#local media

[californiastatelibrary]

$5 Million in State Funding Available to Ethnic Media Groups for Hate Crime Outreach

[Sacramento, Calif.] — Grants totaling $5 million are available through the California State Library for ethnic media outlets serving communities historically vulnerable to hate crimes and incidents.

The purpose of the grants is to increase public awareness of the California Department of Social Services' Stop the Hate Program. The Stop the Hate Program provides support and services to survivors of hate crimes and incidents and their families.

The grants can be used to pay for reporters, fellowships, and internships at ethnic media outlets, news briefings and roundtables, digital and social media content, community gatherings and partnerships with grassroots organizations and Community Based Organizations. Grant awards range from $40,000 to $400,000.

Past grantees include media outlets and organizations serving California’s Asian American and Pacific Islander, Latino, Black, Native American and LGBTQ+ communities. Examples of projects being conducted by current grantees can be found on the State Library website.

“California’s diversity is our superpower,” said Greg Lucas, California’s State Librarian. “Helping local media outlets ‘Stop the Hate’ strengthens all of our communities.”

According to the California Department of Justice’s 2021 Hate Crime in California Report, hate crime events increased 32.6% from 1,330 in 2020 to 1,763 in 2021.

A total of $15 million in grants for ethnic media outlets was included in the Asian and Pacific Islander Equity Budget of 2021, a three-year investment of $166.5 million to fund critical resources and services in response to the sharp rise in hate incidents and hate crimes.

This is the second round of funding for ethnic media outlets. In May 2022, the California State Library awarded nearly $6 million in grants to 50 ethnic media outlets and collaboratives. A complete list of last year’s grantees can be found in the May 2022 press release.

For more information, visit the Ethnic Media Outreach Grants page on our website. Applications are due by 5:00 PM PST on Monday, March 14, 2023.

[thoughtportal]

The Texas Democracy Foundation, the nonprofit parent of the Texas Observer, told its staff today that it is laying off employees – including journalists and editors – and ceasing publication on Friday, March 31, 2023.

This Go Fund Me was established so that readers and supporters of the Texas Observer can give a lifeline to staff and journalists who are becoming unemployed. I am James Canup and I have organized this campaign to benefit my former colleagues, having recently resigned from the Observer myself. I have launched this campaign with the knowledge of board and staff members. We ask you to contribute as generously as you can to provide cash assistance to staff who are being laid off. The Observer is not able to provide a sufficient severance package to laid-off staff due to a funding shortfall and disarray. If the board revisits its decision to cease publication and commence layoffs, funds raised here will be donated to the Texas Democracy Foundation to provide staff pay and benefits. Otherwise, funds raised here will be divided equally among the staff who are being laid off.

Those organizing this Go Fund Me campaign are striving to help journalists and staff to have some money as they take time to seek their next jobs, so that they can support their families despite losing their jobs through no fault of their own. You are invited to read some of the Observer’s recent journalism before deciding to contribute.

The impact of this shutdown on the current team is devastating. “Where else can I go to write a column on transgender issues that takes on the New York Times,” asked one writer. Another was in the process of planning paternity leave for his first child. Another was covering Texas’ war on public schools. “That’s not how a progressive magazine should treat its staff,” said one editor.

What does the Texas Observer mean to its journalists and to Texans? Editorial independence and journalistic freedom have been the hallmarks of the Observer since its founding in 1954. The publication has been freer – less encumbered by the demands of business, advertisers and grantmakers – than any other publication of its stature. As such, the institution has been a proving ground for countless journalists over the years and continuing to this day, and a vital watchdog to extremists, corporations and politicians who would harm Texas and Texans.

Will you help save the staff of the Texas Observer by contributing now?

[tenth-sentence]

Trolls sometimes plant misleading or inaccurate information into credible sources, such as think tanks or local media, which are then frequently quoted by journalists.

"Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists" - Julia Ebner

[specialagentartemis]

Genuinely: For people who are angry and frustrated at the limited number of movies and shows available for streaming, at the way streaming services pull or cancel movies and shows at will, at the way every media corporation under the sun is pulling their stuff onto their own streaming service and balkanizing access to things behind a dozen different monthly subscriptions? For people who miss Blockbuster and want to be able to just rent a DVD again?

See if your local library has a DVD collection.

If I want to watch The Mummy (1999) with Brendan Fraser? I can't stream it on Netflix, but I can borrow it from my local library.

If I want to watch The Mummy (1932) with Boris Karloff? I can't stream that pretty much anywhere, but I can borrow it from my local library.

I want to watch Star Wars or Iron Man or my favorite Disney movie but I refuse to sell my soul to pay for Disney+? I can borrow these from my local library.

Do I want to finish watching Star Trek: Deep Space 9 or check out Star Trek: Picard but resent that it's all on yet another streaming service I don't want? I can borrow season box sets of DVDs from my local library!

Obviously, available circulating collections vary a lot between library systems. (My hometown's library has all of Star Trek DS9 on DVD, for example, but my college town's library only has TOS, Picard, and Discovery.) And of course it depends on whether things are released in physical media form at all, and you won't be able to keep up with new episodes of new series - it takes a while for many things to come out on DVD.

But there can be a lot of good stuff there too. For example, I missed Nope in theaters, but I still really want to see it. So I have it on hold from my local library. I'm 73rd in line on 50 copies, so it'll be a while.

So check to see what DVD collections your library does have - it might surprise you what you can get access to, for free, in a manner that no greedy corporation can yank away.

And by checking out DVDs, you are telling the library that you use and want them to maintain and grow their AV media collection. Which is an encouragement we could really use these days.

[teagosworld]

I’m saying this with love and the experience of being there myself, if you find yourself spending hours researching and documenting the every moment of a person you don’t know, that is a sign that you’ve got to log off.

Keeping track of a strangers every online interaction. Using that information to speculate about their personal lives and relationships. Writing “Call out” posts with extremely serious accusations with little to no evidence. Log off. I promise you that doing literally anything else would be better for your mental health and overall well being.

[starvinginbelair]

this tim drake panel in particular!!!

[viatravelers]

In 1993 the Carroll Creek Bridge in downtown Frederick, Maryland was an ugly plain concrete structure. More than an eyesore, it formed a visible dividing line between racial groups and economic classes in Frederick. Local media called the bridge a “monstrosity.”

[timesofocean]

Swedish-Iranian to be executed by May 21 for spying

New Post has been published on https://www.timesofocean.com/swedish-iranian-to-be-executed-by-may-21-for-spying/

Swedish-Iranian to be executed by May 21 for spying

Tehran (The Times Groupe)- Iranian-Swedish national Ahmad Reza Jalali will be executed by May 21, local media reported Wednesday. Jalali was sentenced to death for allegedly spying for Israel in Iran.

The Iranian Students News Agency ISNA reported that Jalali was sentenced to death on charges of spying on behalf of Israel and being involved in the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists.

He was a doctor and lecturer at the Karolinska Institute in the Swedish capital Stockholm when he was arrested in Iran in April 2016. The Iranian Supreme Court upheld his death sentence for providing information to the Israeli foreign intelligence agency in 2017.

Iran prisoner swap to release more dual nationals

Jalali, who was imprisoned in Tehran in 2018, has been granted citizenship by the Swedish Foreign Ministry.

The announcement came shortly before Hamid Noury’s trial began in Sweden, where he is being tried on charges of “war crimes” and “deliberate murder.”

The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Swedish envoy to protest “the baseless and fabricated accusations that the Swedish prosecutor made against Iran during Noury’s court case”, Iranian media reported earlier.

In Iran, dozens of dual nationals and foreigners are imprisoned for ambiguous charges.

[soft5ku11]

i know this isnt what i usually post, "shut up fat kink blog" i dont fucking care sit the hell down and listen.

You're aware of the Huion New Year AIGI Tweet, right?

LEST WE FORGET, back in november last year:

If you want to buy a Wacom, Huion or Gaumon device, I'd recommend either looking into an alternative or buying secondhand/refurbished from 3rd party sellers on Ebay or something. Avoid Amazon for all the obvious reasons.

This is fucking disgusting. This is embarrassing. This is unacceptable.

most importantly,

They won't stop.

[violetrains]

i love you tinker bell i love you silvermist i love you rosetta i love you iridessa i love you fawn i love you vidia i love you clank and bobble i love you terrence i love you queen clarion i love you fairy mary i love you pixie hollow i love you neverland i love you pixie dust i love you lost things i love you cute little fairy dresses made of flower petals and leaves i love you pompoms on tinker bell's shoes i love you music box with the ballerina that belongs to wendy darling i love you nature magic powers i love you tinkerfairy inventions i love you animal companions i love you fairy humor i love you fairy lore i love you tinker bell soundtrack i love you credits at the end with the cute illustrations i love you disney fairies movies i love you tales of pixie hollow books i love you tinker bell franchise

[yuveim]

Support the ICJ case on genocide in Gaza by emailing your representative today

As the first hearing of South Africa's case in front of The International Court of Justice takes place on 11th January 2024, take action now to call on your government to support the case, and keep demanding an immediate ceasefire and end to the genocide.

UK residents

1. Use this PCS campaign page to email your MP demanding the UK's support of South Africa's ICJ case.

2. or Find your local MP by searching your postcode on the parliament.uk website here and contact them through their email address / phone number listed.

OTHER CAMPAIGNS

CJPME: https://www.cjpme.org/support_icj_case AUSTRALIA PALESTINE ADVOCACY NETWORK: https://apan.org.au/support-south-africas-icj-case/

Use this opportunity to amplify Palestinian voices on the national scale; wherever you live, make sure your politicians hear you.

Watch the first hearing on the UN website here.

[tomorrowusa]

FFS, quit normalizing Donald Trump's comments and behavior.

And if you see local media doing this, call them out. That means phoning them or even paying them a visit. Recruit five like-minded friends to picket the news organizations dismissing Trump's dictator and anti-democracy comments as just "Trump being Trump".

Trump is not how sane American politicians are supposed to act. No matter how long he's been making dangerous and unhinged comments, it just plain isn't normal.

[thoughtportal]

Ohio train derailment and corporate media