Sakura Saunders
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Sakura Saunders, born in 1979, is an American writer of Japanese descent who lives in Toronto. Over the course of the past ten years she has become a well-known media activist.[1] Though she is affiliated with the anti-corporate movement Occupy Toronto,[2] she prefers to style herself as a "mining justice organiser".[3]
Music
In 2001, Saunders and a friend, Scott Soriano, established a minor record label in California, a label that mainly signs young up-and-coming hard-rock bands. Saunders left Soriano in sole charge of the record label when she quit to pursue a career in activism.[4]
Radio and writing
Saunders pursued a career in radio and journalism; it was in these sectors that her interest in activism and the role of the media began to grow. Early on in her career, she served as the program director and office coordinator of KDVS, an American student and community radio station based in Davis, California.[1] In addition to helping to start the low powered radio station KDRT in California, Sakura sits on the board of directors of the Prometheus Radio Project.[1] Sakura's radio activism has been aired on station programmes such as Democracy Now! and Sprouts Radio and her writing has been published on CorpWatch.org, in The Dominion and in the San Francisco Bay Area publication Fault Lines.[1] She has also contributed to the Mining Injustice Solidarity Network.[5] She gives talks and presentations on internet and media issues.[6]