Critical Moment

Critical Moment a free bi-monthly print magazine and blog all about Detroit. An independent media project based in Detroit! Local writers, poets, and artists, young and old.

We support movements by amplifying voices excluded from and misrepresented by mainstream press. Current, investigative, and nuanced news and analysis on Detroit by Detroiters. Featuring community-based projects and visions for our beloved town.

Friends! Riverwise Magazine recently launched a fundraising campaign to build our capacity and to sustain our work. We a...
12/13/2017

Friends!

Riverwise Magazine recently launched a fundraising campaign to build our capacity and to sustain our work. We are looking to raise around $9,000 with the hopes of being not only a sustainable project, but one thriving for and by the power of our grassroots community.

As a community and a collective, we exist to give voice to new visions for liberation and life in Detroit. We beat the streets every quarter to distribute issues full of story-telling, political analysis, artwork, and community-centered updates. We want to grow our capacity to do this necessary work and in turn grow the voices of new vision emerging out of Detroit's incredible communities.

Expanded capacity includes helping to sustain artists, writers, all content creators, and the folks that support our contributors. Growing the reach of our work also includes relaunching our website as a resource of accessibility for our readers and our community. Riverwise Magazine is growing, growing our community, growing our work, and growing its vision for Detroit's future; and Riverwise's growth includes you!

Click here to view Riverwise's announcement of it's capacity-building campaign launch! http://mailchi.mp/c4e7309a23b7/riverwise-magazine-community-newsletter-33309

For a direct link to the IOBY campaign, click here! https://www.ioby.org/project/riverwise-magazine-writerartist-sponsorship

Riverwise is expanding its capacity and engagement and our growth includes you!

04/02/2016

What a party! Huge thanks to everyone that came out for our fundraiser last night, with special thanks to Kelly Elizabeth, THE FREE BLEEDERS, Junk Food Junkies, WindStar Soul and ROCKET(!!!)McFLYY for all your stellar performances, and of course big ups to our friends at Crow Manor for hosting and putting up with our shenanigans. This fundraiser was HUGE for us and we raised enough to put us in the home stretch of putting out the next issue! It's nights like last night that keep us goin, feelin all that love for our indie little newspaper. JOURNALISM OF, BY AND FOR THE GRASSROOTS FOREVER!

Critical Moment summer issue DEADLINE for Ads & Articles: May 13!  Submit to critmom@gmail.com  PLEASE BUY AN AD to supp...
04/30/2012

Critical Moment summer issue DEADLINE for Ads & Articles: May 13! Submit to [email protected]

PLEASE BUY AN AD to support printing costs! Rates from $25 to 100. Get in touch with Emily: [email protected]

We hope to pick up the issue from the printers on June 11 in time to distribute prior to & during the Allied Media Conference: http://amc.alliedmedia.org/

JOIN IN TO HELP PUBLISH CRITICAL MOMENT!                              Email critmom@gmail.com to get involved.Being in t...
11/03/2011

JOIN IN TO HELP PUBLISH CRITICAL MOMENT!
Email [email protected] to get involved.

Being in the Critical Moment collective means that we are volunteers passionate about indy Detroit-focused media. Each collective member has a different level of involvement. Your work for CM might encompass one specific area on the list below, or it might be a combination of a few--it's up to you. The CM Collective meets once a week for about 2 hours. It is only necessary for those who work on content to attend. Decision-making process is most similar to consensus decision making. We use Google Docs to communicate and plan. Collective members are added to googlegroups email list.

WAYS TO HELP:

GRAPHIC DESIGN
*lay out some pages (Publisher or InDesign)
*find (high-res) images to pair with articles
*design ads for grassroots org.s

SOLICIT CONTENT*/EDIT (people who do this work usually attend editing collective meetings)
*solicit content for the next issue (articles, see list of types of articles we publish below)
*be the main or secondary editor of an article
*copy edit the whole paper along with the rest of the collective

WEB
*upload content to http://critical-moment.org/
*updating the facebook account
*creating/maintaining an email list of supporters

PHYSICAL LABOR
*pick up the paper from Grand Blanc Printing (union shop)
*distribute the paper around Detroit metro

FUNDRAISE
*Contact grassroots org.s about buying $25, $50 or $75 ads
*organize fundraising events such as release parties etc.

Detroit by Detroiters

03/08/2011

From the Critical Moment Blog...Why Emergency Financial Managers Don't Work.

Read this revealing report on Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb. The 28-page document from Detroit activist Russ Bellant comes not a moment too soon, as the Michigan legislature considers bills that would prolong the undemocratic rule of Detroit schools by a Governor-app

http://critical-moment.org/2011/02/25/detroits-got-soul-do-bings-experts-know-2/
02/28/2011

http://critical-moment.org/2011/02/25/detroits-got-soul-do-bings-experts-know-2/

by Sarah CoffeyMayor Bing’s Detroit Works Project claims to address Detroit’s “declining population and financial resources” through a process of redesigning the city. This enterprise, previously known as the Strategic Framework Plan, was unveiled in September, 2010 and is headed by experts such as

02/11/2011

nice little party tonight at Cafe Con Leche. Thanks for all the hands distributing the issue far and wide thru the city. And lots of great story ideas in the works for next issue!

02/07/2011

Pick up some copies of the new issue...and drink hot chocolate with us!
Thursday Feb. 10, 6-8 pm @ Cafe Con Leche in SW.

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