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Allied Media Conference Stories

Posted by Kites Team  ·  29 Jun 2010  ·  0 comments

For four days at the Allied Media Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit, Thousand Kites brought together a coalition of national leaders from urban and rural community organizing and media organizations to link their innovation and needs into a national grassroots communication platform.

The coalition explored various communication strategies – FlipCam video, phone calls, social media, theater, poetry, visual arts and more – to support advocacy, education, and organizing both outside and inside prison walls.

Above, check out a video slideshow featuring members of the prison-industrial complex track as well as watch videos taken by prison-industrial complex track workshop attendees. 

Below, read some of the content that came out of the workshops.

Questions we tackled: 

  • How do we get the community involved in websites?
  • How do you deal with conservatives or liberals?
  • How do you generate content without paying people?
  • How do you use online media to change people's perspectives? 
  • How do you get your online media to people inside? 
  • How do you use email to mobilize? 
  • What action opportunities are available via the Internet? 
  • Who are we trying to reach? How do we reach them? 
  • How do we develop online tools to target legislators? 
  • How do we build databases of experts and heavy lifters? 
  • How do we stay succinct and also true to the complexities of the issues? 
  • How do we link our strategies online? 

Solutions we brainstormed: 

  • Use local media as well as college students/youth media to get out stories
  • Never turn down an interview
  • Use visitation time and people on the outside (lawyers, families etc.) to get out the word to those on the inside
  • Use community radio for reach
  • Bring media to live events
  • Have prisoners call into forums
  • Create a loop: link to established websites, shared email blasts, fan pages
  • Develop a national wiki
  • For legislatures: map out committees, set up websites, use phone calls
  • Develop a national set of priorities
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