media Justice 101 Part 2

Imran Siddiquee — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 20:54:00 +0000

Media Justice 101 Part 2, facilitated by Steven Renderos, Executive Director at MediaJustice. At the turn of the 21st century, a new movement dubbed Media Justice was formed. At the time, media activists were fighting the consolidation of media from giant corporations like Viacom, Disney and Clear Channel. In the span of a decade, these media giants would be surpassed by a new class of monopoly power, Silicon Valley. These new tech giants rely on a business model centered on collecting every bit of data they can about you. This data has been used to target ads, fuel racists algorithms, and build powerful surveillance tools like facial recognition software. Racial disparities our communities face offline in policing, education, housing, etc are shifting online. Join us to learn how the MediaJustice movement has evolved beyond media representation to challenge the technological giants that are shaping communication in our world today. Come discuss movement building in the internet age, as we continue to fight for access and against surveillance. Click here to watch the recording.

Media Justice 101 Part 1

Imran Siddiquee — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:51:00 +0000

Media Justice 101 Part 1, facilitated by Steven Renderos, Executive Director at MediaJustice. Media in the United States has played a key role in shaping the cultural and political conditions affecting people of color. Since the publication of the very first newspaper, the Publick Occurrence in the late 1600s, Black people, indigenous communities and other communities of color have struggled to shape our own media representation. At every moment of innovation, from newspapers, radio, to TV, media activists have waged a struggle to control our stories. As the first Black newspaper, Freedom’s Journal wrote in 1827, “We wish to plead our own cause…far too long have others spoken for us.” It’s a rallying cry as relevant today as it was in the 19th century. Join us to learn about the history media resistance led by people of color, from the free press to free TV, that has shaped the Media Justice movement we know today. Click here to watch the recording.

Mapping Pretrial Injustice Webinar

Imran Siddiquee — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 18:56:40 +0000

On behalf of Media Mobilizing Project and MediaJustice, we invite you to join us on Thursday, February 6th at 3 pm EST, for our webinar launching the latest #NoDigitalPrisons project: Mapping Pretrial Injustice: A Community-Driven Database.

This webinar will explore our website, which maps the use and implementation of pretrial risk assessment instruments in over 1000 counties. Join local organizers contending with risk assessment in pretrial decarceration campaigns, legal advocates fighting to end pretrial detention, and data scientists fighting bias in algorithmic decision-making, to learn more about our research on the implementation of risk assessment in hundreds of jurisdictions nationwide. RSVP today!

Hundreds of thousands of our community members are held in cages before their trials – innocent until proven guilty. The majority of them are Black and Brown, poor, and impacted by the brutal history of racial and economic oppression in the United States. Many jurisdictions are working to reduce pretrial jail populations by using risk assessments, which are algorithmic decision-making tools that try to predict who will come back to court and who will get arrested again, if released.

However, studies show that there are major racial biases embedded in these tools, and that courts and decision-makers don’t reliably use them to reduce pretrial incarceration or supervision in many communities nationwide. To support the growing nationwide demand to abolish pretrial detention, we know it will be imperative to understand how
(or whether) pretrial risk assessment tools either support or create barriers to our vision of decarceration.

This is why Media Mobilizing Project has built a community-driven database website analyzing the use of risk assessment instruments in over 1000 counties, using secondary source materials as well as interviews conducted by students and community organizers. RSVP today to join our webinar to learn more about how this website can be used as a resource in your fight to end pretrial detention.

‘No More Shackles’ Report Launch

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:11:13 +0000

Join us on October 30th for the launch of MediaJustice’s new report, No More Shackles: Ten Arguments Against Pretrial Electronic Monitoring.

While often framed as an “alternative” to mass incarceration, electronic monitoring (EM) is actually an expansion of it. Proponents of EM argue that it is cheaper than jail and increases public safety. Those who favor monitors even try to create a favorable image of EM by referring to these devices as “ankle bracelets” as if they are jewelry.

By contrast, we refer to these devices as “ankle shackles.” MediaJustice’s new report shows that electronic monitoring has disastrous consequences for individuals subjected to it—especially people of color from marginalized communities. This research is based on the lived experiences of the people who have worn these electronic shackles.

The report launch will include perspectives and testimony from people who personally experienced EM, grassroots organizers in Chicago, and other leaders in the national movement demanding #NoMoreShackles.

The evening will be hosted by Lavette Mayes of CCBF and feature presentations from James Kilgore of MediaJustice and Challenging E-Carceration and Robert Agnew of JustLeadershipUSA Milwaukee.

The event will close with a LIVESTREAMED panel featuring Rashanti Mcshane and other individuals directly impacted by electronic monitoring in conversation with Emmanuel Andre, Executive Director of the Northside Transformative Justice Center and a member of CCBF’s Advisory Board.

Schedule:
5:30-6:00pm Gathering time with light refreshments
6:00-7:30pm Program

***Join the conversation on Twitter using #NoMoreShackles and #NoDigitalPrisons***

Stop Spying: FBI Surveillance of Black & Muslim Communities

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:36:07 +0000

Activists in movements to protect the rights of Black, Brown and Muslim people are being targeted and surveilled by law enforcement. Join us in learning how police surveillance undermines our movements and work with us to strategize around how we fight back. This event is hosted by the Black Identity Extremist Abolition Collective (BIEAC), that includes: the National Conference of Black Lawyers, the Transformative Justice Coalition, Defending Rights and Dissent, Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, the National Lawyers Guild (DC Chapter) and MediaJustice. This event is co-sponsored by Justice for Muslims Collective.

Power Not Paranoia w/ Stop LAPD Spying

Eteng Ettah — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:43:33 +0000

Part of MediaJustice Network member Stop LAPD Spying Coalition’s “Power Not Paranoia” workshop series, co-hosted by MediaJustice, this event featured a youth workshop on surveillance of communities of color and a digital security training at Los Angeles Community Action Network (LACAN) on Saturday April 20th, 2019. Read a recap here.