So as you can see I have been MIA again, but I promise I have a really good reason. I just wanted to drop in and say Hi!, but also talk a little bit about what I am doing and why I have been so busy. There have been tons of things I want to write about, but I have been preoccupied.

While you are reading this, I am in the middle of a three day training that I have coordinated for the last two months to support grassroots organizers in their campaign work. As some of you know I work at an organization called the Center for Media Justice where we defend the communications rights of disenfranchised communities. I have put together a training specifically focusing on social justice organizing goals such as youth rights, immigrant rights, gender rights and economic justice, recognizing that many of the communities we seek to empower, do not have access to traditional media.

Through this training and through the work of my organization we hope to build the competency of disenfranchised folks and give them the skills they need to communicate their campaign goals and lead them to victory.

Corporate takeover of mainstream media has had many bad effects on our communities. Blogging is one way that we can get our voices into the mainstream to at least attempt to reframe our issues and speak for ourselves. By supporting organizers in their work and to help them gain the skills they need to access media and get their stories heard is another way we can begin to see justice.

So I will be training for the next three days. If anyone is interested in the work I do or want resources and strategy in your neck of the woods, leave questions in comments or shoot me an email.

I will be back in action next week!

Love ya!