Independent media

reposted from the Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://www.eff.org/wp/anatomy-bogus-subpoena-indymedia

Other coverage:
http://rawstory.com/2009/11/feds-wanted-data-visitors-news-site/

Probable anonymous post in question re: I-69 resistance:
http://indymedia.us/en/2008/06/32113.shtml
 

Los Angeles Indymedia hosts James and Bronwyn of KPFK's "Indymedia On Air" invited TCIMC's Nigel Parry to appear together with Jessica McPherson from Pittsburgh Indymedia and Ted Forsyth from Rochester Indymedia to talk about the G-20 in Pittsburgh. Topics covered included the increasing militarization of these kinds of events, Indymedia's reporting of the protests around the Summit, the police targeting of journalists and the LRAD.

Citizen media is not a crime!  But the police and military occupying Pittsburgh during the G-20 have made it out to be.

Have you had your footage, photographs, or media equipment seized or damaged by police, or were you assaulted by police while trying to film?  Or do you have footage of police assaulting media?  Call us at 917-650-2486.  By collectively going public with these abuses, we have a better chance of retrieving what is rightfully ours and preventing it from happening again.

St. Paul is a window into our future. It is a future where, as one protester told me by phone, "people have been pepper-gassed, thrown on the ground by police who had drawn their weapons, had their documents seized and their tattoos photographed before being taken away to jail." It is a future where illegal house raids are carried out. It is a future where vans containing heavily armed paramilitary units circle and film protesters.

 Related from TCIMC: From WV to WY to You: Tree-sits to halt mountaintop removal in West Virginia

Below reposted from http://www.fluxview.com/USA/ 

Between August of 1998 and December of 1999, activists occupied neighborhood homes scheduled for demolition and parkland that was to be destroyed by highway construction. They lived in tepees, makeshift huts, tents and trees over two very cold Minnesota winters. They gathered petitions, shot "witness videos", attended hundreds of public hearings, educated the community, sat in trees they were trying to save, and participated in numerous acts of civil disobedience.