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Northern Indymedia Needs You !

northern indymedia collective residue x3 | 01.08.2012 09:10 | Indymedia | Sheffield

Northern Indymedia is short of people and needs new volunteers if it is to continue as a viable project. The collective running this website needs people to step up and take over. Unless this happens, this newswire will soon have to shut down.

This project came about because some people noticed that their local independant media centres (IMC Leeds-Bradford and IMC York) had dwindling levels of activity and could be improved in many ways. Three and a half years later, those of us who are still involved feel that we succeeded but the wheel has turned full circle, and now is the time for some new people to take the reins.

The pre-history of Northern Indy can be examined on the long defunct IMC-Leeds mailing list. The first formal call to form a new collective and the minutes of the first meeting reflect some of the issues we wanted to address: empowering our communities by facilitating autonomous publishing, returning control of resources to accountable local people and helping campaigns to produce their own media output were recurring themes.

After months of hard work, the collective was able to launch this website on August 1st 2009. With help from comrades in other parts of the world and a herculean effort by one much-missed local geek, Northern Indy was born amongst omens of spatial confusion, clashing sound-systems, revelry and dirt at the Hyde Park Unity Day celebrations.

Highlights of the last few years included cooperation with autonomous tech projects & hackspaces locally (common place, 1in12) and farther afield (hacktionlab); an off-shoot radio project (radio interference); manifestations at temporary social centres, high profile public events (Leeds Engage and Change, Bradford Mayday, York Peace Festival) and political mobilisations (Climate Camp, counter-edl).

The project has many assets that might attract people interested in running an independent media centre; our server is rented from the tachanka collective with whom we have enjoyed an excellent supportive relationship; our software is custom-built by media activists with privacy and security in mind; we curate a large archive of copyleft user-generated media; and best of all, we have the goodwill and respect of many people in the communities we serve.

We hope that reading about this project will have inspired you to want to keep it going, and even to improve it in ways we haven't yet imagined. The few of us who are involved at the moment are feeling like we have had our fun, and now we want to see someone else have a go. We'd like to stay involved in a small way if there are lots of other people around, but none of us want to carry on doing it with just the small group we have now. So, this is your cue to get involved.

If you ever thought to yourself "wow, independent media is cool but someone else is already doing it" then now is the time to step up, because if you don't, we're going to have to shut down. What that would mean is that sometime soon we would disable publishing here and mothball the website, to serve as an archive but with no new content allowed. We think that would be very sad, and we hope it won't come to that, but we're telling you loud and clear so you won't be shy in stepping forward: if you don't make this work, it's going to stop working, so get in touch NOW if you want this project to carry on. The easiest way to get in touch and volunteer is to subscribe and post to our mailing list.




northern indymedia collective residue x3
- e-mail: imc-northern@lists.indymedia.org
- Homepage: http://northern-indymedia.org

Comments

Display the following 70 comments

  1. Northern IMC — IM Reader
  2. Good riddanace to bad rubbish — Bye-Bye
  3. Infighting — Impartial observer
  4. We nearly lost Indymedia — Indymedia user
  5. Re - "We nearly lost Indymedia" — iggyp
  6. More lies from an arch trouble-causer — Harry Webb
  7. Well.... — JimAKirk
  8. Response by Mark — Mark
  9. iggyp said: — ftp
  10. Mark — JimAKirk
  11. Oh the cheek of it! — SYPTE
  12. No consensus at Bristol. — JimAKirk
  13. No consensus at Bristol. — ftp
  14. FTP — JimAKirk
  15. bad way to encourage new life into your project — ftp
  16. JimAKirk — ftp
  17. Thanks FTP — JimAKirk
  18. And so it begins... — Jen
  19. Jen - did you miss these? — ftp
  20. Not again ? — Not in any way interested anymore
  21. Jen — JimAKirk
  22. Replying to "Jen - did you miss these?" — Jen
  23. JimAKirk — Jen
  24. Quoting from links provided by ftp — iggyp
  25. iggyp — ftp
  26. What was supposed to happen — One of BeTheMedia
  27. ftp — Jen
  28. What Happened next — ftp
  29. Other Indymedia sites are available - indeed they are Chris — Indymedia London
  30. London is indeed a great site — JimAKirk
  31. The quote says it all. — Remembering the Bristol meeting
  32. London is indeed a great site — Yossarian
  33. Yoss — JimAkirk
  34. from the link I gave — ftp
  35. Play the troll card — Jen
  36. For clarity and accuracy — No name
  37. re: playing the troll card — ftp
  38. This is part of a broader IMC crisis — One of another IMC
  39. Reasons why IM Northern was set up. Makes for still relevant reading. — A mod from long, long ago
  40. the overseer/leader who initiated and led this split — It's all in the horseshit
  41. can one explain — dumber
  42. axes ground and super sharp — wow, you guys, you're incredible
  43. @dumber — cautious optimism
  44. About time — An Indymedia user
  45. Mark — Mark Barnsley
  46. Beg to differ — Old CPer
  47. James — anon
  48. Unfortunately anon — JimAKirk
  49. Unfortunately JimAKirk — another anon
  50. Disinformation, trolling and the information war — Chris
  51. another anon — JimAKirk
  52. Moderating activists — another anon
  53. The murky world of northern indymedia — 1 in 12 member
  54. Concensus — @
  55. re: Consensus — Nurse Ratchett
  56. 1 in 12 member — JimAKirk
  57. Good luck — 1 in 12 member
  58. Physician heal thyself — Jam Sandwich
  59. 1 in 12 member — JimAKirk
  60. yawn — no accountable
  61. @ no accountable — almost a disciple
  62. The Global History Project. — D.A.L
  63. Read it again — Tarka Dhal
  64. @almost a disciple — no accountable
  65. Full Disclosure... — Rudeboy
  66. @ Rudeboy — Mark
  67. "Fake" sites and bitter ironies — Chris
  68. "Principles of Unity" — ftp
  69. “Laughing”? Well at least it makes a change from blubbing everywhere? — Mark Barnsley
  70. Update on Marker — JimAKirk
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