World Indymedia Newswire Archive

Viewpoint Indymedia Antwerp concerning law affair against protest against slaughter

Here’s the note pinned on the studio door of Undercurrents
To do list for 2008

1) Make 10 new video series on topics ranging from Woodland skills to Technology reviews and from Political news to investigative documentaries.

2) Develop a desktop video player application based upon the open source software.

3) Launch an Internet Protocol Television Station which builds an open mass medium of online television.

Ps: Do it all on a minuscule budget

The Turkish government have added Istanbul Indymedia to their list of banned sites, joining the likes of Youtube and Slide.com

Prosecutors call for 76 years in prison for police defendants.

INDYMEDIA - 12 March 2008. Genova: In a trial that has seen 209 victims, 392 witnesses and 23 defendants, The Bolzaneto G8 ‘Torture’ trial is finishing in a heated controversial ending.

The Truth Revolution Radio show from 1st March 2008 (adverts edited out) is attached. Guests include Indymedia activists Chris Burnett from Los Angeles and Chris from Sheffield Indymedia.

The Bolzaneto trial has entered its final phase process for the violence into the infamous G8 Police barracks & detention centre.

Last Thursday Genova Prosecutor Mario Morisani stood to begin his final arguments in the Bolzaneto G8 torture case, the sister case to Diaz. He spoke of the G8 in Genoa which "had been a wave of insanity. Everyone lost control on one side and the other".

The first of Reel News short film screenings at The Synergy Centre, Southwark, London.

Belgrade IndyMedia been down for past week

Now at 7pm, Thursday 31 January, 2008: SOAS University will premiere a photographic slide show, short film and discussion on the growing Refugee crisis in Calais, France.

this is regarding the serious lack of hemp in the environmental movement. although it would also help just about every other grassroots movement. i would have thought that being alternative media, there'd be something on hemp. i was especially surprised by the sister site  http://climateimc.org/
which throws up 1 article in a search for "hemp". a search on greenpeace is similarly depressing. www.foe.co.uk is a little better. it seems there's more in the mainstream. eg. www.theecologist.org

(ANSA) - Rome, October 30 - A bid to obtain a fresh parliamentary enquiry into alleged violence by Italian police at a 2001 G8 summit foundered on Monday when two government parties joined the opposition in voting against it.

Brad Will: Open Letter International

Like in the cases of so many other journalists, human rights activists, indigenous leaders and social activists, the murder of Brad Will, a U.S. journalist and documentary video maker from Indymedia New York, who was killed in Oaxaca on October 27, 2006, has been addressed by the Mexican Government with impunity for the murderers.

Brad Will's Last Video:
 http://www.stralunato.com/2006/11/09/el-ultimo-video-de-brad-will
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3664350201077731285
 http://www.docacine.com.ar/Notas%20Centrales/NOTAS.htm

Brad Will's murder and solidarity actions reports in IMC-UK:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354501.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354689.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354866.html

IMC-UK's Oaxaca topic page:
 http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/oaxaca/

A book signing at Barnes and Noble turned tense when audience members
asked about Brad Will…

The truth shall prevail

Interview with Andrew of  http://www.engagemedia.org, an Australian project to provide independent video hosting, distro, networking and more for the Oceania region. They have just launched Plumi, a packaged up version of the free and open source Zope/Python/Plone based software that can be used to create your own video publishing site.

On Monday 25 June 2007, the Monday Love crew descended on Parliament Square to give out tunes and good vibes to the Peace Camp.

This revised edition video shows the opening moments of the Diaz raid at the end of the Genoa G8 in July of 2001. Over 300 police took part in the raid, expecting to find violent protesters.

What they found were 3 journalists and 90 environmentalists, social workers and pacifists. In what can only be described as a bloody massacre, 62 people were hospitalized. Some with life threatening injuries.

Good article from dutch media activist on the 'media battle', the press centre village and the media intervention made by some clowns at Kühlungsborn:

Below are a few examples of the lies and propaganda spun by the police during the G8 protests in Germany, as well as direct evidence that the police were at times using infiltrators to try and create conditions to justify further repression.

There are for sure many more examples of this during the last two weeks or so and civil liberties monitoring groups are investigating other incidents. It should also be said that while the media were able to report what appeared to be a tolerant attitude to the blockades at the East Gate, in other places sit down protestors were water cannoned, pepper sprayed and beaten. Also the police tried to provoke violence at various different protests and actions, arrested people for nothing more than having the wrong clothing on them, and failed to give medical assistance to injured people in a number of incidents. Police have also been criticised for using water canon at close quarters against peaceful blockaders resulting in several serious eye injuries, including a man from Liverpool who has lost the use of his eye after it was dislodged. Further criticism has come regarding the use of the military against protestors including the army on the A19 autobahn and the use of Panavia Tornado jets in low fly reconnaissance / intimidation runs over protest camp sites.

Other tactics used by the police included mass unrpovoked arrests, closure of transport systems to prevent people reaching legal assembly points and systematic feeding of misinformation to the media - details of which below:

In conjunction to the alternative media material that has already started coming out of Germany about whats going on, we want to encourage the setting up of a network of nodal infopoints outside of the protest area for people in their local area to be able to go to and find out first hand whats going on...Spaces already forming in Berlin, Mataro(Cat), Sao Paulo