This page was last updated on April 27, 2016. – MT Once upon a time, journalism students kept physical portfolios or string books to showcase their work for instructors and potential employers. Nowadays… well, not so much. In the J-School at UT-Austin, where I worked as a teaching assistant and assistant instructor for nearly seven […]
Speaking this Saturday at 2013 Coastal Bend Social Forum
My friend JD Tucker invited me to speak at this year’s Coastal Bend Social Forum on Saturday, Feb. 16. Here are the details for my session: Negotiating the News: Activists Talking to Reporters and Editors Left-progressive activists have an uneasy relationship with corporate news media: On the one hand, mainstream media represent dominant economic, political, […]
Austin IMC Interview with Robert McChesney
On Superbowl Sunday this year, my comrade Matt Gossage and I sat down for an exclusive Austin Indymedia interview with Robert McChesney, a well-known media activist. Gossage did a great job editing the video, and here’s the final product:
UDC 2010: Abstract Accepted!
Unless I’m maimed in a horrific accident, etc., I will be presenting the paper below at this year’s Union for Democratic Communications conference in State College, Pennsylvania. (Now, of course, all I have to do is write it.) Theorizing Media and Movements: A Framework for Linking Theory and Strategy Abstract Corporate news media now pose […]
Beyond Hutto: Reforming Immigrant Detention
This interview appeared on The New Texas Radical, the Rag Blog, and in the November 2009 issue of Z Magazine. Activists Reflect on “Pushing Back” Against Immigrant Detention Centers. In response to mounting criticism of harsh policies, the Obama administration announced in August that the United States would begin reforming the government’s immigrant detention system. […]
Winter Soldier Memoirs: The Underside of War
This appeared as the feature story in the Spring 2009 edition of InCite, an alternative publication produced by students at the University of Texas at Austin. Following a march through downtown Austin, anti-war activists Yazan Al-Hasan, Bobby Whittenberg, and Zachary Lown protest at City Hall, Feb. 28. At a time when domestic anti-war activism seems […]
Keep the CIA out of UT
I co-wrote the column below with fellow graduate student Robert McDonald. It appears in the op-ed page of the Sept. 30, 2008 issue of UT-Austin’s Daily Texan student newspaper. Keep CIA off campus Matt Tedrow & Robert McDonald Daily Texan Guest Columnists On Sept. 24, Campus Antiwar Movement to End the Occupation protested the CIA’s […]
Parecon and Anarcho-Syndicalism: An Interview with Michael Albert
(This interview originally appeared on ZNet on July 4, 2007. ) Participatory economics, or parecon for short, is a classless economic system that serves as an alternative to capitalism, market socialism, and centrally planned economies. Parecon is based upon equity, solidarity, diversity, and participatory self-management, as well as takes into account kinship/gender, community/race, and polity […]
Spreading the Parecon Idea
Over at the ZNet blogs, Mitchell Szczepanczyk has “an audacious proposal to advance a participatory economy“: I had an idea for a tactic to proceed our economy. Why not just go ahead and start a participatory economy? Some might react by saying “We already have projects like Z Magazine and South End Press which already […]