World Indymedia Newswire Archive

Greek state attacks athens & patras indymedia

If the policing concerned you at G20, have a look at what our American friends have to put up with and us before not too long.

Glass Bead Collective, Twin Cities Indymedia, and other independent media activists have released a new film, 'Terrorizing Dissent', an exposé of events at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Featuring first-person accounts and footage from more than forty cameras on the streets, 'Terrorizing Dissent' focuses on the story of dissent suppressed. People charged with "conspiracy to riot in furtherance of terrorism" speak out against the government's campaign to manipulate media coverage and label civil disobedience and community organizing as terrorism.

When I got to Kensington High Street at about 3.30, BS 280 was hassling the handful of attendees to cross the road to the 'designated area'. "Perhaps you can help me out," I said. "For years I've been trying to find out what law you use to dictate where we can practice our freedom of expression, and now you're about to tell me". Strangely enough, he couldn't. BS were very appropriate letters for his epaulettes. It wasn't very plausible -the side of the road he was trying to send us to has a narrower pavement and lots of shop doorways. Where we were, there was a railing behind our backs. He tried for a bit longer and then gave up.

Having got over the habitual hassle from cops, I reflected that irritating as the nursery school teacher persona that British bobbies habitually don at political events can be, they pale into insignificance when compared to the hassle that demonstrators face in other parts of the world. Like Ni'lin with its weekly protests against the wall, which has had four of its young people killed since July 2008, and where fellow IMCista and ISMer Tristan Anderson was hit in the face with a gas cannister on Friday March 13th. Tristan is now in a critical condition in an Israeli hospital, and it was in solidarity with him and the people of Palestine that we were stood around the corner from the Israeli Embassy.

looks like reactionary stuck-in-the-muds have succeeded in taking down athens.indymedia.org
for now at least
(unofficial private announcement)

Recent events have got people talking and thinking about security implications of using indymedia or other online publishing outlets. Below is a guide to how to implement security measures for hiding your identity online.

Here is the latest from the register about the arrest related to the latest imc server seizure. The arrested man is a sys admin who hosted several servers including the indymedia server. Apparently this is enough to get you held for 8 hours and bail conditions. But the comments get it -  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/indymedia/comments/

In the light of the excuses given for the recent Indymedia server seizer in Manchester, this story is highly relevant. In Italy, a rather disturbing prosecution is taking place. Google officials, including Chief Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer, are being criminally prosecuted for a video somebody else uploaded to YouTube.

Just to point to a posting about yesterday's server seizure in IMC-Barcelona:

 http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/363245/index.php

Hidden history of Knight Foundation and Knight Newspaper Dynasty reveals why Knight Foundation grant money to alternative media groups is considered historically tainted by many anti-corporate grassroots activists.

A $200,000 grant proposal, submitted by a group of Indymedia volunteers to the Knight News Challenge contest, has been blocked by other IMCs and subsequently dropped due to the abiding ethos that Indymedia is a counter to corporate, money-fiaxted media entities. The grant application to the Knight Foundation was to fund technical development work for Independent Media Centres (IMCs), also known as Indymedia, and has caused much controversy within the global network. The debate has encapsulated, once again, the thorny issue of how to sustain radical projects without compromising that radicalism by accepting tainted money.

The Destroyed Reputation of The United States Federal Government (Part Two)

I lived in Seattle Washington for 15 years. I worked on computer automated design and drafting for twenty years. My life "fell apart" (yes; - there was mushrooms, a woman, and a brother involved - to add some drama for you!) . I ended up living in my truck and couch surfing with friends for about ten months. Then I got a low rent transitional housing apartment in downtown Seattle - at the Glenn Hotel.

After over an year, the italian indymedia site is back on-line as a feed aggregator of the local italian IMC's at the old address  http://italy.indymedia.org.

information about local imc meeting in berlin. short informatoin about still unprocessed list on listwork of indymedia.

Last night (June 27), three Hong Kong citizen journalists who have
been registered with the Citizens' Media Center (Sapporo) were
detained by Immigration, and were on the verge of being deported.
This morning, Susan George (ATTAC France) was stopped and questioned
at the airport. Ms George is 74 years old, and her detention
demonstrates a lack of humanity on the part of authorities.
[japanese edition: g8medianetwork.org/ja/node/183]

The Fifth European Symposium on Gender and ICT is taking place in
Bremen, March 5-7 2009.

Those with an interest in ICT education/publication and Women Spaces
are invited to submit by September 1st 2008.

Details:

 http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/frautec/gict2009/page/contributions.html

Mail:  gict@informatik.uni-bremen.de

Gustavo Cabrera a contributor to IMC Rosario in Argentina was attacked whilst covering protests at the university in that city. The assault seriously wounded his left eye. The incident happened on May 23rd as the long standing "correspondent" of the election of the universities rector, a process which began in June 2007, was recording comments and conversation on a MP3 with a well known member of the socialist students' union.

police violence G8 Genova 2001

The annual (by now) ETC happening is housed in Amsterdam:

 http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org

It began on Sunday 25th and will continue until Saturday the 31st of May.
Invitees include women and gender Minorities.

Info included on :  http://www.genderchangers.org

On the 23rd-25th of May 2008 a new Independent Media Centre (IMC) for South West Germany was founded: Indymedia Linksunten. Indymedia Linksunten.

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Indymedia Journalists Targeted in Ecuador. English translation of recent communiques: