AMP was founded in early 2002 by the editors of Clamor
Magazine to support their educational activities,
including the annual Allied
Media Conference. But AMP has grown in response
to the need for an organization that can unite the
diffuse world of community media into an effective
counterweight to huge media corporations, that can
educate donors about the needs of commnunity media,
and that can support small but critical projects.
AMP has received funding from various foundations, including
Tides, Threshold, Funding Exchange, and Third Wave Foundation.
But our goal is to be supported by membership
contributions.
Directors
Jen Angel
Jen Angel has been involved in independent publishing since 1991 when she first
started publishing a zine. In 1996, she published the first edition of The
Zine Yearbook, a compendium of small press writing which will publish its
seventh edition this year. In 1997, she edited the largest and longest-running
punk zine in the world, Maximum Rock N Roll. Together with partner Jason
Kucsma, Jen founded Clamor Magazine in 2000, an award-winning bimonthly magazine
that is distributed internationally. Clamor is reader-driven, publishing
the writing and artwork of over 30 new voices each issue and is now entering
its fourth year of publishing. In addition, Jen has participated in organizing
the Allied Media Conference for the last three years. Along with Jason Kucsma,
Jen was featured in Utne Reader as one of “30 Visionaries Under 30
Who Are Changing Your Future”.
Joshua Breitbart
Joshua is a founder and director of Rooftop Films, which has been presenting
an annual short film festival in Brooklyn, NY, since 1998. He is an organizer
in the Indymedia movement, having worked with Independent Media Centers throughout
the United States and in South America. He is a consulting editor of Clamor
Magazine. And he serves on the board of directors of the Center for Urban Pedagogy
and the Lela Breitbart Memorial Fund, which supports young women’s activism.
Jason Kucsma
Jason is a founder and co-editor of Clamor Magazine. He has been publishing
small press zines since 1992, and more recently has been the primary organizer
for the annual Underground Publishing Conference. Jason graduated from Bowling
Green State University with a master's degree in American Culture Studies.
As partial fulfillment of his master's degree, Jason also wrote a thesis examining
the ways in which the independent press, specifically zines, can be viewed
as crucial to reaffirming democratic ideals and confronting social inequality.
Wade Rathke
Wade has been the Chief Organizer of the Association of Community Organizations
for Reform Now (ACORN) since he founded the organization in 1970. ACORN is
a national membership organization of over 100,000 low and moderate income
families organized in communities in 37 major cities. He also serves as Chief
Organizer of Local 100, Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which
he founded in New Orleans in 1980 and which now has 7000 members in Texas,
LA, and Arkansas. Currently, Wade also spearheads a multi-union effort through
HOTROC - the Hospitality, Hotels, and Restaurants Organizing Council, AFL-CIO,
to unionize this New Orleans industry. Wade is also President of SEIU's Southern
Conference and a member of the national executive board of the union, Secretary-Treasurer
of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO, and a member of the boards of the Tides
Foundation, Tides Center, and Paradox Fund. In the late 60's, Wade organized
draft resistance for SDS and welfare recipients in Springfield and Boston,
Massachusetts for the National Welfare Rights Organization.
Kristen Schmidt
Kristen Schmidt is the volunteer coordinator for the Summit County Battered
Women's Shelter. She is active in progressive activism in Cleveland working
on homelessness, sex abuse issues, and reproductive rights. She is also a volunteer
for Clamor Magazine, where she copy edits, proofreads, and provides editorial
consultation.
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Allied Media Projects
PO Box 20128
Toledo, OH
43610
USA
info@alliedmediaprojects.org
Board of Directors
Jen Angel
Joshua Breitbart
Jason Kucsma
Wade Rathke
Kristen Schmidt
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