About the Melbourne Independent Media Centre <Indymedia>
Melbourne Indymedia is a grassroots, self-publishing website committed to maintaining
a space for radical reportage and analysis of current events. We run by the
motto "Everyone is a witness, everyone is a journalist". Indymedia is participatory
media. We want you to upload your audio, video, text or photos.
We seek to generate alternatives to the biases inherent
in the corporate media controlled by profit, and to using media production and
distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice. We seek
to express the global nature of people's struggle for social, economic, and
environmental justice directly from their perspective.
Through this work, we seek to further the self-determination of people under-represented
in the media and to illuminate and analyse local and global issues that impact
ecosystems, communities and individuals.
Melbourne Indymedia is part of the international Indymedia network. The Indymedia
movement started with coverage of the N30 WTO protests in Seattle. The technical
side of this website was originally sourced from Sydney-based collective, Catalyst, and the community-based news and
events site, Active.
Since Seattle more than 100 Indymedia outlets have appears around the world
to provide non-corporate media coverage of protests, struggle, celebrations
and social movements.
Contact Us
Further Reading
Nodes of Conflict:
Weaving a Web of Radical Communications
Thoughts about the
evolution of indymedia since 1999
Indymedia:
Building an international activist Internet network
Read more at the IMC
Essay Collection
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