Take Heed!(disclaimer): This profile is NOT the home of the Big Muddy Independent Media Center. Myspace is corporately owned and thus is not independent, which is rather important to us (I mean, it's even in the name). There are many positive aspects to a social networking site like this, but in this land of ad banners and the bottom line, can the truth flourish? Perhaps to some extent, but mostly, this is just a free way to promote indymedia, which is pretty cool, and easy to get involved with. You can expect bulletins about upcoming events, a brief explaination of what our group is all about, and maybe some cool features like custom contact tables that'll let you promote a good cause in style. If you would like to contact the Big Muddy IMC please go to the official website. Please add us to your top eight to show support and tell the world you want an alternative to the mind-numbing propaganda of big news corporations.
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About Indymedia
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. Put simply, what you see on TV or read in the paper sometimes does not even remotely resemble what's really going on in the world, and we think that is a lousy way to get by. If you feel the same way, perhaps you would like to join our merry band of revolutionaries, and we'd be glad to have you along.
History
The Independent Media Center ( www.indymedia.org ), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites.
Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists set up independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. The Big Muddy IMC represents Southern Illinois, which is a bit more rural than a lot of other groups, but this also gives us a unique perspective and style. IMCs have since been established on every continent, and there are already over 150 IMCs worldwide! Now that's an Extended Network!
