AMP Seeds Fall Highlights, Poetry as Healing, & Creators of Culture.

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Propose a session due date FEBRUARY 9 2022 AMC 2022 June 30 - July 03 Detroit + Virtual

Dear beloveds,

AMC2022 will be a hybrid conference, convening national participants online and curating a hyper-local, in-person convening for Detroiters, Metro Detroit residents, and communities throughout Michigan (occupied Anishinaabe, Peoria, and Meskwaki land).

Convening June 30th – July 3rd, 2022, the conference will be a space to explore new forms of organizing, infused with creativity, deep listening, and synergy between diverse mediums and tactics. For more info about our hybrid structure, please check out our Shape of the AMC2022 ([link removed]) blog post and this recap video ([link removed]) from our first-ever virtual conference in 2020.

Apply to any of the following tracks by February 9th, 2022:
* 5 years of Emergent Strategy: What we've learned
* Accessing Queer sanctuary through printed media and digital realms
* Youth Liberation and Education Justice
* Abolish Carceral Tech
* Reclaiming our Dreams, Healing our Futures: Building the world we believe in through healing justice
* Afropresentism
* Narrative, Arts and Cultural Strategies for Liberation
* Collective Pleasure, Pornography and Sex Work
* Shaping Change (General Track)

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Final Info Call!

Having trouble starting? Questions about the submission process? How to strengthen your proposal? Answer to these and more at the final AMC2022 info call this Monday, January 31st at 6pm EST / 5pm CST / 3pm PST on Zoom!

ASL interpretation and closed captioning will be provided.
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This Fall was the most successful AMP Seeds season yet with over 4,000 views (highlights above). Visit the AMP Seeds Archive ([link removed]) for full-length videos of events from the past three seasons alongside transcripts, discussion prompts, and further reading. Check out events you missed, re-watch conversations that inspired you, or use them as educational resources.
* Poetry as Healing ([link removed]) - Trapeta B. Mayson, the Philadelphia Poet Laureate and licensed clinical social worker, started a toll-free and 24/7 phone line that offers callers a hopeful weekly poem.
* In honor of the passing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we are sharing his Ten Love Letters to the Earth. ([link removed])
* WithThis Is Not a Bill, ([link removed]) Detroit artist Kristle Marshall sends illustrated postcards depicting joy to strangers.

* AMP is seeking a Digital Content Assistant ([link removed]) for a 6 month contract with the possibility of a full-time position upon conclusion of the contract. We are seeking a media-maker with skills in website administration, graphic design, and social media management. Apply your skills to help bring to life the 22nd Annual Allied Media Conference, while also supporting the storytelling capacities of AMP and its network of people and projects making media for liberation. Apply by Feb 18th!
* Detroit Narrative Agency is hiring anAdministrative Assistant ([link removed]) salary starts at 40-45K per year.
* Detroit Justice Center ([link removed]) is staffing up. They are seeking: Senior Development Associate, Website/Impact Report Designer, HR/DEI Manager, Financial Analyst, and Staff Attorney.

Network highlights
* After 17 years of creative and strategic contributions to AMP, Mike Medow, our Director of Finance and Administration, is leaving AMP ([link removed]) to pursue other opportunities. Thank you for helping lead important transitions including bringing the Allied Media Conference to Detroit, launching the Sponsored Projects Program, and growing our communications and operational capacity!
* Detroit Safety Team is looking for City-wide Safety Team members ([link removed]) whose Introduction Training will begin April 8, 2021 via Zoom.[link removed] Applications are open until April 5, 2021 at 11:59pm.
* Congratulations to Mav One, Cyrah Durdas, and Brian Oscar, all AMP network members who are part of Culture Source’s 2021 Creators of Culture ([link removed]) .
* What we’re reading: You Are Not Entitled To Our Deaths: COVID, Abled Supremacy & Interdependence ([link removed]) by Mia Mingus

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