MDSB25H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: 1999 Seattle Wto Protests, World Social Forum, Independent Media Center
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Formal: part of the network of organization affiliated with the. Informal: not necessarily affiliated with the imc but sharing the same worldview. Critical of the concentration of ownership of media in. The indymedia/imc network was formed in the buildup to the 1999 wto. Started b media activists & journalists wanting to provide a journalistic. Wto summit they felt would be ignored by the mainstream media. Movement grew rapidly after 1999, with imcs opening up around events. Summit meetings in genoa, 2011, the world social forum (brazil, 2001), and of the americas (quebec city, 2002) Today, there are imcs in over 200 locations around the world. The history of indymedia and the imc protests in seattle perspective on the such as the gb the ftaa/ summit. These media outlets not a commodity. (ballve, 2004: 29) Indymedia"s radical democratic open source software). (pickard, 2006: 20) Tensions identified by pickard everyone has to agree) process constitute hate.
