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Dear beloved community,
As elections approach and autumn continues to unravel, we offer these musings to center into ourselves, together. We hold steadfast that we are autonomous in our bodies, that our bodies are our own, and we know best how to love, care, provide and exist in our bodies.
We stay grounded in our bodily autonomy, which is connected to the sovereignty of all beings, human, and our more than human kin inextricably linked with our shared Earth body.
We stay committed to knowing that another world is possible and that voting is not the way itself, but a placeholder while we diligently open the path for a future of unbounded liberation.
This November 8th, Michigan and many states across our nation have a decisive election. We face the continual bombardment of extreme far right politics rooted in hateful philosophies that strip our people further of their rights to cultivate sovereignty of our bodies.
As Mariame Kaba writes, “From forced sterilization to family separation, the carceral state itself is an act of reproductive violence.” In the face of such blatant degradation to choice and dignity, we will show up at the polls to stand firm in our sacred right to make decisions about our own bodies and futures, ensuring that we protect the most targeted amongst us: Black women, Indigenous women, and other women of color, as well as trans women and birthing people across the gender spectrum.
“An individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.” - Michigan Proposal 3 ([link removed])
* Get out the vote in Michigan ([link removed])
* Michigan Reproductive Freedom For All ([link removed])
* National Network of Abortion Funds ([link removed])
* Vote411.org Voting Information ([link removed])
Siwatu-Salama Ra speaking at AMC 2022
For AMC2022, we asked ourselves: how do we integrate disability justice more deeply in our work? How can we practice climate justice by asking our remote community not to travel to Detroit? What new hybrid opportunities exist for reimagining how we gather? And how do we still cultivate magic, joy, and critical connections through it all?
After reviewing survey responses and hosting a series of debriefing conversations with AMC staff, coordinators, and community partners, we’ve identified important lessons and takeaways that will help us shape this next chapter of the AMC and deepen our commitments to a more creative and just world.
Read the full takeaways reflection here. ([link removed])
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Ever wondered where your health data goes when you use an app? Ever wondered if consentful technology is possible? 🤔📲❤️ Come learn & explore with us & Una Lee Nov 9! Workshop info & registration here. ([link removed]) [link removed]
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Celebrate the release of No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie with a foreword by Black Visions.
November 7th, Andrea Ritchie (she, any), co-author will be in conversation with Nikkita Oliver, Esq., M. Ed.(they/them/their), and Amanda Alexander (She/Her/Hers) at Source Booksellers in Detroit and Online. Get tickets here! ([link removed])
The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition & Alkebu-Lan Village present: DiscoTech & Skate: a discovering technology fair
disco tech flyer Alkebu-Lan Village 7701 Harper, Detroit
Sunday, November 13th 1pm-3pm
Food, skating, fun, learning together about data, community safety, tech basics, wellness and more. All ages welcome! (Bring your own skates & skate at your own risk.)
Community Partners: Detroit Community Technology Project, Petty Propolis, Riverwise Magazine, Detroit is Different, M!ndful B, Feedom Freedom Growers and Family 1st Solar!
✨ NEW Zine from Design Justice Network: Created & designed by the Principles at Work Working Group members! You can read it at designjustice.org/zines #DesignJustice #DesignJusticeNetwork #PrinciplesAtWork #Zine
✨ Detroit Community Technology Project: Part of their 10 year celebration of Digital Stewardship, the Detroit Community Technology Project ([link removed]) is supporting their partner BLVD Harambee ([link removed]) to raise $10k. The money raised will outfit their two solar charging stations in Islandview, transforming them into wifi-enabled parklets. Donate here! ([link removed])
✨ Detroit Narrative Agency: Detroit Narrative Agency is developing a suite of programs that will support media-based storytelling in Detroit and they want to hear from you! Please take a few minutes to complete the Mediamaking Skillbuilding Survey ([link removed]) to help shape DNA's program offerings for 2023. Survey deadline is November 8th.
✨ Support our Sponsored Project: Healing By Choice! 2nd Annual Friendraiser. Healing by Choice! will be running our annual friendraiser from November 21st - December 14th and need your help! A friendraiser is an invitation campaign for communities to deepen relationship with HbC! and offer mutual support to our growth and expansion. We invite you to be one of our early donors to help support great events through the end of the year such as an herb walk, energetic boundaries workshop, 2023 vision boarding, etc. Visit HbC!'swebsite ([link removed]) andsocials ([link removed]) for more detailed updates and wellness resources.
Allied Media Projects is committed to fostering a healthy, exciting workplace environment in which talented humans combine forces to accomplish incredible things. Through its programs, AMP envisions and attempts to model a world in which we cultivate care and joy, dismantle harmful systems, and assume responsibility for creating new and liberatory ways of being.
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