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Why does Indymedia Ignore this?

The need for a vocal, visible and sustained newsfeed highlighting the situation of Employment and Unemployment is missing from Indymedia. Why?

Why does Indymedia ignore this?

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/437912.html?c=on#comments

Surely this is front page news. It lacks cute bunnies as in Animal Rights (last check: humans are animals so this is about their rights) or Anti-Fascism (last check: the BNP want to recruit an army of the unemployed) or Anti-Racism (last check: discrimination against the unemployment is also discrimination against ethnic minorities) or Environmental Catastrophe (last check: the unemployed are part of your environment if you like it or not).

Truth is, the Unemployed are an unfashionable cause. The systematic transfer of tax from workers to employers through tax credits just makes the average Indymedia contributor yawn. The Unemployed do not push any of the buttons that other causes have.

But at the end of the day anybody who is unemployed can not walk away from it. Except on terms that are roughly slavery.

Indymedia ignores the genuine working class struggle in favour of nice, easy and fashionable protests. The thought police will now descend to kettle the idea that Unemployment is more important than Animal Rights, Anti Fascism, Anti Racism or Environmental Catastrophe.

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Where is the Option for "Unemployment Rights"? It is not even a consideration.

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Indymedia

18.09.2009 13:23

The content of Indymedia is determined by what is published on the open newswire. Topic pages are generally proposed when there aresufficient posts to warrant it.

You are free to post up stuff that is consistent with the mission statement and editorial guidelines, and to get involved in the open lists and your local collective.

If what you want to find on Indymedia isn't there, its probably because no-one, including yourself has put it there.

IMCista

try creating the news!

18.09.2009 13:29

indy dosnt make it nor dose it regularly report it acts as a platform to share news on issues. if your subject is not represented then thats your fault. the reason that you can not select 'unemploment rights' is because there is not enough news on the subject to warrent its own action grouping it nothing to do with importance more to do with piint, and their would be no point in having unemployment rights as a selection because it would be a pretty empty achive of reports.
im fed up with people critising IM like there are a group of people conspiring against your campaign, there are not. BE THE NEWS, NOT AN ARSE!

in respect

you make the news

18.09.2009 13:53

Write up stories yourself, and UK Indymedia will host them. They will even probably put it on the front page if you can find a way to blame unemployment on the Jews.

I quite agree