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Detroit Digital Stewards highlighted in the New York Times and Le Monde
Our Detroit Digital Stewards project was recently highlighted in articles about community mesh wireless networks in the New York Times (April 20, 2014) and Le Monde (May 23, 2014).
The AMC Open Mic returns: Sign-up for a slot!
Are you an AMC participant with talents to share? Sign up for a 5 minute performance slot on the AMC Opening Night Open Mic! (you must be registered for the AMC to sign-up).
Put Away Your Tinfoil Hat: Security in Context
Are you an organizer or activist interested in protecting your data and communications from corporations and the government? At the upcoming AMC, the "Watch This! Surveillance, Security, and Organizing" track is about recognizing and growing the capacity within our movements to challenge the surveillance state. In this blogpost, the organizers of the Watch This! track outline a series of questions for thinking about security in a holistic manner—versus only thinking of it as a set of tools we use to keep movements safe.
Join us at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit to continue the conversation about safety and security in our movements!
Browse the sessions of AMC2014!
Browse the entire AMC! This year’s Allied Media Conference features 238 panels, strategy sessions, hands-on workshops, parties and performances. It's the biggest AMC ever and it is coming to the campus of Wayne State University and surrounding venues in just a few weeks: June 19 - 22, 2014.
We've launched our session browser for AMC2014. It is hosted on the AMPtalk website and allows you to search and sort AMC sessions by content, place, and day/time.
The Classroom is Yours: Practices for self-governance
This is the second part in a series of blog posts highlighting lessons emerging from Detroit Future Schools. Detroit Future Schools is an AMP Sponsored Project.
Detroit Future Schools' goal is to make our work to humanize schooling in Detroit "open-source" and accessible to other educators. Below, Nate Mullen, DFS Lead Artist, reflects on student-facilitated debates as a practice of self-governance.