Disrupters: Grassroots Media Covering L.A. Fires
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Jan 2025 update: When the Los Angeles fires broke out, BreakThrough quickly dispatched a team to not only cover it, but to organize a team of grassroots videographers, designers and writers who wanted to volunteer their skills. This group of BreakThrough Disrupters is right now on the ground covering the government's negligence, the corporate media's misinformation and the experiences of those who have been evacuated and lost everything. We are using our own equipment as much as possible, but to cover multiple fires at once have had to pay for some rentals, as well as flights, rental cars and housing.
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What is the Disrupters program? Disrupters is BreakThrough's volunteer-based program for grassroots media makers. We firmly believe that media should be of, by and for the people. To us, this kind of people’s journalism tells stories that uplift the working class, gives voice to the voiceless and goes deeper than the superficial content on offer by corporate-owned media.
BreakThrough Disrupters
- provides local organizers a platform with national and international reach ready to cover their struggle
- manages a local and regional communications platform for Disrupter journalists to share with one another
- coordinates collaborative coverage in moments of crisis and rapid response
- organizes educational activities such as workshops and academies to train volunteer Disrupters, who take these skills back to organize people’s media coverage in their areas.
- builds bridges between journalists, media makers, activists, creatives and justice-loving individuals across the country
With five mega-corporations dominating the media, developing independent media is more necessary than ever. To make this media network come to life, we need your support. If you want to see BreakThrough bring high-quality media, and training, to working-class communities nationwide, show your support and make a donation!
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Breakthrough Media
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