[IMC-US] Draft of press release

[Ana Nogueira]

On the eve of what may be the most important election in U.S. history, the
Indymedia network announces the launch of a new and indispensable website
for gathering the news and views of ordinary people across the country and
around the world. 

With its mission of publishing independent, on-the-ground reports from the
people who experience the news most directly, indymedia.us will amplify the
voices of those most directly impacted not only by the elections process,
but by the policies of either a Bush or Kerry administration.

³Indymedia has changed the face of journalism through its creative and
comprehensive coverage from the front lines of struggles for social justice
through out the world,² says Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!, the
independent public radio and TV news hour. ³With its vast network of
unembedded journalists throughout the country indymedia.us will become a
weapon in the fight for the truth about what happens on November 2nd and
beyond.²

The US IMC website centers around a syndicated wire of all featured articles
published by participating local US-based IMCs. As with all Indymedia sites,
the USIMC¹s open publishing newswire empowers people to become the media by
posting their articles, photos, videos, and audio clips directly to the
website¹s wire. But the US IMC¹s main function is to make the news that is
published, culled and edited to local IMC sites relevant and accessible to a
broader audience. 

There are currently 164 autonomous Independent Media Centers (IMC) around
the world. Over 50 of them are in the United States.

Indymedia is a grassroots network committed to using media production and
distribution as tools for promoting social and economic justice. It is
dedicated to addressing issues that the mainstream media neglects and hopes
to empower people to "become the media" by providing democratic access to
available technologies and information.

Visit the site at: <http://us.indymedia.org/>  or http://indymedia.us

Contact imc-us at indymedia.org