{"id":2555,"date":"2009-10-19T11:23:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2009-10-19T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:42:05","slug":"2555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/19\/2555\/","title":{"rendered":"The Center for Media Justice  &#8211; to conduct seminars on HOW TO sharpen race-baiting agenda on illegal immigration and 287 (g) \/detention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an e-mail recieved from Mervyn Marcano, PR Strategist, <a href=\"http:\/\/centerformediajustice.org\/home\/about\/funders\/\">Center from Media Justice<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Center for Media Justice is engaging in a brand new project to \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/centerformediajustice.org\/home\/resources\/media-how-tos\/storytelling\/\">Change the Story<\/a>\u201d on Race in the US. CMJ is<br \/>\nrequesting applications from groups who are engaged in cutting-edge grassroots campaigns on Immigrant Detention<br \/>\nand Criminal\/Juvenile Justice, which are the two focused issue areas for this year under CMJ\u2019s Justice<br \/>\nCommunications Initiative. CMJ will provide strategic public relations support at NO COST to groups under this project. <\/p>\n<p>Participant groups will leverage CMJ\u2019s strategic public relations expertise over the course of the next year to create high-<br \/>\nprofile media campaigns and press cycles that advance racial justice messaging within the debates around Criminal\/Juvenile<br \/>\nJustice and Immigrant Detention. As a result of the current economic and social climate, CMJ sees it as a priority to attack<br \/>\nvicious right-wing framing of race by elevating structural solutions to institutional racism and building the capacity of<br \/>\ngrassroots organizations to better respond to opportunities in mainstream and progressive media. <\/p>\n<p>Participant organizations will receive training and strategy coaching from CMJ, in preparation for their PR campaigns.<br \/>\nDuring their campaigns, CMJ will assist groups in developing PR materials, events, related presswork and story placement.<br \/>\nGroups will need to attend an initial convening in Oakland\/Bay Area in November and a closing convening at our<br \/>\nCommunicate Justice Leadership Institute in April. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>For more information, please see the attached project description or click through the following link to apply! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=dY5OXeSzT0czhPE4X9aiIQ_3d_3d\">http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=dY5OXeSzT0czhPE4X9aiIQ_3d_3d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mervyn Marcano, PR Strategist<br \/>\nCenter for Media Justice<br \/>\n1611 Telegraph Ave., Suite 510<br \/>\nOakland, CA 94612<br \/>\nwww.centerformediajustice.org<br \/>\nPhone: 510.768.7400 x13<br \/>\nmedia strategy and action to build a movement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an e-mail recieved from Mervyn Marcano, PR Strategist, Center from Media Justice The Center for Media Justice is engaging in a brand new project to \u201cChange the Story\u201d on Race in the US. CMJ is requesting applications from groups who are engaged in cutting-edge grassroots campaigns on Immigrant Detention and Criminal\/Juvenile Justice, which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}