VISION
Working from a place of Shared Values
* responsibility
* accountability
o including Honoring our History, and that much of what we are attempting has been tried/done/known before
o holding our funders accountable to our terms, needs, and their behavior
* creativity
* RESPECT
o understands tension → growth!
* Present
* Accessible
o free or cheap
o safe
o making funding and resources accessible
o we OWN our work, space, and resources
* acknowledging and moving past assumptions
* transformative
* abundant – we have what we need
* start from who are and what WE want, not our opposition/oppressor and what they allow
* human to human
* politicizing our understanding of mamis, mothers, children (apprentices and mediamakers), childcare (that too is creation)
Increases the power, mentorship and literacy of media makers:
* power WITH not power OVER
* Free Speech for all
* mutual mentorship
* youth leadership
* allows us to answer (and expand the answer to) the question of “what is media?” and see media as both an ends and a means
* includes using old media, meeting people where they're at and usingwhat folks have
* defines media as all the ways we communicate, including ART (art is vida!)
* media that eradicates the boundaries of oppression, and makes people's lives better
Resourcing that is:
* equal access
* includes links and recognition
* collective and network-based
* not just 501c3 or foundation (but also brings them along in the work)
* sustainable through our ebb and flow economy
* connects struggles
* includes sharing of spaces
* respects our desire to be funded or not
* revenue generating
* understands community beyond geography
* is by and for us!
* Includes media tools, space, gathering
