Rabble is answering questions about his involvement in Indymedia for someone’s thesis and posting his answers on his Anarchogeek blog. He’s keeping his answers necessarily brief, though comprehensive enough to be enlightening for the casual reader, like me.
He’s only 3 questions in (out of 18), but already I think posting his answers on his blog helps provide some needed context and history of the Indymedia movement. What’s nice about these questions and answers is that they don’t attempt to result in a definitive history, but rather the history of one person’s experiences. That’s valuable both by itself, and also within a larger context if more people add their stories.
The power of Indymedia is that it encourages and enables a diversity of stories and responses on the news (and about what the news is) rather than attempting or requiring a single authoritative so-called “objective” version. It is only appropriate and most useful that documentation of Indymedia be similarly diverse, discursive and dynamic.
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