Thinking, telling stories, explaining, spreading knowledge, monitorying the
quality of informations, being part of it, using it in a first person,
contributing directly with dreams, words, intelligences.
all of this is becoming dangerous

It was dangerous in Genoa during the anti-G8 protests, where independent
media, often using amateurish means, gave a direct and different testimony
from the one proposed by mainstream media.
And it is now dangerous for who is still making and facilitating grassroot
communication .

Indymedia was one of the network that allowed news to circulate before,
during and after the G8.
It's a network of subjects that work in the communication world: videomakers,
radio, hackers, journalists, fotographers. An international network of
collectivelly run media for a radical, objective and passionate telling of the
thruth.
Indymedia is an open publishing site: everyone can upload directly with no
censorship, video and audio files, immages, articles, communications.
There is no editorial stuff: it works through mailing list and chat lines that
are public and open.

The indymedia computers were the objectives of the confiscations made by the
police on the 20 02 02 in Bologna, Taranto, Firenze, Torino. In the early
morning 200 policeman and dozens of armoure cars intervened to confiscate the
archives of Indymedia Italy.
A vaine undertaking, because Indymedia is everywhere and nowhere. It's
accessible to whoever has a computer or a mobile phone: it lives in the Net.
Indymedia is independent, diffuse, horizontal, because it is made by a
collective intelligence.

Information is one of the hardest field of confrontation between who
exercises power and who suffers it. If a site of information born and grown
only on volountary bases become dangerous, then what's in danger is the
freedom of expression. whose turn will be the next time?

We believe it is necessary to react with strength to this attack to
fondamental freedoms and we rebel to every attempt to enclose our
intelligence.

Indymedia Italia is addressing to all the people that care about free-speach
and the independence of informations. we ask an ideal support , that goes
beyond the political belonging.
Information has to be free.

Indymedia Italia ,together with Radio Onda Rossa, promote ' RECLAIM YOUR
MEDIA' a protest for the rights of independent information
saturday 16 marzo 2002 in Rome,we will reclaim the streets with a noise sound
parade
Against each attack to the freedom of individual and collective expression.
contacts, support, subscriptions:  italy@indymedia.org