[IMC-US] DRAFT! About Us

[Sascha Meinrath]

this looks _great_!

--sascha

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 bradley at riseup.net wrote:

> 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.
>
> --------
>
> Here is the wiki page for the About Us
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcUsAbout
>
> sincerely,
> Bradley
>
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