Thursday, February 27, 2003
-IndyMedia Links
IndyMedia
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media’s distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.
History
The Independent Media Center (http://www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.
The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. IMCs have since been established on every continent, with more to come.
Japan is coming soon.
Pacific
adelaide
aotearoa
brisbane
jakarta
melbourne
sydney
Africa
ambazonia
nigeria
south africa
Europe
athens
austria
barcelona
belgium
bristol
cyprus
euskal herria
finland
germany
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
lille
madrid
netherlands
nice
norway
paris
poland
portugal
prague
russia
sweden
switzerland
thessaloniki
united kingdom
west vlaanderen
Canada
alberta
hamilton
maritimes
montreal
ontario
ottawa
quebec
thunder bay
vancouver
victoria
windsor
Latin America
argentina
bolivia
brasil
chiapas
chile
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
qollasuyu
rosario
tijuana
uruguay
South Asia
india
mumbai
West Asia
israel
palestine
United States
arizona
arkansas
atlanta
austin
baltimore
boston
buffalo
central florida
chicago
cleveland
danbury, ct
dc
eugene
hawaii
houston
idaho
ithaca
la
madison
maine
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new jersey
new mexico
north carolina
north texas
ny capital
nyc
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rocky mountain
san diego
san francisco bay area
santa cruz, ca
seattle
st louis
tallahassee-red hills
urbana-champaign
utah
vermont
western mass
Japan is coming soon!
IndyMedia allies include:
http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Global/ImcAllies
There is a new imc allies site in development. Hopefully this new site will allow much more extensive links to indymedia allies as we’ve grown a lot since this list was put together for the WTO protests in Seattle.
Free Speech TV (FSTV) delivers hard hitting, independent, and informative programming via cable tv to seven million homes every week. They have been broadcasting for the last 5 years and now, thanks to a recent FCC ruling, may soon be on air 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This would be the nation’s first full-time television network dedicated to progressive social change. FSTV also hosts the 1st and only audio/video webcasting site created entirely by its members. Free Speech TV reaches 200,000 visitors each day. FSTV has offered site hosting of the media center’s daily audio/video content, distribution through their cable network of a 1 hour video program produced at the Independent Media Center of the popular protest and to the WTO on their front page, reaching 6,000 to 8,000 viewers each day. They are also providing technical and organizational support for the center.
Contact: Eric Galatas
Phone: (303)442-8445
E-mail:
Protest.Net Global activist calendar site. Protest.net maintains the upcoming actions on the global indymedia site.
Contact: Rabble-Rouser
E-mail:
Paper Tiger TV is a half-hour public access tv show that has aired weekly since 1981 in Manhattan, San Francisco, and elsewhere. PTTV demystifies the information industry by investigating the corporate structures of media through critical analysis of their content. The project consists of over 100 producers, artists, and activists who work collaboratively. Paper Tiger has offered the media center help with distribution of video via the internet and cable tv, and technical and organizational advice and support. Several producers from PPTV plan to travel to Seattle to assist hands-on in the media center’s daily functioning.
Contact: Michael Eisenmenger
Phone: (212)420-9045
E-mail:
Deep Dish TV is a national satellite network that links cable access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and people who support the idea and reality of a progressive television network. DDTV distributes creative programming that educates and activates, providing an alternative to the commercial networks’ presentation of a homogeneous and one-dimensional society. Deep Dish TV is programmed on more than 300 cable systems and selected public stations, and reaches more than 3 million home satellite owners in North America. Deep Dish has expressed great interest in satellite distribution of video content generated by the media center, as well as, video links to the center’s web site.
Contact: Tom Poole
Phone: (212)473-8933
E-mail:
Whispered Media Founded in 1995, Whispered Media is a San Francisco based group of video activists promoting the use of video to support campaigns of evironmental and social justice. They collaborated with the Indymedia efforts in Seattle and helped to produce “Showdown in Seattle: Five Days that Shook the WTO.” Their recent production, “Shut ‘Em Down,” is a 9 minute edit used to get people to DC for A16. They will collaborate with the other video producer groups to make, “Breaking the Bank,” the new satellite cast (on April 21) about the World Bank and the IMF.
Contact: (415) 789-8484
E-mail:
Changing America Changing America is based in New York and has affiliated video producers in San Francisco. They were very instrumental to the production of Showdown in Seattle - providing much needed behind the scenes technical support as well as producing many segments on the labor presence in Seattle. “Breaking the Bank” the new one-hour piece will largely be produced in their studios.
Contact: (212) 924-9046
Email: email for Changing America
Radio For Peace International (RFPI) is a shortwave radio station which began broadcasting its’ round-the-clock progressive, bilingual programming in September, 1987. The goal of Radio For Peace International is to address the world community in order to encourage and stimulate dialogue on issues related to peace, including peace education, environmental issues, the elimination of world hunger and the establishment of social justice. Using shortwave radio RFPI’s broadcasts are receivable worldwide in addition to their fully archived web-site featuring RealAudio? files. RFPI’s studios and transmitters are located on the campus of the University for Peace (created by the United Nations) in Costa Rica. RFPI is a joint project of Earth Communications with offices in Oregon, USA and the University for Peace. RFPI will feature audio content from the media center on their daily Progressive News Network, and also broadcast a daily audio journal produced in Seattle and streamed over the net.
Phone: +503-252-3639 or +506-249-1821
E-mail:
World Trade Watch Radio (WTW Radio), co-hosted by Norman Solomon and Julie Light, will air daily from Seattle during the upcoming WTO ministerial Nov 29-Dec 3, 1999. This one-hour program will analyze the official proceedings and air the voices of international organizers and activists who will converge on the WTO meetings in Seattle. The program will be uplinked to the National Public Radio satellite for radio broadcast, and will be offered free as a downloadable program on the web in MPEG format, and also on the internet in RealAudio? form. WTW Radio will incorporate content generated by Independent reporters working out of the IMC, and will work with our international distribution network to link their files directly to the web sites of media projects around the world. WTW Radio is co-produced by the National Radio Project, Corporate Watch, and The Institute for Public Accuracy.
Public Citizen Founded by Ralph Nader in 1971, Public Citizen is the consumer’s eyes and ears in Washington. With the support of more than 150,000 people they fight for safer drugs and medical devices, cleaner and safer energy sources, a cleaner environment, fair trade, and a more open and democratic government. We stand up for you against thousands of special interest lobbyists in Washington—well-heeled agents for drug companies, the automakers, big energy interests, and the like. Public Citizen is includes the groups Congress Watch, The Health Research Group, The Litigation Group, The Critical Mass Energy Project, Global Trade Watch and Buyers Up.
Phone: (202)588-1000
E-mail:
Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) is the national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship. They seek to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press. They scrutinize media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. FAIR was established in 1986 to shake up the establishment-dominated media. As an anti-censorship organization, they expose important news stories that are neglected and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. Ultimately, FAIR believes that structural reform is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting, and promote strong, non-profit alternative sources of information.
Contact: Jeff Cohen
Phone: (212)633-6700
E-mail:
Adbusters is a global network of artists, writers, and students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to launch the new social activist movement of the information age. Their goal is to galvanize resistance against those who would destroy the environment, pollute our minds and diminish our lives. To this end, the Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine and website; and offers its creative services through PowerShift?, their advocacy advertising agency. Published out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Adbusters is a not-for-profit, reader-supported, 40,000-circulation magazine concerned about the erosion of our physical and cultural environments by commercial forces. Our work has been embraced by organizations like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, has been featured on MTV and PBS, in the Wall Street Journal and Wired, and in hundreds of other newspapers, magazines, and television and radio shows around the world.
Phone: (604)736-9401
E-mail:
The Ruckus Society. Since forming Ruckus in October of 1995, Ruckus has trained and assisted hundreds of activists in the use of non-violent civil disobedience. We either bring activists to us or we go to them. Our showcase venue is the Action Camp. Through these trainings, they help people learn the skills they need to practice civil disobedience safely and effectively. These trainings contain cerebral elements as well as physical, like classroom-style instruction for action planning, communicating with the media and non-violent philosophy and practice. Safety and non-violence are integral themes of each subject taught. Ruckus condemns and does not train activists in any technique that will destroy property or harm any being.
Phone: (510)848-9565
The Direct Action Media Network (DAMN) is a multi-media news service that covers direct actions that progressive organizations and individuals take to attain a peaceful, open and enlightened society. DAMN places its coverage of social justice actions into both historical and contemporary context so that any audience will find the events and issues covered accessible. DAMN produces the Worldwatch International news section for the progressive magazine Lip based out of Chicago and other alternative publications. News sources for Worldwatch include the DAMN news feed, New York Transfer News Service, A-Infos, and others. Lip magazine publishes DAMN’s Worldwatch section, and is a growing voice for independent media. DAMN has offered to host aspects of the media center’s website, provide relevant links to organizations in their network, and assist with daily coverage of actions in Seattle. DAMN accepts as an affiliate any media outlet, social justice organization, or individual reporter who agrees to provide or disburse news for the service. While DAMN provides a free space for the exchange of affiliates’ information, it also reserves the right to determine its own original content.”
Contact: Jay
Phone: (304)291-1507
E-mail:
The Direct Action Network (DAN) is a network of grassroots community and street theater groups across the western United States and Canada who are mobilizing to creatively resist the WTO and Corporate Globalization. We are organizing and coordinating mass non-violent direct action and large scale street theater-giant puppets, dance, drums, music, spoken word, and graffiti art at the WTO summit in Seattle, November 29-December 3.
Phone: (206)632-1656
E-mail:can@drizzle.com
Media Island International (MII) is a resource and networking center for individuals, organizations, and movements working on a regional, national, and international basis. MII is committed to collecting, processing, and distributing crucial information addressing the social justice, economic democracy, ecological sustainability and peace issues that we all collectively face. MII dedicates its attention to developing associations with alternative media and first-hand sources of information nationally and internationally. Since 1991 Media Island has been a fiscal sponsor helping stabilize various emerging social change groups. Media Island has offered the Independent Media Center its organizational support and advice, linking with their networks and databases, help with fundraising, and fiscal sponsorship to attract donors interested in tax-free donations.
Contact: Jimmy Mateson
Phone: (360)352-8526
E-mail:
More Supporters And Allies
http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Global/ImcAllies
A-Infos News Service
A-Infos Radio Project
Asian Pacific Environmental Exchange (APEX)
Corporate Watch
Counter Media (Chicago)
Free Radio Berkeley
Grand Rapids TV
Homeless News Network
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
Institute for Public Accuracy
Inter Press Service
Jam For Justice
KO-OP Radio Austin, TX
LA Media Coalition
Labor Beat
National Radio Project
NY Free Media Alliance
One World
Pacific Center for Alternative Journalists
Paper Tiger West
Peoples Global Action (PGA)
Seattle Independent Media Coalition
South End Press
Tao Communications
Undercurrents (UK)
Videoazimut
Whispered Media (SF)
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
Znet
http://docs.indymedia.org/twiki/bin/view/Global/ImcAllies
MORE INDEPENDENT MEDIA HERE:
(many, many links)
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