[Imc-houston-announce] Houston Indymedia Year in review 2008 - Pitch in in 2009

[roblock at riseup.net]

2008 was a brutal year for Houston, We've seen raids and deportations, at
Shipley's and Action Rads USA, the resumption of Huntsville's death
chamber, the most active death row in the country. We've seen Hurricane
Ike wallop Houston and do serious damage to Galveston, as well as the
aftershocks of contractors that don't pay their workers and the University
of Texas cutting jobs in Galveston. And the year ended with the Israeli
bombing and invasion of Gaza, and the discovery that a social justice
activist that has been working in Texas and Louisiana for years has been
working as an FBI Informant.

Though all of this, Houston Indymedia has been covering these stories, and
providing a forum for activists and community members to get their stories
out. With our website (http://houston.indymedia.org) and weekly radio
show, on 7:30pm every Friday on KPFT 90.1fm, as well as our monthly(ish)
film series at Rice Cinema, our volunteer collective has been producing
and distributing media for social and economic justice.

We invite you at the start of 2009 to check out the coverage we produced
last year, and invite you to participate and support us in this coming
year.

Here is our 2008 year in review:
http://houston.indymedia.org/news/2009/01/66042.php

Houston Indymedia kept busy with 103 local news features in 2008! The
Houston Indymedia Web Team uses articles and content published to the HIMC
newswire by DIY journalists and community activists to construct features
for our central column. Thanks to the legion of people in Houston and
elsewhere that published their news to Houston Indymedia, and the social
justice movements in Houston that wage struggles worth reporting. We are
all journalists!

If you like the work we are doing, HELP US OUT!

This Saturday at Sedition Books (901 Richmond ave) at 4pm, we will be
having our first general meeting of the year. We will talk have report
backs from our working groups and discuss some of our plans for a Release
party for the Houston Peace News in the end of January, media trainings in
February, a big noise film festival in March, celebrations for the 10th
anniversary of the Indymedia network in November as well as the day to day
coverage of events taking place in Houston.

Get in touch with one of our working groups:

WEB: RoB roblock at riseup.net or Nick nickcooper at indymedia.org
RADIO: John john_r at riseup.net or Rachel rachelmclarke at yahoo.com
FILM SERIES: Melisa anothermotherforpeace at earthlink.net or RoB

Publish your news to Houston Indymedia:
http://houston.indymedia.org/publish.php

and your events to our calendar:
http://www.protest.net/HIMC/

And then, if you can help us with the expenses of keeping our website
alive and stuff, you could totally help us out by giving us some money:
http://houston.indymedia.org/process/donate.php

We look forward to seeing you in the streets in 2009!

<3 Houston IMC volunteers

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