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Indymedia and Indybay History

Kevin Keating | 18.03.2005 22:49 | Indymedia | Cambridge | Liverpool

Indymedia and Indybay History

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Independent Media Before Indymedia
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-- IGC (LaborNet, PeaceNet ...), AInfos, Infoshop News
IGC 1998:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990209035731/http://www.igc.org/igc/services/pwn.html
IGC Now:

Ainfos 1998:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980503023637/http://www.ainfos.ca/A-Infos/
Infoshop News Kiosk 1999:

http://web.archive.org/web/19990429163206/http://www.infoshop.org/news.html
--CounterMedia (August 1996 DNC Coverage)

http://www.cpsr.cs.uchicago.edu/countermedia/

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Indymedia's Birth In SanFrancisco

http://sf.indymedia.org/
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First Indymedia coverage

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/12/1710027.php
current global site

http://www.indymedia.org/

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Indymedia spreads

Nessie makes the creation of a global linking of imc's a reality. a great step forward has been taken for the liberation of all man kind. history will record this as the day that information was made available for the common pepole all over the world.
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DC

http://web.archive.org/web/20000706230331/dc2.indymedia.org/
by June 2000

http://web.archive.org/web/20000621122119/http://www.indymedia.org/
belgium, Europe
boston, US
calgary, Canada
hamilton, Canada
italy, Europe
los angeles, US
mayday, US site
mayday, UK
philadelphia, US
-Seattle US

http://www.infoshop.org/octo/wto-pix.html
washington d.c., US
windsor, Canada
and
eventually all over the world
Europe, Australia, Caneda, S America

Seattle US had gone on line but experienced numerous computer problems. it was toutch and go for a while but nessie finaly came through for them as well. this story is so typical of nessie's selfless efforts in founding indymedia.

http://portland.indymedia.org/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ConcentrationCampCanada
Istanbul

http://istanbul.indymedia.org/
Cyprus

http://cyprus-imc-ellinika.nysindy.org/
Argentina

http://argentina.indymedia.org/
Nigeria
nigeria.indymedia.org
Chiapas

http://chiapas.mediosindependientes.org/
Basque

http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/
and now US and topic based sites

http://us.indymedia.org/

http://biotech.indymedia.org/
all these sights where possible thanks to nessie's guidance. carefully mentoring each sight training it's staff. guiding the leaders untill they where ready to stand on their own.
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Indybay Born
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August 2000:

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815064912/http://www.indybay.org/
September 2000:
National Association Of Broadcasters Conference:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010217120840/http://www.indybay.org/nab2k_highlights.php3
October 2000:

http://web.archive.org/web/20001019020757/http://www.indybay.org/

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Housing Page/Media Alliance
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Media Alliance in 2000

http://web.archive.org/web/20010201155400/http://www.media-alliance.org/
Housing Project (later snapshot but mostly same content as in 2000)

http://web.archive.org/web/20030818184752/http://www.media-alliance.org/housing/
-street newspaper conference
Poverty & Housing Page Archives:

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_display_by_date.php?category_id=16&page=17

http://y5f6ru5.ra2a.k69.koshechka.net/damhobos/index.html
Poverty and Housing Page (no deals with many other issues effecting poor people):

http://www.indybay.org/poverty/
Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition Storms Live/Work Conversion Project

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_week_redirect.php?category_id=16&day=8&month=12&year=2000
Street Newspaper Conference (NASNA)

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=367&category_id=16
More recent housing news:
Newsom and Gentrification

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1020&category_id=16

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Indymedia and Indybay in 2000
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A16 in DC/ IMF and World Bank Protests

http://web.archive.org/web/20000819151132/http://www.dc.indymedia.org/
S26 Prague/Praha

http://web.archive.org/web/20001018063633/prague.indymedia.org/
Indybay December 2000

http://web.archive.org/web/20001205121700/http://www.indybay.org/

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Indymedia and Indybay in 2001 (before 911)
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Snapshot of Indybay coverage FTAA, May Day, RTS

http://web.archive.org/web/20010330185322/http://www.indybay.org/

Bush inaguration

Quebec FTAA

local globalization coverage:

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_display_by_date.php?category_id=22&page=14
our new globalization page:

http://www.indybay.org/globalization/

environment and forest defense
forest page in July 2001

http://web.archive.org/web/20010702115319/indybay.org/features/forest/
- environment page

http://www.indybay.org/environment/

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/roughplushielove/

http://www.wynnsom.com
g8 genoa
-italy coverage
-local coverage

WCAR and indymedia coverage

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1584&category_id=15
South Africa Site

http://southafrica.indymedia.org/
race page

http://www.indybay.org/race/

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/1698640_comment.php#1698643

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Indymedia and Indybay in 2001 (after 911)
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9/11

-first pictures on DC and NYC sites

http://web.archive.org/web/20010918123208/http://www.dc.indymedia.org/

http://web.archive.org/web/20010916223430/http://nyc.indymedia.org/

http://nyc.indymedia.org/media/all/browse/index.php?limit_start=12648

http://nyc.indymedia.org/media/all/display/1420/index.php?limit_start=12648

http://nyc.indymedia.org/media/all/display/1439/index.php?limit_start=12636

Antiwar coverage
-first Afghan war protests
-Antiwar action
-antiwar page

http://www.indybay.org/antiwar/

Afghanistan
-war starts
-Afghanistan page

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_display_by_date.php?category_id=51

police state coverage
-attacks on protesters
-police brutality
-patriot act
-police page

http://www.indybay.org/police/

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Indymedia and Indybay in 2002
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immigrant roundups
-INS roundups

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_display_by_date.php?category_id=56&page=3
-immigrant page

http://www.indybay.org/immigrant/

palestine coverage
-protests at UCB

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_display_by_date.php?category_id=30&page=8

-QUIT

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1636&category_id=29

http://www.indybay.org/comment.php?top_id=1699643
-palestine site

http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/
-Palestine page and more local coverage

http://www.indybay.org/international/palestine/

Insolent Youth incorporated
-post

http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/11/1545326.php
-mainstream coverage

Labor Protests
-early coverage (day labor, SEIU, May Day...)

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_display_by_date.php?category_id=19&page=25
-ILWU lockout

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=993&category_id=19
-Safeway lockou and strike

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1681&category_id=19
-hotel strike

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2414&category_id=19
-page

http://www.indybay.org/labor/

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Indymedia and Indybay in 2003
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Iraq War
-helicopter pictures

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/01/1562069.php
-arrests and black bloc
-war starts/ city goes crazy

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_week_redirect.php?category_id=18&day=22&month=3&year=2003

Iraq page
-local reporters in iraq

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2009&category_id=48

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1727&category_id=18
-iraq news

http://www.indybay.org/international/iraq/
-need for international page

http://www.indybay.org/international/
(for stories without pages such as) Aceh:

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2773&category_id=44

Miami Ftaa

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1463&category_id=22

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Indymedia and Indybay in 2004
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Central Valley
Spying On Peace Fresno

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1628&category_id=35
Peace Fresno

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1822&category_id=35

Reclaim the Commons (Biotech and globalization)

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2187&category_id=22
the war for animal rights

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/01/1708647_comment.php#1708655

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/06/1695905_comment.php#1696181
Drug War
-med marij

http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/10/1697215.php
Gary Web (CIA, Contras and Cocaine)

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2723&category_id=27
-page

http://www.indybay.org/drugwar/

Haiti coverage
-local coverage

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1972&category_id=50

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/1698640_comment.php#1698643
-haiti page

http://www.indybay.org/international/haiti/

Womyn's page (only updated by women)
-due to problems in the network with representation

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1608&category_id=32
-abortion coverage

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2804&category_id=31
-page

http://www.indybay.org/womyn/

Queer Coverage
-Gay Shame & antiConsumer pride protests

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1495&category_id=29

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1482&category_id=29
-Gay marriage

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1810&category_id=29

education coverage
-student protests
-school closures

http://www.indybay.org/education/

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Indymedia and Indybay in 2005
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http://www.ecologycenter.org

Government
-Diebold

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2268&category_id=45
-RNC (2004)

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2389&category_id=45
-Counter inaguration

http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2635&category_id=45
-page

http://www.indybay.org/government/

animal lib

http://www.indybay.org/animalliberation/

if you have any more history please add it to this story, and we will put it into the history records

and please repost to interested parties

thank you

Kevin Keating

Kevin Keating

Comments

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Rob Glaser

19.03.2005 00:11

Indymedia was the creation of Rob Glaser of Real Networks which is now currently funded by George Soros, Rockefeller, and the notorious CIA backed Ford Foundation

oioioyoi

sorry, i missed the point

19.03.2005 00:12

what is this about???

dubious

Defusing Dissent

19.03.2005 13:07

The point, 'dubious', as far as I can see, is that this so called Indymedia is anything but. 'So what?!' you might ask, it gets the job done, who cares where the money comes from.

Well, today, 19th of March is the perfect day to illustrate how Indymedia and the faux left will be conspiring to keep an issue out of the public domain. Thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of people will be travelling to London today to demonstrate against the continuing occupation of Iraq and for world peace. Everybody involved, from drummer to plackard waver and Indymedia cameraperson to the pensioner who quietly marches with everybody else will feel like they are contributing to a massive event. And up to a point, they are. But apart from those that march, those at home who couldn't afford to go (like me), the police and a few thousand busy shoppers en route, who will know about this 'show of strength'?

The whole event is a safety mechanism, as far as the 'government' is concerned and it will be managed to ensure that it has as little impact as possible. The leaders of the SWC (mainly SWP) will have agreed a march route with the police, no doubt on the grounds of the safety of the marchers. Maybe the terrorist threat card was played. The route will inevitably cause some inconvenience to London's busy consumers but the route will meander in the least inconvenient, thus least visible way. If it goes anywhere near any government building, that building will be shielded by fencing (electrified in the case of the MOD on February 15th 2003 - I have images to prove this).

The mainstream media will have journalists present and it will appear that the whole event is receiving huge coverage. Apart from February 15th 2003, when the BBC's et al's hand was forced by shear unexpected numbers, there will be little or no coverage. How do I know this? Well I have attended just about every demonstration but last year illness forced me to miss one of the larger events in London. Instead I sat glued to BBC News 24 for the whole day and there was no coverage whatsoever (unless they snook it in during th few seconds that I flipped to Sky News and ITN).

In the meantime, Indymedia will act as a reservoir for peoples' opinions and a place to exhibit their photos. All safely out of the public view. Because despite the aspirations of those that contribute, and whilst it pretends otherwise the only readers of Indymedia are the previously converted.

All nicely packaged up and out of the way.

This mechanism has a name, coined by Herbert Marcuse, it is repressive desublimation. It is the safety valve which governments use to defuse dissent. If demonstrations were not permitted anti-government feeling would escalate and the possible consequences could be explosive. Now the dissent is controlled even further, often with the unwitting co-operation of the protestors. Possibly with the co-operation of the leadership of the dissent groups. The clichés are as valid as they have ever been. Divide and rule. Keep your friends close but your enemies even closer etc.

Many dissent groups and Indymedia are like flypaper and are easy pickings for the security services. There is no doubt that most involved with Indymedia are genuine individuals but there is equally little doubt that there is an element within which is being handled from elsewhere and consequently working to eliminate the real truth of what is going on in favour of a Michael Moore 'truth lite' which can be easily spun.

Max Kipper

Vary Your Diet Then!!

20.03.2005 16:22

All the more reason to have non-government regulated media then, like pirate radio stations, webcasting/reporting from other sites and other independently produced and distributed media, like newsheets/newsletters.

Arguably, the main reason why most people both contribute to and come to the Indymedia sites is simply because they are the most prominent and familiar.
That doesn't mean to say that they are the ONLY 'alternative'.

In other words, vary your diet, people.

Be a media omnivore!

Omnivore

Be a media omnivore ?

16.04.2005 09:34

Be a media omnivore?

what a dork-like thing to say.if you have no better thoughts then stay on the porno chat lines and let the rest of us do the thinking

boggsly

Kevin Keating didn't write this.

15.06.2005 18:38

See:

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/1712701_comment.php

it's a forgery, one of many