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Three people posing in Rebirth Garments clothing
Ladybug Studios drop-in session with two kids on throwing wheels
Design Justice design workshop
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Production shot from Take Me Home with the crew filming an actor

We are a network of people and projects, rooted in Detroit and connected to hundreds of other places across the globe. Together, we grow and exchange ways of using media to create the world we need.

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Our media includes all the ways we communicate with the world. Our liberation is an ongoing process of personal, collective, and systemic transformation.

Sunsetting the Allied Media Conference

For 23 years, the Allied Media Conference (AMC) has been a community-designed experiment in visionary organizing, community care and social justice coalition-building toward liberation. 

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Allied Media Library

  • DAYUM Abolition Zine

    In the summer of 2023, DAYUM  youth participated in a 6-week Abolition Museum with our partners from Wayne…

  • Design Justice Network Hub Zines

    Design  — whether it’s the creation of graphics, the layout of a website, or drafting the blueprints of…

  • A People's Guide To Tech

    What does listening to music, booking a flight, and getting stopped by the police all have in common?…

  • Survived & Punished Resources

    Survived & Punished is a national coalition of survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts,…

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Photo by Ara Howrani

AMP envisions and attempts to model a world in which we, collectively:

  • Care for ourselves, each other, other species, and the planet

  • Dismantle supremacist systems as they operate upon us and within us

  • Assume Responsibility for creating new liberatory ways of being

  • Cultivate life-affirming joy