Indymedia

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Independent Media Center

 

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and

hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.

Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical,

accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

 

 

About 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 (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, , 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.

 

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