Independent Media Center

In November 1999 and the Independent Media Center was created by activist to provide accurate and comprehensive coverage of the WTO protests in Seattle. Acting as a nerve center for the dissemination of information, Indymedia was able to counteract corporate media’s biased coverage by recording reporting and distributing up-to-the-minute reports, photos and audio and video footage of the events as they unfolded. Indymedia's coverage of the WTO protests became the catalyst for the development of the other Indymedia chapters throughout the United States and around the world.

Today there are over 130 decentralized, autonomous local Indymedia chapters spinning the globe. Indymedia is a non-hierarchical collective of journalists, activists, organizers and readers that is absented from corporate and government funding or sponsorship political affiliation and advertising. Freedom from these restraints allows Indymedia to invite users to produce and publish their own print, audio and video media without fear of being censored.

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Taken from, “Media Democracy in Action Censored 2005,” by Peter Phillips and Project Censored, pp. 212.