COPYWRITE MAGAZINE OFFICIAL DROP! Issue 16: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? [ Place your PRE-ORDER now!]

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Issue 16 was made out of the struggle. Creating content in this multilayered social landscape has unearthed realities that the world as a whole was not prepared for. Thus, in these pages, you will find an attempt to give disenfranchised creatives room for representation. You will find political nuances that are characterized by personal interpretations of social responsibility, glamour triggered by our health crises, discussions of how tech is helping to save our current state of emergency, and content that was created through the cracks of social distancing. The question for us all is: Where do we go from here?

w/ Nadiyah Johnson, Carrie’s Countdown (top spots), Afro Arts Milwaukee, Unrest w/ Imani Ortiz, and our Ex Fabula Features. 

/CW

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End of Summer Inventory Wipe Out Sale - 4 issues for $15

We have too much local to keep in the box. Let us share and end the summer out right! We will mail you 4 random issues that we have in stock for $15! Dats It!. (A $45 savings.)

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/CW Creative Media Services - Get more from your Local Media

Need Creative Media Services? No problem CopyWrite has got you covered.

For the last five years, we have been providing grassroots media services to our community, noting that these services for OUR community have often been limited, underrepresented, and very out of touch with what is really going on. As we have expanded our professional capacity, team, and training, we would like to re-introduce our /CW Creative Media Services. We hope that you will spread the word and reach out whenever you need additional help with your creative endeavors. This is just another way we can #SupportTheLocal.

press releases | press bites

Our press release services are official media statements drafted with the client that are structured to provide information, public statements, and or announcements to other media outlets, audiences, and communities. Where our service is unique is the ability to turn a press release into a CW Press Bite. Our Press Bites are press releases with interview elements from our clients that are condensed into short-form feature stories that can be housed on copywritemag.com or placed into a template for printable options. This allows our clients to have a built-in creative audience and platform to promote their craft, business, or creativity in any form.

Rates start at $60   

promotions

/CW offers Advertising and Publicity basic promotions. Our Advertising services include ad placements in our online and in print publication CopyWrite Magazine or Advertising placement on our website. Our Publicity service includes product placement and paid partnerships at CW events, photoshoots, social media stories, and online video content. Promotion services are a great resource for local brands, up and coming creatives looking for portfolio boosters, and businesses searching to tap into creative networks.

Rates start at $35 

Sponsorships

We offer sponsorships to local organizations, businesses, and creatives for events and projects that fall under our five pillars: Art, Music, Fashion, Community, and Culture. Sponsorships are awarded quarterly and are limited. Sponsorships may come in the form of /CW Creative Services or monetary payment. Sponsorships are selected at the discretion of our owner and active leadership team.

All sponsorship requests must be submitted in writing and emailed to copywrite.mke@gmail.com at a minimum of 30 days before the date of need.

media blast

As a byproduct of the creative community, our methods as a magazine, media, and design firm can be unorthodox, expressive, and totally outside of the box. Our media blast service is where we mix those non-traditional tactics with guerilla marketing to get our client’s ideas out to the audience they are trying to target. This is a hands-on approach to our favorite hashtag #SupportTheLocal

Rates start at $75

cultural consulting

Our leadership team has spent several years doing ethnographic research in local urban settings. This includes collegiate research on urban environments, “minority” cultural impact, systematic disenfranchisement, creative communities, youth expression, physical and digital spaces, media studies, and more. We offer specified contract media consulting to businesses and organizations who need assistance in addressing cultural sensitivity, racial inequity, and guidance in appropriate representation in their company culture, media presence, and more.

All cultural consulting inquiries should be submitted to copywrite.mke@gmail.com . Rates may vary.

Journalism

Journalistic services include blog posts to full length featured articles, artist statements to artist bios, and resume help to the creative portfolio curation. Though our featured stories are selected by our team, we also provide freelance writing services that may be used on alternative media platforms or as paid posts for online features. Our journalists are trained professionals whose writing skills include but are not limited to entertainment, editorials, interviews, poetry, copywriting, and creative application. 

Rates start at $45

media research

Need more than just the glitz and glam? No problem! Our media research service allows us to provide in-depth research on ALL THINGS URBAN. Whether it’s looking into some local creative history or run down on some social practices of creative institutions and how they function, we have you covered. We can guide your search or take a hands-on approach. As a media platform, it’s our job to know how media works and we welcome opportunities to share that knowledge with our community. 

All media research inquiries should be submitted to copywrite.mke@gmail.com . Rates (if applicable) may vary.

event hosting

Having an event but you don’t want the headache of hosting it? We have people for that! Our team members have collectively hosted 100’s of events. From music showcases, fashion shows, festivals, creative workshops, and community events, to on-stage interviews with Grammy award winners, music execs, nationally awarded artist, designers, and politicians. With our service, you not only get a great host but a built-in audience for your event. 

All event hosting inquiries should be submitted to copywrite.mke@gmail.com . Rates may vary.

music reviews

New music is the top reason that people visit our online platform. Where we provide music blog posts as a free service to team selected submissions, we also offer sponsored music reviews for those who are looking for a little extra feedback and verbiage to send out to international media outlets and for portfolio growth. This may also include official music and video releases.

All music review request should be submitted to copywrite.mke@gmail.com

Our music submission specs can be found at https://copywritemag.com/about

media arts curriculum

With community collaboration being one of the major components in CopyWrite’s mission, we believe that aiding in the cultivation of creativity in our city is vital and that youth engagement continues the relevance of these practices. We partner with local organizations, schools, and creative groups to implement a creative curriculum that supports the mediated practices our youth are confronted with daily. There are several ways in which we teach the practices of media-making, but we firmly believe it is critical to give youth real-world experiences that provide real-world results. This can be working on content creation for a specific organizational campaign, or making their own group magazine. We shape our curriculum to meet the needs of whatever clients we are working with. At the base of our “Media Arts” we include practices of literacy, problem-solving, collaboration, and creative expression through several active workshops including (but not limited to):

• Story Development

• In the field research

• Visual asset creation and curation

• Copywriting

• Art Direction

• Layout development

• Media promotion

• Introduction to Computer Software

All curriculum inquiries should be submitted to copywrite.mke@gmail.com. 

Curriculum contracts are contracts to teach media arts. Rates vary on the instructor, curriculum request, materials, contract hours, and assets.  

/CW

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"Black Developer Offers Community $30+ Million Opportunity to Own The Block"

Supporting the local? We are all about that!

Supporting local Black Business? Now your really talking our language!

The buzz about The Block has been popping up since this weekend when Juneteenth celebrations ensued in the city of Milwaukee.

As informed by a provided press release, Lavelle Young, Developer of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library Redevelopment Project announced the opportunity for community members “to pledge support and interest in participating in a community ownership model” of the project.

Young further commented that:
“It’s gruesome to turn on the TV and frequently see a Black man that looks like me, lynched. It’s even more nightmarish to live in a city that has consistently topped most, if not all, major cities as the worst place for Black people to live,” said Young. 

Are you ready to take the pledge?
To pledge your support and interest in participating in a community ownership model of The Block, visit buildingblocksinbronzeville.com 

/CW

Juneteenth Black Lives Matter Street Mural in MILWAUKEE

Many Street murals have been popping up around the country to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter call to action. Today on this Juneteenth of 2020. Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs, invites our Milwaukee community to join Lead Artist Vedale Hill, in a Black Lives Matter community art mural.

We had a chance to talk to Vedale as he was preparing for todays Juneteenth event. Here is what he had to say:

“The Black Lives Matter Street Mural is a public art piece commissioned by the City of Milwaukee,  funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, supported by West Care and the local Walmart. I was selected as the Lead Artist to program and produce the mural with the help of other local artists. During these difficult times in our country, I feel that it is a necessity to help the community grow, while also understanding the beauty of the moment. As a long time advocate for community development, I believe that at this moment we are no longer knocking at changes door but instead, we are kicking it in. The location in its self is ideal because it serves as a double entendre of meaning. It is not only literally an intersection but is an intersection between the police and the community that they have taken an oath to serve.” 

As a local media outlet that is all about community and creative culture, we are proud to see a visual representation of the rhetoric we have always lived by. Please join and be apart of this historic event.

(Don’t forget your mask! #SociallyResponsible)

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

/Lexi, Editor-in-Chief CW

Fashion in a Pandemic w/ Vato

Fashion in a pandemic? Not a problem!

Our Fashion Editor, Vato Vergara turns up his creativity with a trendy and expressive motion picture of fashion in the present and foreseeable future.

In collaboration with @rea_naomi and @robranmke

/CW

The 28th Amendment - Limiting Militant Infringement of Civilian Rights Bill

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PROPOSAL FRAMEWORK 

United States Constitutional Amendment 28 - Limited Militant-State

Militant Infringement of Civilian Rights Bill

Dismantle and reform all current militant and policing practices/policies within the United States of America, perpetuated by the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, and fortified by law enforcement departments and agencies, which infringement upon basic rights of growth, prosperity, and life, and are based on discrimination of ethnicity, wealth, gender, sex, or sexuality, physical or mental exceptionality, and citizenship. Enact new comprehensive laws that are uniformly practiced across all villages, cities, counties, and states, with no exceptions, which does not infringe upon states’ 10th Amendment Reserved Powers, but assures rights originally granted under the United States Constitution. New universal laws/policies to include without limitation:

 ● Dismantle all current militant policing practices/policies within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other departments, reforming all agencies within these departments, especially but not limited to the Federal Protective Service (FPS). Enact new comprehensive laws/policies uniformly practiced across all villages, cities, counties, and states, including but not limited to:

1. Rewrite and reform current Use of Force Continuum Models, including but not limited to: De-escalation Stage, and ESCALATED Situations Stage. Reforms to be voted on.

2. Ban of excessive force and lethal force practices, including but not limited to: ban of No-knock entry, ban shooting with traditional guns, ban use of assault weapons, ban Shoot-to-kill practice, ban pepper spray, ban strangulation/chokeholds, ban tear gas, rubber bullets and tanks during civil protests, ban of any other weapons of opportunity (reforming Use of Force Continuum Models), and ban lethal force for security and protection of items, property, resources, and capital (cash or liquid assets).

3. De-escalation practices BEFORE ANY form of physical interaction (reform to be the first stage in Use of Force Continuum Model).

4. Force ONLY to be enacted in ESCALATED Situations (ESCALATED Situations practices to be tiered and voted on, reforming Use of Force Continuum Models).

5. Exhaust all prerequisite options available within the De-escalation Stage BEFORE using ESCALATED Situations Stage within reformed Use of Force Continuum Model.

6. ESCALATED Situations Stage in reformed Use Of Force Continuum Model to allow tasers and rubber bullets ONLY, and ONLY as last resorts due to lethality, tiering tasers use BEFORE rubber bullets.

7. Require warning BEFORE use of EACH stage/tier involving verbal force and physical force. 

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We Can't Breathe! #SociallyResponsible

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We are here and ready.

Supporting the local has never been more important than now. As an independently owned Magazine, Media and Design firm, we have always searched for ways we can help navigate and change the narrative of our diverse community. Where structures of propaganda and content overload often distract us from the REAL, we want to make sure that services, stories, and social stimulation that we are linked to speak to our community, instead of shadowing it. Please hit us up with your thoughts, email us with your request for creative media service, drop a comment, join the team, or pitch an idea for collaboration.

We need you!

/CW