WiserEarth Group Support

Media Justice speaks to the need to go beyond creating greater access to the same old media structure. We are interested in more than access, more than rights, more than taking up space in one more cyber car along the corporate information highway. Media Justice takes into account history, culture, privilege and power. We seek new relationships with media and a new vision for its control, access, and structure. And we understand that this will require new policies, new systems that treat our airways and our communities as more than markets.



Similar to the Environmental Justice Movement, the organizing body of the Media Justice summit felt that communities of color, indigenous communities, and other working class communities in the U.S. needed to stake out a different space within and apart from the larger media democracy movement in order to better address differences in the focus and approach to our media organizing. At the heart of this approach is a rigorous race, class, and gender analysis. We were not content to have these issues relegated to one panel or one segment in a very different mainstream discussion. We need our own space so that OUR communities who are directly affected can forge a movement and vision for this work grounded in their own reality.