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Community Bulletin Board!

by nezua. written Saturday, May 16th, 2009 3:21 pm

THERE IS POSITIVE ENERGY AND RENEWAL happening all over this Spring, and there are are few new events and places that reflect this. Let’s take a quick trip to the community bulletin board hanging up at the Unapologetic Mexican and see what’s going on.

HERE ARE A FEW EVENTS and sites and such that I’ve been wanting to bring to readers’ attention so I’ll get right into it now that I have a moment.

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First up is a CD of spoken poetry called SPEAK! Some of our blogmigas are representing here: Mamita Mala, Blackamazon, Adele Nieves, and more. Proceeds from this CD help single mothers of color attend the 11th Allied Media Conference July 16-19, 2009.

“Necesito gritar!” bellows Adele Nieves in response to the question she poses with her spoken word piece entitled “Why Do You Speak?”, which is the first track on the album. Through the unrestrained strength and rage smoldering behind every word, Adele provides a call to action against the overwhelming powers of erasure, invisibility, and silence that is exhaustively pushed upon women of color for centuries.

Segundo! The 11th Allied Media Conference in Detroit (Michigan) which takes place over Thursday, July 16 to Sunday, July 19, 2009.

You should scan the site to understand what it’s about. But it’s about a ton of good stuff, like learning, love, funky media, radical positivity and ideas like this:

The AMC supports learning of all different kinds and at all different levels. The workshops are hands-on and participatory. Knowledge is passed horizontally rather than from the top down. Everyone teaches and everyone learns. At the AMC, media creation is not only about personal expression, but about transformation – of ourselves and the structures of power around us. We create media that exposes, investigates, resists, heals, builds confidence and radical hope, incites dialogue and debate. We do it ourselves and as communities, connecting across geographic and generational boundaries.

It’s very reasonably priced, and just has a great vibe. I am trying to hook up a Sanctuary table there, let’s see what happens.

Finally, Science writer, poet, and friend Chris Clark has put together a community site/blog called “The Clade,” and if you’re down with environmental topics and activism that is related, definitely make this a visiting place. Chris is a fantastic writer, a cat with real heart, and I’m sure this project of his will be the source of some good energy and definitely some good information, and now and then even some elegant verbiage, I’d bet.