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New "Echoing Justice" Report Brings Grassroots Communications Into Focus

 

March 19, 2013 – Grassroots Social Justice groups and networks are changing the landscape of media strategy from the ground up according to a new report out today, Echoing Justice: Communications Strategies for Community Organizing in the 21st Century

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CCHE Grantee from Alaskan Tribes Release New Report on Food Sovereignty

  In a new report, Survival Denied: Stories from Alaska Native Families in a Broken System (co-authored by CCHE Grantee The Council of Athabascan Tribal Governments (CATG) and Alliance for a Just Society is a firm statement on the change needed for the families of over 260 tribes throughout the State of Alaska. The report details the ongoing legal morass between federal and state law.

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Ron Finley: A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA Delivers TED Talk.

"South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys."

Watch the video!

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Next Stop: Justice / Próxima Parada: Justicia

After nearly 2 years of grassroots research and analysis, POWER, the DataCenter, and Urban Habitat are proud to release undefinedNext Stop: Justice / Próxima Parada: Justicia — offering a cutting edge, comprehensive analysis of public transit in San Francisco, with a vision for transit policy that puts race and the environment at the center.

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CCHE Grantee LUPE: Looking back

LUPE, a grantee of CCHE, is celebrating a year of major victories. In their recent end-of -the-year eblast, among many highlights, they announce that "After an 8 year campaign, won the installation of streetlights in 13 Hidalgo County colonias. Organizing with the Communities Creating Healthy Environments (CCHE) initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, LUPE members worked with Hidalgo County Commissioners and their precinct staff to fund and install the first of what we hope will be many more streetlights to come."

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Praxis Project Announces "Eat4Health" Fellowship Program

The Praxis Project Cultivates New Generation of Food Policy Advocates Through “EAT4 Health” Fellowship Program

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