Earlier this week, the National Hispanic Media Coalition submitted the following letter to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, regarding the role of telecom in hate crimes. Women In Media & News, the media analysis, education and advocacy group that hosts this blog, was among the signers of the letter.
August 11, 2009
Mr. Lawrence Strickling
Assistant […]

Small groups broke out and brainstormed for an hour to answer the question:

What resources would strengthen your community’s capacity to sustain yourselves as media makers?

The following bullet point list represents the summation/report-back from the small groups about what resources we need to effectively sustain our work.
(As always, please note that I have done my […]

Report-back from the Women’s Media Equity Summit: Visioning Activity
Note: I can’t possibly type as fast as the women in this group speak, so I’ll do my best to capture the essence of what is said, and as a journalist I will attempt to quote accurately. But, understand that there will be typos, paraphrased comments, etc.
Youth […]

Cynthia Lopez, vice president of documentary for P.O.V, is WAM!2009’s opening keynoter.
I listened to but didn’t liveblog the wonderful opening remarks from Jaclyn Friedman or Irene Villisonor (sp), and listened but wasn’t able to liveblog the beginning of the Cynthia Lopez’s remarks. But WAM! will eventually have all the sessions’ full video available, so do […]

Grassroots Organizing Leaders and representatives from the President Elect Barack Obama transition team have come together to discuss the people’s agenda for change. What does change mean from the community organizers, leaders and millions of voters that voted for change. Leaders from Center for Community Change and the Gamaliel Foundation has pulled together members from […]

Clearly one of the biggest challenges in relating this story is that the “border” is but a distant place, an idea, if you will, in the minds of most people in the U.S. But the laws of the land have a tendency to bend and falter when on the margins of this nation.

WIMN’s Voices blogger Michelle Garcia has produced an important, unusually honest news feature for Time.com about Latino-American landowners fighting to block the proposed border fence in Southern Texas… and the impact that the fence will have on American families of color, whose ancestral land is being sacrificed to the vagaries of U.S. immigration policy.
Unlike […]

I have been asked by the Women’s Campaign Forum to blog, post audio and video for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. I will be posting profiles of pro-choice Women Political Leaders in both parties. I will be talking to delegates, everyday “Women on the Street”, and keeping you updated on what is happening on […]

Hot off the heels of the extremely productive media commentary workshop that Catherine Orenstein and I co-facilitated at BlogHer (which ended yesterday morning), I went directly to the Tides Foundation’s Momentum 2008 conference, which is bringing together visionary progressive leaders in a broad swatch of sectors, to share their best thinking on what America’s deepest […]

WIMN’s taking our show on the road tomorrow. Over the next two weeks, San Francisco/Bay Area journalists, bloggers, media activists and generally interested folks will have three chances to meet up with several of WIMN’s staff members, board members, bloggers and allies.
1. Thursday, July 17, 7-9pm: PARTY for Feminist Media Justice! (RSVP now, […]