[Italy-process] comunicato lancio - eng

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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.

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 
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.

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.

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.