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indymedia gathering @ seoidíns space
on tue26th
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69116&condense_comments=false#comment104574
bring a vegetable,
little workshop, discussion, few little films, more face to face contact
plans for further imc activity
imc-ie is/ should be more than a website
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68510#comment100759
fighting the good fight
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=65045&search_text=red%20archive#comment103321
imc-ie
first re prague
I never got to the indymedia centre - just ran into some of the britishers on the streets.
you're right about prague being 'just' protesters journal (1,000,000 hits per day during the event) of that event. It didn't stay active but IMC did mushroom in Europe straight after as people went home and set up their own very local and ongoing initiatives.
as for the stuff about papers / radio we do a thing with street seen in belfast each issue and i did events thing on near fm for ages each thursday.
others do other outreach initiatives in their own sweet ways.
Anyone who wants to support the site can do something similar - remember mostly everything on the site is copyleft - submit stuff to publications that you like - offer to do a politics column on a local radio station -
Or they can do something different. Just remember the 'manners' involved is that we never speak on behalf of 'indimedia' but on our own behalf as someone who reads or writes or edits or whatever for indymedia.
it is arguably more important to tell people about the site and how it works. Specifically people who are 'in the news' but denied a voice. take the initiative to contact activist groups you see reported in the news who you don't see using the site and let them know that the facility is there to get their views across.
One of the interesting things about the site is that it is a source used by many mainstream journalists fishing for easy stories where the research is done for them saving them legwork
Activists and those with a story that isn't being heard should be told this clearly - It is not a shout in the dark to publish something here the way a blog or an online petition can often be - the site has a very significant readership among not only journalists but politically active people and politically active groups organisations and parties.
If something is published here it is hard for the mainstream as a whole to pretend something (if it is clearly of concern /important) hasn't been said/revealed/heard and ignore it and hope it goes away.
so go spread the good word
Whereas Indymedia collectives, and the indymedia project generally preaches anti-vanguardism, I find there's lots more work we can do to put it into practice ourselves. I was at the IMF/WB protests in Prague too, and remember the smug elite tech-savvy middle class international protest hopper culture inside the Indymedia centre.
Sure, I wished I had one of those Apple powerbooks and Sony miniDV cameras too -- all prosumer grade from what I could tell. Still more though I wished Indymedia could reach Czechs to help them tell their stories, and to tell them about the effects of the IMF and WB all over the world. Indymedia Prague was the journal of the international protesters in the city that summer. That's all.
Indymedia Ireland could do with some more regular contact with the offline, non-activist world. A weekly slot on local radio perhaps? A column in local papers?
a speakeasy is not a speakeasy without a few nuts about the place ;-)
Thanks for posting this - its almost a call to action as well as an interview.
And 'lunatic asylum' - well yes any exercise in allowing people to speak without being put through the media filter will result in some people saying stuff that seems mad and some people losing the run of themselves. But this is as much because both passion and views outside the mainstream are carefully excluded (or filtered in the case of 'liveline' type shows). The 'nuts' tend to be those whose views you disagree with (and I'm guilty of doing that as well) and perhaps some of them are nuts.
And a fucking lunatic asylum!