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IMC Los Angeles Celebrates Ten Years of Indymedia
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IMC Staff | 12.13.2009
Bob, Rich, Amy and Mallory from Philly IMC's MayFirst tech support group went to California last month to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the Indymedia network, Los Angeles style. We got to meet and connect with folks from Indybay, KPFK and even Venezuela! Below is a photoessay of our trip. More info on the LA Indymedia Party | Mallory's Reportback  Photos by Bob and Rich, text by Rich & Amy
Looking down Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles CA. Yes, that white smudge running along the top of the hills in the left of the background is indeed the famous "Hollywood" sign!
The IMC party took place in the TOW building. TOW apparently stands for "Theater of Work."
This is one of the sculptures that was part of the "Theatre of Work."
These pictures, placed up all over the walls of the TOW building, were taken from 10 years of images published on the LA.IndyMedia site. Apologies for the poor quality of some of these photos, but this is enough to get the idea of how the walls appeared.
This is a picture of the memorial wall of Brad Will & Lenin Cali Najera. Most of us had heard about Brad (RIP), but we didn't know about Lenin, 23 years old when he died. The board said that he was a national leader of the youth of Pachakuik, and a founding member of Indymedia Guayaquil (Ecuador). He was assassinated by government para-military forces on the night of June 29, 2004.
Here's a close up shot of Lenin Cali Najera.
Anna, the organizer of the party, checks with the guys covering the door.
And what would a radical lefty party be without a literature table? Rich picked up the DVD to Naomi Klein's Disaster Capitalism there!
And of course the jewelry table. There were also table for various causes and petitions, and another radical media space in the area.
The lady sitting down was one of the Raging Grannies, who came all the way down from San Francisco! She also works with Indybay. There was also someone in attendance from Colorado IMC.
Here's Amy with a couple of the guys from LA Indymedia.
This is the room where we had most of the talks. The screen in back of the speaker was used for slides. That's Bob in the blue jacket on the left, and Amy again.
This was part of a discussion on technology politics that Amy and Mallory (center) facilitated. The guy on the left is Omar, was talking about his vision for some kind of journalism school in city. Here are some notes from the meeting, and a writeup on the key points by Mallory.
This was one of the workshops -- a discussion as to the technical details of pirate radio broadcasting, and how it has been used by the Garment Workers Center.
Here's another picture from the pirate radio workshop. I guess we liked that one!
There's Omar listening to the pirate radio workshop.
That's Art Kunkin, Anna's dad, talking about one of the many amazing experiences he's had with using media in the movement. He was the founder of the Los Angeles Free Press, the first underground paper in the country during the 60's, and founding member of the Underground Press Syndicate. Both Art and Anna were proud of each other the whole time, saying things like, "I'm so glad s/he's" doing this!" It's all in the family.
Another good shot of Art.
At the end we had a big roundtable discussion on the future of IMC. Rich gave a reportback for Philly IMC, Amy talked a little bit about Indymedia.US, and Bob offered some advice about how to think of the pace of organizing today.
The group was always very attentive, just like this. Ok maybe not all the time!
This is the lady who made it all happen. Oh, and there's Anna too! Good crowd, good times, lots of thoughtful discussions. A party well worth crossing the country for! |
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A eye opener for me>IMC 10-year anniversary
Submitted by rmship on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 10:50pmThe IMC 10-year anniversary was a real eye opener for this old time civil rights warrior, that worked had in the inner city of Philadelphia, first as a student rights protester. While helping to organize and participate in the 1967 march of the school district board , then located at 21st and the Ben Franklin Parkway. At age 16 i was scared to death, while attending the notorious Thomas A. Edison High School 8th Lehigh ave.
Being busted to promote segregation in the early 60's to attending the Million Man March, then few yrs later training the security team for the Million Woman March October 1997. Acted as a body guard for the leaders of the Save our land community patrol, while taking over houses by families that were homeless.
Many more activities, however, attending this event, It gave me a better understanding of what a free press stands for....even though i was a member of the north philly free press, meeting the leadership and a host of others that work daily to get the word out locally and internationally.
This is the real deal, I must refocus and get to work while spreading awareness to people in my circle. To be in the company of the team from Philly and New York, I had a up front and personal experience. to be a part of this is life changing and could take your life, while on the front lines of real stories of injustice anywhere in the world!
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