This item from Andrea Lee at the San Francisco immigrant rights advocacy organization Mujeres Unidas y Activas:
"The National Domestic Workers’ Allliance from CASA Maryland had an important victory – Montgomery County passed their Household Workers’ Bill of Rights!!! Read More
The Justice and Journalism Fund provides grants of $500 and $3000 to support independent journalists or those employed at new organizations to cover complex, multi-faceted issues, especially those related to immigration and borderlands, race and ethnicity, crime and punishment, or post-9/11 security and civil rights. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or legal U.S. residents. Collaboration among different media (mass media, ethnic media, community media, and youth media), across different media platforms, are encouraged to apply. Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis through September 30, 2008.
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Topics: Community Media, Ethnic Media, Funding, Immigrants, Journalism, Media production, News
Topics: Community Media, Ethnic Media, Funding, Immigrants, Journalism, Media production, News
Latino USA's Maria Hinojosa speaks with Washington Post reporter Dana Priest about her and colleague Amy Goldstein's recent series about health care offered to detained immigrants. Read More
Do you recognize any of these names?
Ginny Berson, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Oakland, CA; Florence Hernández-Ramos, Sol Project Management, Denver CO; Víctor Montilla, Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation, San Juan, PR; Hugo Morales, Radio Bilingue, Fresno, CA; Raúl Ramírez, KQED, San Francisco, CA; Silvia Rivera, Radio Arte, Chicago, Ill.
They are members of the newly formed Latino Public Radio Consortium.
In the wake of several gatherings of public broadcasters concerned about under representation of Latinos in public radio’s audiences, a small, diverse group of Latino public broadcasters assembled in Boulder this summer to consider strategies to significantly increase Latino use of public media. Read More
"The Chinese media in the Bay Area, which is home to hundreds of thousands of Chinese Americans, has mobilized to both cover the disaster and help funnel relief to those in need." New America Media, News Report, Jun Wang, Posted: May 14, 2008. Read More
On Sunday April 13th, Media Mobilizing Project (MMP) and Juntos will graduate a second round of twelve students from an English Speaking video and web workshop in Philadelphia. Read More
Radio Arte, media partner of Salud: Healing through the Arts, was awarded with the prestigious Studs Terkel Community Media Award this Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
Congratulations Radio Arte! Read More
How can ethnic media makers work with public schools to better prepare tomorrow's citizens? The Center welcomes D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and other educational leaders from Maryland and Virginia to discuss "Public Education in a Changing Region," in a breakfast press briefing and roundtable discussion for metro-area ethnic media. Read More
Twa Zanmi- Three Friends, The Haitian American Public Health Initiative, (HAPHI) the Haitian Media Network, and the Institute for Community Inclusion, are working together to help Haitians in the greater Boston area cope with depression, anxiety, and acculturative stress. Read More
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A national program of the