[imc-scotland-discussion] URGENT: Big Issue Article - deadline today/tomorrow for big article, monday for small one

[GarconDuMonde]

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hi,


>>> GDM can you do definition / history / aims?
>>>> - a section (kinda xtra box) with the Definition of Indymedia
>>>> - history and aims (mission statement excerpts)

all done.

i've put them on the wiki, and also changed the name of the page that ab
made:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcG82005BigIssue - index page

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/MakePovertyHistoryRadio  - MPH
radio, chip

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcG82005IndymediaAtTheG8 - IMC at
the G8, planet

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcG82005DefinitionsBox -
definitions box (IMC, open-publishing), gdm

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcG82005IndymediaHistory - IIMC
history and aims, including some quotes, gdm

full text below (and a couple of notes at the bottom relating to the
definitions). i tried to keep them on the short side so there was less
that would be cut ;-)


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History of the Independent Media Centre Network

The first Independent Media Centre (IMC) was established in Seattle in
preparation for the anti-WTO protests of November, 1999. The project was
developed by a diverse group of radical media and tech activists, with
participants from around the United States and overseas, including
Australia. It was so successful that the idea quickly spread; within 6
months, a group had formed in the UK, and now there are about 200
independent groups around the world. The global Indymedia
[http://www.indymedia.org/] site now provides multilingual coverage of
issues from around the world.

As stated in the first Principle of Unity
[http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/PrinciplesOfUnity], "the
Independent Media Center Network (IMCN) is based upon principles of
equality, decentralization and local autonomy." The Principles of Unity
go on to say, "all IMC's recognize the importance of process to social
change and are committed to the development of non-hierarchical and
anti-authoritarian relationships, from interpersonal relationships to
group dynamics." These (and other) values are reflected in the Mission
Statements of the local collectives, such as IMC Scotland
[http://scotland.indymedia.org] or the United-Kollectives (UK) Indymedia
[http://www.indymedia.org.uk] groups, who will both be providing
coverage of the G8.

The history of the IMC has not been without incident, though. Numerous
attacks have been made against different Indymedia groups by various
governments: most notably, the siezure of the Ahimsa server in the UK
last October; also, incidents such as the brutal police attack against
the Italian G8 Indymedia Centre in Genoa 4 years ago, or assaults
against individual IMC participants that have happened around the world.
Predominantly, authorities desire the records (ip logs) of who has
posted which article: information that Indymedia does not keep....


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DEFINITIONS:


What is Indymedia?

The Independent Media Centers (IMCs) form a network of collectively run
media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate
tellings of the truth. There are over 150 IMCs, with thousands of people
contributing, around the world that provide open-publishing. 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.

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/FrequentlyAskedQuestions

Open publishing means that the process of creating news is transparent
to the readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly appear
in the pool of stories publicly available. Those stories are filtered as
little as possible to help the readers find the stories they want.
Readers can see editorial decisions being made by others. They can see
how to get involved and help make editorial decisions.

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


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nb: IMPORTANT: the second url in the definitions above (cat.org.au)
*must* be included in the article to be allowed to use the preceding
paragraph: (from the website: "You can copy and distribute this article,
as long as you include the web address of the original
(http://www.cat.org.au/maffew/cat/openpub.html) in a way that the whole
audience can see. Please let me know if you do reproduce it somewhere,
especially if you make changes to it.")
 P P
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love and solidarity,

	--gdm

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Main/GarconDuMonde

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