[IMC-US] DRAFT! About Us

[bradley at riseup.net]

Hi IMCistas,

Here's a working draft for the 'about us' page.......
http://indymedia.us/en/static/about.shtml

About Indymedia.us

The Indymedia.us website has three primary componets:

1) Indymedia.us is a portal site syndicating news from local Independent
Media Centers (IMCs) in the United States

2) Indymedia.us volunteers maintain an open publishing newswire to which
anyone can post text, images, audio and video using the online publish
form

3) Indymedia.us volunteers promote articles into the center column


Linking autonomous and participatory US-based IMCs, Indymedia.us is a
network of solidarity between communities engaged in struggles for social,
environmental and economic justice. Indymedia.us seeks to generate
alternatives to the biases inherent in the corporate media controlled by
profit, and to identify and create positive models for a sustainable and
equitable society.

Unlike a newspaper or other form of media, content published to the
website goes directly to the top of the open publishing newswire without
being approved or edited.

The articles that are featured in the center column are taken from either
the local features newswire or the open publishing newswire. Features may
be 'compilations' which typically cover an event or issue that occurs
simulataneously in different locations and are covered by several local
IMCs.

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Here is the wiki page for the About Us
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUsAbout

sincerely,
Bradley