Tools For Action: Media Advocacy bell hooks: Cultural Criticism and Transformation Sexist and racist messages embedded in media and popular culture are exposed by scholar Bell Hooks in this video designed to teach students how to think critically about media and values. Beyond Killing Us Softly: The Strength To Resist A powerful tool for women activists and teachers, this video examines the degrading messages in contemporary advertising that undermine girls health and self image... and why men should care too. Community Change: How To Tell and Sell Your Story Using media to advocate creatively and provocatively for low-income communities is the focus of this special newsletter from the Center for Community Change based in Washington D.C.. Domestic Violence: A Handbook For Journalists This handbook offers tips and strategies for re-framing media coverage of domestic violence homicides to better expose the dynamics of abusive power and control that can lead to murder. Making Policy, Making Change: How Communities Are Taking Law Into Their Own Hands This guide describes strategies for grassroots organizing, political analysis and practical tips for using media to shape, change and construct public policy. Media Access Guide For Non-Profit Organizations Tips for getting events and public service messages aired on local television, cable and radio programs are featured in this free guide from KRON TV 4 in San Francisco. Media Activist Tool Kit: Challenging Myths & Stereotypes In The News Monitoring and responding to biased reporting of social issues by the news media is the special focus of FAIR's free tool kit for activists. Media How-To Guidebook Practical formulas for getting good media coverage and understanding corporate ownership are highlighted in this how-to guide from Media Alliance. Media Outreach Made Easy: An Advocate's Guide To Working With The Press Designed specifically to introduce domestic violence advocates to media advocacy work, this free guide from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence covers all the basics. News For A Change: An Advocate's Guide To Working With The Media Using media strategically as part of an overall social change strategy is the key message of this practical guide for advocates available from Sage. Op-eds: A Cost-Effective Strategy For Advocacy Using editorial page pieces (op-eds) to frame public policy debate and lobby for social change is the centerpiece of this handbook for non-profit advocates and educators. Tough Guise: Violence, Media & The Crisis In Masculinity A compelling documentary that illustrates with film clips and commentary how popular media images promoting mens violence as cool and heroic can negatively impact boys and men. Whose Perspective? - A Guide To Gender-Sensitive Analysis Of The Media Produced by a women's media watch group in Jamaica, this guide offers all the materials needed to host a training workshop focused on challenging media images that perpetuate violence against women.

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