# MediaJustice An Oakland-based national racial-justice organization focused on media and technology policy — surveillance, electronic monitoring, broadband access, and digital rights for Black and Brown communities. Known until 2019 as the **Center for Media Justice**, it was expanded in 2009 by founder Malkia Devich-Cyril (with co-founders Amy Sonnie and Jen Soriano) from a Black-led media-accountability coalition rooted in 2001. ## Background Devich-Cyril — raised by a Black Panther in Brooklyn — built MediaJustice into a network uniting 80+ grassroots organizations, linking communications policy and narrative power to racial justice at a time when few did. The organization's surveillance work has ranged from reducing the cost of prison phone calls to suing the FBI over digital surveillance of Black activists, and blocking deployments of "dangerous surveillance technologies." ## Role in Purge Palantir MediaJustice is a lead organization — alongside the [[American Friends Service Committee]] and [[Mijente]] — in the [[Purge Palantir]] divestment coalition (2025–present), bringing its surveillance-and-digital-rights frame to the campaign against [[Palantir]]'s civilian data infrastructure. Its participation situates the anti-Palantir effort within a longer Black-led organizing tradition against high-tech policing, broadening the coalition beyond the immigration-enforcement focus that [[Mijente]] brings. ## See Also - [[Purge Palantir]] - [[Palantir]] - [[American Friends Service Committee]] - [[Mijente]]