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Monday May 16, 2005 21:23 by Anthony
Affordable Wireless Internet For All Urbana Champaign are probably one of the best organised Indymedia collectives in the global network. They recently raised enough money to buy their own premises - a 30,000 square foot post office. One of their volunteers Sascha Meinrath is also the co-ordinator of the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network. In this interview with Amy Goodman, Sascha explains what the project is about, how viable it is and the problems they've encountered with large telcos who are lobbying US government - and succeeding - to have a legislative monopoly on the provision of information networks.
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Jump To Comment: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1"some of us are galicians".
"a few are very proud"
"hardly anyone of us is a champagne swilling urbanite with real estate stock"
The Apology is to be read here:-
http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/52966/index.php
And now UC IMC have issued a feature length apology and "clarification". However the threats of action to remove them from the network remain. In the rush to american media space, professional acitivists who chose to abuse the indymedia global collective mis-represented both themselves and others.
As said above, the orginal language of this global collective is probably spanish. Many of the imc's began life as corners of interest in other sites. The history of European imcs has been as complex and difficult, and has few parallels with US groups. The most important indymedia groups are those now forming in the arabic and african zones.
No US based imc has ever been so important in either demographic readership / horizontal media pick-up or activist creativity, yet many have attempted to abuse the "logo" and "branding" to further individual careers.
The Apology is to be read here:-
http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/52966/index.php
imc-uc function so well because they have such a non web base presence, the virtual merely backs up their real world process,
it would be good if we could have a lot more real world things going on here in dublin, ireland, are there plans for anything?
1. Call for less, not more, media consolidation:
2. Build Community Broadband:
3. Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine:
4. Open Up the Cable TV Monopoly:
5. Restore Public Airwaves to the Public:
6. Claim Your Right to Information and Culture:
7. Make Public Broadcasting Truly Public:
8. Choose Open-Source Software Solutions:
9. Keep Broadband Open:
10. Support Alternative Media:
more at
http://yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=1186
Urbana Champaign have opened up their newly acquired premises for viewing by the public before they fully move in and start using the facilities.
and link to last attempt to further offline imc-ie world
indymedia gathering @ seoidíns
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69451
but could become more, looking forward to the summer lads: streets, gardens, airwaves, wanders, films, walls, ground, murals, printflares, interviews, flyers, croker....
any further with a projector?
could really put that to good use
previous stuff:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68510#comment107282
further imc developments- UC-IMC Buys Post Office
a cross between a newspaper office, a public square and a speakeasy)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69247&condense_comments=false#comment105331
imc-ie is/ should be more than a website
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68510#comment100759
development of imc-ie
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62252&search_text=development%20of%20indymedia
dublin independant media centre
april 23- may 3 2004
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=64562
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=64293
'The attempt to place a "centre" on this network is foolhardy and runs counter to the principles and sacrifices which are the daily strength and woe of this movement. & really only serve the purpose of aggrandisement and US-centricism which invariably serves us little whatever its intention.'
shheesh!
Where does this anger come from?!
Mr ghnñghnñghnñghnñghnñghnñghnñghnñ, certainly you know that each IMC is also autonomous and can pretty much do whatever it likes - as long as they work within IMC principles.
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/FrequentlyAskedQuestionEn
A while back some from the Urbana Champaign IMC blew through Dublin and talked with IMCers here - one comment that struck me from one them was that *most* of what they do is offline - the website is almost secondary to the real world media making projects. Urbana Champaign are more rooted in their community than most Indymedias - and this is an accomplishment that I am very jealous of.
If they can do it better in an Old Post Office - then more power to them.
But hardly a model for European or American (south or central) or Arabic indymedia practise or development.
Indymedia grew out of anti-globalisation protests and the building of new networks between them. Many on this side of the Atlantic make the mistake of thinking that just because the project began on US servers it is a US project. It isn't.
The most important indymedia collectives have always been those in Central and South America, most of the philosophy of the movement has come from the success of the neoZapatistas in Mexico and Chiapas and the idea of buying a big post office really never got to assembly suggestion there. This is something that most english speakers ought reflect on. The first language of our movement is indeed latin american spanish. And thereafter arguably brazilian portuguese where today the landless movement, (no land, no farms, no post offices) met et again with armed police trying to frustrate their aims.
The most important indymedia collectives in the future are "physically" active in arabic speaking countries, and whereas it's nice to see indymedia activists get on with their "post Seattle" careers in "alternative media" in the USA, I (may of my colleagues) take no inspiration in it, and I'd hope that few Irish acitivists would either. The attempt to place a "centre" on this network is foolhardy and runs counter to the principles and sacrifices which are the daily strength and woe of this movement. & really only serve the purpose of aggrandisement and US-centricism which invariably serves us little whatever its intention.
okupe tu t@mbién.