The Way is the Goal, interview with Maqui, Indymedia London / IMC-UK network activist
Stefania Milan, European University Institute, Italy

Indymedia UK was created in 1999, right after the first Independent Media Center was set up in Seattle in November that year to allow participants to the anti-WTO demonstrations to report from the streets. But it emerged from an earlier website, created by

For the Signs of Revolt exhibition in November 2009 hosting a a weekend long 'Festival of Radical Communication', coinciding the the 10th anniversary of Indymedia, we made the reel above.

It includes scenes from the films The Fourth World War, I the Film, Genoa Red Zone, Reclaim The Streets - The Film, and others.

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

8pm, Royal Festival Hall

usually we are on on the Mezzanine (up one flight of stairs). It can be quite crowded and may be hard to find us, so best get in touch beforehand, or just subscribe to our email list.

Nearest tube: Waterloo, Embankment

Next to the pedestrian bridge that croses south from Embankment station, Royal Fetival Hall mezzanine overlooking the main area as you walk in. Nearest tube station is Waterloo Bridge or Embankment

Help report what's happening by sending your reports from the streets.

The Indymedia reporting numbers are for informing Indymedia about what is happening around the Wave demonstration and Climate Camp "Cop Out Camp Out" on 5th December to enable an accurate picture of the events to be reported on the Indymedia London website, and to create a timeline of reports (like this one from the taking

The Revolution Will be Tweeted: Activism in the Age of User Generated Content

The images coming out of the aftermath of the stolen election in Iran have ranged from inspiring to horrifying. Photos and videos depict streets flooded with hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. There also are the visual results of such bold acts—those beaten and bloodied being tended to by their compatriots. With

Ten years have passed since the first Indymedia site came to life in November 30th 1999. Media activists came together for the first time during the amazing anti-WTO summit protests  that took place in Seattle (US), kick starting the emergence of a global 'movement of movements' that has spent this decade struggling against neoliberalism, war and environmental destruction.

But this has also bee

Delegates at the National Union of Journalists conference has unanimously backed activist journalists working for online news magazine Indymedia in their fight against police raids.

Read more at the link below ...

Announcing: free video citizen journalist training workshop

(***pre-booking for this event is required***)

Saturday 28th November - 10am - 6pm
Space Studios, Hackney - http://www.spacestudios.org.uk
129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, LONDON E8 3RH

Cost: Donation for the opening of the space
Places are limited - to apply, please fill in the application form at
http://visionon.tv/training/application

Our t

Shop 14
The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL

Next Tube: Liverpool Street, Algate East

Indymedia London wants to hear from YOU! We've come up with a survey to find out what users and contributors think of the new site. Please take the Survey if you are reading/posting to or in some other way using or contributing to Indymedia London.

28th London Anarchist Bookfair, Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS.

Tuesday 20th October, 7.30pm at the Royal Festival Hall

(We usually meet on the Mezzanine Floor, when you get in, walk up one flight of stairs and then all around, looking for a group of people who look like they're having a meeting and are possibly fiddling with fancy phones and laptops. Better to get in touch beforehand if you haven't been before, as the venue is large and confusing and poten

Police have dropped their controversial six-month investigation of a Sheffield IT worker who had a minor role administering the activist website Indymedia UK.

If you're out and about in London during the Climate Swoop, be sure to check out the new mobile version of Indy London, available at http://mob.london.indymedia.org (bookmark it in your phone now!).  From there you can get constantly updated, reliable information from our swoop timeline.  We do our best to verify this information, so you can tell what's going on.  The mobile site also lets you

Help report what's happening by sending your reports from the streets/fields - your reports will be used to update the Indymedia websites covering the camp.

There are three Indymedia reporting numbers (starting Wed 26th August):

07556 251 105 : For calling in reports from events - remember the 'who what when where why'

08444 872 207 : For calling in to leave a short audio recording that can be up

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank

Meet at door G in green area on level 3

Next Tube: Waterloo

Royal Festival Hall

During the Anarchist Conference this weekend, some of us from Indymedia London took the time to ask people what they thought of Indymedia, what our job is in relation to the anarchist movement, how well we're doing it, and so on.  Here's what we found out.