When will IMC meet our needs?
Liza Radley | 17.08.2010 20:20 | Indymedia | Liverpool | World
When will IMC meet our needs?
It's all well and good setting up imcs everywhere but where is the relation to the working class. Where is the relation to the Class War eh?
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It's all well and good setting up imcs everywhere but where is the relation to the working class. Where is the relation to the Class War eh?
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When will IMC meet our needs?
It's all well and good setting up imcs everywhere but where is the relation to the working class. Where is the relation to the Class War eh?
"The Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.
The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. IMCs have since been established on every continent, with more to come."
It's all well and good setting up imcs everywhere but where is the relation to the working class. Where is the relation to the Class War eh?
"The Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.
The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. IMCs have since been established on every continent, with more to come."
Liza Radley
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17.08.2010 20:32
Asking middle class activists to care about the working class is like asking Blair to care about the troops. They might sometimes use us as a backdrop to their frequent ego trips but they are incapable of relating to us or our interests, because they are not us.
If you want frequent whining about the G8, Israel, and foreign policy go to indymedia. If you want class war you're going to have to fight it yourself, in your everyday life - not at the level of academic abstraction and not on some televised march or other but in REAL LIFE.
Not so easy now, is it?
anon
Lies
17.08.2010 21:01
No it doesn't, my comments often get removed. Nearly all my comments are NOT abusive, so why remove them? and why brag about how good the IMC is? The UK Indymedia often lie.
and how many of your supporters are working class in the UK? Probably very little, if any.
Neptune