IMC MEDIA COVERAGE AND OTHER RESOURCES (please include a summary text - otherwise if it moves we'll never find it )

CORPORATE MEDIA'S TAKE ON INDYMEDIA

http://process.indymedia.org/articles_about_indymedia.php3 (all working links from here have been included below up to "sites that have used indymedia media"-- RovinNZ - 17 Oct 2002)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010119/aponline023217_000.htm
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=85948
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0925/p11s1-leca.html
http://www.indymedia.org:8081/fbi/

Local Heroes - Independent Media Center (? '01)

When leaders of the corporate media empire converged at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in San Francisco last fall, local activists greeted them with three days' worth of demonstrations. The protesters were equipped with more than placards: many came armed with notepads and pens, video cameras and microphones – and they had set up a Web site to post information that was never going to make it into the mainstream papers or the six o'clock news.

Seattle protests seen through other eyes ( Dec. 2 '99)

SEATTLE (CNN) -- An army of volunteer reporters is working the streets of Seattle to provide an alternative view of the protests during the World Trade Organization conference. The Seattle Indymedia Center is a coalition of independent media organizations and producers who say they are dedicated to promoting social and economic justice.

Indymedia Mobilizes For The Sequel To Seattle (Apr '00)

The images were at once riveting and appalling. Police lifting gas masks and bandannas off protesters to spray pepper gas in their faces. Concussion grenades and teargas canisters exploding on crowded sidewalks. But as the massive protests against the WTO conference in Seattle startled the world last fall, these pictures weren't on network television, for the most part.

How Activists Used the Internet to Organize Protests (Apr 25 '00 )

Case Study: [clip] A wide variety of activist groups and labor unions recently used the Internet to organize a series of protests, workshops, meetings, and teach-ins which spanned approximately a two week period coinciding with the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Get Me Download! (Jul 18 '00)

PHILADELPHIA—Just blocks from Independence Hall, an Independent Media Center began to boot itself up last week to cover the weeklong Republican infomercial and, more importantly, the cacophony of protest in the streets. The phone lines were only a day old, the copy machine had just arrived, tables were still folded and stacked in a pile. But eight computers were running...

Getting the word out - Alternative media at the WTO (Dec 1 '99)

While protesters will spend a full week criticizing the process of globalization, they will be taking full advantage of the technology that makes it possible. No fewer than three alternative media centers will be operating in Seattle during the WTO talks, providing audio, video, print, photography, and interactive content to interested media and members of the public around the world.

Impolitics - Message to the media (Dec 29 '99)

Did we get the story right? Last week I sat on a panel cosponsored by the Seattle Weekly and KPLU Radio on WTO and the media, which attempted to answer that question. It was the first installment of an utterly necessary discussion: How did we in the media handle what may well have been the most important (from a global perspective) local story in Seattle's history?

News you can use from the little guys (Dec 9 '99)

An amazing thing happened during the World Trade Organization meeting last week. In an end run around traditional media, the Internet became the key player in dispersing information to a world hungry for details about the events in Seattle. Several dozen small organizations used the Internet to publish and broadcast "alternative" coverage of the week's events.

Breaking with Convention (Aug 2 '00)

Alternative Media Goes Live and Global for Republican Convention - While the mega-media giants blanket Philadelphia with a blitzkrieg of coverage, dutifully reporting on the coronation of George W. Bush as the Republican presidential candidate, hundreds of independent media operatives--distrustful of the corporate media's spin--are also present and plugged in.

Corporate media's passing fascination with the "independent media" (Apr 26 '00)

DURING THE RECENT protests in Washington against the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the leading cable news network became fascinated with "independent media." Journalism free of huge economic interests – what a concept! "Modern-day demonstrators say you just can't trust folks like us, the so-called corporate media," a CNN anchor explained, introducing a report that aired repeatedly over a two-day period.

OUR OWN TAKE

Indymedia Three years on (Jun 14 '02)

Indymedia has been around for a while now and seems to be finding its place amongst the bustle of media voices on the net, and to a lesser degree in print. They have shown their value in reporting from the streets and challenged the virtual stranglehold imposed by corporate media. But no group is without some problems.

Report on IMC Legal issues (Oct 10 '02)

IMCs (Independent Media Centres) throughout Europe have experienced repression tactics despite a growing popularity spawning 92 IMCs across five continents despite recent awards given to two European IMCs. German IMC received a =93poldi=94 award for e-democracy and IMC UK won a New Media Advocacy=94 award from the New Statesman. Legal and political sanctions are the first tools used by those seeking to sabotage people or groups engaged in informing or campaigning to protect human, environment and social justice.

Participatory Media Networks:

A New Model for Producing and Disseminating Progressive News and Information (summer '01)

Progressive activists and independent journalists have struggled for years to build sustainable alternatives to the dominant mainstream news media and the less dominant, but influential, “public service” news media (NPR and PBS), which are increasingly influenced by the corporate sector...

Protesters Develop Their Own Global Internet News Service (Oct '00)

I was soaking wet and sitting near the back of a bright yellow school bus when another round of spirited singing broke out. Though I was not wearing my IMC press badge (nor any other ID), I had been filing daily stories for the Independent Media Center (IMC) - a Web publication in which coverage of news events emphasized issues and included voices not featured in mainstream reporting -- during the week leading up to the April protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.

Democratizing the Media: Voices from the Indy Media Convergence (Oct '00)

Burlington, VT.-Close to 200 journalists gathered at the Independent Media Convergence on the weekend of October 13-14 on the Trinity College campus in downtown Burlington. Most of the journalists came from the creative fringe of the media universe-community radio, public access cable TV, alternative newspapers/magazines and activist web sites. They listened to speeches from Amy Goodman, Michael Parenti and Njoki Njehu. They huddled in workshops and discussion groups to share experiences, to strategize and to try and take steps toward building a sustainable movement for media democracy in society heavily influenced by a handful of enormous media conglomerates.

Indymedia - Wired Dissent - New Internationalist (www.newint.org):

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002311.html

Email Interview about IMC and more

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002310.html

Internet and Technology (email interview):

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002309.html

What is the IMC?:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002308.html

A response:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002305.html

IMC and N5M:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002306.html

May 18th edition of The Paper (still looking for an archived copy) :

http://www.thepaper.org.au

Indymedia Tech Vision - a personal perspective:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/mediapolitics/2001-November/000041.html

RELATED STORIES

When anyone can publish, who's a journalist now?:

http://www.politechbot.com/p-02445.html

Free Software vs. Open Source:

http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/nyc/stallman.mp3

Global Media, Neoliberalism, and Imperialism:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/301rwm.htm

Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle:

http://www.monthlyreview.org/1100rwm.htm

WRITINGS BY IMC FOLKS

Social Netwar:

http://www.regenerationtv.net/Social_Netwar_Draft_042401.pdf

Decisions and diversity:

http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/decisions.html

Open Publishing == Free Software:

http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~matthewa/catk/openpub.html

What is Free Software?:

http://active.org.au/doc/freesoftware.txt

Three Proposals For Open Publishing:

http://dru.ca/imc/open_pub.html

Full Coverage For The People:

http://dru.ca/design/fullcoverageforthepeople.html

Media Tools / Media Analysis:

http://monkeyfist.com/kendall/media-tools.txt

Proposed Charter of IMC Network:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-April/001780.html

OTHER

Network of Networks:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002304.html

Another way to look at the Pacifica Crisis and the Role of Media:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002307.html

IMC as a fractal:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-process/2001-May/001997.html
*broken link -- any replacement?*

MANIFESTOS

Toward an Information Bill of Rights (draft from 1996):

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-November/002312.html

other possible categories:

media democracy:
digital rights:
information liberation:
links to anti-terrorism page and surveillance:
we could divide the "our own take" into progressive and independent :
media coverage and personal musings or something like that.

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