Facts
The Allied Media Conference is organized into tracks. The tracks are a series of workshops that take place over the life of the conference. Participants can take part in any track they wish.
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Resisting the Incarceration Nation:
This track will build off the foundation laid by the Communication Strategies to End the Prison Industrial Complex track at AMC2010. The twenty grassroots organizations who participated in that track have spent the past year building partnerships and launching campaigns, including a state-wide effort to challenge the no-parole law in Virginia, the launch of a national grassroots prison radio project and many others. This year's track will continue to build and advance media strategies for those working to dismantle the prison industrial complex in all of its forms, including: immigration detention centers, isolated prisons, prisoner renting, human rights violations, ICE raids, militarized police occupation of neighborhoods and the separation of families. Bringing together urban and rural community media organizations we will develop powerful of narrative campaigns—combining different forms of media (flip video, radio, print, web, phone, and viral communication) to organize resistance to policing, surveillance, and imprisonment.
Skills and Concepts:
Hidden immigration detention centers, isolated prisons, prisoner renting, human rights violations, ICE raids, militarized police occupation of neighborhoods, families separated, and a mainstream media that fuels the burgeoning prison industrial complex. This track will strategize around community media response to incarceration, policing, and the criminalization of our communities. This track is designed to build movement skills and strategies for those working to dismantle the prison industrial complex. Bringing together urban and rural community media organizations to share and strategize and better use the power of narrative campaigns—combining different on media (flip video, radio, print, web, phone, and viral communication) to organize resistance to policing, surveillance, and imprisonment.
Value of Track to Your Organizing Process:
We intend this year to have a broader and more democratic approach to developing the track than last year's AMC, which focused on bringing partners to the conference who had not participated before. Using phone conferences and a democratic process we intend to design a track that incorporates a wide breadth of experiences and ideas. This process will build a stronger network in the PIC movement of those working on building communication capacity. In addition at AMC we will develop a communication model and platform to continue the work of this track throughout the year.
Outreach for this Track:
Each group involved with the track has extensive grassroots partners who we will be doing outreach to. We anticipate inviting and fund-raising to bring members from our various networks to participate in all of AMC.