arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

Come and join us from October 14th – 17th in London.

We need your reporting, radio, photography, cables, ideas, enthusiasm and more!

@ The Camden Centre, Judd St Near Kings Cross, London WC1 (and other locations!)

At the heart of one of the worlds most techno-surveyed capital cities, thousands of people from a huge array of social movements will gather in London for this years European Social Forum. Indymedia is hosting a four-day Indymedia centre (IMC) to facilitate reporting and DIY media production around the ESF and other autonomous spaces and actions in London.

This call goes out to all the Indymedia and alternative media networks to participate in organising, developing and experimenting with skill sharing, creating networks of alternative communication projects and campaigns, and producing grassroots media relevant to thousands of participants, a global audience and our social movements.

Volunteers are needed to work on covering events, interventions, actions and protests, to help co-ordinate, produce and publish video, audio and photos, to help run spaces and self organise and create the media we want to see.

The IMC will be at the Camden Centre - located next to Kings Cross, in the Bloomsbury area (one of the two major ESF locations), and is one of a number of autonomous spaces around the ESF. There will also be a bar and cheap food available, as well as social events and film screenings. Further IMC / alternative media production nodes will be located in other autonomous venues, and additional spaces will be provided for some workshops and training (more info on this soon).

The Camden centre also has an alternative programme of events in collaboration with activists from the Indymedia uk network , developed to counteract the lack of content addressing communication rights within the European Social Forum programme, and address the rapid development of technologically determined mechanisms such as mass-surveillance and information control that increasingly shape and delimit our landscape of civil liberties and participatory democracy.

Read more here...

what tactics is this ? will we learn sencorship tactics ? or hidden-from-responsability tactics ? how can you talk about tactics and not being able to aply a true freespeech strategy (wich is the best "tactic" ever ... ). Stop jocking and organize a "self examination auto-critic media" reflexion, wich is what it lack to both mainstream AND indymedia way of dealing with information.
maybe a "informatics and media : dealing with info treatment and database" workshop would bring also more practical use ....