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Bristol Indymedia is taking a hiatus

imcvol | 08.09.2013 18:55

Bristol Indymedia has taken the decision to cease operating as it currently does not have the capacity to maintain the site due to a lack of volunteers and to also rethink how to take the project forward. If you wish to get involved with Bristol Indymedia then please get in touch using the contact form here and we will contact you once we have arranged a meeting date. We are putting on a film night that discusses the past, present and future of Indymedia, you could also come along to that and meetup with us. Thanks for being patient with us, hopefully we will be back in a new and improved form later this year.





Here are the details of the Cube night.

Indymedia Past, Present & Future

Monday 7th October 8pm The Cube, Dove Street, Bristol. Entry £5/£4 (But nobody turned away due to lack of funds)
Indymedia started life during the anti-summit protest in Seattle in 1999 as an alternative to the corporate driven mainstream media and its business-as-usual, politician-friendly willful ignorance. Demonstrating that it was indeed possible to develop our own channels of communication that bypassed those owned and controlled by the ruling class, Independent Media Centres (IMCs) spread around the planet at an unprecedented rate, and Indymedia became an inspiring phenomenon known the world over.


Since that time the political and technological context has changed dramatically. Today self-publishing is the norm and the mass adoption of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and other tools for curation and sharing have empowered the production, organisation and distribution of content as never before. Along with other IMCs around the world, it’s time to rethink what Bristol Indymedia can and should be about.


We’ll be showing a selection of clips from some key moments in Indymedia’s history, but this event is primarily to discuss the future of Bristol Indymedia. All welcome!

imcvol
- Original article on IMC Bristol: http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/766186

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There is a common theme here

09.09.2013 17:21

So, FTP decides to come and whinge on BIM about moderation and how the site is run.

Bristol mods have enough and decide to take a break.

BIM gets shafted.

It took you about three months of commenting and you buggered up our site.

I make that two sites fucked now.

Quite a track record you have FTP.

Cheers and all that.

Cheers then

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Cheers then

09.09.2013 17:44

So it only took a few months of Eff Tea Pea commenting before bristol mods had enough and suspended the site.

I make that 2 indymedias fuck up and counting.

Oh yeah, and I use the phrase Eff Tea Pea since any posts using just the letters that they represent is automatically hidden.

It's a brave new world it seems.

Hmmm

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