Marie Celestin, Aliza Dichter, Denise Moorehead, Colin Rhinesmith and Ada Robinson

The media/communications environment is rapidly changing. Who will control the networks and tools that social justice activists use? How can we work pro-actively for media & technology systems to better serve our communities? The purpose of this workshop is to generate strategic thinking about how we can improve the media/communications system and to share some strategy-building tools. We will talk about the types of policies, technologies and economics that can create a better media future, and we will strategize ways to win and protect what we need and want. This workshop will build on the goals generated in the prior session "Organizing the Organic Internet," where participants will collaboratively write an Internet Justice Bill of Rights. (The sessions are designed to work together, and also independently. We welcome you to join us whether or not you attend both sessions.) This workshop is presented by members of the Boston Action Tank-- a new, experimental "think tank" of people who work at the community level using media & technology. We are aiming to have conversations, do research and analysis, and form a sort of strategy lab for projects that can help build the media movement. We've created this workshop to help us learn from you, and to help you position your current work in a long-term strategic framework.