11.10.13 Media Literacy Project’s 20th Anniversary [Radio] – Generation Justice
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11.10.13 Media Literacy Project’s 20th Anniversary [Radio] – Generation Justice

Congratulations to our friends at the Media Literacy Project on 20 amazing years! We celebrated their anniversary on our show this last Sunday by featuring some awesome interviews with folks talking about MLP’s importance and contribution to a national culture shift towards media literacy. Guests included Media Literacy Project Executive Director Andrea Quijada, Professor Sut Jhally, Center for Media Justice Executive...

FULL INTERVIEW w/ Malkia Cyril on Media Justice & MLP – Generation Justice
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FULL INTERVIEW w/ Malkia Cyril on Media Justice & MLP – Generation Justice

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...

FULL INTERVIEW w/ Sut Jhally on Media Literacy & MLP – Generation Justice
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FULL INTERVIEW w/ Sut Jhally on Media Literacy & MLP – Generation Justice

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
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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
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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...