[IMC-US] Re: [SDIMC] whoa! google news?!

[onto]

So this is pretty incredible. Indymedia news stories from San Diego IMC 
and global imc has just taken over the Minutemen news in the "Google 
News Section", which until today, has been dominated by 190 stories of 
the corporate press.

At a time like this, when media is the major weapon of the border 
vigilantes, its amazing to see what a little independent journalism can do.

I'm cc'ing imc-us because people there are working on google news 
syndication too.

I'm not sure why or how this happened, but i think its a major victory, 
both for independent media and for the human rights groups working 
against the minutemen.

border love,
onto

san diego imc slave
http://deletetheborder.org

lotu5 wrote:
> so i just checked google news again for new news about the minutemen.
> i've checked it a billion times since we got back, including once about
> half an hour ago.
> 
> this time, i saw this:
> 
> http://news.google.com/news?q=minutemen&hl=en&hs=pqu&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=wn
> 
> Diverse Anti-Racist Coalition Confronts, Disrupts the MinuteMen in ...
> Independent Media Center - 27 minutes ago
> The California MinuteMen started their operations in Campo, California,
> one hour east of San Diego on July 16th. They were confronted ...
> 
> Diverse Anti-Racist Coalition Confronts, Disrupts the MinuteMen in ...
> Independent Media Center - 27 minutes ago
> The California MinuteMen, a group of racist vigilantes who are
> patrolling the US/Mexico border and hunting migrant people, started
> their operations The ...
> 
> Minutemen Threaten to Shoot Protesters
> Independent Media Center - 27 minutes ago
> The video we have submitted with this press release shows us attempting
> to engage the California Minutemen in a lighthearted, humorous manner
> and their response ...
> 
> 2nd Virtual Sit-In Against the MinuteMen
> Independent Media Center - 27 minutes ago
> This, the second action coordinated by SWARM [1], is an attempt to move
> beyond the minutemen [2] - as one group of people working against
> migrants and ...
> 
> 
> I've never seen links to our indymedia center in google news. Maybe this
> is because of the global feature, but some of these links are from our
> site, so maybe it's because they've added us to their news sites
> database. Either way, this is really awesome. I think lots of folks use
> google news and this is a great way for us to get exposure.
> 
> rock on folks!!!
> 
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