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Mala Says Good Morning from Detroit, Good Morning from the AMC

6:42 am By Maegan La Mala · Allied Media Conference|Detriot|Immigration

18 Jun 2010

Mala and her three year old assistant, arrived in Detroit safe and sound. Late, but safe and sound. Today will be the first day of coverage and participation of the Allied Media Conference, a gathering of global independent media makers who tend to consider themselves on the more “radical” side of the spectrum, so yes I kind of feel at home.

So far I’ve run into amazing mujer/hermanas in the struggle. I’m looking at you Anjeli, TK and part of the Make/Shift crew.

So far my plan is to get some breakfast and then go to this workshop which sounds right up VivirLatino’s alley:

Rethinking Communication / Repensando La Comunicacíon
Facilitator: Clara Ibarra, Democracy Now! en Español
TRACK: Medios Caminantes: Medios Creando, Fronteras Derrumbando
This session will begin with a discussion about the problem of representation in dominant communication systems, and how the stereotypes about immigrant communities portrayed through dominant media systems shape our daily lives. Then we will showcase Spanish-language grassroots communication projects have been producing information about the issue of immigration in Arizona. Each project will offer lessons and challenges from their work, while reflecting on the larger question of how we can create a cultural shift within society as a whole, towards becoming not only consumers, but producers of information and media. In small groups we will simulate grassroots media-making around the issues impacting the communities of workshop participants. Everyone will leave with a deeper understanding of what transformative communication means and how we can practice it in our daily lives.

Este foro abierto reunirá a 17 organizaciones que están utilizando la radio y otros medios de comunicación comunitarios para organizarse en comunidades inmigrantes latinas y caribeñas en los EE.UU. Estamos creando un espacio abierto a través del cual cada organización mostrará su trabajo y reflexionará sobre las siguientes preguntas: ¿Cómo usamos nuestros propios medios de comunicación en nuestro trabajo de organización? ¿Cuál es el contexto social y económico en el que trabajamos y cómo influye sobre nuestro trabajo? y ¿Cuáles son los obstáculos que tenemos en la creación de medios de comunicación y su uso para la transformación social? A partir de ahí, vamos a establecer estrategias sobre cómo construir una red nacional de organizaciones de medios de inmigrantes en los EE.UU. que nos ayude a superar los obstáculos colectivamente. Nuestro objetivo es formar una red que tiene fuertes vínculos e intersecciones con los medios comunitarios y movimientos sociales en América Latina, así como con otras redes nacionales y movimientos en los EE.UU.

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1 Response to Mala Says Good Morning from Detroit, Good Morning from the AMC

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Medios Caminantes: Medios creando, fronteras derrumbando at the 2010 AMC | VivirLatino

June 23rd, 2010 at 10:04 am

[...] The first workshop I attended from the Medios Caminantes Track was Repensando La Comunicacíon. [...]

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