Media and Racial Justice at the Facing Race Conference 2010

The Applied Research Center’s (ARC) 2010 Facing Race Conference in Chicago, Illinois, September 23-25 was a great gathering of national racial justice leaders, educators, organizers, journalists such as Melissa Harris-Perry, Van Jones, Tim Wise and Rinku Sen the Executive Director of ARC. At a time when many of us feel frustrated with where policies and [...]

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Indigenous Peoples Green Jobs Coalition

We recently hosted a Placestories training with the Indigenous People’s Green Jobs Coalition.  They developed six powerful stories that will be displayed at their May 5th Community Forum on Green Jobs.  Here are some pictures of the training.  To view the stories click here

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One less voice of hate: Lou Dobbs leaves CNN

It worked. The BastaDobbs.com campaign mobilized more than 40 Latino groups and more than 100,000 individuals to speak out against Dobb’s hate speech about immigrants and Latinos. Here’s the powerful video the campaign used to expose his lies and put pressure on CNN to fire him: Dobbs’ leaving is a victory and cause for celebration [...]

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Research and Storytelling: Building Power, Creating Change

I recently led a training with seven organizations on digital storytelling.  All had one thing in common.  They were all featured case studies in a report titled “Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities” published by the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. The report “looks at data from 15 Minnesota nonprofits, which shows high return on investments and [...]

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OneWebDay: A Bold Idea

“We believe that we need to transform the social infrastructure of our communities to match the increasingly digitized and technologically mediated environment we live in.”

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When Media is in Our Own Hands: Storytelling as Organizing

Storytelling predates the written word. People have been telling stories for as long as we have had speech. Stories are learned image-by-image, rather than word-by-word, and are retold from the heart. Throughout history, stories have been used to educate, express, advocate and organize. It is through the sharing of stories that communities build their identities, [...]

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I am, we are, POWERFUL!

The ¡Justice/Justicia 2.0! initiative is a new program at Main Street Project.  Grounded in a media justice approach, the program was designed to support rural Latin@s, other communities of color and allies to use interactive Web 2.0 technologies, including blogs, Facebook and Twitter to advocate for immigrant rights and other issues important to their communities, [...]

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