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Hi folks! We are all getting psyched up for the 2008 National Conference for Media Reform happening in just two weeks in Minneapolis! Check out the latest installment featuring speakers at NCMR on this week's episode of Media Minutes...

Listen here to Media Minutes: May 23, 2008.

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FUFA (Females United for Action) is “a coalition of young women leaders that is dedicated to educate not only ourselves, but others as well, on issues that affect women and girls. We organize to bring attention to the issues and take action to address them. FUFA is formed by girls and young women from all over the city of Chicago, from all backgrounds & nationalities, ranging from 12 years of age & up.”

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Pobreza, Raza, Discapacidad y intellectuales Migratorios de la Prensa Pobre y Voces De Inmigrantes en Resistancia testifican la verdad a la FCC sobre el asunto de la Neutralidad del Internet.

Poverty, Race, Disability and Migrant scholars from PoorNewsNetwork(PNN) in collaboration with Media organizers from all ova da bay speak truth to the FCC on Net Neutrality

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Last week we learned that the state of diversity in the media industry continues to grow more stark.

For only the second time in more than 20 years, the number of minority journalists leaving the daily newspaper profession outnumbered the number landing their first job.

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ColorOfChange.org has done incredible work around issues like the Jena 6 and aftermath of Katrina (and many others). To do that, they rely heavily on the Internet to mobilize, and spread their message. In a brief statement, James Rucker of ColorOfChange.org explains the importance of net neutrality, and how it affects their organization.

See the video after the jump...

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Most people aren't even aware that 35,000 workers are laid off because of the American Axle Strike, theres a lot more stuff you may not know, my job is bringing it to the public with some semblance of journalistic integrity

American Axle Strike

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Main Stream Media, are they lazy, or is it in their best interest not to report factual information.

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I got myself 46 stories in 26 days of Feb, quite a few are in the suppressed news catagory. Some articles cover the gamut of ideals seen here at freepress. Most of them go back to the idea that there is a war on the middle class worker here in the US and around the entire globe. Take a look, let me know what you think.

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I think that the Telecommunication Act of 1996, pushed by Clinton and Gore, as much as I am a Democrat and have been all my life, is one of the worst things ever to happen to this country.  It makes it possible for us to get no news except propaganda.  It must un-enacted and I don't think any of the current candidates for the Presidency even has plans to do that.

 This country is in big trouble.  And now Nielsen wants to rate the internet--wrong, wrong, wrong.

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As the 2004 presidential election approached, Katy Chevigny knew that the country would be paying more attention to the process of voting than they had in the past, due to the debacle at the polls in 2000. She wanted to step back from the horserace that the media so often focuses on to figure out what those voters were thinking. What would their experience of and perspective on voting be like in the wake of 2000? As an independent documentary filmmaker, Chevigny knew that she was in a position to go after this story. After all, while we in the independent documentary community don’t have the financial resources of CNN or MSNBC, we do have the editorial freedom to go after the story we think is important.
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