The Internet and Independent Media

Independent Media

The A-Infos News Service http://www.ainfos.ca

A multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists.

We have set ourselves a task. To be the people's scribe. On the other side of history, hirstory has begun. And it will have new authors. It kicks. And so do we. In the struggle for a free society, we distribute news and articles in several languages, covering a wide range of areas. These include workplace, environmental and anti-imperialist struggles as well as the fight against racism, sexism and homophobia.

Indymedia http://www.indymedia.org

The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity.

The Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle last November. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its web site. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.

The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, has since then logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists have since setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy, with more to come.

MicroRadio.Net http://www.microradio.net

EMPOWERMENT or Smashing the Corporate Media Blockade
Contact: info@microradio.net

WHO: Who is the Radio in MicroRadio? YOU ARE! Get MicroPowered NOW!
WHAT: Download and BROADCAST MP3 audio STREAMED to you on demand LIVE or from the ARCHIVE to your NEIGHBORS in your COMMUNITY somewhere on the FM DIAL. Become a tiny beacon of hope in your hometown with FOUR watts of MicroRadio FM broadcast power. Check out the TOOLBOX for the resources you need.

WHERE: MicroRadio.NET and your home town.
WHY: LIFE is not a SPECTATOR SPORT!
WHEN: NOW you can JOIN the MOSQUITO FLEET of DEDICATED DOWNLOADERS and add your WATTAGE to the cause!

ELEMENTS: HARNESS your personal initiative. ASSEMBLE your MicroTransmitter BROADCAST breaking events in LIVE STREAMING MP3 from Independent STUDIOS or CONVERGENCE centers LOCATED around the GLOBAL VISION. Check out the EBS Calendar for more information about upcoming ECBs brought to you by the Emergency Broadcasters Bloc and fellow freedom fighters.

Liberation Theory 101: Seize the the technology that oppresses you. Use it to liberate yourself and others. Keep it small, keep it real, move fast, stay in touch. Don't HATE the Mega-Media, BECOME the *Micro*Media. Give your community its own voice.

GOALS: EXTEND the realtime MicroRadio Network to YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD FM DIAL, and help SMASH the corporate media blockade. BECOME MicroRadio empowered. Cross the DIGITAL DIVIDE and SEIZE your slot on the FM dial. NETWORK with others already engaged. SPREAD the global Revolution and BEGIN your local EVOLUTION!

LIFE IS NOT A SPECTATOR SPORT.
Get off your ass, and start broadcasting.
THE REVOLUTION NEEDS YOU.