[Imc-torino] "who" transation

[maryanne a inventati.org]

Indymedia Piemonte is an individuals and media-activists network, which
offer a grassroots information coverage - non corporative and non
commercial - about social and political matters which never find space on
mainstream media. Indymedia Piemonte trusts in a radical transformation of
society, founded on partecipation and diffusion of alternative models
instead the one determinated and diffused by our society.The aim is to work
out positive models for a right, equal and more sustainable society.

Piemonte node is a part of Indymedia network: born to provide a mediatic
coverage of an event which media risked to deform - Seattle protests
against WTO - Indymedia contributed, also thanks to Internet, to the birth
of grassroot mass media, self organized, no-profit and independent from
institutional and commercial media, rapresenting a crack into global
mediascape. Indymedia global network includes nowadays hundreds of media
sharing experiences. Indymedia Piemonte is a part of this network.

Indymedia mediatic power is due to a flexible and user-friendly web
platform, to a totally automatized database, to powerful audio-video
streaming servers and to a news-flow always updated. Everyone can upload
and edit audio and video recordings, images, articles, news and
comunicates.

Attivists have no intention to delegate the information mission -
fondamental resource in the fight for a more right and free society - to
corporative media, dependent to politic and economy lobbies. Open
publishing and free partecipation are at the same time Indymedia base
principles and force points. The mission is to give voice to all the
realities and fights which don't find space into mainstream media, offering
them a place of visibility and direct comparison.

The previous experience which took place in the Piemonte node -
http://italy.indymedia.org/features/piemonte - formed in 2001, has tried to
report from grassroot and without faction discriminations what happened in
the cities and mountains of our region, from the NoTav fight, to urban
conflicts, collaborating with other mediattivism and independent
information experiences like radio and hacklabs, imprinting our way to
"make comunication" on the words "Become your Media".

To partecipate to Indymedia Piemonte you have to subscribe to the mailing
list and take part to public and open meeting, periodically published
through the web site. Assemblies are the main place where decisions are
taken through the consense method, a process which allowed to find a
synthesis between several positions in a non coercitive and cooperative
manner, respecting ideologic and gerne differences, to expand and develope
relationships without hierarchies but in a solidal and autonomous way.
Assemblies are also opportunities to share Indymedia method and philosophy,
and represent the main tool to enlarge the partecipation to the project.

Admins take care about the web site maintenance solleciting an active
partecipation from everybody: admin are no more than simple facilitators
for the web site who - through their activity - allowing it to be always
avaiable for everybody. Everyone can contribute to his contents elaboration
on Indymedia Piemonte mailing list, which is open. Indymedia Piemonte is
planning methods and process to decrease the gap between web site
administrators and users, both in the project management and manteinance. 

To become an administrator you have to make a request to the local node
coordination mailing list, and the following are needed: a) familiarity
with open publishing and web site functionality b) partecipate to Indymedia
Piemonte periodic meeting and being subscribed to coordination mailing list
c) agree with the policy and the coordination way which Indymedia Piemonte
has taken, knowing that them should be discussed anyway d) have
partecipated to a technical workshop about web site functioning e) "being
trusted" from anyone inside the network.

Partecipate also you to IMC Piemonte. Contact us, interact and publish your
articles, documents and comments.

DON'T HATE THE MEDIA, MAKE IT!

Join the media revolution! Join Indymedia Piemonte!
http://piemonte.indymedia.org