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Indymedia emerged from the clouds of tear gas that filled the streets of Seattle in 1999 as a tool for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. Since 1999, Indymedia has grown into a network of well over 200 Independent Media Centers (IMCs) world wide by means of a commitment to equality, decentralization and autonomy.
Portland Indymedia is an IMC for the southern Cascadia region of Turtle Island (an area temporarily demarcated as "Oregon", southern "Washington", and northern "California" on some maps). Like all IMCs, Portland Indymedia hosts a website with an open publishing newswire to which anyone can post text, images, audio, and video. Unlike a newspaper or other form of media, anyone is free to post their news and experiences with a few exceptions. Articles posted to the site come from people in the community, and their words are never edited by IMC volunteers. The articles that are featured in the center column are taken right from the newswire, thus highlighting original content and reporting. This system empowers anyone to become the media for the purpose of sharing information and views that are blocked out or misrepresented by the corporate media; that is, to stand with the oppressed against the oppressors.
Portland Indymedia is not-for-profit. All volunteers donate their time and have agreed to receive no personal monetary gain. In other words, nobody gets paid. All volunteers recognize the importance of committing to the development of non-hierarchical and anti-capitalist relationships.
To get involved you can:
Email us imc-portland-requests(at)lists.indymedia.org
or
Come to a General Meeting Saturdays 5pm (for location details see http://portland.indymedia.org under "Indymedia Events" at the top of the page)
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