We’re excited to share edited video and graphics from our 25th Anniversary weekend. You can view the videos with captions (click the “CC” button to turn on captions). The panels and graphics highlight the roots of our work and the community vision guiding us forward.

[VIDEO] Strong Roots, Rich Soil: Cultural Organizing to Grow Our Movements
Presented Saturday, October 25th, 2025

Cultural organizing invites us to integrate art and culture into our strategies for social change. We’ll ask our panel of local leaders how their cultural roots inform their work and why we need cultural organizing to grow our movements. Panelists include Danielle Chynoweth, one of IMC’s founders, whose forthcoming book Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want features the IMC and several projects that took root in our space.

Dr. Gus Wood - UIUC Department of Labor and Employment Relations

Danielle Chynoweth - IMC Founder & Cunningham Township Supervisor

Magdalena Novoa Echaurren - UIUC Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Maria Jimenez - Immigrant Services of CU

Dua Aldasouqi - CU Muslim Action Committee

Miriam Larson, Moderator - Urbana Champaign Independent Media Center 

David Michael Moore, Graphic Recording 

[VIDEO] Independent Presses Against the AI Machine
Presented Sunday, October 26th, 2025

Independent, non profit and movement publications have always played a vital role to amplify the voices drowned out or disappeared by corporate presses. With the dawning of AI and social media echo chambers, our work to promote critical and independent thought is even more pressing (pun intended). This panel gathers independent publishers from NYC to Philly to Urbana to discuss the vital role of print in the era of mass surveillance and alienation. 

Moderated by Danielle Chynoweth, Author, Remaking Democracy: How We Make the Worlds We Want (Preorder Here)

Anita Chan - Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech and Our Fight for an Independent Future

John Tarleton - Editor-in-chief, Indypendent

Malav Kanuga - Publisher, Common Notions Press

Janice Jayes - Editor, Public i Newspaper

David Michael Moore, Graphic Recording