About Oceania Indymedia

Oceania Indymedia is a portal site syndicating news from local Independent Media Centres (IMCs) in the region. Linking self-managed and participatory local sites, Oceania Indymedia is a media hub that defies national borders. We aim to be a space facilitating the networking of solidarity between communities engaged in struggles for social, environmental and economic justice. For these struggles to recognise their commonality and diversity. We seek to generate alternatives to the biases inherent in the corporate media controlled by profit, and to identify and create positive models for a sustainable and equitable society.

Oceania Indymedia is not an IMC. It collates feature stories from local IMCs. To publish participants still need to go through their local site. Local Oceania Indymedia sites maintain a commitment to open publishing and open editorial processes.

The Oceania Indymedia network sees the process of building regional Indymedia hubs as a means to work towards the linking of struggles, actions and celebrations, locally, regionally and globally. We hope this initiative will further the democratic process within the Indymedia network through the creation of both regional media production and decision making structures.

History

Oceania Indymedia is part of the global Indymedia network. The Indymedia movement started with coverage of the N30 WTO protests in Seattle. The technical side of this website was originally sourced from Sydney-based collective, Catalyst, and the community-based news and events site, Active.

Since Seattle, many Indymedia outlets have appears around the world to provide non-corporate media coverage of protests and social movements. Instead of relying on the corporate media machine, we are making our own media.

Oceania Indymedia Common Ground

1. A clear rejection of corporate globalisation and its lack of democracy and grassroots participation.
2. A rejection of all forms and systems of domination and discrimination, such as patriarchy, racism, homophobia and religious dogma of all creeds.
3. An affirmation of the importance of critical reflection, debate, direct action and the development of alternatives to the current system as tools of social transformation.
4. An affirmation of participatory democracy and in the capacity of all human beings to construct the world in which they want to live.
5. An organizational philosophy based on decentralization, horizontal decision-making, autonomy and the will to coordinate.