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Over the next 12-18 months, MAG-Net members

will lead diverse regional projects focused on

digital inclusion, wireless rights, community

media, cultural and media infrastructure, eco-nomic rights, and elevating the public voice of

excluded workers. Together, the network will

work collectively to pass federal and state rules

to lower the cost of calls from incarcerated and

detained people and protect under-represented

wireless consumers.

MAG-Net is a chapter-based network, with twelve

regional chapters governed by a team of local Anchor

institutions in New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New York,

Texas, California, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,

Minnesota, and Illinois. Anchor institutions are lead-

ing local or statewide groups with the infrastructure,

capacity, and will to network locally at the intersection

of media and social justice.

About the Center for Media Justice (CMJ)

The Center for Media Justice (CMJ) is a communica-

tions training, strategy, and action tank mobilizing

bold cultural strategies to end racism and poverty,

and strengthen grassroots social justice movements.

Launched as an organization in 2008, we help racial

and economic justice groups deploy coordinated

communications strategies and coalesce their politi-

cal power for regulatory media change. Our programs

include the Media Training and Technical Assistance

Program, and the Media Rights and Access Organizing

Program.

CMJ is the fiscal and strategic manager of the Media

Action Grassroots Network, a signature project of the

Media Rights and Access Organizing Program. As such,the Center for Media Justice is charged with coordi-

nating the governance activities of the Anchors Team,

effective financial management, strategic planning,

infrastructure management, membership services, and

mobilization of the network to achieve its shared goals.

To fulfill this mandate, CMJ has engaged our staff of

ten- including one full time Membership Organizer, a

full-time National Organizer, and portions of all remain-

ing staff time dedicated to network management.

In July 2012 CMJ additionally contracted a Network

Development Specialist to implement a 12-month net-work development plan.

Acknowledgements

This event would not have been possible without

support from MAG-Nets funders. Special thanks to

the Media Democracy Fund, the Ford Foundation,

the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the Open

Society Foundation for their ongoing support of this

critical work. We also thank the staff of the National

Labor College, whose service over the years has been

impeccable.

None of this work would be possible without the

dedicated leadership of MAG-Nets anchor groups. We

thank the Media Literacy Project, Media Mobilizing

Project, Peoples Production House, Media Alliance,

IDEPSCA, Urbana-Champaign IMC, Highlander Center,

Art is Change, Southwest Workers Union, Community

Media Workshop, Native Public Media Martinez Street

Womens Center, Working Narratives (formerly known

as Thousand Kites) and Main Street Project, Other

network leaders include the Media Justice League,

Reclaim the Media, and the Esperanza Center.

Special thanks to Alison Roh Park and Karlos Gauna

Schmieder for documentation; Community Justice

Network for Youth, National Network for Immigrant and

Refugee Rights, Spitfire Strategies, and Lisa Yancey

for special presentations; and to the Ford Foundation,

the Media Democracy Fund, the Nathan Cummings

Foundation, the Open Society Foundation for their

ongoing support of this critical network.

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