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Ida B. Wells Media Justice Center PARTNERS

POOR MAGAZINE/PNN(PoorNewsNetwork) www.poormagazine.org
The Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute at POOR Magazine/PNN offers a comprehensive curricula of media, arts and social justice for youth, adults and elders in The Bay Area. All of our programs are focused on teaching non-colonizing, community-based and community-led journalism, multi-media and art with the goals of creating access for unheard voices, preserving and de-gentrifying rooted communities of color and re-framing the debate on poverty, homelessness, disability and race in the US as well as creating short and long-term social change and racial justice.

GLOBAL ACTION PROJECT www.global-action.org
Since 1991, Global Action Project (G.A.P.) has provided media arts and leadership training for thousands of young people living in underserved communities, from New York to Croatia to Guatemala to the Middle East and beyond. Our mission is to provide youth with the knowledge, tools, and relationships they need to create powerful, thought-provoking media on local and international issues that concern them, and to use their media as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

PROGRESSIVE COMMUNICATOR’S NETWORK www.progressivecommunicators.net
The Progressive Communicators Network exists to strengthen and amplify the power, voices, and vision of grassroots movements that are working for racial, social, economic, and environmental justice. Network members use communication strategy, framing and messaging, and media tools to enhance the influence of social change movements on public policy and opinion; and realize a world without poverty, racism, and other forms of oppression.

MAKING CONTACT/NATIONAL RADIO PROJECT - A progressive independent radio series www.radioproject.org
Making Contact will conduct radio production training sessions at the Forum’s Ida B. Wells Media Justice Center and create collaborative radio programs in the Making Contact series to bring listeners powerful voices from the USSF. This will include activists/analysts on the occupation of Iraq and the effect here at home; the failure of the government to respond to poverty and domestic crises in the U.S.; and hopeful organizing efforts for social and economic justice. Making Contact will also publicize the forum in advance via our website, e-newsletters and via our radio programs on the 200+ stations nationwide that carry our show.

THE PRAXIS PROJECTwww.thepraxisproject.org
The Praxis Project is a national, nonprofit organization that builds partnerships with local groups to influence policymaking to address the underlying, systemic causes of community problems. Committed to closing the health gap facing communities of color, we forge alliances for building healthy communities. Our goal is to build power at the local level to increase the capacity of communities to become effective advocates so that they are leaders and catalysts on the legislative and policy decisions that affect their lives.

INDYMEDIA US http://indymedia.us

Indymedia is a grassroots network committed to using media production and distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice. It is dedicated to addressing issues that profit-driven media often neglect and hopes to empower people to "become the media" by providing democratic access to available technologies and information. While as many as 50 participating IMCs are US based, Indymedia.us remains firmly committed to the ideas of international solidarity and mutual aid integral to the Indymedia network.

YOUTH MEDIA COUNCIL http://youthmediacouncil.org

Youth Media Council builds communications power and defends the communication rights of youth, communities of color, and organizing groups working for racial and economic justice. Launched in 2001 to counter racial stereotypes and anti-youth bias in the news, YMC is a media strategy and action center dedicated to building a strategic and collaborative movement for justice by strengthening media strategy, capacity and action in California and beyond.

THIRD WORLD MAJORITY http://www.cultureisaweapon.org

Third World Majority (TWM) is a new media training and production resource center run by a collective of young women of color and our allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots political organizing. Through our collaborations with other organizations, we support organizing for social change and global justice in real, representational and virtual worlds where communities of color are centered in the production, distribution and educational processes.

AMARC
Global Action Project
Green Lady Media
Left Turn
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
May First/People Link
Moving Images
New American Media
Pacifica Radio Network
Paper Tiger TV
People’s Production House
Picture the Homeless
Prometheus Radio Project
Race Poverty and Environment Journal
Radio ALER (Latin America)
San Francisco Bayview Newspaper
WRFG – Radio Free Georgia

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