In response to this article on a “terror” group caught in NC.
TERROR GROUP Geez, I’m quaking in my boots with fear, aren’t you?…. come on … “Prosecutors said the arrests show that the threat of terrorism is still very real.” Give me a break… weekend warriors who were taken without incident… so I guess this [...]
like indymedia, the alpha-hackers (did I just say that?) need to create an INTENTIONAL community. This intentional community can choose whether to sell out its space or not.
So… in what one can only think is the shaming of the whOregonian newspaper into running a full-page photo and headline about the “opposing” story about a car giving a bicyclist a hard time, the headline is now “Driver chases Cyclist”… again… forget several times in the last 12 months that “Driver kills cyclist with car”… and forget that days ago we had “Cyclist CLUBS driver with his bike”.
Indymedia is in it for the long haul. More than anything indymedia is, like the rest of the tactics/energy born of the anti-globalization movement, like a dog that caught the car that it was chasing after. It is hard to know what do next when you won. It is obvious that Content Management Systems, open-publishing (including blogs), is an area which indymedia pioneered for the news/media domain. It is a great part of the mission of indymedia to make open-publishing of original reporting, commentary and analysis from the community a big “DUH… of course that’s how news is gather and analyzed.” Well, anyone can look around and see that part of the mission has been accomplished in many ways. Corporate media, anywhere from FoxNews websites/channels to OPB, find themselves pressured by the expectations raised by indymedia tactics to allow “regular folks” to report or aid in the reporting… or at the very least comment and discuss articles/pieces on their sites. Indymedia has generated the expectation of at least an “appearance” of involving community input in almost every corner of the news. In addition, the other main prong of the indymedia mission has been successful in bringing voice to voiceless, by helping people to find their voice, trusting their own writing/reporting and launching their own websites or projects. So, the questions are of the type, “what now?”
When is a hatchet a blunt instrument? Imagine this, if you can: Andre the Giant, Lou Ferrigno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or more probably one of their incredible fantasy movie characters lifting a 20lb bike over their head and clubbing a poor schmuck repeatedly. Hard to believe….. but, at least possible with the strength of 3 men in one. Incredible perhaps? Well credibility is definitely the issue here. The latest whOregonian full front-page photo and headline reads: “Cyclist clubs driver with his bike”; a very blunt hatchet job. Does anyone remember the full page photos and headlines that they ran every time a biker was killed by a car in Portland: “Driver kills biker with his car” ? No? Well, that’s because they never ran such a headline.
Two very interesting little currents in the youth rights movement that might be of interest to young oregonians; electoral political candidates in favor of a vote for all those who pay taxes and a bill in the house to put restrictions on Gulag schools. It is very unlikely that either support of a [...]
Math is Hard. A yearly reminder of about how voting works… or decision science for dummies. REALLY DUMB-ies
Hear we are again ladies and gentlemen. On the eve of another day of voting our fears. On the eve of playing the political stock market. America is a strange and un-educated place. A place where they say [...]
In response to a posting here about how posters to indymedia can be “unhinged”.
This is probably more discussion than a comment, but, I kinda like the term “unhinged”. I think it is interesting how these mental images of different people fit together when describing the tone of some postings using indymedia.
“Unhinged” seems [...]
A response to: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/10/346955.shtml
Put simply those that would attempt to organize something for themselves and would stand in the way of others organizing for the same purpose are making a big mistake. In this case, whichever group posted something about how they would “not tolerate” other groups taking whatever actions they felt necessary [...]
A response to this article: and a comment posted to it
It’s good to know that at least there are hearts out there still with blood pumping through them as opposed to people like “Really fed up!!” whose heart has apparently ceased to function on any level. It is at least a blessing [...]