[Italy-process] comunicato lancio - eng

[st3]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:34:01 +0100
cpunkpunk <cpunkpunk at inventati.org> wrote:

> Corretto e riadattato, gradirei un'ulteriore riletta prima dello spamming...

IMHO:

> More than a year passed since the Italian IMCs got back to work with 
> local communities bringing into these environments the principles and 
> methods that shape the global Indymedia network.The need to create a 
> ground for everybody to become their own media, through open publishing 
> and privacy safeguarding, was felt by many as something that had to 
> continue and that could not stop along with the Italy IMC shut-down.
                                                            ^^^ shutdown

> Limits and practices concerning the mainstream media haven't changed 
> during these years and the power imbalance governing the communication 
> process didn't decrease.
> 
> Today, the task of independent media isn't anymore just about providing 
> a space where open publishing is possible and different point of views 
> can be expressed, it's more about safeguarding the characteristics of
                  ^^^, but it's more

> the method ruling the Indymedia network and to gain  accessibility and
                                                     ^^^

> interactiveness of the immense amount of information available on the 
> net, because of the fast evolution that has been pacing the web during 
> these latest years.
> 
> That's why the newborn local Italian IMCs decided to open up to a 
> nationwide project through the creation of an aggregator, a place made 
> of those different visions and media activism practices determined by 
> the needs of each local reality where the struggles and the information 
> flow coming from different locations could gather and reinforce.
> 
> The aggregator can potentially create a widespread community, as a 
> result of the collaboration between activist networks, social centres 
> and different communities involved in media activism that consider 
> italy.indymedia.org the conveyor of grassroots media coverage.
> 
> Right now, we still feel the need for a project able to gather the 
> specificities of the various local independent Italian coverage projects 
> and to provide a chance of production, elaboration and spreading of the 
> produced contributed contents, linked to an horizontal management of 
> communication, in its more extensive meaning.
                        ^^^ most

> The long-lasting process which redefined means and aims of Indymedia 
> Italy has come to an end. Now, a new phase begins.
> On July, 4, Indymedia Italy will be back online.
> 
> The IndYpendence day isn't just a date. It's a symbol.
> 
> In 1054 for the Chinese was the explosion of the Crab Nebula.
> In 1865 for the English was the publishing of Alice's Adventures in 
> Wonderland.
> In 1880 for the people from Pistoia, Italy, was the birth of the 
> anarchist writer Leda Rafanelli.
> 
> Every year, for everybody, is the aphelion, the day in which planet 
> Earth is in tis maximum distance from the sun.
              ^^^ its                       ^^^ Sun.

> For us, in 2008, it represents the return of a collective and 
> independent information project.
> 
> July the 4th - IndYpendence Day
> You make plans, we make history.


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