Media Education, Reform & Justice Organizations
To connect with media reform organizations working for a free and open communications system, start here:
> Vermont Access Network - Statewide network of 25 Vermont Access Management 0rganizations.
> Alliance for Community Media - National network community media organizations.
> ACME-VT - Vermont chapter of national media education assocation.
> Center for Digital Democracy
> Vermont Public Interest Research Group
> Prometheus Radio Project
> Free Press
> Benton Foundation
> Reclaim the Media
> Media Alliance
> Media Tank
> League of Women Voters
> Media Education Foundation
> Vermont Peace & Justice Center
> True Majority
Public Knowledge: www.publicknowledge.org
Washington, DC-based public interest advocacy organization dedicated to promoting the public interest in access to information.
CIMA: www.MediaActionCenter.org
Activists, researchers, educators, organizers, public interest groups and other advocates for media and communications systems that serve democracy, social justice and human rights have a new way to connect and build strategy online.
Media Empowerment Organizing Manual:
http://www.ucc.org/ocinc/mep/orgman.htm
In the Media Empowerment Organizing Manual, published by the United Church of Christ's Office of Communication, you will find ample and invaluable information about some of the many media justice organizing, policy and education drives going on around the United States-and how you can take action in your part of the world.
HearUsNow.org: www.hearusnow.org
Consumer's Union's HearUsNow.org provides tools and resources and opportunities for direct action on issues of interest and relevancy to their communities, and organizations are given a platform through which to highlight their concerns and successes.
Communications Workers of America: www.cwa-union.org
CWA is the "union for the information age". Resources include position papers, organizing tools (www.comcastwatch.org) and useful research materials.
Electronic Frontier Foundation: www.eff.org
EFF was founded in 1990 — well before the Internet was on most people's radar — and continues to confront cutting-edge issues defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights today.
NATOA: www.natoa.org
The National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) is a national association that represents the telecommunications needs and interests of local governments, and those who advise local governments. NATOA is actively involved in cases before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Courts. NATOA seeks to ensure that the voice of local governments is heard, and that their position is understood.
TeleCommUnity: www.telecommunityalliance.org
Alliance of local governments and their associations that advocate for
local governments’ interests on matters of federal telecommunications
and broadband legislation that affect their authority, use and control
over public lands and rights-of-way, zoning and public use of frequency
spectrum.