Focusing on the Future of Communities
Main Street Project is a grassroots cultural organizing, media justice and economic development initiative working to help rural and urban communities face today's realities with hope. We provide creative and practical tools to give people of all ages, cultures, economic and immigration status the opportunity to more fully participate in all aspects of community life.
New on Main Street
NET NEUTRALITY
August 24, 2010
Latinos for Internet Freedom call on the Obama administration, Congress and the FCC to protect Net Neutrality and keep the Internet open for everyone.
Main Street Project is part of coalition urging action.
IN THE NEWS
August 24, 2010
Austin at a Crossroads: 25 years after the Hormel Strike
MPR's Elizabeth Baier reports on the changed demographics of the small southeastern Minnesota town .
OP-ED
August 19, 2010
Mignon Clyburn, Michael Copps: An open Internet for all
FCC Commissioners say online freedom is at risk; invite all to tonight's 6 p.m. town hall meeting at South High School (Star Tribune -- Minneapolis)
EVENT
August 19, 2010
Future of the Internet Public Hearing
Free Press, Main Street Project and the Center for Media Justice are co-hosting a public hearing on the Future of the Internet -- an opportunity to share our ideas, experiences and concerns with FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn.
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IN THE NEWS
August 17, 2010
"Minnesota This Week" public affairs program hosted by Curtis Beckman interview Steven Renderos on Net Neutrality and broadband issues
IN THE NEWS
August 7, 2010
Investing in new immigrant families
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Rural Enterprise Center Director writes about the new ecology of food for the Northfield News (MN)
IN THE NEWS
July 8, 2010
Minnesota effort seeks to ease poverty through 'agripreneurship'
Rural Enterprise Center program aims to capitalize on resources already available -- Litchfield (MN) Independent Review (Sharon Rolenc, Minnesota News Connection)
IN THE NEWS
July 3, 2010
The Story of the Prink's Farm
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Rural Enterprise Center Director writes about the new ecology of food for the Northfield News (MN)
MEDIA JUSTICE
June 11, 2010
New MAG-Net remix demands media accountability
Steven Renderos of Main Street Project and Kris Rios of People's Production House bring together the need for the FCC to regulate big media in the people's interest, with Warren G.'s classic Regulate
IN THE NEWS
June 4, 2010
The Ecology of Food: Mercedez's Story
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Rural Enterprise Center Director, writes about an agripreneur and microbiology for the Northfield News (MN)
VIDEO
May 25, 2010
St. Olaf students Scott Barvir, Emilie Bouvier, Maren Gelle and Kayla Johnson produce video about the local food movement in Northfield, MN
"Too Much Food?" features Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin of Rural Enterprise Center
EVENT
June 17-20, 2010
Allied Media Conference returns to Detroit
Steven Renderos from Main Street Project to lead a Digital Justice Coalition exchange with Kristofer Rios from People's Production House and Bryan Mercer from Media Mobilizing Project
NEWSLETTER
May 19, 2010
Rural Enterprise Center Update: Grant from Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (NCR-SARE) will help move Latino farmer training program forward
Plus, the new ecology of food, agripreneur profile, and July 10 mid-summer farm tour
IN THE NEWS
May 14, 2010
Rural Enterprise Center's Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin writes first of a series of columns on the ecology of food for Northfield News (MN)
BLOG
May 10, 2010
The FCC hears a million voices
Grassroots organizations turn the tide towards an Open Internet
BLOG
May 4, 2010
Yes We Won't?
Steven Renderos and Amalia Deloney on why FCC Commissioner Genachowski needs to support an Open Internet
EVENT
April 10, 2010
NE Minneapolis Farmers Market First Annual Community Meeting
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Rural Enterprise Center Director invited to speak
EVENT
April 7, 2010
Cannon River Watershed Partnership 2010 Conference, Faribault, MN
Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin, Rural Enterprise Center Director, will speak during lunch
