• Name: TakveR
• Based in Melbourne, Australia

Contact details:

• Email Form: http://www.takver.com/history/feedback.htm
• Twitter: @takvera
• Website: www.takver.com

Indymedia Involvement:

• Local IMC: Melbourne (stopped open publishing June 2007) Contributor from 2000 - 2007. Collective Member 2003 - 2007
• Local IMC: Sydney IMC. Collective member June 2007- 2009
• Local IMC: Melbourne IMC / Australia Indymedia. Collective member 2008 - present
• Climate IMC: http://www.climateimc.org Collective member Nov 2005 - present
• Global IMC: global indymedia site http://indymedia.org indymedia.org Joined features list July 2003, admin access from late 2003.
• I was Melbourne IMC liason to IMC-process list - I am still on this list but with no local delegation

Perceived Strengths

• Feature writing
• Story research and writing
• Photo essays

Main Focus

• Stories from Australia, Oceania, South East Asia
• Stories on Climate Change and global warming
• Stories on whaling and whaling protests

Roll Call messages for www-features list

https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WwwFeaturesRollCall WwwFeaturesRollCall

• http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/www-features/2003-July/008831.html First Roll Call July 18, 2003
• http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/www-features/2007-March/0304-jg.html Second Roll call March 4, 2007

Some Background Information

I have been an activist for 30+ years in environmental and social change groups in Australia. I have been a member of Friends of the Earth (Australia) since 1976, a member of the Anarres Books Collective (http://www.anarres.org.au), and an editor with Melbourne Indymedia, Climate IMC, and Sydney IMC. I also network with other IMC activists in the Oceania region.

I have been posting stories and photo essays to Indymedia sites since the World Economic Forum visited Melbourne in September 2000. In May 2003 I joined the Melbourne Indymedia Collective. The Melbourne collective decided to close open publishing in June 2007.

The first Melbourne Indymedia collective discontinued publishing in 2007, but a new collective formed in 2009 which I am a member of, While Melbourne was closed I joined and was an active contributor to Sydney IMC.

In July 2003 I joined the www-features list, and after a few months was given admin rights to post features to the global site. My access to the site is still active. My activity on www-features tends to happen in spurts at least partly dependent on news from Australia/Oceania.

Amoung all my activism I somehow fit in time to cycle, work part-time and spend time with my children.

-- TakveR - 23 Jul 2007 Background info, roll calls
-- TakveR - 22 Jul 2007 update details
-- TakveR - 23 Jan 2011 update details