All Sessions

• Josh King, The Open Technology Initiative
• Denise Cheng, The Rapidian (Grand Rapids Community Media Center)

This activity is an exploration of how open technology can facilitate new forms of community engagement and set the agenda for a digital society. Prior to the conference, we'll set up wireless community dropbox servers using open source technology in public spaces. All conference-goers are invited to add media that serve either as useful information to other conference participants or act as ‘artifacts’ of the conference - items that symbolize what aspects of AMC were meaningful to them. On an ongoing basis through the conference we'll engage with the participants to explain the boxes, and provide a presentation stream of the most interesting and useful information. We'll create a discussion about the use of open technology and crowdsourcing to create new digital common spaces. See the "Online Access" section of the program for instructions on how to use the Piratebox Commons!

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We know that, awesome though it is, the AMC can be overwhelming. The relaxation room is a space where you can go chill-out, take a nap, make some tea, and recharge your batteries - literally and figuratively. Right next door to the Relaxation Room, The Healing Justice Practice Space will be offering treatments in reiki, massage, acupuncture, yoga, counseling, dance/movement, somatic, art therapies, sound, full spectrum doula support, etc throughout the weekend.

• Andalusia Knoll, Thousand Kites
• Martin Macias, Radio Arte
• Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective
• Joaquin Uy, Youth Media Institute

Tune in and participate in the 5th annual AMC radio broadcast. Each hour is open to you. AMC track participants will be able to broadcast the latest news in grassroots media justice strategies and transformative organizing. Others new to radio will have the opportunity to learn firsthand the technology and logistics behind creating a basic radio broadcast and web stream. If you are unable get behind the mic, but have your own produced radio segments, then drop off your work for airing. Also, the station is powered by the Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective's mobile media center and renewable energy vehicle. Learn how the radio station is powered, take a tour of the bus, and get hands-on experience filtering fossil-free fuel.

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This workshop space will provide weekend-long opportunities for attendees to write, reflect, and be empowered to share their stories. This space will be filled with artists and educators who will provide workshops and consultation stations on writing, performance, self-publishing, chapbook making, touring, and many other topics that will help us further our work as world changers. Friday afternoon will feature a series of films about the youth spoken word movement and the power of hip hop and spoken word to create social change. These films will be accompanied by Q &A and an opportunity to dialogue on how to connect with similar programming going on nationally and bring this work to your community.

• Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mobile Homecoming
• Julia Wallace, Mobile Homecoming
• Imani Rashid, Imani Rashid Productions
• Ana Martina
• Isaac Miller
• Zachari Curtis, SpiritHouse

This is a space for intergenerational listening and story sharing focusing on: queer intergenerational listening, listening for practices of safety across generations, activities led by youth and children and one on one listening. There will be booths with sign up sessions for individuals to tell a story they want to tell in response to a number of themes, and there will be space for interactive story sharing facilitated by different AMC participants and scheduled in advance. There will also be creative writing workshops and consultation stations facilitated by members of the Poetry and Music as Transformative Media track.

• , Intergalactic Conspiracy of Childcare Collectives (ICCC)
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Are you interested in starting your own childcare collective, engaging children as political subjects, or just providing childcare for your organazation? Come to our table and sign up for a "one-on-one" strategy session with two folks who are each from different childcare collectives. They will help you strategize how to get things started and hook you up with some resources, games, activities, and more!

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Parents or adults in care of children can enroll children in Allied Media Childcare (AMChildcare), which is provided for all children who attend the conference. AMChildcare provides fun, creative, and educational activities as well as healthy snacks twice daily. Our hours will be 9AM through the last conference session each day. Additional childcare is available for after-hours, upon request. The AMChildcare Collective is a locally-based group of individuals dedicated to creating a healthy, safe, and caring environment for the children that attend the AMC.

• Nickey Robare, Reel Grrls
• Maile Martinez, Reel Grrls
• Julia Levy, Reel Grrls

Vlogging is an excellent way to spread your organization's mission to a wider audience. A short web video can get a message across in a succinct, fun way. Plus, vlogging is a great project for new media makers and those with limited equipment. We'll watch some of our favorite vlogs and discuss what makes a good vlog, simple editing techniques, and how to get your vlog seen once it's done. We'll finish with a short group vlogging activity.

Detroit Digital Justice Coalition,

In October 2010 the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition was awarded federal dollars to open up 13 public computer centers. The structure and purposes of these pubic computer centers are diverse and adapted to each community's needs. This bus tour will visit the DDJC computer centers sharing each community's unique approaches to addressing the digital divide. From makerspaces to air quality monitor centers, these centers will give you a sense of Detroiters' creative problem solving techniques using technology.

• Intergalactic Conspiracy of Childcare Collectives (ICCC)
• ICCC Member Collectives
• Regeneracion Childcare Collective of New York City
• Bay Area Childcare Collective

This workshop is the first in a series of 10 workshops that use different characters as part of a story to connect media with social justice. This workshop will introduce the Kids Track to the kids and any parents who'd like to join! We will play some "getting to know you" icebreaker activities. Then we will come up with some group agreements around safe space, boundaries and conflict navigation for the rest of the conference.

• Josh King, Open Technology Initiative
• Andrew Lewman , Tor Project

If you've ever read a science fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, William Gibson, or Cory Doctorow, you're familiar with the concept of governments and corporations using technology to spy on the average citizen. And just like in those stories, it takes an elite hacker (either of the black trenchcoat and sunglasses or overweight ponytailed supporting character variety) to be able to fight off this inexorable intrusion into the privacy and freedom of our speech. Well, that is just what they want you to think. Though the technology to surveil is very real, so are technologies that allow anyone to protect themselves. In this panel we'll discuss these tools and provide a hands-on workshop in installing one of the most powerful of those tools currently available, Tor. Resistance is not futile.

• Jessica Hoffmann, make/shift magazine
• Lisa Factora-Borchers, Dear Sister anthology, make/shift magazine
• Mariana Ruiz, 3 Sad Rivers Press
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Editor, Broken Beautiful Press

This workshop will insist upon and celebrate the ways editing can, and in liberatory media projects, must be an act of love. While dominant media uses editing to serve conformity, hierarchy, and elitism, radical media makers can engage in different kinds of editing: editing rooted in skill-sharing, relationships, the bringing together of many different voices, collaboration, amplification of often marginalized stories, and more. In this session, we will give examples of multiple projects that engage editing as an act of love in different ways, and share practical tools and tips for editing in line with our love-and-liberation-minded values.

• Inside Out Literary Arts Project
• D. Blair
• Sofia Snow
• Youth Owned Records

In this highly participatory workshop, artists, educators and organizers from all practices will pull apart the complexities of collaborations and competitions that arise in artistic communities. These discussions will address collaboration and competition ranging from a personal, aesthetic scale to a societal and global scale. We will discuss the pitfalls and triumphs of collaboration and competition in artistic movements such as Poetry Slam and Battle Rap etc. and also talk about the dynamic of artists and organizations competing for grants and/or working collectively in terms of fundraising. As we discuss these complexities, we invite participants to recognize these tensions in their own communities and strategize for most beneficial, productive outcomes.

• Deepali Gokhale, BLOCS (Building Locally to Organize for Community Safety) Atlanta
• Lea Salas, Southerners on New Ground
• Julia Roxanne Wallace, MobileHomecoming Project

This session is designed to empower elders to use multiple forms of media, in particular digital and computerized media to continue their organizing and artistic work and to share their insights with our intergenerational community. This session will be hands-on and will focus on computer skills, and will be presented in English and Spanish simultaneously. We will also discuss how elders can affordably have access to user-friendly Macs.

Aiesha Turman, The Black Girl Project

In a culture where Black women and girls are either venerated for their saintly accomplishments which strips them of any other character attribute except that of martyr/mammy, or demonized and used as the fall gal to explain away all that is wrong with the Black community and society-at-large, it is important to hear and see Black girls speak their truths. In this film, we hear from nine ethnically diverse young African American women between the ages of 18 and 21. They speak of hope, triumphs, education, sex, relationships, abuse, love and more. Through them, we see the diversity of Black girls’ and women’s lives that we are often not privy to in the mainstream. What began as a film, has morphed into a transmedia project that helps girls become the architects of their own stories.

• Mehan Jayasuriya, Public Knowledge
• Michael Weinberg, Public Knowledge
• Mobile Voices / Voces Móviles, IDEPSCA (Institute of Popular Education of Southern California)

The Internet has had a transformative effect on grassroots outreach and activism. However, in underprivileged and underrepresented communities, broadband penetration rates are often too low for the web to serve as a viable platform for organizing. In this workshop, we'll show you how text messaging – a technology with much higher adoption rates in youth, underprivileged and immigrant communities – can be a cheap, effective and powerful tool for grassroots activism. Using two models, the "PK Mobile Action Alerts" system and the Mobile Voices / VozMob SMS platform, we will teach attendees how to build a text-messaging solution that works for your community-organizing efforts – whether that means holding elected officials accountable, or building grassroots communications infrastructure within your community.

• Regeneración Childcare Collective NYC
• Bay Area Childcare Collective

This workshop is the second in a series of 10 workshops that use different characters as part of a story to connect media with social justice. This workshop will center around Ling, who's special ability is empathy. We will explore transformative justice responses to conflict, specifically conflict that comes up among young children. This workshop will include a wide variety of games.

Caroline Loomis,

As we're working to change the world, are we doing it in ways that align with the world we dream of? Even in grassroots progressive organizations, how the work is being done may clash with the visions we are working towards. While we're fighting oppression, we may find it in our organizations. In this session we will explore how power plays out in organizations (nonprofit & others), our struggles for integrity, and what role nonprofits have in radical social change. Using a talking circle we will share stories, strategies, and burning questions about aligning our day-to-day work with our values/visions of social justice. We will write, draw and document our questions and stories. This session will add to the "Walk The Talk: zine project, which is in its early stages.

• robin suhyung park, Sahngnoksoo
• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Within various artistic communities, there is a lack of successful accountability models when confronting violence, abuse, and assault. In particular there is a lack of alternative models of community accountability that do not involve the criminal justice system. Frequently there is the notion, whether vocalized or not, that community art spaces are "safe" without directly exploring or explicitly stating intentions of what a safe space looks like. The purpose of this caucus is to provide a facilitated space for to share stories of survival and strategies of accountability (or lack thereof) in the spoken word community and related spaces. We will dialogue and imagine what safer community art spaces look like and how we can create them together.

• Melissa and Alicia, Pixelpowrrr
• Joshua Breitbart, Open Technology Initiative

Whether you're designing a website, a road trip, or a more just and creative world, we can make stuff more awesome by designing with everyone, for everyone. Participants will be presented with some of the toughest hurdles in collaboration – how can we cross the boundaries between "beginners" and "experts"? How can we mobilize people with different levels of commitment, interest or experience? How can we share complex ideas without using alienating jargon? We'll be challenged to learn, share, and test-drive strategies for overcoming those challenges at interactive stations: contribute to an AMC-crowdsourced multimedia wiki, help design an interactive video player, help us launch a radical publishing distro, try creative methods to communicate about technology, explore community virtual dropboxes, and more. We'll leave with new ideas for designing better by designing together. All are welcome, no experience needed!

• Andalusia Knoll, Thousand Kites
• Lillie Branch Kennedy, Resource Information Help for the Disadvantaged

Join us to explore the power and impact of producing grassroots radio programming for those inside our nation’s prisons. Learn strategies for working with families and friends of prisoners in a process of creating powerful cultural and human rights radio programming that brings communities together. Participants will learn approaches to building local community support, as well as outreach strategies to prisoner families, and those incarcerated. Members of Thousand Kites, who produce the weekly radio program "Calls from Home," whose broadcast reaches 11 prisons in Rural Appalachia, will share media examples, and stories of campaign victories and community connections. This workshop will also feature a series of hands on exercises for creating radio programming in your community.

• Nina Bianchi, Detroit Project Archive + Work Department
• Wes Taylor, Athletic Mic League + Emergence Media

A cloud with lines exploding outwards? A circle and irregular cyclones? 306 starbursts and a massive letter Q? Symbols + future visions = create graphic flags for the future! In this session, you’re introduced to the historical and contemporary use of simple graphic symbols as tools for grassroots movement building, campaigning and awareness. Once you've got a bit of history under your belt, you'll use symbols and language to collaboratively design a series of flags that represent a future vision, statement, action or reaction–or mixture of all of the above! Futurismo Flags for the Frontline focus on how you can transform social-justice and community-based values into engaging and active graphic symbols.

• Rhonda Anderson , Sierra Club – Detroit
• Autumn Brown, Rock Dove Collective
• Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective, Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project, Incorporated
• Remedia, East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC)

Travel beyond the four walls of the AMC to learn about, reflect upon, and co-create eco-media that connects our home communities with environmental justice issues facing poor and underserved residents in Detroit. Highlighting Detroit’s Southwest industrial corridor – the most polluted zip code in the state of Michigan… and home to Marathon Oil, the Detroit Waste Water Treatment Plant, and the fourth largest steelmaker in the United States – we will engage with the local community’s long history of organizing, and fighting for their rights. Join us for an interactive tour and discussion facilitated by Sierra Club Environmental Justice organizer Rhonda Anderson. Learn about the critical role environmental justice media plays in the movement, and how telling your story creates change!

Cecelia LaPointe,

Indigenous thought does not fit in mainstream media. This session will address the complete invisibility of Indigenous issues in mainstream media and how invisibility functions as a form of colonization. Some questions for discussion include: Why are Indigenous people and our issues invisible in mainstream media? What do you know about Native media? Can mainstream and Indigenous media work together or not? Why haven't we engaged in a dialogue about including Indigenous issues in mainstream media? In what ways can we give more power to Indigenous thought and media? After discussing some questions we will look at various forms of Indigenous media from Turtle Island and the world and strategize on how to increase the visibility of Indigenous media.

Jai Dulani, Aleksei Wagner and more, Global Action Project

As queer and trans representations in mainstream visual media become more common, it's crucial that we look critically at the ideologies and political messages they contain. In Part 1 of this interactive youth-led workshop, we’ll analyze historical and recent examples of how queer and trans youth have been represented in mainstream/dominant media and discuss the impact this media has on us and our communities. When we work together to create our own media, we build our analysis, relationships, and vision through the creative process, and we strengthen the impact of our voices. Participants will learn media literacy skills that we can use to reframe issues based on our perspectives, analysis and lived experiences, and to create our own media for community power. Stick around for Part 2!

• Puck Lo
• Kat Aaron

Sometimes AMC media makers take steps into mainstream news, entering journalism school or traditional newsrooms—which are often majority-white and reliant on official sources for legitimacy rather than community voices or marginalized histories. Journalism and media production are powerful tools, and some of us feel a calling to this work. This session will ask whether, in spite of everything, doing journalism is worth it. Is there a role for research and storytelling, analysis and narrative form in fighting for a more livable and egalitarian world? Can "journalism"—a field where an observer writes about others —ever be fully decolonized? What options are there for journalists of conscience? And what if you want to make a living?

• Mendal, Philly BDS
• Una Aya Osato , Palestine Education Project (PEP)

People are always trying to find more creative ways to do awareness-raising work. What better way than a impromptu live performances, costumes, pop songs and viral videos? Yes, Flashmobs! It’s in your face, attention grabbing, fun and bonding for the performers. How has this technique been effective and/or ineffective in awareness raising and organizing, particularly in the movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli apartheid and occupation of Palestine? This workshop will include video, discussion and dance moves!

• Dominique McKinney, Young Women's Empowerment Project
• C. Angel Torres, Young Women's Empowerment Project
• Naima Paz, Young Women's Empowerment Project
• Stephany Cannon, Young Women's Empowerment Project
• Daphnie Williams, Young Women's Empowerment Project

After our 2009 research study findings showed us that youth in the sex trade and street economy are being denied help from social services, the Young Women Empowerment Project created a campaign called Street Youth Rise Up! We are working to hold institutions accountable and train ourselves in evidence based herbal first aid so we can respond to the needs of our community. In this workshop we will present our latest media work: Bad Encounter Line Zines (BEL), our youth written music tracks, our zine with herbal and advocacy info, and our Street Youth Bill of Rights. YWEP will talk about our experiences doing collective media making and we will give tools for groups who want to do their own youth-led collective media work.

Walter Whitewater , Red Mesa Cuisine

Food is a form of communication that can be destructive or healing, transformative or sedative. Food can also be a form of cultural resistance, communicating rituals, agricultural practices and knowledge of health across generations. This is the approach taken by Chef Lois Ellen Frank, Kiowa, and Walter Whitewater, Diné, (Navajo), of Red Mesa Cuisine in Santa Fe, NM. In this hands-on culinary arts workshop, Chef Whitewater will share stories, songs, and a hands on experience with food preparation and tasting. He will emphasize recipes that achieve gourmet deliciousness from healthy, inexpensive indigenous foods such as corn and beans, explaining how these recipes can effectively counteract diabetes and other prevalent health issues in low-income communities. Youth-friendly workshop.

• Cortez Wright, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
• Bianca Campbell, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
• Andre Livingston, SPARK Reproductive Justice Now

Now that we’ve had a quick course on how to be critical of mainstream media and take apart the messages that are constantly flooding our communities, we’ll use our voices and lived experiences to create media for our communities that speak power to our lives. Participants in the second part of this session will have the opportunity to interview each other and create a larger narrative of queer and trans stories that speak to what we need for our lives and communities to get better, to feel safer, to love freely and openly, to be liberated.

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In “brandished” artists Wesley Taylor and Chitra Gopalakrishnan present works that investigate the complexities within social systems and behavioral patterns. Digital prints, drawings, screen prints and installation are part of this two-person exhibit that invites the viewer to question their own ideas and perceptions around the concepts of attraction/replusion and simplicity/complexity. Chitra Gopalakrishnan will discuss her work at Re:View Contemporary 444 W. Willis Street, Units 111 and 112.

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Unlimited bowling for all registered AMC participants / Karaoke by The Millionaire / Dark Red (noisy lush psychedelic drone pop) / Duane The Teenage Weirdo (David Bowie meets Grace Jones) / AMC2011 Poetry & Music Track Open Mic. This event is at the Majestic Theater Center, 4120 Woodward Ave., Detroit. All Ages. Wheelchair Accessible. FREE to registered AMC participants.

• Betty Yu, Center for Media Justice
• Benjamin Lennett, Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation
• Carlos Pareja, People’s Production House
• Pedro Joel Espinosa, IDEPSCA/ VozMob

The Internet and mobile devices are essential to our daily lives in countless ways. Today millions are being left behind and the number one reason is the cost of access. Of the 37% of U.S. adults that don’t have high-speed Internet access, the vast majority are people of color, rural, poor, migrants and refugees and people who don't speak English. For prisoners, low-income communities, immigrants, youth and communities of color, phone calls and mobile access are a privilege, not a right. To close the digital divide, grassroots groups are building transformational policy change from the margins to the center—working for rights, access, and power for marginalized communities. Join us for a discussion to envision a more democratic broadband policy.

• Maria Hadden, The Participatory Budgeting Project
• Tiago Peixoto, The World Bank

Participatory budgeting is a method for engaging members of a community in decisions of how resources should be allocated. Originating in Porto Alegre, Brazil, there are growing numbers of participatory budgeting experiments around the world. Strong, dynamic communication structures are essential to the success of any PB project. Emerging SMS technologies can add a layer of accessibility on top of essential face-to-face meetings. This session will explore the mechanics of digital and non-digital communication technologies that undergird PB around the world. We will also strategize on how PB can be used in communities like Detroit to resolve fiscal crisis, as an alternative to the current undemocratic strategy of the state installing "Emergency Financial Managers" to run amok.

Chelsea Johnson-Long, Safe Outside the System Collective of the Audre Lorde project

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Two-Spirit, and Gender Non Conforming people of color face bias violence and police violence on a daily basis, but often are unable to rely on police or the criminal justice system for protection. In this interactive, hands-on workshop the Safe OUTside The System Collective will guide participants through a process of creating innovative community-based strategies on preventing, intervening, and repairing the harm from anti-LGBTSTGNC hate violence. We will share various media strategies including community/cultural events, social media, print materials, and base-building/outreach strategies developed through our four year Safe Neighborhood campaign in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn.

• Regeneración Childcare Collective NYC
• Bay Area Childcare Collective

This three-hour workshop is the fourth in a series of 10 workshops that use different characters as part of a story to connect media with social justice. Through outdoor activities youth will participate in a hands-on workshop focused on environmental justice. Camilo, a telepathic infant, wants to understand our relationship to the earth. How do we nurture earth, and how does earth nurture us? We will go on a field trip to a local community garden and explore by learning and writing stories about plants, harvesting veggies and making a salad and seed bombs.

• Twa-le Abrahamson, SHAWL Society, KYRS
• Sakura Saunders, ProtestBarrick.net, Prometheus Radio Project

As part of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) media team for the COP16 in Cancun, Indigenous media makers and allies produced a daily live one-hour video show on livestream, got live footage from the various protests using video Skype and a USB internet dongle, and made this media available in multiple formats and projected out into the cyber world! Come learn how we utilized online tools and networks to create the IEN media center, incorporating the works of over a dozen media-makers and indigenous rights activists to strategically cover various aspects of the international conference.

• Kanita Rainey, Shawty Got Skillz
• Marla Renee Stewart, Velvet Lips LLC
• Moya Bailey, Quirky Black Girls/ Crunk Feminist Collective
• Mai'a Williams, Nihilism for Negroes
• Sydette Harry, Blackamazon
• Annise Moy, liquornspice.tumblr.com
• Zachari Curtis, Quirky Black Girls
• Kismet Nuñez, Shawty Got Skillz
• Collier Meyerson, carefreewhitegirl.com
• Mia Mingus & Stacey Milbern, To the Other Side of Dreaming
• Patricia Garcia

The skillshare's goal is to remind us that we already have the creative tools we need for our communities to thrive! Skills include: Webcam Modeling 4 $; Sanctuary: Creating, Holding & Facilitating Sacred Space; Conflict Resolution for Shawties; Sex Worker Safety 2.0; What Up Doe! - Detroit Hustle and Resistance Through Dance; Blogging 101; Shawty Got Pickles: Media Making w/ Food; Seduction Healing for Energy Rejuvenation; Nihilism for Negroes Soundtrack; & More! For three hours, participants will go from station to station learning skills & making connections to the work we are already doing in our communities. Start whereever you want & stay at each station as long as you'd like. This skillshare is for trans and cis women, non-binary & trans* people of color!

• Juan Martinez
• Sofia Snow, Lyrical Minded 415
• Tongo Eisen-Martin
• D.Blair

Building from AMC2010's "There's Something About Your Sound" collaborative music-making experience, this year we're coming back with a jam session that's even bigger, badder and more interdisciplinary. This session will focus on applying improvisational collaboration to four pathways of creativity: music, poetry/MCing, visual art, and dance. We'll discuss parallels between art and movement building and the role of artists in shaping our audiences' consciousness. We'll break out into smaller discipline-based improvisation groups and then reunite for a group art-making celebration. This session will allow us to reflect on how power dynamics in creating art mirror the tensions that exist in organizing, and we'll explore how to do both democratically.

• Steven Renderos, Media Action Grassroots Network
• Bryan Mercer, Media Mobilizing Project
• Representatives of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition

Digital Justice Coalitions are an emerging strategy of organizations across the country that share a common value of communications as a fundamental human right. A common theme in DJCs has been to put people back in the center of any discussion involving media and technology. Innovative strategies around digital literacy, people-centered policies and community ownership have emerged. At AMC2010, coalitions from Detroit, Philadelphia & Minnesota were present as well as people not affiliated with DJCs. In the past year, two more DJCs have emerged in New York and New Mexico. The goal of the meet-up is to share best practices in organizing for media policy, community ownership and equitable access to technology and media. In addition, we expect to forge new cross-regional relationships.

• Chris Caruso, Poverty Initiative
• Megan Sheehan, Vermont Workers Center
• Phil Wider, National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
• Shivaani Selvaraj, Media Mobilizing Project

The concentration and polarization of wealth is the defining issue of today. Just as wealth is concentrated in fewer hands, so is control of media. The increasing corporate ownership of our media threatens the survival of people globally. Access to technology, visibility and voice are crucial among the ranks of poor and working people, who have been silenced and otherwise spoken for by mass media. Hear from four groups pioneering the use of media and communications to build a powerful class-based social movement that is breaking the media blackout and building community-controlled communications.These groups combine a human rights framework, aggressive mass organizing, leadership development, a vision of social justice and a recognition of the central role of media in our struggles.

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This is a continuation of the tour: Growing Our Economy to Growing Our Souls

Una Lee, Social Design Lab

Electronic games are immersive, user-controlled, and open-ended, and their creation requires intense collaboration between numerous people with different skill sets. This is why they're a fast growing medium for instigating social change. However they are also time and resource intensive, making them inaccessible to many organizations. Participants of this caucus will discuss strategies to make game design and gaming an easier tool for movements to use, and how to strengthen participatory processes in creating games. We'll talk about how we can bring our networks together for mutual support and prototype testing. We'll also look at examples of existing games we have been involved in or just admire. This session is open to anyone who makes or needs games.

• Ora Wise , Palestine Education Project
• Ali Issa, Palestine Education Project
• Ryvka Bar Zohar, Palestine Education Project

Often our starting point as BDS activists is defending ourselves against Zionist attacks. We believe that we will be more effective if our communication strategies are rooted in what we believe and why we are doing what we're doing, not allowing our messages to be framed by who we oppose. Geared towards people who bring a working knowledge of Palestine, this workshop will help participants further articulate their positions and develop strategies to effectively engage with andcounter often-heard Zionist talking points. This interactive session will involve role play, workshop challenges unique to participants' contexts, and sharing strategy. Participants will come away with concrete tools and resources for stronger communication, reflecting a positive BDS vision.

• Marian Kramer, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization
• Audra Trayham, SEIU 32BJ and Media Mobilizing Project
• Luis Larin, United Workers
• Todd Wolfson, Media Mobilizing Project

In this follow-up session to our first panel, Media and the Movement to End Poverty, we will take some of the core lessons, strategies and questions that come up in the initial session in order to have an interactive discussion. We will focus on the role of mass media in stereotyping and criminalizing our communities as well as our strategies for using media in movement building. We will discuss both how media can be harnessed to advance specific struggles around health care, workers' rights, and educational equity, and the key role of media in building a larger shared struggle, made up of poor and working people who can shift the dynamics of power in this country. This session will be a dialogue between conveners and audience to share lessons and strategies.

• Krista Riley, Muslimah Media Watch
• Farrah Khan , AQSAzine
• Zahra Agjee , AQSAzine

Organised by two grassroots Muslim media collectives, this caucus will be a chance for self-identified Muslims to connect and share successes, frustrations, and strategies. We hope to talk about how we can work together to create media that is creative, effective and transformative about the complex realities of Muslim communities. How can we use media to challenge violence in our communities and structural violence against our communities? How do we want allies to support us? How can we stay in touch and support each other beyond the AMC? We hope this session will form the beginning of a network of Muslims involved in media making, as a space for ongoing support and collaboration.

• Bloggers, Various Websites
• Current and former contributing writers, Huffington Post

The National Writers Union (NWU) is helping to lead a strike and boycott against AOL/Huffington Post. AOL recently purchased HuffPo for $315 million. This wealth was created by thousands of journalist/bloggers who wrote for free. They deserve a share of the wealth they created. Thousands more write for content farms like Demand Media, worth $1.5 billion but paying writers a penny a word for online content. We want writers and bloggers to understand that they are creating value, creating wealth, and should be able to make a living doing so. In this session you will hear from current bloggers and current and former contributors to HuffPo, and how a strong unit of writers and bloggers can dramatically change the equation.

• Jack Aponte, Palante Technology
• Josué Guillén, Progressive Technology Project

The daily choices we make around technology, storing and sharing data, and communications have political implications for issues important to our movements: privacy, self-determination, labor and economic justice, corporate control, amongst others. Our session will address such issues, including strategies for reclaiming control of our technology, and ways we can shape it to serve our movements. We will explore how "free" software often demands risky compromises, how open source can help avoid those compromises, and how community organizations and activists can and must be involved in shaping open source. We will us ourpowerbase.net and letsduwthis.org as examples of community source tech developed by and for our movements.

• brownfemipower
• babybfp

Research assignments are a fact of life for almost every student. Everything from science projects to art creations often require hours of research to make the perfect project. But research can often be boring and repetitive and can feel worthless when only your teacher sees your final project. This workshop will work to build a community of youth researchers at the AMC! Through youth-led discussions and activities, we will work to find solutions to problems that come with research, including lack of support from teachers and boredom with the topic. Research can be FUN when you have community to do it with! Please bring your own research projects. You can display your work and answer questions about it at the Rising Researchers table!

• Rob Robinson, Community News Production Institute
• Christine Lewis, Community News Production Institute
• Abdulai Bah, People's Production House
• Kristal Graham, Radio Rootz

Members of the Community News Production Institute, a program of People’s Production House, will lead a Spanish-friendly hands-on radio production workshop where participants experience a super-concentrated dose of radio production knowledge–everything from recording broadcast-quality audio to effective interviewing techniques. The equipment required to get broadcast quality is inexpensive & readily available, and basic recording and interviewing skills are easily mastered. Interactive, popular education techniques will make this session accessible to participants of all experience levels. Led by community journalists, this hands-on workshop will be a unique opportunity for grassroots organizations and individuals to tell stories using sound.

• Andrea Ridges, Coalition of Essential Schools
• Ammerah Saidi, Detroit Media Economy Collaborative
• Representative from Cathering Ferguson Academy

This session explores how to reclaim the debate around public education. Currently one brand of education reformer – proponents of charter schools and vouchers, people obsessed with standardized test scores, and district administrators who dislike collaboration – controls the narrative around how to fix public education. Meanwhile, the families of color and low-income families whose children populate public classrooms are rarely heard. Together we will create messages that we can use in our own and corporate media to spur thinking beyond the usual paradigm of teachers' unions and disinterested parents and students as the problem, and Teach For America trainees and testing as the solution. All are invited to envision the education we want, then figure out how to best talk about it.

• Anna West
• Matt Blesse
• Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard
• Tish Jones
• Moira Pirsch , M.Ed Candidate HGSE
• Shannon Matesky

How does the open mic function as a mediated space for teaching and learning? How does the open mic demonstrate democratic exchange, empathy, voice, and power? How can we use open mic values to shape our approach to education and power in spaces of youth development? How can the practice of art be used to envision the organizational values and principles that guide our practices? In this workshop, facilitators will use an open mic/fishbowl format to discuss developing democratic artistic spaces for learning and sharing. We will turn our notions of audience inside out, draw from the expertise within the room, and look at the audience/learner/listener not as a passive, static on-looker, but as an active constructor of community. Come ready to share, build, and create in a way that welcomes the individual and honors the collective. Everyone Make Some Noise!

DJs bent, Junebullet, K La Rock, Mothershiester, Pinstripe Rebel, Precolumbian, Prism, rAt, Trash, & Zombie , Organization Our Geekout Collective reps many DJ Projects: Anthology of Booty, First Ladies, Radio CPR, Girls Rock DC, She Rex, and Maracuyeah.com, in DC and Philly.

This session will invite participants into a DJ collaboration/movement that exploded out of AMC2010, and has continued to grow, twist and turn with transformative power throughout the past year. About 20 of us, all D.C./Detroit/Philly underground DJs, have been doing living-room jams that include pecha kuchas, vinyl sharing, and storytelling. We are visioning & discovering together how we live the art of djing – as the power & responsibility to create, spark and sustain spaces, make community connections, and create change that there's little language for. Here, we share our mini-movement in a matinee party with live DJ sets, geek video projections, pop-up video style captions, a DJ101 How-To corner, an interactive Twitter screen & other ways for you to jump in!

• Khadijah's Caravan
• AQSAzine
• Muslimah Media Watch

As Muslims we are bombarded with stereotypes, assumptions and profiling of our communities. With this constant vilification in the mainstream media, it is important that the diverse voices of Muslims be heard. This session will illustrate how Muslim grassroots media making collectives, including AQSAzine, Khadijah's Caravan and Muslimah Media Watch, are using photography, spoken word, film, and art installations to engage in conversations about our lives. We will think critically about the role of these new media outlets and their potential for mobilizing community media creation. Through art creation participants will reflect on the public media we consume, problems of representation and voice, and how we can create our own media.

• Ali Issa, Una Osato, Ora Wise, Ryvka Bar Zohar, Naomi Gordon-Loebl and Brian Pickett, Palestine Education Project
• Joe Namy, Imad Hassan, Janel Yamashiro and Ron Watters, Detroit Future Media Workshops
• Denisse Andrade, Global Action Project
• , Peoples Production House
• Betty Yu , Center for Media Justice / Media Action Grassroots Network & Media Action Grassroots Network
• Kimber Heinz, War Resisters League

This will be a space for educators to share best practices and learn from one another.  Participants will explore curriculum resources that they can bring back to their communities and presenters will get feedback on their curriculum to bring back to their organizations. We will start off with a "Frankenstein Workshop," where each presenter will share a sample of their best curricula, including activities to: frame and define complex social justice issues, develop media skills and analysis, reflect and make connections. and gather constructive feedback. Afterwards, participants can browse curriculum resources, ask follow-up questions and take home toolkits.

• Luis Avila, Nomad Radio Group, We Are America Coalition
• John Jairo Lugo, Unidad Latina en Accion
• Luis Luna, Unidad Latina en Accion

This session’s objective is to share reporting/defense tactics against authorities’ harassment in immigrant communities. Cell phones, video cameras, audio recording equipment and others are used around the country to document cases of abuse, harassment and unnecessary police stops against migrant families. During the workshop we will explore some of the current projects in states around the country, and will work in the exploration of new ideas to prepare families in the utilization of media in their reach as a way to exercise their civil rights

Una Lee, Social Design Lab

Have you ever tried to design a poster using Word? Do you seem to end up using the same women’s symbol/raised fist/tree with lots of roots on everything? Break free, friends! Everyone has ideas, and this hands-on session is about using the most humble of design elements – type – to express them. Why type? Because you don’t just read it, you also look at it, because you don't need to know how to draw to use it, because it rarely costs anything, and once you know how to work with it, you'll be able to design just about anything. In this intensive intro to graphic design, we'll look at examples of powerful type-only posters. Then you’ll split off into pairs and create your own radical, collaborative typographic posters by riffing on hand techniques like stencilling and tracing. All this while learning about basic design principles and how to make your graphics match your message. We'll wrap by talking about how to apply these skills to working with images. Please note that this is not a computer-based session. Laptops are welcome, but computer skills are not needed!

• Ana Nogueira
• Eron Davidson

Featuring interviews with South Africans, Israelis and Palestinians, Roadmap to Apartheid winds its way through the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Inside Israel moving from town to town and issue to issue to show why the apartheid analogy is being used with increasing potency. It analyzes the similar historical narratives of the Jewish people and the Afrikaaners to the tight relationship the two governments shared during the apartheid years, and everything in between. The effectiveness of the BDS movement that helped end apartheid in South Africa is also compared to the Israeli context. We hope this film will be used as a tool for BDS organizing in the US and Europe. We would like this feedback screening to be a strategy session with BDS organizers.

• Angela and Gregg Newsom, People's Kitchen
• Lottie Spady, Detroit Food Justice Task Force
• Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective, Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project, Incorporated
• Remedia, East Michigan Environmental Action Council (EMEAC)
• Chef Whitewater, Red Mesa Cuisine

Calling all teens hungry for real food and sustainable change! Do you like to eat? Do you like to cook? Why does it matter where our food comes from? What does this have to do with eco-justice? Help answer these questions during this field trip to a nearby farm, and team up with your peers and elders to prepare a zero-waste local foods group meal. With support from the Detroit Food Justice Task Force, People’s Kitchen, and Red Mesa Cuisine, this community cooking workshop will encourage us all to embrace the radical notion that we are what we eat! Bring your interest in culinary arts; and, come ready to share your attitudes, beliefs, and values around food … and food choices. Space is limited to 24 teens; RSVP by sending an email to leslie@stamp-cny.org, or by calling 607-277-2122.

• , Chicago Childcare Collective
• , Kelli’s Childcare Collective of Atlanta
• Regeneracion Childcare Collective NYC

This session* contains two parts: "Stories Without Borders - Mapping Ourselves" and "Stories to Come Home To". Stories WIthout Borders begins with Ori, a seer from 2511 whose special ability of memory is fading, prompting them to reach out to kids at AMC2011 for help. During this workshop we will explore and question borders and the legacy of colonization under which we live. We will emphasize through games that help us identify strategies we might use to defy borders and do activities that help us imagine a world without them. In addition, we will explore how different kinds of maps can tell stories and create our own body maps that tell a particular story that we will then share. During Stories to Come Home To, we will visit the Elders Story-Sharing Room to conduct interviews, play theater games, and explore the importance of memory and story-sharing and why intergenerational building is so important.

• Nickey Robare / Aunt Fancy, Reel Grrls
• Sam Smith / Miss Nancy, Youth in Focus

Homorobics is a queer friendly, body positive aerobics class from the Pacific Northwest. Exercising in a supportive environment builds community while building muscle! The motto of Homorobics is "don't let your body atrophy just because you hate the diet industry." We believe that exercise should be fun, free, and comfortable for people of all sizes and abilities. Led by two unintimidating and fabulously dressed instructors, we will lead you through a routine combining stretching, cardio, strength training, dancing, and snapping, all to an amazing soundtrack. We are excited to offer you modifications to the routines so that they are comfortable for your abilities. Flamboyant workout attire encouraged!

Reel Grrls,

In January, the FCC approved a much-opposed merger between Comcast and NBC. In May, FCC Commissioner Meredith Atwell Baker announced that she would be leaving her appointed FCC position to become a paid lobbyist for Comcast. From the Daily Show to Twitter, people spoke out against this conflict of interest - including Reel Grrls, a small nonprofit organization in Seattle. Within 24 hours of posting "OMG! @FCC Commissioner Baker voted 2 approve Comcast/NBC merger & is now lving FCC for A JOB AT COMCAST?!?http://su.pr/1trT4z #mediajustice" Reel Grrls heard from their local Comcast representative, who had pledged $18,000 to support summer programs - he was yanking the funds. Find out the rest of the story at this caucus. Reel Grrls staff and participants will describe how their organization stood up for speech, and what is happening for the organization now. 

Detroit Full Circle Doula Collective,

This session is for birth workers, doulas, abortion support people, midwives and anyone else engaged/interested in providing emotional, physical and educational support to people across the full spectrum of pregnancy (pre-natal, abortion, adoption, birth, postpartum care) in home birth, birthing center, hospital or prison experiences. Together we will examine how to transform reproductive cycles in our communities from pain or pathology to power, using creative media strategies for access to care and information across the digital divide. Regardless of your level of experience, come share your communication strategies, ideas, stories, and wisdom in facilitated large group discussions and break-out groups.

• , Intergalactic Conspiracy of Childcare Collectives (ICCC)
• , ICCC Member Collectives

This caucus will be for childcare collectives and other organizations that are doing political work with children. We will continue our conversation about articulating our collective vision and our plan for the next year, in addition to discussing the collection of resources, activities, games, etc. that we use in our work with children, and figure out a way to digitize these resources and make them easily accessible and usable.

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DJ Minx (Women On Wax - Detroit) / Waajeed (Bling47 - Detroit) / Deastro (Ghostly International - Detroit) / Tunde Olaniran (Exchange Bureau - Flint) / Krudas Cubensi (Revolutionary Hip-Hop from Cuba) / Mz. Jonz (official release for H.O.M.O. (Here On My Own) - Detroit) / DJ Sicari (5E Gallery / Funk Night Records - Detroit) / Hosted by Piper Carter (5E Gallery). This event is at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) - 4454 Woodward Ave., Detroit. All Ages. Wheelchair Accessible. FREE to registered AMC participants. There will be a kid-friendly, scent-free, lounge area where party-goers can sit down and hang out, when they need a break from the show.

• Lillie Branch Kennedy , Community Restoration Campaign / RIHD
• Keith DeBlaisio, Community Restoration Campaign / AdvoCare
• Nick Szuberla, Thousand Kites

What if artists, community activists, former and current prisoners, family members, and justice groups worked together using cutting edge web tools and street-smart organizing? The answer is the Virginia Community Restoration Campaign. Hear an exciting report out of a campaign to address the brutal practice of "No Parole" in Virginia. The campaign was cooked up at the 2010 Allied Media Conference and has been ongoing ever since. Learn how activists, media artists, and policy experts worked together to create a powerful narrative campaign to address No Parole in Virginia and grew from a group of 200 to 2,000 members. This workshop will include media examples and hands-on exercises in using media as an organizing tool and will train you in the narrative campaign model.

• Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Revolution Starts At Home
• Jenna Peters-Golden, Philly Stands Up
• Adrienne Maree Brown or Alexis Pauline Gumbs

This session will be dedicated to developing strategic reading guides for our favorites science fiction authors/series. We'll unveil the Octavia Butler Strategic Reader, developed by AMC participants in 2010. Then we will identify the sci-fi authors/series most known to participants in the room (from LeGuin to Battlestar Gallactica), and break into small groups to develop as many strategic reading guides as possible! Special room will be given to the Science Fiction and Transformative Justice breakout group, where we'll examine the ways radical science fiction novels like The Fifth Sacred Thing, Woman on the Edge of Time, Dhalgren and The Dispossessed have found to deal with violence and harm and how we can use them to create a world without prisons.

• Ana Martina, The Flujos Collective
• John Jairo Lugo, Unidad Latina en Acción
• Clara Ibarra, Democracy Now Spanish
• Allan Gomez, Radios Populares
• Amado Rubio Uriarte, Rising Tide Mexico
• Cris, COMPPA

In this session we'll discuss our next steps for the Medios Caminantes network which was created in 2010 during the AMC, a collaboration between groups of Spanish-speaking collectives, and individuals who have created independent media and projects around their communities. We'll discuss how we can build solidarity with social movements in Latin America. Participants will build a map to visually locate the media initiatives that comprise the network and walk away with a better understanding of how to collaborate with each other. Together we will design a website that can foster collaboration and exchange of our media productions. We'll recount our achievements and challenges. This session is about weaving a strategy as a network. Come share with us!

• Mariana Castañeda, Goucher College dance alum
• Althea Baird, ART FACTORY, Nsnp

Site specific dance challenges how we think about and use space around us. Through site specific dance a wall can become a mirror, can become a launch pad, can become a telephone, a best friend, a monster, a wave. Our surroundings change how we move. How we move changes our surroundings. Site specific dance is a form of reclaiming space which can be a powerful tool of liberation. It all depends on the vision of the mover. This will be a movement-based workshop for all bodies and abilities and we will create a site specific piece during the workshop!

• Juliet Fink, Philadelphia FIGHT
• Hannah Sassaman, Open Technology Initiative
• Steven Jackson, University of Michigan
• Lottie Spady, East Michigan Environmental Action Council
• Todd Wolfson, Media Mobilizing Project
• Colin Rhinesmith, University of Illinois School of Library and Information Science
• Khalil Shahyd, Center for Social Inclusion
• Rhonda Anderson, Detroit Sierra Club
• Tdka Kilimanjaro, PhD, Detroit Media Economy Collaborative
• Andrew Gordon, University of Michigan

At the 2009 and 2010 AMCs, we considered how to build a collaborative vision for the Internet our communities need and then turn that vision into a plan for action. Many of us who were in those discussions are now making our visions a reality. As we put our ideas into action, how can we know that we are staying true to our vision? Can we measure the health of our digital ecosystem over time to know if we are helping? Environmental justice organizers, digital justice organizers, and researchers will contribute to this fishbowl conversation. While this session will focus on federally-funded projects in Detroit and Philadelphia, the discussion is relevant to anyone who wants to stay accountable to a community-based vision while doing things that are big and complicated.

• Peoples Production House
• Mobile Voices / Voces Móviles
• Media Literacy Project
• Center for Urban Pedagogy

Come join your fellow media justice allies in an open strategy session to discuss how popular education tools like Dialed-In: A Toolkit to Liberate Your Cell Phone and Reclaim Media Agency can be used as an organizing tool to push back on harmful mobile broadband policy. A brief and engaging overview of each module of this multifaceted toolkit will be demonstrated followed by a strategic discussion focused on developing a plan of action in response to cell phone policy issues like the potential AT&T/T-Mobile merger, consumer protection for mobile broadband, privacy, and other key policy concerns.

• Dunya Alwan, PQBDS
• Nada Elia, USACB
• Andrew Kadi, Adalah-NY, PEP
• Ryvka Bar Zohar, Adalah-NY, PEP

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions freeform closing caucus. A time for participants in the BDS track to meet, follow up with each other and with track organizers, plan and produce a short video or action, so all can return to their communities empowered to start and develop BDS initiatives of their own. Bonus: Lunch will be provided, so there is no need for participants to run across town and grab a sandwich. It's right here, waiting for you!

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This will be a continuation of the session "Weaving the Medios Caminantes Network."

• Haleem Ar-Rasheed , Hardore Detroit
• Others TBA

The Jitterbugs: Pioneers of the Jit is a one-of-a-kind documentary highlighting the founders of Detroit's leading dance legacy: the Jit. Combining historical footage and exclusive interviews, get a glimpse of the Jitterbugs' past, career, and how a key contemporary is carrying the torch, featuring a bonus instructional on Jit steps and style.

• Bruce Reilly, Direct Action for Rights & Equality
• Paul Wright, Prison Legal News

How do you build social justice campaigns using media tools that target a range of audiences? How do you choose your target? This session explores different methods to victory, discussing tactics to mobilize community support. Learn to connect unfunded “People Power” with alternative media, and pick battles that will generate a cultural shift. Why voting rights? Why employment discrimination? Why do coalitions serve a key role in media? Youtube, Facebook, blogs, and Twitter are not enough without a strategy. This session recognizes how essential it is to possess more knowledge than the opposition. The one who frames the debate wins the argument. The presenters have both won in the courthouses and statehouses, yet both served lengthy stretches in the Big House.

• Miriam Mimi Madrid, COLOR, Branching Seedz of Resistance
• Diane Amaya, COLOR
• Carla Orendorff, ImMEDIAte Justice
• Tani Ikeda, ImMEDIAte Justice

What happens when you express your life’s truth? Queer women of color media! What’s it look like? Share your identities and intersections as a form of resistance and expression! In this sex-positive media workshop, we will address issues related to media making and reproductive justice. We will also identify our most important tools for activism: our stories! Through this we will explore media projects and share practical ways we engage in creating spaces through the use of new media. Finally, we will work together to create media through "Photobooth of Change" and "I Got This Scheme," both media projects that invite resistance to mainstream media and expression through personal messages of empowerment, social justice, and liberation.

Detroit Future Media Students, The Detroit Media Economy Collaborative

Students of the Detroit Future Media (DFM) workshops are taking over the AMC Media Lab to teach basic 101 media production skills. Make beats with the audio students. Shoot and edit photos with the graphics students. Build a Wordpress website with the web students. Learn participatory video editing with the video students. Dive in to the Detroit Future Media movement!

Vocalo.org , Chicago Public Media

Enter with your podcast idea, get some hands-on training, and leave with an honest-to-goodness podcast, all set up and ready for listeners to subscribe to. We'll cover technical skills like recording audio, uploading to a server, creating and publishing RSS feeds, and making your podcast easy to access. We’ll also address using artwork and creative commons licensed music. The tools of podcasting can get you into people's ears, but powerful storytelling can change people's hearts and minds. We'll present examples of particularly creative and forceful audio pieces, and provide a take-home guide for telling great stories with sound.

• Halim El Dabh
• Grace Lee Boggs
• Vincent Harding

Detroit scholar activist Grace Lee Boggs has articulated a vision of America's "next" revolution, in which people transform themselves and their relationships to create the Beloved Community. In this revolution, people in the U.S. must recognize their global inter-connectedness and their responsibility to "live simply so that others can simply live." With the Next American Revolution comes a new practice of solidarity with other revolutionary movements across the globe. In the context of the Arab Spring uprisings and the upcoming tenth anniversary of 9/11, how do people in the U.S. practice solidarity with people in the midst of their own "next" revolutions? How are our art, music, media and technologies communicating new forms of revolution? What legacies are we honoring and evolving through our work? This panel will draw insight from three revolutionaries who embody lessons of the past century and dreams of the next: Vincent Harding, theologian, historian, and nonviolent activist, who worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr., Halim El-Dabh, an Egyptian composer, widely considered to be the grandfather of African electronic music, and Grace Lee Boggs.

• Intergalactic Conspiracy of Childcare Collectives (ICCC)
• ICCC Member Collectives

While the AMC Kids Track 2011 might be coming to a close, this workshop is both and ending and a beginning. We'll have a chance to play some new games together while we celebrate our adventures and friendships, a moment to think about what we've done together over the past few days and a place to hold the wide range of emotions the ending can bring about for all of us.

• D.Blair, InsideOut Literary Arts Project
• iLL-Literacy, iLL-Literacy
• Denise Jolly, Salt Lines
• Beehive Collective, Beehive Collective
• Invincible, EMERGENCE Media

We will facilitate a discussion on touring as a tool for building local community and broader movements, in addition to financial sustainability for artists and venues. Our focus will be replicable touring strategies for independent artists and organizations. We hope to create a learning space for new artists seeking to tour, as well as developing a regional/national network of similar-capacity, independent-friendly venues. Ultimately, this workshop will be a space for artists who have toured or are interested in touring to collect and discuss successful touring strategies, lessons learned from problems and their resolutions, and logistics for promoting artists and the movements they represent.

• Autumn Brown, Rock Dove Collective
• Babatunde Olaniran, Outreach Manager, Planned Parenthood Mid and South MI
• Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone
• Gregg Newsom, Co-Founder, Detroit Evolution http://detroitevolution.com

This session will take a creative and participatory approach to the mirrored question: what are the health impacts of technology on the human body, and what is the future of technology in healing? Participants will experience media drawn from science fiction, fantasy, as well as current medical science, representing diverse perspectives on the future of trauma, illness, wellness, and care. From this shared experience, we will enter into a conversation bridging our cultural perceptions and visions of health and healing with an analysis of the relationship between civilization, technology, and oppression. Using collective storytelling, movement, and meditation, we will co-create strategies and "tools" to mindfully and more intuitively connect with our technology and the world around us.

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In “brandished” artists Wesley Taylor and Chitra Gopalakrishnan present works that investigate the complexities within social systems and behavioral patterns. Digital prints, drawings, screen prints and installation are part of this two-person exhibit that invites the viewer to question their own ideas and perceptions around the concepts of attraction/replusion and simplicity/complexity. Wes Taylor will discuss his work at Re:View Contemporary 444 W. Willis Street, Units 111 and 112.