Melbourne Indymedia To Suspend Publishing
11/06/2007
Open publishing has been suspended on Melbourne Indymedia as numbers in our editorial collective are insufficient to manage the site effectively and responsibly. We realise that MIM has played a vital role in reporting activist news from Melbourne, around Australia and internationally. To this end the present collective will be assessing options for how best to provide an activist news service in the future. If you wish to get involved, please contact us, or subscribe to our mailing list.
While open publishing is suspended, our collective suggests if you have a well researched, well-written story about Melbourne events, you should post the story to Sydney Indymedia. We thank our many loyal readers and contributors for several years of grassroots journalism and media activism and hope we can resume reporting with an even better interface at some stage in the future.
Melbourne Indymedia Collective
Oceania Indymedia Newsreal 3 out now!
02/11/2005
Oceania Indymedia Newsreal 3 is a compilation of short, critical documentaries focussing on social and environmental issues in South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Edition 3 includes pieces on Maori struggles in Aotearoa, East Timorese campaigning over Australia's theft of oil in the Timor sea, life and resistance in the slums of Jakarta, climate change in the Pacific, Food not Bombs in Australia and much more.
The newsreal is produced by EngageMedia, licensed under Creative Commons and distributed online and on VCD.
A listing of the videos and links to download individual pieces can be found on the Oceania Newsreal page. You can download a full version at archive.org, or a bittorrent at indytorrents.
If you are in Melbourne you can purchase a copy at Sticky, the New International Bookshop, Friends of the Earth and more locations soon. You can also contact us about ordering a copy.
[Oceania Newsreal | EngageMedia | Indymedia Video]
Melbourne Indymedia is back
12/09/2005
Apologies for the long wait, readers and contributors. We're back
online and hopefully more resilient to future saboteurs in the
future. The server that hosts Melbourne Indymedia suffered from a DDOS attack, taking the
machine offline. We think it was possibly directed at the anti-
fascist Fight Dem Back site
rather than at Indymedia Centres. Fight Dem Back has now moved to a
new server. If you find any problems with the site please email us
Melbourne Indymedia is entirely run by volunteers. To make it better
we need you to participate. Our next meeting is Saturday September
17th, 3pm at Kent st Cafe, 201 Smith St, Fitzroy.
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What's the Matter with Indymedia?
31/07/2005
Almost 6 years after its birth, the Indymedia network has grown to more than 149 websites in about 45 countries on 6 continents. But how good is Indymedia at creating a real alternative to the corporate media?
One US based Indymedia activist asks what happens when - in our attempts not to hate the media but to be it - we end up hating the media we've become?
read more | debate at UCIMC
Back Online!
20/07/2005
On Sunday July 17th the server that hosts Melbourne, Aotearoa, Adelaide and several other Indymedia's was defaced by what we believe was a non-politically motivated mass defacement by script kiddies. We are now back online however there may still be some problems, if you find any please contact us.
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IMC Italy threatened by Italian government
07/05/2005
A public prosecutor from Rome, Salvatore Vitello, has charged Indymedia Italy with crimes of offence to the Catholic religion and personal offences to the Pope, asking for the shutdown of the IMC. The charges relate to an article in the open publishing newswire showing a fake picture of the pope in a Nazi uniform. At the moment, the Indymedia Italy site can be accessed although Italian press agencies are claiming the site has already been seized. In a separate incident, the FBI seized the hard disks of the server that hosted IMC Italy in October, 2004, but those disks have been returned. Indymedia's investigation into that seizure continues.
The Inquirer | IMC Italy
Jakarta rejoin the Indymedia Network
29/03/2005
After a year of re-organisation Jakarta IMC have officially rejoined the Indymedia network. With a new site and a new collective they are providing coverage of social and environmental struggles throughout Indonesia. Jakarta Indymedia are a welcome addition further helping to diversify the network.
[ IMC Jakarta | Oceania Indymedia]
Oceania Indymedia Newsreal 2 now online
16/12/2004
The Oceania Indymedia Newsreal compiles short, critical documentaries focussing on social and environmental issues in the Asia-Pacific region. Bringing together stories from independent producers and community media collectives the Oceania Newsreal is distributed on VCD and online via the oceania.indymedia.org website.
The newsreal aims to encourage content and skills sharing between regional Independent Media Centres and video collectives, community TV and independent video producers. Likewise the online component allows works to be distributed easily across the globe and for people to download and screen them in their local area.
The second edition includes pieces on the 2002 Woomera breakout, a critical look at the anniversary of East Timor's independence, the State of Emergency conference and action in Melbourne, corporate media ownership in New Zealand, forest destruction and protest in Tasmania and videos produced by workers organising in the factories of Jakarta.
To download the videos visit the newsreal website. If you have a video you'd like to submit check out the call for edition 3. If you are a tech or video maker and would like to get involved email the oceania video network. oceania-video(at)indymedia.org
If you are in Melbourne you can buy a copy on VCD at Barricade Books, New Internationalist book store or Friends of the Earth.
Video Online : v2v | NGVision | Demand Media | Portland Indymedia
Global Insights 5
08/12/2004
Global Insights is a video compilation of local and international news, actions and resistance. It is a show case of what people around the world are doing, in so many diverse ways, to stand up for what they believe in and to try to effect change.
Global Insights 5 focusses on the "war on terror", refugees and globalisation from the period 2001-2004 and includes action from Europe, South America, North America, Middle East, Australia and West Papua.
Global Insights 5 screens 7pm at Kaleide theatre, RMIT, Swanston st on Wednesday 15th December.
Access News and list of content | Ska Tv | Oceania Newsreal
US Government: "We seize - you can't complain"
15/11/2004
On November 9, the U.S. government responded to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF) Motion to Unseal the court order that led to the seizure of two hard drives that hosted more than 20 Indymedia websites. The government claims that the order to Rackspace should remain secret because: (1) EFF and their Indymedia clients lacked "standing" (the legal right to initiate a claim) to contest the seizure, (2) the request came from a unnamed foreign government pursuant to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), and therefore was not subject to the protections of the Bill of Rights; and (3) disclosure would endanger "an ongoing criminal terrorism investigation."
EFF intends to oppose these arguments and will file a legal brief responding to the government's letter. It's then up to the court to decide whether the court order should be unsealed or not.
The government response also contains details suggesting that the order may have originated in Italy. While the government refuses to identify which government prompted the court order, the letter cites language from "Article 8" that corresponds to the Italy's MLAT and not to Switzerland's. (As reported earlier, Italy and Switzerland were the two prime suspects.)
Meanwhile, more than 10,000 individuals have signed the Indymedia solidarity statement and at least 17 of the downed websites are back up and running.
[ previous feature | EFF motion | EFF blog | US government response (pdf) | The Register article (2, 3) | solidarity statement ]
5 Years of Indymedia
11/11/2004
Indymedia burst onto the scene in November '99 during the protests
against the World Trade Organisation in Seattle. Since then it has grown to become a network of close to 200 local collectives making media and creating spaces for people to tell their own stories.
To mark 5 years of the Indymedia network and the globalisation of resistance we'll be premiering the Oceania Indymedia Newsreal 2 as well as videos from the Seattle protests in '99.
Come along!: Tuesday November 30, Irene Warehouse, 5 Pitt st, Brunswick. Starts 7.30pm. Entry by donation.
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