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1. What does La Lutta NMC mean?
2. What is La Lutta NMC's mission?
3. What are the principles that La Lutta NMC is found upon?
4. How does La Lutta NMC define new media?
5. Does La Lutta NMC provide new media production and technical service?
6. How can I get involved?
7. How do I submit proposals for projects?
8. Who does La Lutta NMC assist?
9. Who is La Lutta NMC?
10. How can I contact La Lutta NMC staff?


1. What does La Lutta NMC mean?

La Lutta is a reinterpretation on the Italian word La Lotta, which means 'the struggle'. As Lutta NMC apt to do, we put our unique spin on the word changing the 'o' to a 'u' to represent the struggle for unity and solidarity.
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2. What is La Lutta NMC's mission?

Please click 'Mission' found on the top menu bar for La Lutta NMC's mission and history.
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3. What are the principles that La Lutta NMC is found upon?

  • Challenging Representation.The cornerstone of La Lutta's new media activism is that we offer communities the opportunity to have their voices heard on their own terms. We fully believe that the greatest form of media misrepresentation is suppression by omission. The experiences and lives of those excluded are important and must be included. A current example of this activity is our Visual Arts program. We are currently in post-production on two documentaries shot in digital video, Back in the Days: A Time before Crack and Once There was a Village. Both are community projects, developed in complete collaboration with community groups and individuals.
  • Creative Activism.The Collective is a place where people with all types of skills and talents come together to provide effective, appropriate and critical new media technical and production assistance. We work in the following areas to promote social awareness, create resources for information sharing and to promote education and movement building: education, multimedia, and performing and visual arts. The projects this has yielded include a monthly performing arts event, Speak the Words the Way Breathe, a multimedia event, This is a Movement, and our upcoming education event, In Defense of Humans. In addition, we have expanded our youth outreach by creating a program where young people who are creativity work with La Lutta NMC creative-activists to develop a deeper awareness and understanding. Essentially a mentor program, Creative-Activists-In-Residence (CAIR) is aimed at providing both support and guidance for young, creative, progressive people.
  • Building Coalitions and Partnerships. Since it's inception five years ago La Lutta has developed collaborative relationships with hundreds of community groups, social justice organizations, creative people, activists, students and non-profits. The successful link to all these groups has been accomplished by creating an atmosphere of strong support and willingness to lend any resources or expertise available to help groups achieve their goals. We refuse to fall victim to what we call the "sandbox mentality" by which progressive organizations refuse to work with certain groups for petty reasons having nothing to do with a concern for social justice. We at La Lutta seek out common goals rather than focus on differences. This enables us to work with disparate groups in organizing events such as Critical Resistance East, The Commemoration of the Death of Archbishop Romero and Sweatshops Here and Abroad. Currently, we are working with a diverse group of woman activists who are developing La Lutta NMC's the Women's Media Action Network. WoMAN will focus on the media's effect on the disenfranchisement of women.
  • Promoting unity and solidarity. These terms are used often interchangeably and without much understanding of what they really mean. For La Lutta, we view unity as the first step to organizing and becoming active on some level around a specific social justice issue. The next step is solidarity, whereby people have mobilized or united around an issue and now have become a legitimate voice for justice and use that voice to expand their activism to communities and individuals of divergent backgrounds and experience. Our approach has helped us organize anti-police brutality events (Drop the Bomb: A Response to Police Terror), on-line activist news (News Wire) and activist-community discussion series (Christian Parenti, Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis).

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    4. How does La Lutta NMC define new media?

    La Lutta NMC uses new media strategies or emerging technologies to achieve our mission and carry-out our program activity.
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    5. Does La Lutta NMC provide new media production and technical service?

    Yes. La Lutta NMC provides both new media production and technical service. Our fees are based on a sliding scale. We work with everyone from individuals to large organizations. Contact Antonino D'Ambrosio at antonino@lalutta.org to learn more about how La Lutta NMC can help you.
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    6. How can I get involved?

    Volunteer! La Lutta NMC always needs a good, dedicated volunteer. There are many things a volunteer can help with including outreach and event organizing. To learn more about volunteering, please contact Kevin Ryan at 646.734.6910 or kevin@lalutta.org.

    Internship. The internship is unpaid, 20 hours per week with a very flexible schedule. We are looking for people who are committed, thoughtful and bright to work closely with La Lutta NMC staff in the following areas:

  • Office Administration
  • Research Assistance
  • Outreach and Membership Assistance
  • Event Organizing Support
  • Fundraising
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    Donate! Financial contributions of $35.00 or more are tax-deductible. Any little bit helps in our efforts to build effective programs and expand our outreach activity.

    In-kind-donations are appreciated as well. These include computer equipment (old cpus, scanners, printers, etc.), office furniture, cameras (photo, film, video, etc.), and media hardware (tvs, monitors, editing equipment, etc.). So, remember before you throw it away give us a call at 646.734.6910. We or the many the groups we work with can use that old scanner, camera, or desk.

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    7. How do I submit proposals for projects?

    La Lutta NMC encourages project submissions and proposals in all areas we work. If you would to submit articles and other ideas for the Dispatch Media Collective Project, please email dispatch@lalutta.org or call 212.964.7200.
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    8. Who does La Lutta NMC assist?

    Depending on the scope and need of a given project La Lutta NMC serves diverse populations with unique needs through appropriate program outreach. Internationally, we assist groups, for example, as far as Australia in a performing arts projects. Nationally, we have provided new media technical and production assistance to groups and individuals in LA, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington D.C., just to name a few. Locally, we are based in New York City and serve much of the Mid-Atlantic region

    We can help you! Find out how! Find out now!--646.734.6910.
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    9. Who is La Lutta NMC?

    La Lutta NMC is an organic, ever-evolving groups of people united to bring about broad based change. Please check out The Collective to see who are and to contact us.
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    10. How can I contact La Lutta NMC staff?

    Contact dispatch at dispatch@lalutta.org.
    Information about program activity, contact LaLutta@LaLutta.org

    Need to speak someone, contact Antonino D'Ambrosio or Kevin Ryan at 646.734.6910.

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