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  • NoRNC Phone Tech and the Evolution of Indymedia

    Rabble of Anarchogeek worked this past week on a very cool last-minute project to make all sorts of information available by phone to protestors and reporters on the streets in NYC. He also posts his thoughts on the evolution of Indymedia, which I think are spot on. He identifies some strenghts of Indymedia, which I…

  • On Today’s Radio Show: RNC Wrap-UP with A-Noise Webcast, U-C IMC Reporters Arrested and Detained

    On today’s mediageek radioshow, we’ll talk to Sarah from the A-Noise collective, which provided 24-hour web-radio coverage of the RNC protests for six days straight. We’ll also hear the story of one Urbana-Champaign IMC reporter who was arrested and detained at the now infamout Pier 57 facility. The radioshow airs Fridays at 5:30 PM on…

  • Feature on U-C IMC Reporters Arrested in NYC

    Two volunteers stayed at the Urbana-Champaign IMC all night last night in order to take phone calls from our reporters who had been released from detention as well as keep tabs on one reporter who still remains in custody, but is in Central Booking and scheduled for release today. They used some of that time…

  • 1 More U-C IMC Reporter Released from Custody; Most Detainees May Be Released Soon

    I just got off the phone with the IMC and they tell me that one of the female reporters was released just about 20 minutes ago. Now they’re waiting for the last two. They haven’t called the IMC, but we do know that they’ve recently talked to their parents, indicating that they’re still OK. According…

  • 5 Urbana-Champaign IMC Reporters Arrested in NYC, 2 Released

    This is an example of how pre-emptive arrests by the NYPD could hit at any moment, even at the most peaceful of marches and actions. Yesterday afternoon five reporters from the U-C IMC were at the War Resisters March, starting at Ground Zero and planned to go to Madison Square Garden for a die-in. Just…

  • NYC IMC Subpoenaed for Server Logs Over Posts of Publicly Available Information

    Thanks to Kellan, Rabble, Jebba, and U-C IMC, I’ve learned that the Secret Service has opened an investigation into lists of 2200 RNC delegates that were posted to the NYC IMC newswire. In a statement posted to their website, the NYC IMC collective writes: NYC Indymedia believes that this investigation is wholly without merit, and…

  • Pirate Radio Covering RNC Protests

    Sue Carpenter, author of 40 Watts from Nowhere, files an article for the LA Times on the decentralized network of pirate stations that will carry the audio webstreams out of NYC: Beginning today, RNC protesters plan to use wireless phones to call in live, in-the-trenches reports that will be streamed over the Internet and picked…

  • Video from the Community Wireless Summit

    We’ve got the opening and closing plenary videos on-line from last weekend’s National Summit on Community Wireless Networks. Both plenaries were great. In particular, Harold Feld, associate director of the Media Access Project, gave a call to the audience to spend 5 minutes a day to protect and enlarge wireless networking spectrum, during the opening.…

  • Press for the Community Wireless Summit

    The AP ran a story on this weekend’s Summit that got picked up by USA Today. What’s kind of nice about this sort of “event journalism” is that reporters and editors don’t typically feed the need to go dig up an opposing viewpoint in order to justify their supposed objectivity. Thus the AP article doesn’t…

  • End of the Wireless Summit

    The National Summit on Community Wireless Networks ended a few hours ago, on a high, but tired note. This was one of the best conferences I’ve been to, from the standpoint that everyone attending is smart, experienced and has valuable thoughts to share. For those of you who couldn’t make it, there will be audio…