AMC 2008

The Allied Media Conference has covered a wide range of topics with participation from every corner of the alternative media world. Below is a partial list of the titles of the workshops, panels, presentations, movies, and bands from AMCs of the past. (We're working on a searchable archive of all AMC sessions.)

WORKSHOPS

• 101 Ways to Ask a Question: Interviewing Skills For Radio News and Public Affairs
• A Careful Eye, A Good Ear: The Smartest Media Consumer is a Good Media Producer
• Art in the Schools
• Artistic Recycling for Publication and Promotion
• Building Power Through Microcinemas
• Changing Your Town with Local Media
• Community Outreach and DIY Journalism For Social Change
• Covering Labor
• Creative Fundraising
• Critical Thinking/Public Speaking
• DIY Distribution: Making an Impact
• Don’t Stop The Body [Politic] Rock: The Pink Bloque and an Embodiment of Feminist Street Action
• Editing For Independent Media
• Essential Critical Thought for Young Adults: Approaches to Media Literacy
• Excavating buried truths: Investigative reporting with attitude
• Fact Checking for Independent Journalists
• Fostering a Culture of Inclusion in Independent Media
• Framing Action: Using Media as an Organizing Tool
• From West Coast Streets to the West Bank Beats: Understanding Imperialism and Struggle through Global Hip Hop
• Get Your Website Up and Running
• Hard News Editing
• How to Pitch Stories to Magazines
• How to Plan and Promote Radical Art Events
• How to Produce a 3-7 Minute Radio Piece
• How to Produce a Collaborative Radio News Program
• How to Run a Film Festival
• How to Run an Activist Media Collective
• How To: Street Stenciling
• Independent Media’s Role When City Hall Turns Against its Citizens
• Independent videoblogging, podcasting and blogging
• Interviewing Tactics For Print, Broadcast, And Fun
• Investigative Reporting: Freedom Of Information
• Keeping the Books
• Learning the Ropes of Basic Web Design
• Living Radio: The Art Of Documentary Audio
• Making Bilingual Media
• Making Media that Matters in Minutes
• Making the Most of Your Event: Outreach and Evaluation Tips
• Marketing, Minors, and the Military
• Marketing Your Indie Project
• Media History Timeline
• Media, Democracy, Justice: A Moderated Discussion
• Microradio: Overview & Operations
• Money Matters: A Fundraising Workshop
• Muckraking with a Mission: Investigative Reporting for Alt-Journos
• Newsstand Distribution 101
• Opening and Maintaining a Quality Media Space
• Oral History as an Organizing Tool
• Palestine Pop Ed: Breaking the media down in schools
• Photography Basics
• Podcasting
• Podcasting in Education
• Pop Culture/Hip-Hop and Media
• Practical Privacy on The Internet
• Producing A High Quality Web Site On A Limited Budget
• Puppet Making
• Radical Art History: Print And Video
• Performance As Protest: Panel Discussion
• Radio With a Kick – How to Make It!
• Reporting from the Immigrant Struggle
• Screenprinting 101: Introductory Level
• Screenprinting 401: Novice/Advanced Level
• Sell Out: Owning Up To The Marketing And Politics Of Self-Publishing
• Show & Tell: Sound and Image Improv
• So You Want To Start A Magazine?
• Starting and Sustaining an Alternative Publication
• Stencil Pirates GO! D.I.Y. Stencilimaking
• Teaching: Not an Invitation for Hypnosis
• The Basics of Independent Publishing
• The Grass is Greener: Grassroots Fundraising
• The Popular Culture Library At BGSU
• The Writing On The Wall
• The Underground’s Railroad: Out of the Underground and Into the Light
• of Creative and Financial Independence
• Typography for the Web
• Using Interns and Volunteers
• Video Advocacy: An International Human Rights Perspective
• Video Interviewing Basics: How and Why
• Webcasting 1-2-3
• Where's the Money At? How to Fundraise for Real!
• Why Blog? How Blog?
• Workshopping Zines: Critical Analysis of Self-Published Media
• Your Revolution Will Be Televised: Paper Tiger Tv Video Organizing

PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS

• After School: How to Run an Effective Youth Media Center
• Are Our Messages Reaching the Right Audiences?
• Beyond the 501(c)3 Model : Fundraising with a Diversity of Tactics
• Broadcast Justice: The Fight to Build a Real People’s Station
• Community Internet and Wireless
• Community Organizing Through Hip Hop
• Conversations for Good Journalism: How to Interview for Radio and Print
• Creating and Maintaining Effective Media Spaces
• Creative Uprising: Art Transforming Ourselves and Our Communities
• Culture as a Tool of Resistance
• Democracy Needs Active Media Education
• From Truth to Power
• Hip Hop Activism As Media Arts For Transformation
• Independent Media Responses to Katrina
• Is This What Democracy Looks Like?
• Maintaining A Community Media Space
• Making You Move: Hip Hop Builds a Youth Movement
• Media Makers and Public Educators Working Together
• Organizing Independent Film Festivals
• Process is More Important than Content
• Radio News
• Radical Art History: The Graphic Agitation of the Abolitionist Movement
• Radical Media: The Experience of Detroit
• Reaching Kids: Youth-Driven Programming Literacy
• Representing Detroit: Telling Our Own Story through Independent Media
• Sex, Lies and the Media: Who Is Shaping Our Kids Today for the Future
• Taking Control of Your Visual Landscape
• The Future of Radical Print Magazines
• The Social Potential of Moving Images – Video and Social Change
• We Can Do Better: Moving from Policy to Action in the Media Movement
• What is media justice (and how do we get it)?
• What We’d Like to See in the Coming Year
• When Small Voices Are Heard, the Supreme Court Listens
• Zine Guide: Readings From The Underground

CAUCUSES

• Caucus Meeting on Community Radio
• Caucus Meeting on Layout and Design in Independent Print Projects
• Women of Color Bloggers (and potential bloggers) Caucus Meeting
• US IMC gathering
• Youth Media Caucus

MOVIES

• All on a Mardi Gras Day
• And The Next Day I Quit (Doni)
• Beef and Broccoli
• Bloqueo (Heather Haddon and Rachel Dannefer)
• Captain Do-Gooder in “Help the Needy”
• Cheap Ludes (Joren Moi & John Doornik)
• Curious (Kelly Anderson)
• Cut and Dry (Jan Gerber)
• Dance of Death (Mark Reed)
• Death Mask
• Diagram 1-5 (5:00, Colin Palombi)
• El Moro (Jim Finn)
• Eventually
• Exist (Esther Bell)
• Fed Up! (Angelo Sacerdote)
• For Someone Else’s Eyes Only (Camela Jean Christopher)
• Forbidden to Wander (Susan Youssef)
• FTAA: Info War (Sasha Costanza, Brandon Jourdan, Erin Siegel)
• Ghost Squat
• Grilled Cheese Sandwich
• Here 75 Picket
• Hollywood Operation (Michael Possert Jr.)
• Horns and Halos (Suki Hawley, Michael Galinsky)
• How Does It Work?
• Independent Media in a Time of War (Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center)
• Independent, Doin’ MAJOR things (Hotep)
• Kabul: Reconstruction (Mariam Ghani)
• Kraqhaus Jeans: Plumber’s Pants (By Frank Harding
• Missing Link (5:00, Atom Paul)
• Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (2:00, Chris Watkins)
• Ni Una Mas
• Our Bodies, Our Choice!
• Paco’s Suitcase Bomb (By The Pocho Brothers)
• Perhaps the Singer is Dead (6:00, Mary Billyou)
• Plan (7:00, Bonnie Fortune)
• Plasticman and the Justice League
• Red Wings
• Seven Days: A Short Film About Richard Nixon, His Irish Setter And The Bombing
• Of Cambodia (David Barker)
• Sir, No Sir
• Slingshot Hip Hop (rough cut) (Jackie Salloum)
• Special Report (Bryan Boyce)
• Star Spangled: A Flagumentary
• Still We Ride (In Tandem Productions)
• Summercamp (Sean Parker)
• Sunday Corner Tap (Ryan Schiewe
• Terra (Aristomenis Tsirbas)
• The Boob
• The Guilt Trip, Or The Vatican Takes A Holiday (Lisa Barcy)
• The Homeland Hodown (Jason Archer & Paul Beck)
• The Men of Club Casanova (Aralis Bloise)
• The Voice (Johan Soderbergh)
• This is a Story About a Boy (Sara Jean)
• Tired Beach (Perry Hallinan)
• Unbound (Tue Walin Storm)
• Unhappy Meal (John R Greg R (R Room))
• Velvetron Behind the Story (Velvetron)
• Walking On Land (3:30, Seth Camillo, Iowa City IA)
• We’re Just Walking (Warren Johnston)
• Whatever You Destroy (Yoni Goldstein, Max Sussman)
• Why is this commercial? (John R Greg R (R Room))

Presented in collaboration with 20,000 Leagues Under the Industry, Free Speech TV, ImageNation Film Festival, Media That Matters, P.M.S. Media, Rooftop Films, Satan MacNuggit Video Road Show, and the Sin Fronteras Film Festival

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES

• Ahluechatistas
• Aloha
• Bulletteeth
• Casey Neill
• Defiance, Ohio
• The Door-Keys
• Erin Tobey
• Finale
• Ghost Mice
• Invincible
• Joe Jencks
• Madeline
• The Max Levine Ensemble
• MsFortune
• 'munk
• One Reason
• Past Sessions
• Pretty Picture
• Rob Williams
• Rosa
• Saturday Looks Good To Me
• Stylex
• Subterraneous (feat. one.be.lo)
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
• The Evens
• This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb
• This Moment in Black History
• Urban Folk Collective
• Velvet Audio