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It’s been a long time, pero la Mala is back

22 Jul 2009

Peeps may have noticed my absence over the last week. While I wasn’t blogging, I was hard at work meeting with other radical media makers, including our own la Macha in Detroit which housed the Allied Media Conference and the Women’s Equity Media Summit.

This was my second year attending the AMC and I consciously entered the experience with the intent of using it as an opportunity to examine my work here and in other spaces as a radical woman of color media maker. I was blessed with amazing experiences and sharing space with other radical women of color media makers who inspire me and teach me. I also left with a head full of ideas and projects that will be sustained with the help of some of the same women who busted ass making sure that I was housed, fed, and loved.

I will resume regular posting, some which will include deconstructing some of the experiences I have had over the last week so stay tuned and gracias for reading and supporting the important work we do here at VivirLatino.

Mala’s on the Road : To Detroit for Women’s Media Equity Collaborative Summit and the Allied Media Conference

6:21 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference| Detriot| Media| VivirLatino| media justice · Comments Off

15 Jul 2009

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While all of you are reading this, I’m on the road again, this time returning to Detroit for a busy few days that I hope will recenter me and the work that I do.

Thursday I will be at the Women’s Media Equity Collaborative Summit.

A day long session of exchange in a nourishing environment
++ to build a strong women centered media movement
++ that broadens outreach, evolves programs and is sustainable

* In Detroit a new women’s media strategy will evolve. POLICY in action!
* Emphasis on attendees from groups led by women of color, low income women, queer women, the disabled and moms – focus for scholarship assistance
* “Being there” is vital for long term sustainability of women led media

Critical initiatives to explore and build:
* Create Trust & Relationships across race/class/geography/media-genre borders
* Share Field Developments and discuss the results of the survey
* Build For The Future, embrace new digital paradigm along with political/economic shifts
* Envision a New Fund that is sustainable and responsive to critical field needs
* Advocate Gender Justice amidst independent media and the larger public sphere

From Friday, I will be at the Allied Media Conference

The Allied Media Conference is the central project of the Allied Media Projects (AMP) network, which emerges out of ten years of organic relationship-building. Since the first conference (then the Midwest Zine Conference) in 1999, people have been compelled by the concept of do-it-yourself media. Later, as the Underground Publishing Conference, the emphasis was on building a movement of alternative media makers. With the shift towards Allied Media, the AMC has attracted more and more people who are interested in using participatory media as a strategy for social justice organizing.

Radical Women of Color/ GenderQueer Media Makers : We Want to Hear from You

1:49 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference| Detriot| Media| media justice · Comments Off

13 Jul 2009

In preparation for work that will be done at the upcoming Allied Media Conference and beyond, a team of radical women of color media makers (myself included) created.

If you are planning on being at the AMC in the coming days, please take a few minutes to fill it out.

Landscaping Our Dreams: What Women and Genderqueer
Media Makers of Color Need and Want: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kYIs3eJQ_2b8eOpSMCi8_2bRtw_3d_3d

NYC Bus to AMC Fundraising Happy Hour Tonite

6:12 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference| Detriot| Events| Media| New York City · Comments Off

19 Jun 2009

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NYC.to.AMC Happy Hour!
@ DCTV / 87 Lafayette Street, between White and Walker
Friday, June 19, 2009
6pm-10pm
$10 at the door (includes one drink!)

Get off work and bring your friends to enjoy…
* Fresh food!
* Sangria & Iced Hibiscus Tea!
* Live DJ!
* Raffle!
* Hot multimedia!

Come see how we’re representing for NYC at the 2009 Allied Media Conference.

Hosted by DCTV, PPH, and PEP. All proceeds benefit the media justice bus from New York City to Detroit for the Allied Media Conference, July 16-19, 2009. NYC-2-AMC Delegation includes People’s Production House, Downtown Community Television, Palestine Education Project, Red Hook Initiative, Nah We Yone, INCITE!, UPROSE, Regeneración Childcare Collective, Palabra Radio, Global Action Project and Queers for Economic Justice. (This list is growing. If you’re not yet on it, but should be, please let us know.)

Questions about the event or to get on the bus: nyc@alliedmediaconference.org.

RSVP on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/m9gosf

About the AMC:
Allied Media Conference 2009
We Are Ready Now: Media and creativity to transform our selves and our world
The 11th annual Allied Media Conference will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment. We are ready to create, connect and transform. For more information and to register for the conference, visit www.alliedmediaconference.org.

SPEAK! Listening Party in Brooklyn This Saturday!

6:42 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference| Events| New York City| media justice · Comments Off

13 May 2009

cardspeak1 Yesterday, I told you that all I wanted for my birthday was support for the SPEAK! cd, helping to get single mami media makers and others of limited means to the Allied Media Conference, which is such a unique space for independent, justice centered media.

Well for peeps in Brooklyn, I have another request: that you represent at the SPEAK! Listening Party this Saturday, May 16th at 7 pm.

I will read, as well as Black Amazon.

Space is limited for the fiesta so please see the link to get the super secret location info or email katie@alliedmediaconference.org.

Hope to see some Brooklyn VL’ers represent.

More Mala Approved Ways to Celebrate Hoy : Silent Art Auction to benefit the Allied Media Conference

9:17 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Activism| Allied Media Conference| Detriot| Events| media justice · Comments Off

12 May 2009

Come see the art and learn more about the AMC. All are invited!

Host: Allied Media Conference
Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Time: 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Location: Motor City Brewing Works
Street: 470 W. Canfield
City: Detroit, MI
Email: info@alliedmediaconference.org

Auction bidding: 8PM – 1030PM. Winners announced at 11PM. Come see the art and learn more about the AMC. All are invited!

The show will be held May 12 at Motor City Brewing Works.

The 11th annual AMC will be held July 16-19, 2009 in Detroit. More info at www.alliedmediaconference.org

Via / Nadia Abou-Karr

It’s Mala’s Birthday : She Wants Some RWOC Mami Love

8:07 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference| Detriot| Women| media justice · 1 Comment

12 May 2009

cardspeak Today is my cumpleaños. Sunday was Dia de las Madres. Two days where mujeres like me are supposed to be a little selfish and focused on the self and I have to admit, there hasn’t been much of that around here lately.

So what does a Mamita Mala want?

You could always either donate or purchase a Speak! Cd, zine & curriculum (zine and curriculum are in the final stages). Yours truly and other mamis and mujeres are on this cd speaking on our experiences through musica, poetry and prose. And you just don’t get a cd pero you will be helping single mami media makers (like me!) and their hijos get to the Allied Media Conference.

You can help other mamis, like the ever amazing Noemi. Buy some buttons or zines. If you’re part of a university, library or other organization, please purchase the Speak! cd at the institution price.

The Speak media collective can be found here.

Via / Hermana Resist

Augusto Boal, Founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, Dies at 78

9:17 am By la Macha · Allied Media Conference| Arts| media justice · Comments Off

7 May 2009

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I had never heard of Augusto Boal until I listened to yesterday’s Democracy Now!

Augusto Boal, the legendary Brazilian political playwright and popular educator, died this weekend at the age of seventy-eight. He was the founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, a popular international movement for a participatory form of theater as a means of promoting knowledge and democratic forms of interaction. Boal conducted workshops all over the world. His techniques of using theater to discuss power and oppression have been widely inspirational and influential.

In 1971, the Brazilian military dictatorship imprisoned and tortured Boal for four months. After his release, he was forced into exile for fifteen years. He’s written a number of books, including Theater of the Oppressed and Games for Actors and Non-Actors, as well as The Rainbow of Desire and Legislative Theater. In the ’90s, Boal also served as a city councilmember for Rio de Janeiro.

Boal was tireless ’til the end of his life. According to a statement from the Center for the Theater of the Oppressed in Rio, Boal left behind a completed new version of his book The Aesthetics of the Oppressed, and he spent the day before his death, May Day, in a solidarity vigil with workers. Read more…

Hoy en Detroit : Acupuncture Benefit for the Allied Media Conference

9:40 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference| Detriot| Events| Health| media justice · Comments Off

26 Apr 2009

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VivirLatino loves the Allied Media Conference and this fundraiser is such an amazing idea for so many reasons. Taking care of ourselves is so important and we don’t do it enough. Plus it’s for a wonderful cause, a truly independent media conference, free of corporate sponsors. Taking care of our health is central for independent media makers who work our assess off for little or no pay. It is a labor of love that requires not just physical energy and time pero also emotional and spiritual energy since what we write, speak and organize around are issues that are about our lives.

SPEAK! Listening Party in Portland, Oregon This Saturday

3:23 pm By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Allied Media Conference| Events| Media| Oregon| media justice · 1 Comment

9 Apr 2009

This Saturday the 11th, there will be a listening party for the release of the SPEAK! Radical Woman of Color Media Collective’s spoken-word CD.

The It Is Better To SPEAK! listening party will be held Saturday, the 11th, at 7 to 9 pm at In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources, 8 B NE Killingsworth St., Portland, OR, 97211. All are welcome. Bring a friend and spread the word! I’ll see you there.

The CD, a compilation of poetry, prose, story and song, is packed with the work of people you know, including Blackamazon, Brownfemipower, Cripchick, Little Light, Sylvia, and many others including yours truly, la Mala.

As my dear Little Light said:

We made this project with love and held hands and hard work, and we’re proud to present it as a fundraiser to help get some radical mamis of color to the Allied Media Conference and support them in their activism.
At the listening party, you’ll have a chance to come together and hear the album, discuss it, and take it home with you. We’ve put together a whole curriculum, written together, to help facilitate, and both I and Adele Nieves, producer and contributor, will be present to help get things shaking.

Via / Taking Steps

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