Indymedia.org – analysis from within.

0. Introduction

0.0 History

Road protest was at its hight in the late nineties in Britain. A loose network of activists, under the banner “Earth First!”, was one of the catalysts. There were groups using such banner all over Britain, although the one in London chose to use “Reclaim the Streets” instead.

“Reclaim the streets” had a contact telephone number that around announced actions often became saturated. The media attention, though, was focused mainly in their hairstyles and extravagances, and not on the issues these activists were defending.

Virtually every person ever involved in Indymedia will tell a different story of how it began.

I have to do 2 rectifications:

1. political censorship in Tube Radio: all radios have been written to regarding the elections, with a call to be fair etc. So it is not that my very competent teachers are going to censor me; it is that OFCOM is watching every one.

2. What Ben* told me about 10% only getting 70% or more, my personal tutor is going to have a word with him because it is not that way that the university works.

* the name has been changed! (in fact, all names on this blog have been changed except when they are nicks that no one could recognised)

© anatemas

I’have just attempted to pretend that I am an actress, although no one would ever believe I can be one, especially after seeing the video which has been the result of today’s work…, more than to be believed, it is something to be laughed at. We did certainly have a really good time doing it, even the poor director, who was really taking it seriously, could not help but laughing. Until he saw the video at the end of the day, that is. I could see he was worried big time, while we were watching it, wondering what on earth he could do with the rough cuts we were watching.

And when we run out of video to watch, we played the hacklab video, about Free Software, and did a bit of evangelisation, right there.

I have the impression that they listened to us only because they wanted to hear Angel speak.

We have reached the conclusion he has a unique success with girls. Good. “He” can become an actor.

I have been verbally notified that the political content of Tube Radio, for which I was previously told to be the sole responsible person, is going to be censored / approved/ disapproved, before being aired, for legal reasons.