Indy@genova, english version
We were born one year ago in Bologna, in June 2000, during the days of protest against the Ocse meeting. A group of young media-activists of the social centre network felt the need to add to the already existing channels of digital counter-information, a tool that could go beyond the undergrounds of communication. We wanted to reach out to the masses with a new form of language, that would challenge the corporate mainstream exactly where it seems still inaccessible and prohibitive given the expenses: the moving image, the streaming video. On the wave of the web revolution, the peer-to-peer technology, the file sharing, napster, Indymedia creates the idea of web logs for free and open publication where everyone contributes to the uploading, the publishing and sharing of information. No censorship or changes to the uploaded material as well as the impossibility of eliminating it from the server.
Italy Indymedia refused to identify with one editing nucleus and does not exist in one particular place or location, but it decided to support a net of spontaneous relations with local environments and particular mobilizations. A horizontal way of dealing with decisions and discussions, happening entirely through the mailing list, open for inscription and participation [http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/italy-list]. Today IMC Italy counts on the collaboration of various information activists, video makers, journalists, translators, social centres, hackers.
One year later we are now going towards Genoa, to work together on the media coverage for the G8 contest. We are ready to welcome activists from Italy and Europe, and we are getting organized to provide public access to the net, to put material collected on the street on line. We will be in the streets and public squares, but not identifiable by banners or dress codes. We will occupy ourselves with the right of access to the production of information and we will be aware of our rights against who wants to suppress our material. We will distribute Press Tickets and catalogue our cameras to denounce unjust uses. We will also be insured against the destruction of our material. We are organizing in the two month preceding Genoa seminars in various Italian cities to share our knowledge regarding the usage of information producing machinery. We will not receive any retribution for out work and we will never limit the distribution of our collected material, we will not issue copyrights except in relation with conventional media.
For any info mail to: j21@indymedia.org
or visit our web site: http://italy.indymedia.org
italy.indymedia.org
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