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What is being done

    

    - Legal

    

    Indymedia is currently exploring legal options with a number of attorneys and advocacy
    organizations in several countries, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation
    (EFF). Read legal updates about Indymedia at EFF.org and Indymedia.org .

    

    After EFF contacted the FBI to demand that Indymedia's illegally seized hardware be
    returned, the U.S. government returned the seized hard drives on 13 October 2004.
    Nonetheless, EFF continues to prepare for any necessary legal action. According to EFF,
    "The FBI can't pull the plug on more than 20 news websites -- our modern printing presses --
    based on a secret proceeding at the request of a foreign government. This is a flagrant
    violation of the First Amendment. The government can't shut down the New York Times, and
    it can't shut down Indymedia."

    

    Indymedia's legal support team is also determining how the governments of the UK, Italy,
    and Switzerland have been involved with the seizure.

    

    - Political

    

    Parliamentarians in several countries, including Italy and the UK, have made
    statements criticizing the seizure of Indymedia's hardware. MP Jeremy Corbyn
    described the seizure as "part of an extremely disturbing trend towards excessive
    control of the dissemination of knowledge" by those in power.
    http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298896.html

    

    Activist and media organizations have also criticized the kidnapping of Indymedia's
    webservers. UK Stop the War Coalition spokesman Andrew Burgin called the confiscation
    "part of the international campaign to destroy democratic rights and civil liberties."
    Statements have been issued by the ASCII Collective , Statewatch , Project Censored , the
    Association for Progressive Communications , the International Federation of
    Journalists , the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters , the Dutch
    Federation of Journalists , Reporters Without Borders , and the Belgian Journalist
    Association .

    

    - Media

    

    Reports on the server seizure have appeared in hundreds of news outlets around the world (
    English | French | German | Italian | Spanish ). The IMC press team is available to answer
    your questions and for live interviews: e-mail press at indymedia.org . Hopefully
    independent reporters will be able to get to the bottom of the still-secret
    investigations which have targeted the Indymedia network and find out "who took
    Ahimsa."

    



What you can do

    

    - Invite your friends, representatives, and colleagues to sign on using the form at
    right.

    

    Write to your local representative or party and ask them to support Indymedia in this free
    speech battle by signing the solidarity statement, bringing the issue onto the floor of
    parliament or other legislature, and holding the authorities accountable for any
    abuses of the law. In the UK, Fax your MP ; in the US, contact your member of the House or
    Senate .

    

    Contact local advocacy organizations and ask them to issue a statement and/or sign this
    solidarity statement.

    

    - Ask questions

    

    Pick up the phone and call the government of the US, UK, Switzerland, or Italy.
    Unfortunately, you will have to work through an impenetrable maze of bureaucracy.

    

    Why was the Indymedia hardware seized? Who was responsible for requesting or
    authorising the seizure, in this and other countries? Who were the servers handed over
    to? Which officers were present when the servers were seized? Which agencies have or have
    had access to the data stored on the Indymedia servers?

    

    - Protest

    

        Organize a protest against the repression of free online speech in your town! Let us
        know about it and we'll list it here on this page. And remember, you may have unwanted
        hardware which is wanted by the authorities!

        - Netherlands, 13 Oct: Delivering symbolic old hardware to the Italian consulate in
        Amsterdam

        

        - USA, 14 Oct: Activists surrender hardware to FBI in San Francisco

        

        

    

    

    - Donate

    

        Several IMCs are collecting donations to help support legal expenses and hardware
        costs following the seizure:

        - IMC Tech

        

        - UK IMC

        

        - SF Bay Area IMC

        

    

    

    - After you've done all that, you can relax and play the videogame Operation Enduring
    Indymedia !

    

    



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