Indymedia UK and the Institute For Autonomy are currently preparing for an international alternative media convergence in London on May 14 and 15. The convergence is set to bring the alternative reporting machine up to speed for non-corporate media corverage of the G8 summit in Scotland.
In the spirit of a project declared by the Zaptistas in 1997, they are inviting everybody with an interest in participation:
"We will make a network of communication among all our struggles and resistances. An intercontinental network of alternative communications against neoliberalism…(and) for humanity ... This intercontinental network of alternative communication will search to weave the channels so that words may travel all the roads that resist…(it) will be the medium by which distinct resistances communicate with one another ... This intercontinental network of alternative communication is not an organizing structure, nor has a central head or decision maker, nor does it have a central command or hierarchies. We are the network, all of us who speak and listen." [Second Declaration of La Realidad for Humanity Against Neoliberalism]
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indymedia access point for dsei protests
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Contacts details for the convergence can be found in the invitation.
Links to alternative media makers, for expl:
Video Activist Network (US?)
Diversity Radio (UK?)
AMARC: Community Radio Broadcasters
schNEWS: UK-based weekly newsletter
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Background on indymedia network
There are tons of background info about the network indymedia has become since the first independent media center was set up in Seattle, 1999, as a wide alliance of alternative media makers:
The 2003 thesis of Chris Shumway, titled: Democratiying communication through community-based participatory media networks: A study of the independent media center movement.
"From Indymedia UK to the United Kollektives", also from 2003.
Indymedia's Independence: From Activist Media to Free Software from Biella Coleman, 2004.
