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hey! I wanted to share a little about the history of Indymedia, my experience with Independent Media Centers and how they are interesting propositions for a few anguishes I’ve seen being shared on this platform. I hold the IMC dear to my heart because of my positive experience interacting with the organization in Urbana-Champaign during the brief period of time I resided there. It was one of the places I felt the most curious to learn about the city I was living in, and made me closer to the community. I briefly did some research at their zine library and volunteered for the books to prisoners project. Most IMCs don’t hold a physical space anymore, but many continue to host their websites that function as open publishers and share news and articles written from local perspectives through an anti-capitalist lens. The Indymedia network has its roots in the 1999 Seattle WTO protests, as a way to cover the anti-globalization protests by the people engaged in the movement in the midst of police violence against protesters and negative mainstream media coverage. It was a network of people with different skills, and though it engaged in several types of media there was a particular interest in the possibilities of digital media as a tool of activism and to engage with it at a global level. The network has decreased significantly, and some of it is related to the corporatisation of the internet, most digital activism began to take place in big platforms, especially X, and there was less focus on exchanging skills, programmers working with librarians, working with radio technicians, that offer the possibility of keeping and running independent platforms. As we see that Meta and X are increasingly aligning with misinformation and the rise of the global far right movement, and many are looking for alternatives to engage with the internet and digital media in general, I believe the Indymedia network is an important milestone to look into, communities can host the own open publishing websites, radios, newpapers, events etc etc you don’t need to know or do everything alone, people have different skills to share and joining forces to work together will always offer more interesting results. I’ll leave here the sites that are still up for people curious Chicago Indymedia dcindymedia.org | Spoonfed News Causes Blindness Los Angeles Independent Media Center Local News | Rochester Indymedia Rogue Valley IMC – Florida Independent News San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center Santa Cruz Indymedia : Indybay UCIMC: Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center Foundation Indymedia Argentina Centro de Medios Independientes (( i )) CMI Brasil | Centro de Mídia Independente Indymedia México - Medios autónomos | Cooperación sin mando de.indymedia.org | dont hate the media, become the media! Indy Features - Indymedia Ireland Indymedia Lille Indymedia Nantes IndyMedia | - Vrij Media Centrum Nederland

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Jan 26, 2025

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