Indymedia World Map + List
IMC'ista | 19.02.2005 10:05 | Globalisation | Indymedia | Technology
The indymedia network has grown enormously since its inception in November 1999. Here's a zoomable interactive map of many of the IMCs around the world: 
http://manifestor.org/john/worldkit/
And below an article from portland indymedia...
http://manifestor.org/john/worldkit/ And below an article from portland indymedia...
Starting with one site in Seattle, that eventually became the global site to what is now over 160 indymedia outlets around the world. All this expansion has left little time for developing global standards and some things common have lacked in upgrading. One of these things is the indymedia cities list.
This list shows on every indymedia site that exists, usually on the left hand column or at the very bottom of the site. As indymedia collectives go through the new-imc process, they get added to the cities list. Until recently, little work has been done to categorize and make that list reflect the diversity of the indymedia network.
portland indymedia volunteers have taken the autonomy of indymedia to a new level and have reworked the cities list that appears on the portland.indymedia.org site. There is no push to make this reorganization a global standard. This is just a breath of fresh air that will hopefully spread to give other indymedia's the comfort to do similar things, and help advance and ultimately define the portland indymedia cities list.
The cities list has been broken up heavily to make it easier to know where a particular imc is in the world. The old categories included: Projects, Topics, Africa, Canada, East Asia, Europe, Latin America, Oceania, South Asia, United States, West Asia, and Process. Just under the header of 'global imc network,' we have added the syndication and regional sites of us indymedia, oceania indymedia, and uk indymedia. Originally only the global site, www.indymedia.org appeared there.
For this cities list, the basic idea was to make the categories more defining of an area and ultimately align indymedias that would be working through similar regional issues, instead of continuing the socio-political lines that have always defined the cities list.
The 'Projects' header has been changed to Working Groups in this incantation, as those are groups working together on particular mediums. The 'Topics' category, the newest addition to the global cities list, has remained the same. However, an upcoming topic imc, the queer imc has been added. Nothing has changed with the 'Africa' header. Instead of Asia being defined in three different categories (West, South, and East), they are now grouped under one 'Asia' header. The 'Oceania' header has also remained the same.
The most striking changes have appeared under the 'Europe,' 'Canada,' 'United States,' and 'Latin America' headers. Europe, which used to just have many imc's grouped under this header has been broken up into six different regions. This is based geographically, and all geographic information came from wikipedia.org. The headers are include: Eastern, Western, Central, Northern, Southern, and UK. It is felt that this will help readers have an idea of where they are visiting. However, it has been said that Europe is much more complex than this and the describing headers are used both as geographic and political terms in Europe.
The headers of 'Canada,' 'United States,' and 'Latin America' have disappeared. Latin America became 'South America,' 'Carribbean,' and parts of the 'Turtle Island' header. Turtle Island is a name that people indigenous to North America used to describe the continent, it is employed here as an attempt to break free from the political divides and the lines on the maps that exist. Folks that use portland indymedia, especially those from Cascadia (which is who the site is geared towards), are aware of bioregionalism. Cascadians, and users of portland indymedia, have been calling for a bioregional 'state' and with that in mind, the 'Turtle Island' part of the portland indymedia cities list has been broken up into bioregions where available and into geographic regions where information about bioregions could not be found. This is an attempt to seed the idea that it is possible to destroy the lines that divide us and break free from the state control that defines us. The information on bioregions and the grouping of Mexico, Canada, and the US together has been called into question. This is a work in progress, feedback and suggestions are welcome.
This is a brief explanation of the different headers and where the information was obtained to define things in such a way. All of the information was culled from wikipedia.org, and most specifically from the regions listed on the US Regions page. The headers used include: Appalachia, Cascadia, Great Lakes, Great North Woods, Great Plains, Inter Mountain, Mexico, Mississippi Delta, South East and South West. The ones without links were not easily definable, so they were grouped in geographical context.
This is a work in progress, suggestions are welcome. Please add your comments to this article, if you have any suggestions for ways it should be changed. Please also offer some kind of reference for why you think the change should be made. Creating this new cities list took over 15 hours of research and compilation work. Much thought was put into this, and it would be appreciated if as much thought would be taken into offering critiques.
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PORTLAND LIST:
http://portland.indymedia.org global imc
network:
www.indymedia.org
us.indymedia.org
oceania.indymedia.org
indymedia.org.uk
Working Groups
radio
satellite tv
translation tool
video
Topics
biotech
ftaa
queer
Africa
ambazonia
canarias
estrecho / madiaq
south africa
Asia
beirut
burma
cyprus
india
israel
istanbul
jakarta
japan
palestine
taiwan
Caribbean
puerto rico
Europe: Central
austria
germany
hungary
poland
prague
switzerland
vienna
Europe: Eastern
belgrade
bulgaria
croatia
kasimov
russia
Europe: Northern
finland
norway
sweden
Europe: Southern
athens
euskal herria
galicia
italy
la plana
madrid
portugal
thessaloniki
Europe: Western
andorra
antwerp
belgium
grenoble
ireland
liege
lille
marseille
nantes
netherlands
nice
oost-vlaanderen
paris
west vlaanderen
Europe: UK
bristol
cambridge
leeds
liverpool
london
manchester
oxford
scotland
sheffield
south coast
west country
Oceania
adelaide
aotearoa
brisbane
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney
South America
argentina
bolivia
brasil
chile
chile sur
colombia
ecuador
peru
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
uruguay
valparaiso
Turtle Island
Appalachia
baltimore
charlottesville
dc
north carolina
philadelphia
pittsburgh
richmond
tennessee
Cascadia
kamloops (ca)
portland
rogue valley
seattle
vancouver (ca)
victoria (ca)
Great Lakes
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
erie, pa
hamilton (ca)
madison
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
rochester
thunder bay (ca)
Great North Woods
binghampton, ny
boston
danbury, ct
hartford
hudson-mohawk
maine
maritimes (ca)
montreal (ca)
new hampshire
new jersey
nyc
ottawa (ca)
quebec (ca)
vermont
western mass
worcester
Great Plains
austin
big muddy (so. illinois)
colorado
houston
kansas city
normal, il
north texas
oklahoma
omaha
urbana-champaign
winnipeg (ca)
Inter Mountain
arizona
idaho
las vegas
new mexico
sonora (mx)
utah
Mexico
chiapas
mexico city
Mississippi Delta
arkansas
new orleans
st louis
South East
atlanta
miami
tallahassee-red hills
tampa bay
South West
los angeles
san diego
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz
tijuana (mx)
Process
fbi/legal updates
indymedia faq
mailing lists
documentaion project
tech
volunteer
why this cities list?
IMC'ista
Comments
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Very Impressive
19.02.2005 13:14
One day IM may reach further than the capitalist newswires: AP, Reuters, etc.
Oh what a shame the capitalists can't buy shares in IM! But they may try and pass laws to stop it, if they can't own it. Because they want "Freedom" - not freedom of expression, but the freedom to buy, posses, control, to exploit somebody or something for profit.
Ed
amazing stuff
20.02.2005 00:06
globalist
What about the rest?
20.02.2005 05:08
Curious
Its grassroots - innit!
20.02.2005 11:52
Er, well i'm not actaully gonna set em up cos i live in the UK! It would be for people in those countries to set them up - for a bunch of European/North American outsiders to come in and set up and run an Indymedia site would be (for want of a better word) imperialism.
Curious - you seem to have missed the point of Indymedia - it is a grass roots thing not an imposed top down news organisation like the capitalist or state press.
Yes it is a shame that there are many parts of the world that don't have their own Indymedia outlets, but hopefully it will expand.
Not Curious
Please
20.02.2005 14:15
Exactly - Indymedia is not about true change, it's not about really achieving social justice on a world wide scale. Indymedia is about a group of pretentious, middle class students who like to enjoy the benefits of living in Democratic, Capitalist, Western Secular countries while winging about bad their life is. Active involvement in Indymedia is for most around four to five years before they discover that in the real world things like houses, food, clothes and holidays have to be paid for with actual work rather than Daddy's money.
There are exceptions of course, there are those who despite the wisdom of middle age still think Tony Benn would have made a good PM or that the old Soviet Union wasn't that bad after all. These people generaly don't have jobs in the real world but have spent their lives receiving a wage in the Public Sector.
Read and respond to Indymedia by all means but please don't think it will achieve anything because the people behind it are only playing at it.
Me
Me -- WTF are you doing here?
20.02.2005 16:22
IMC'er
Point Proven
20.02.2005 16:32
Me
Something is happening here and you don't know what it is....
20.02.2005 16:59
Me reminds me of Mr Jones.
---
Ballad of a Thin Man
You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, "Who is that man?"
You try so hard
But you don't understand
Just what you'll say
When you get home
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
You raise up your head
And you ask, "Is this where it is?"
And somebody points to you and says
"It's his"
And you say, "What's mine?"
And somebody else says, "Where what is?"
And you say, "Oh my God
Am I here all alone?"
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
You hand in your ticket
And you go watch the geek
Who immediately walks up to you
When he hears you speak
And says, "How does it feel
To be such a freak?"
And you say, "Impossible"
As he hands you a bone
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
You have many contacts
Among the lumberjacks
To get you facts
When someone attacks your imagination
But nobody has any respect
Anyway they already expect you
To just give a check
To tax-deductible charity organizations
You've been with the professors
And they've all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have
Discussed lepers and crooks
You've been through all of
F. Scott Fitzgerald's books
You're very well read
It's well known
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you
And then he kneels
He crosses himself
And then he clicks his high heels
And without further notice
He asks you how it feels
And he says, "Here is your throat back
Thanks for the loan"
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
Now you see this one-eyed midget
Shouting the word "NOW"
And you say, "For what reason?"
And he says, "How?"
And you say, "What does this mean?"
And he screams back, "You're a cow
Give me some milk
Or else go home"
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
Well, you walk into the room
Like a camel and then you frown
You put your eyes in your pocket
And your nose on the ground
There ought to be a law
Against you comin' around
You should be made
To wear earphones
Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
---
Bob Dylan
Copyright © 1965; renewed 1993 Special Rider Music
Not Me
Getting better
20.02.2005 17:25
Living in the past - never visited the present.
Me
Indymedia should make an effort
19.04.2005 11:47
if not now then when!
Africa and Asia need help, not sqabbling
Thanks again to Bristol indymedia for helping Beirut & Baghdad
Your twinning projects need expanding
rz