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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Lifecast Update from Joyce Cook
Watch Joyce Cook's Lifecast video update for this week.
In case you missed them, here are Joyce's past videos:
Meet Joyce Cook
Joyce Cook Gets the Camera
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New America Media
Equal Voice for America's Families
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Joyce Cook Lifecasting for Equal Voice for America's Families
Meet Joyce Cook. Joyce is one of five working families who will be Lifecasting every Tuesday for our blog. Each week moms and dads (and sometimes their children and other family members) will share about their experiences working to hold their families together during tough economic times and against the backdrop of an historic election.
Joyce is a single, working mom who also cares for her niece and nephew, whose parents passed away when they were young. Her son Edjuan is in prison and, because of that experience, she now works as an advocate for incarcerated youth.
Between now and the September Equal Voice for America's Families convention, we'll hear from Joyce and her family, and four others from different parts of the nation about their challenges, their concerns, their perspective on the issues, and their ideas for change.
You can see a poem by Joyce's son Edjuan in the longer version of the video and read more about Joyce and her family in the New America Media article Rebirth in Rodeo: A Mother’s Struggle with a Son’s Incarceration
You can also visit the New America Media site for stories about the town hall meetings that have been held across the country over the past 9 months, and for ongoing coverage of Campaign activity leading up to the national convention in September.
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Joyce Cook Gets Lifecasting Camera
This past Friday, Ketaki Gokhale from New America Media and the Equal Voice campaign delivered a Flip camera to Joyce Cook so she can start lifecasting about her experience as a single mom raising working and raising her family in Richmond, California a community just north of San Francisco.
If you missed last weeks introduction of Joyce, click here. You can also see the longer version and read the NAM article here.
Joyce and her family are one of 5 families who we'll be hearing from every Tuesday over the coming weeks.
Check back next week to hear more working family voices, and help spread their stories, perspectives and ideas by forwarding them to others.
Click below for more information about:
New America Media
Equal Voice for America's Families
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Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Watch New Lifecasts
This week Roderick Thomas talks about the challenges his family faces in White Horse, New Mexico and Joyce Cook shares a victory from Richmond, California.
RODERICK THOMAS
Roderick Lifecasts about family struggles, and using his writing as a release from stress.
If you didn't see last week's post you can find out more about Roderick in this short video, and visit the New America Media site for even more of Roderick's story.
Journalist Holly Watt reported last week in a Washington Post article about the Navajo Nation's fight to keep its internet access from being shut down due to a contract dispute with a satellite company:
"The tribe of about 250,000 people already has lost Internet service to libraries and community centers known as "chapter houses," and has little access to cellphone service on a reservation that stretches across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Most Internet access there is provided via satellite, which is due to be shut off. Much of the Navajo Nation is inaccessible to land lines." The loss of satellite service threatens not just the many students taking online classes and the daily communication that most of us take for granted, but access to emergency services as well.
One resident said that without satellite service the nearest place for most people to access the Internet is "about 60 miles away."
While it looks like a crisis has been held off by last minute intervention by the FCC, the situation highlights some of the problems faced by remote rural communities, including the difficulty of communicating your experience and your needs when access to the outside world is so limited and tenuous.
JOYCE COOK
Meanwhile, from Richmond, California, Joyce shares a victory in her work to create change in the California youth prison system.
Click here to find out more about Joyce and read her past posts.
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
RODERICK THOMAS
Roderick Lifecasts about family struggles, and using his writing as a release from stress.
If you didn't see last week's post you can find out more about Roderick in this short video, and visit the New America Media site for even more of Roderick's story.
Journalist Holly Watt reported last week in a Washington Post article about the Navajo Nation's fight to keep its internet access from being shut down due to a contract dispute with a satellite company:
"The tribe of about 250,000 people already has lost Internet service to libraries and community centers known as "chapter houses," and has little access to cellphone service on a reservation that stretches across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. Most Internet access there is provided via satellite, which is due to be shut off. Much of the Navajo Nation is inaccessible to land lines." The loss of satellite service threatens not just the many students taking online classes and the daily communication that most of us take for granted, but access to emergency services as well.
One resident said that without satellite service the nearest place for most people to access the Internet is "about 60 miles away."
While it looks like a crisis has been held off by last minute intervention by the FCC, the situation highlights some of the problems faced by remote rural communities, including the difficulty of communicating your experience and your needs when access to the outside world is so limited and tenuous.
JOYCE COOK
Meanwhile, from Richmond, California, Joyce shares a victory in her work to create change in the California youth prison system.
Click here to find out more about Joyce and read her past posts.
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Telling Stories
Watching Joyce Cook talking about her experiences as a single mom working in Richmond, California (see the post, below) reminds us of the thousands of incredible and touching stories we've heard throughout the Equal Voice for America's Families Campaign.
Through more than 60 townhalls all across the country, more than 10,000 people have come together to address the issues facing working families, and to develop a bottom-up agenda to ensure that the next President and the next Congress adopts a national family platform.
In the process, we've met some amazing people, and heard stories that have ranged from the heart-breaking to the uplifting. Sometimes funny and sometimes sad, these stories reveal the daily struggles and triumphs of working class families in America.
We know that many readers of this blog weren't attendees of our townhalls, even though they support our cause. That's why we're pleased to be bringing our "Lifecasting" series to the Internet -- to amplify the stories that many of us working closely with working families have come to know so well.
Every Tuesday we'll be featuring a new Lifecasting Episode. Here on the blog, Joyce Cook and four other individuals and families from places like Chicago, South Texas and New Mexico will be sharing their real-world experiences with their families, their jobs, and their communities.
Each episode promises to be a compelling glimpse into the lives of working families in America, and we hope you'll watch each episode every week -- but we'd like to ask you to do more a bit more.
The truth is, we need your help amplifying the voices of working families in our public discourse.
To that end, please make use the viral tools on this blog and at the end of each video. Take a moment to forward the latest lifecasting video or blog post to your friends and families.
And, if you haven't already done so, please be sure to sign up for our email updates, and encourage your friends, colleagues and family to do the same.
The stories we've heard in townhalls -- and the stories we are hearing here on the blog and in videos -- are powerful. But the power to amplify those stories -- to ensure that they enter the larger public discourse, and that the voices of working families become truly equal -- lies in your hands.
And it's just a click of a link away!
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
Through more than 60 townhalls all across the country, more than 10,000 people have come together to address the issues facing working families, and to develop a bottom-up agenda to ensure that the next President and the next Congress adopts a national family platform.
In the process, we've met some amazing people, and heard stories that have ranged from the heart-breaking to the uplifting. Sometimes funny and sometimes sad, these stories reveal the daily struggles and triumphs of working class families in America.
We know that many readers of this blog weren't attendees of our townhalls, even though they support our cause. That's why we're pleased to be bringing our "Lifecasting" series to the Internet -- to amplify the stories that many of us working closely with working families have come to know so well.
Every Tuesday we'll be featuring a new Lifecasting Episode. Here on the blog, Joyce Cook and four other individuals and families from places like Chicago, South Texas and New Mexico will be sharing their real-world experiences with their families, their jobs, and their communities.
Each episode promises to be a compelling glimpse into the lives of working families in America, and we hope you'll watch each episode every week -- but we'd like to ask you to do more a bit more.
The truth is, we need your help amplifying the voices of working families in our public discourse.
To that end, please make use the viral tools on this blog and at the end of each video. Take a moment to forward the latest lifecasting video or blog post to your friends and families.
And, if you haven't already done so, please be sure to sign up for our email updates, and encourage your friends, colleagues and family to do the same.
The stories we've heard in townhalls -- and the stories we are hearing here on the blog and in videos -- are powerful. But the power to amplify those stories -- to ensure that they enter the larger public discourse, and that the voices of working families become truly equal -- lies in your hands.
And it's just a click of a link away!
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Joyce on the difficulties of relocating
Joyce Cook talks about trying to move her family to a safer neighborhood. She's been trying to make the move since last month, but there are many factors involved.
Click "Lifecasting" under Categories/Labels in the right column to see all posts from our Lifecasters.
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
Click "Lifecasting" under Categories/Labels in the right column to see all posts from our Lifecasters.
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Live Blogging from the National Convention on the Huffington Post
We're following Joyce Cook in Los Angeles, and blogging live to the Huffington Post.
Click here to see the first post.
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
Click here to see the first post.
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video, lifecasting.
Friday, July 18, 2008
The Blog Picture
Hello, everyone! I wanted to take a minute to welcome you to our blog -- and to share our big plans for making this blog as helpful to you as possible.
Through this blog, we'll be connecting you to the many voices of the campaign from around the country. We want the blog - and the moving, unfolding stories we'll be sharing - to be a tool for you to use to help achieve an equal voice for America's families. So please share your thoughts and ideas.
We are grateful to the many families and organizers who will be sharing their thoughts and personal stories on this blog in the coming weeks as our campaign unfolds against the backdrop of difficult economic times and an historic election. Each time I hear another heroic story from one of our families - stories of struggle and sacrifice, resiliency and hope - I think "if the American people only knew".
Well this is our chance to connect the American people to these moving stories. Please help us spread the word so that our equal voices are heard across the nation.
Here's the content schedule so you know what is coming:
You can help us amplify our voices by forwarding the blog posts and videos to friends, signing up for our email updates, and helping to spread the word on Facebook and through your social networks.
So please, check back daily-- and together we'll give a voice to America's working families.
- Luz
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video.
Through this blog, we'll be connecting you to the many voices of the campaign from around the country. We want the blog - and the moving, unfolding stories we'll be sharing - to be a tool for you to use to help achieve an equal voice for America's families. So please share your thoughts and ideas.
We are grateful to the many families and organizers who will be sharing their thoughts and personal stories on this blog in the coming weeks as our campaign unfolds against the backdrop of difficult economic times and an historic election. Each time I hear another heroic story from one of our families - stories of struggle and sacrifice, resiliency and hope - I think "if the American people only knew".
Well this is our chance to connect the American people to these moving stories. Please help us spread the word so that our equal voices are heard across the nation.
Here's the content schedule so you know what is coming:
- Monday -- Campaign Updates: the latest news on our efforts to bring 10,000 people together for a Day of Action. Take a minute to view the video from this Monday's Campaign Update post, The Journey So Far.
- Tuesday -- Working Families Voices: weekly "Lifecast" posts from 5 different working families that will be sharing their challenges, concerns, and perspectives on their lives, current events, the campaign, and ideas for change (Watch this video from Joyce Cook and meet our first lifecaster.)
- Wednesday -- In the News: a recap of current events in the media and how they relate to our efforts to end poverty.
- Thursday -- On the Ground: stories from our organizers. Charles Fields did our first On the Ground post yesterday.
- Friday -- Big Picture: My efforts to tie it all together.
You can help us amplify our voices by forwarding the blog posts and videos to friends, signing up for our email updates, and helping to spread the word on Facebook and through your social networks.
So please, check back daily-- and together we'll give a voice to America's working families.
- Luz
Technorati Tags: activism, economy, politics, poverty, families, working+families, 2008 elections, barack obama, john mccain, social justice, current affairs, current events, immigration, online video.
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