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Launch Countdown: 12 Days

The Countdown Begins: 2 Weeks Until the Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival

Aids Walk New York

Free Range Graphics Does It Again!

The Meatrix Wins a Webby!

The Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival Launches June 1st, 2005

What Happened To Current TV's Mission?

PBS Is In Jeopardy

Do You KNOW the Facts About Aids?

Crawfordsville Hosts Media That Matters

Media That Matters in Vancouver, Canada!

April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day

TV Turnoff Week: April 25-May 1 2005!

Vision Youthz Hosts A Media That Matters Screening

Too Taboo for TV

Students Sit-In for Living Wage

Celebrate Global Youth Service Day!

Downtown Latté Hosts A Media That Matters Screening

Must SHE TV: Giving A Voice to Arab Women

Has the West Gone Wild?

SIngle Mothers Driven to Ranks of Working Poor

Chat the Planet Hosts a DIY Screening in New York

Do It Yourself Screening Month Is In Full Swing!

GMO Threaten Our Health

Zimbabwe Children: A Generation in Peril

Haley House Hosts a DIY Screening

New Ron English Billboard!

Media That Matters in Manhattan!

Copyrights and CopyNights

What Causes Classroom Massacres?

New Media Arts Education Project

Unhealhty Eating in Poor Communities

Docs Remain Hottest Commodity at SXSW

Media That Matters Wins Best Nonprofit Web Award at SXSW!

Women's Rights Deteriorate in Latin America

Making Something Old New Again

Date Change: Media That Matters Is Going to Kentucky

Media That Matters at the Center for Social Media!

Host a Screening of Media That Matters in April!

Senate Says No To Minimum Wage Increase

Seeking Soundtrack for Youth-Produced Animation on Global Warming

Factory Farming Needs a Clean Up!

Monitoring Police Practices Results in Arrests

Global Week of Action for Women's Rights

Working Poor Struggling to Eat

30 States Take Action to Raise Minimum Wage!

Media That Matters Is Going to Kentucky!

Reforming the California Youth Authority

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Declaration of Madrid: Education and The Media

Ron English Paints Bean Town....

Civil Rights and Copyrights: New York Screening of EYES ON THE PRIZE

In Honor of Black History Month...

iThemba on the Sundance Channel!

Online Response to a Struggle for Copyrights

Border Crossing: New Migrant Patterns Call for Policy Changes

Media That Matters Travels to Philly!

Media at the Margins

Online Activism Essential to Media Reform Movement

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day

National Poverty Awareness Month

The Fat Truth on Food Marketing

Get Sustainable in NYC

Running for Change!

Media That Matters Travels to San Francisco!

Media Reform Agenda 2005

Media That Matters at The State of the Community Conference!

Conviction Without Charges: Arab-American Discrimination

Culture-Jamming: Artists Take on Corporations

What Matters Made the Media in 2004?

How You Can Help The Relief Efforts in Asia and East Africa

Mad Cow Continues to Madden

All We Want for the Holidays is...

Food Security = National Security

The Right to Education

Rockefeller Drug Laws Reformed

Developments in HIV/AIDS

Finding Media That Matters: Updates on Our Call for Entries!

Internet Accessible: Is Broadband Access A Necessity or Luxary?

Sustainability Now

Latino Media Activism

Going Hungry in the Richest Country on Earth

Be a Reel Grrl!

Get Your Media Reform Activist Toolkit!

News or Propaganda

Consumer Choice for Communications Choice

POPaganda Travels to Boston!

World AIDS Day and Sinikithemba

African-American Farmers Struggle

Detainee Abuses Exposed

Corporate Discrimination

Demand Funding of AIDS Programs

BrooKenya: Connecting Brooklyn to Kenya!

Being On Your Own After Foster Care

Basic Human Needs

Struggling to Survive on Low Wage Jobs

Censoring War Films on Veteran's Day?

Thoughts on Veteran's Day

The EU's Beef with US Beef

HIV/AIDS and Gender in South Africa

Those CitiBank Ads You Know and Love - Remixed!

Discrimination in the Justice System

Music Videos That Matter

Filmmakers and Copyright

Sustainable agribusiness

Media That Matters at NCTE!

Media That Matters Travels to Plattsburgh!

"Don't Laugh At Me" on NPR - the Movement is Growing!

New Yorkers Fight for a Wage Increase

Media That Matters and Community Food Security

Witness and Books Not Bars Take On the California Youth Authority

POPaganda Goes West!

Media That Matters Comes to Washington, DC!

Media That Matters Comes to Miami!

Freedom of the Press

Fight the Expansion of the Patriot Act

Better Questions, Better Decisions Voter Education Initiative

Win for Independent Media

Soldier's Pay Finds a Distributor

Adbuster's Running Shoe Takes a Kick at Nike

Vote and Demand Better Media Coverage

Racial Profiling, National Security, and Human Rights in the USA Chat

Shut the Fox Up

Farm Aid Concert to Benefit Family Farms

Freedom of Information

50 Million Women Count!

Rare Opportunity to Speak to the FCC

40th Anniversary of Birmingham Bombing

Racial Profiling on the Rise

Hollywood is Trying to Kill Betamax

Help Sinikithemba

POPaganda in the Flesh

Get Your V On!

Report from Vienna

Digital Storytelling Course

Operation Truth

Patriot Act Reverses Visa For Muslim Scholar

"The FCC Does Not Represent Me!"

Media That Matters In the Best of Rooftop Films!

Ascension Screening

Being Bullied by Instant Messaging

Take Back the Media March

Media That Matters Screens at Ascension

Fifth Annual Media That Matters Film Festival Call for Entries

Media That Matters Comes to Vienna!

Last Chance to see Media That Matters on a Rooftop!

The Newest Form of Educational TV: Soap Operas

Festival Filmmaker Takes on the RNC!

Celebrate the International Day of Peace with Peace X Peace

March for Women's Lives

Are Broadcasters Serving the Public Interest?

Unjust Media Coverage of the DNC

HIV/AIDS in the News

Pataki Vetoes Minimum Wage Increase

Host a Deadline Viewing Party!

Public Interest Obligation Toolkit

POPaganda screening in New York!

Greg Pak at the Asian American International Film Festival

Factory Farming Abuses Exposed

Minimum Wage Raised in New York State!

Ron English's Latest Billboards!

Taking On Fox News

The Minority Report: Are Minorities Represented on Prime-Time TV?

HIV Women in Dominican Republic Face Double Discrimination

Spring in Awe on a Rooftop

Demand that FOX Offer Better Coverage of the Elections

Studies suggest that there will be 18 Million Aids Orphans in Africa by 2010

Ohio Screenings Highlight Youth Media

Billboard Activists Battle Big Media

Chuck D and the "N-Word"

Screening Journal - Rooftop Screens "Un-American" Films

Voting Rights for Mexicans Living in the USA

Using Film to Combat Bullying

Media That Matters Comes to Youngtown!

I Promise Africa at Rooftop Films

Media That Matters Awards Ceremony Pictures

Congratulations Unbrand America!

Support FAIRNESS: The Civil Rights Act of 2004

Media Democracy and You

National HIV Testing Day

Support Women's Rights in Central America

Rooftop Films Screens Media That Matters

Books Not Bars Follow Up

Fight Child Obesity - Keep Advertisers Off Our Kids

Make Media Ownership an Issue in '04

Media Democracy Meeting

Latest From Free Range Graphics!

Sign the Low-Power FM Radio Petition!

Media That Matters Part of the Human Rights Video Project

Unbrand America!

Improve Detention Policies!

Come to the Festival Installation at Lincoln Center!

Media That Matters Comes to Seattle!

Awards Ceremony at HBO - Honoring Media That Matters

Premiere at BAM a Huge Success!

The Art of POPaganda's Ron English in NYC

Festival Partners with Center for Social Media and ITVS

Festival Awards Ceremony

Festival Premiere at BAM

NEW: MediaRights launched the fifth annual Media That Matters Film Festival on June 1st, 2005. Watch the films!

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"What a pleasure to able to present an award to a film that is so much more worthwhile than what the mass media produces."
— Documentarian Albert Maysles presenting the Global Justice Award to Bread

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