RECLAIM YOUR MEDIA
francesca - 03.03.2002 20:10
16 of March we will reclaim the Streetsof Rome with a sound -Circus parade
stop the media monopoly
for the access to free information and free communication
RECLAIM THE MEDIA!
A call in defense of independent information and freedom of expression
Thinking, telling stories, explaining, spreading knowledge, monitorying the quality of informations, being part of it, using it in a first person, contributing directly with dreams, words, intelligences.
all of this is becoming dangerous
It was dangerous in Genoa during the anti-G8 protests, where independent media, often using amateurish means, gave a direct and different testimony from the one proposed by mainstream media.
And it is now dangerous for who is still making and facilitating grassroot communication .
Indymedia was one of the network that allowed news to circulate before, during and after the G8.
It´s a network of subjects that work in the communication world: videomakers, radio, hackers, journalists, fotographers. An international network of collectivelly run media for a radical, objective and passionate telling of the thruth.
Indymedia is an open publishing site: everyone can upload directly with no censorship, video and audio files, immages, articles, communications.
There is no editorial stuff: it works through mailing list and chat lines that are public and open.
The indymedia computers were the objectives of the confiscations made by the police on the 20 02 02 in Bologna, Taranto, Firenze, Torino. In the early morning 200 policeman and dozens of armoure cars intervened to confiscate the archives of Indymedia Italy.
A vaine undertaking, because Indymedia is everywhere and nowhere. It´s accessible to whoever has a computer or a mobile phone: it lives in the Net. Indymedia is independent, diffuse, horizontal, because it is made by a collective intelligence.
Information is one of the hardest field of confrontation between who exercises power and who suffers it. If a site of information born and grown only on volountary bases become dangerous, then what´s in danger is the freedom of expression. whose turn will be the next time?
We believe it is necessary to react with strength to this attack to fondamental freedoms and we rebel to every attempt to enclose our intelligence.
Indymedia Italia is addressing to all the people that care about free-speach and the independence of informations. we ask an ideal support , that goes beyond the political belonging.
Information has to be free.
Indymedia Italia ,together with Radio Onda Rossa, promote ´ RECLAIM YOUR MEDIA´ a protest for the rights of independent information
saturday 16 marzo 2002 in Rome,we will reclaim the streets with a noise sound parade
Against each attack to the freedom of individual and collective expression.
contctc, support, subscriptions:  italy@indymedia.org
 E-Mail: italy@indymedia.org  Website: http://italy.indymedia.org
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