Northern Indymedia Launches

Article published: Sunday, August 23rd 2009

This month sees the official launch of Northern Indymedia, a vibrant news resource “for all those seeking a better world in the grim north and beyond”.

The launch was Indymedia celebrated at Hyde Park Unity day in Leeds. Here the organisations solar powered ‘Be the Media’ centre provided free internet access with guidance on how to upload your own news there and then. A similar resource was set up at Glastonbury this year, as pictured.

Northern Indymedia is one of a global network of web-based media centres offering independent, non-corporate news coverage. The collective explain their motivations; “We believe that a participatory, directly democratic society can only develop when we are free to write our own accounts of our struggles against capital, our creative campaigns and acts of resistance; and to read and be inspired to action by the deeds of others. That is why we made this site.”

http://northern-indymedia.org/

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