Indymedia Scotland Mission Statement
Indymedia UK is a network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.
IMC-SCOTLAND Mission Statement
(from documents sent to the new-imc process in 2003)
The Scotland Independent Media Centre is a network of activists that are committed to using media and journalism as a tool for social change. As a network, we will make decisions through a consensus process and do our best at representing the diversity of our local communities.
Though currently based in Edinburgh and Glasgow, the IMC-SCOTLAND will attempt to cover issues anywhere in Scotland that are not being given adequate coverage by any other media. The Scotland Independent Media Center will also work to network with existing independent media and publications that are committed to social, ecological, and economic change throughout Scotland, the British Isles, and beyond.
The IMC-SCOTLAND will continually oppose hierarchy within its structure. The Scotland Indymedia Center advocates and promotes media democracy through video showings, skill-share workshops and teach-ins, which are to be open for the benefit of all. Along with web publishing, we will also hopefully produce print resources and videos to spread media democracy amongst those who may not have access to on-line resources.
The Scotland Independent Media Center will actively oppose racism, homophobia, classism, sexism, mobbing, nationalism, and any other form of domination and discrimination within our framework and within the framework of society.
As a collective, our attitude is assertive, and where necessary confrontational, and we will defend and keep free the space we are helping create.
Mainstream corporate media exist to propagate the power of capitalism, attempting to hide their corporate interests underneath the banner of objectivity and impartiality.
IMC-Scotland is proudly a network of subjective voices reporting the reality of our own lives, and our passionate desire for a world large enough to hear all of our voices.
We believe that Scotland is only as large as our collective imagination, and that since we are a regional rather than topical media center, we will include other parts of Scotland by allowing them to have as much autonomy as they wish, including full access to all features of the site and moving main IMC-SCOTLAND meetings from city to city so one group does not centralize undue influence on IMC-SCOTLAND.
This process has already admirably worked with the two IMC working-groups set up in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
Update: Since the above was written Indymedia Scotland has evolved, and is mainly based on activity around it's own indypendent website as well as activities in various physical spaces including Infoseed. Do refer to copy of Mission Statement on the new site.
Indymedia Scotland
