Allied Media Conference Rocks!
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The 10th annual Allied Media Conference gets bigger and better every year. This year the program was tight. A full schedule was organized into tracks—the How-to Track, INCITE! Women of Color/Trans People of Color Track, Youth Media Track and more—making for a strong balance of voices.
There were many amazing sessions, one being Tools For Creating An Immigrant Safety Net. In this session artivist Ricardo Dominguez, presented a hacked Motorola i455 phone reconfigured into a lifesaving device for immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and US. This device has many tools built in to navigate the deadly desert border; built in compass, vibrates near water sources, tracks border patrol and more. Find out more about it at the Transborder Immigrant Project.
Other sessions like Undoing “Crime”: Media To De-Criminalize And De-Colonize broke down the corporate media’s role in criminalizing immigrants and communities of color and showed ways to combat it by producing first person stories, forming community radio stations, producing rapid responses to racist media and holding the media accountable for misrepresentations.
There are many more workshops/panels/talks to speak of but all in all this conference was and is vital in weaving media/technology/art/journalism seamlessly with creating real change.
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| Posted on June 24, 2008
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