[IMC-US] Rough draft of mission statement

[Ana Nogueira]

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 profit-driven media often neglect and
hopes to empower people to "become the media" by providing democratic access
to available technologies and information.

 

The first Independent Media Center (IMC) was created in Nov. 1999 to cover
the WTO protests in Seattle. There are more than 165 autonomous IMCs around
the world. 

 

Culling content from over 50 IMCs in the United States, www.indymedia.us
<http://www.indymedia.us/>  is a critical tool for making local issues
relevant to both a national and global audience and vice versa. While
participating IMCs are US based, Indymedia.us remains firmly committed to
the ideas of international solidarity and mutual aid integral to the
Indymedia network.

 

The US IMC website features original content from local Independent Media
Centers as well as content exclusive to the U.S. site. Features in the
center column are taken either directly from local US-based IMCs or the open
publishing newswire. Features may also be 'compilations' which typically
cover an event or issue occurring in different locations simultaneously and
are covered by several local IMCs. Articles in the right hand column are
syndicated directly from local IMC¹s feature pages.