AMC 2008

Here are the slides and some bookmarks related to the Be the Web: Using web 2.0 innovations to organize and connect session.

Thanks to everyone who helped create the visioning timelines at AMC. A group of folks came together the final day of the conference to look at the maps created after they keynote (in the hallway, throughout the weekend) and during the "Independence to Interdependence" session.

We reflected on the maps, the keynote and our movements. We surfaced our ideas for what our movements need to become more strategic and successful towards the future we seek.

Here are the notes from that discussion...

http://www.mediaactioncenter.org/node/1339

at Saturday's Revolutionary Parenting caucus, we brainstormed ways that people in our communities and movements can support the needs of their families. Here's what we came up with:

*rotate the childcare role at meetings and events. This enables the parent or caretaker to fully participate while ensuring that no one person gets burned out.

*barter and trade for childcare. Parents and caretakers often have useful skills that they're willing to share.

*form relationships with the kids in your community/movement/social justice project

*going to do something a kid might be interested in? Invite him/her along!

*at the start of any event, make an announcement that children (and the noise they make) are welcome. Many times we parents feel that we have to leave if our children make as much noise as the ringing of a cell phone.

*start (or participate in) discussions about the needs and contributions of families in radical communities. Don't always leave it to parents to have to bring these issues up.

*start a childcare collective!

*One participant informed us that, despite all of her fundraising efforts, her friend, who is a mother of two, had been unable to afford to travel to the conference. Similarly, the mother who had originally proposed the parenting caucus, had been unable to come for the same reason. And so we added this suggestion:

Think about how the conference/event is helping
parents/kids/families get to them. Remember
that if we're flying, bussing, taking the
train, etc., we're often paying for more than
one seat (in addition to taking time off work,
having to pay for multiple meals at each
mealtime, etc). How are the organizers working

Thanks for the good times!

Thanks everyone for such a brilliant and inspiring weekend! If anyone wants another pair of eyes and hands collaborating on some print design or web development for your work, let me know. I'd be thrilled to contribute. Just take a look at what I do and send me a note.

I'm coming from Baltimore and since I will not be getting back to NY until 1 am on Sunday night I am hoping that someone may know of somewhere I can spend the night until I catch the Chinatown out to Baltimore the following morning. I would really appreciate any help that anyone can give. Thanks.
-Patrick Offenheiser
(patrick.offenheiser@goucher.edu)

I just wanted to say that I can't wait for AMC this weekend. It's my first one. I'm thrilled that AMC is happening in my neighborhood; I only moved here last fall and I am starved to connect more with this place, with people who care about it, with creative and innovative folks who are unafraid to move towards a new world.

See you soon!

Anna

so i lost a bag of mine that had my megabus reservation. so if anyone is driving i'd much rather help you with gas then buy another ticket. please call 956.457-1340 if you are able. i'm here already.... uhh ok thanks.

if not its ok, i have the money to buy another ticket i just dont want to.

:'(

If so, do you have room for 3-4 women to ride back with you to Ann Arbor? We will give money to help with the gas.

Thanks!

Catherine

catherine.m.judge@gmail.com

A video screening at Centro Obrero in Detroit of "Hutto: America's Family Prison" a short documentary on our nation's for-profit prison of immigrant families. The short documentary will be followed by a discussion of our government's immigration policy, a spart of the national Night of 1000 Conversations. This independent film, directed by Lily Keber and Matt Gossage, is about the T. Don Hutto "residential facility", the nations for-profit family prison for non-criminal immigrant families. This prototype for privatized family detention is located just north of Austin, TX. The film features families affected and a determined people standing in solidarity with them inside this immoral prison. This short film has been used in Texas as an organizing tool to get communities aware and involved to end family detention.

This Wednesday, June 18th, 7pm at
Centro Obrero
4300 Michigan
Detroit, MI
for more info, contact: 313-974-0501
film will be in English and Spanish