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Just Wait and See

Sustainability requires thinking – and dreaming – about what happens between events

In 1995, I was sitting in board meetings with Earth On-the-Air Independent Media, which had an award-winning environmental radio program distributed across the country. I said, we need a public media center in Seattle, and the reply was, "Yeah, sure." Well, in 1999 we proved them wrong.

The vision behind the IMC is to create a global communications network that will not just be something "on the side," but will actually eclipse the commercial and corporate communication system, which doesn’t represent people or their struggles. It’s truly time for us to reclaim that globally. read more

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Here Comes the Revolution

How the Internet is redefining the way people work together

November 30, 1999, was an historic day, and not only because it marked the largest active civil disobedience in the United States since the 1960s. Indeed, it showed the level of brutality that defenders of capitalism are willing to use to preserve that system. But amidst the tear gas and the brutality and the jailed protesters during the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle, a revolution was underway — a media paradigm revolution — and it was happening a few blocks from the Convention Center at the Independent Media Center. It was the culmination of an effort that began a few months earlier with a handful of media activists who wanted to break the corporate information blockade. read more