The “Media Literacy Project” works locally and nationally on media justice issues. The “Center for Media Justice”, a national organization out of Oakland California, has been a national partner to MLP. “The Center for Media Justice” was created to strengthen media activism and communication capacity of grassroots social justice movements. And over the past 15...
Sut Jhally, Executive Director of the Media Education Foundation and a professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is one of the world’s leading scholars focusing on the role played by advertising and pop culture in the process of social control and identity construction. Professor Jhally has worked along side of the “Media Literacy Project”...
![10.27.13 Disability Awareness [Radio] – Generation Justice](https://generationjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/victor-image-300x300.jpg "10.27.13 Disability Awareness [Radio] – Generation Justice")
On this last Sunday’s show we celebrated Disability Awareness! UNM hosted a Disability Awareness Day “Accessibility is for EVERYONE: Understanding “Ableism,” Redefining Disability”. We spoke with Guida Leicester and Lacey Nagar, two of the organizers, about the event. We also spoke with Generation Justice’s inspiring Victor Torres about some of the challenges he faces as...
![10.20.13 Discussion with Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez [Radio] – Generation Justice](https://generationjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/cintli-cropped-300x300.jpg "10.20.13 Discussion with Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez [Radio] – Generation Justice")
In this episode we feature an extended conversation between Generation Justice Fellow Pauly Denetclaw and professor and activist Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez. They discuss the youth-led movement in Arizona to protest and block non-criminal deportations, including the actions in early October, 2013 to shut down Operation Streamline. Music Featured:“Ice El Hielo”- La Santa Cecilia“Trilogy of...
![10.13.13 Spirituality and Social Justice, Pt. 3 – Shash Yázhí [Radio] – Generation Justice](https://generationjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2013-07-08-at-2.42.44-PM-300x300.jpg "10.13.13 Spirituality and Social Justice, Pt. 3 – Shash Yázhí [Radio] – Generation Justice")
This week we ran the third discussion in our series on social justice and spirituality. Generation Justice’s Lucia Martinez talks with activist and community organizer Shash Yazhi. He is the Health Impact Assessment Coordinator for the New Mexico Health Equity Partnership. Shash Yázhí has extensive background in community organizing, training, fundraising, facilitation, program development, and...
