In the AMP Fall Newsletter, we will share the harvest of what we have learned, how we have deepened connection, and how we are recommitting to nourishing an ecosystem of visionary creativity as a compass toward another possible world that we co-create with each action, each day.
What does a harvest mean in a season of increased pressure?
Can we think of harvest as a way to come back to the collective and the strategies we have used to bolster each other, survive, and thrive in seasons of droughts and floods? What is the role of mutual aid, skillshares, neighborhood connections, and affinity groups in this moment? How can we face increased pressure without devolving into fragmentation and destructive conflict?
Part of meeting this moment is to recommit to show up aligned in our values and in fostering centered connection inside and outside of our work as a radical fiscal sponsor and movement infrastructure provider.
Our way of being, organizing, and creating is rooted in building a movement ecosystem that supports the practice of media-based organizing. We define media-based organizing as any collaborative process that uses media, art, or technology to confront the root causes of oppression and cultivate holistic solutions. Media-based organizing is not just a tactic — it’s a movement-building framework rooted in accessibility, creativity, and interdependence. When we use media in this way, we build new kinds of relationships with ourselves, with others, and within our communities. We transform ourselves from consumers of information to producers, from objects within dominant narratives to authors. This is long-term, relational work that often has its own timelines, feeding us as we feed it, toward transformational change.
