Making connections: report on Radical Film Network Conference New York City, May 3-5, 2017

摘要

The early 2000s mark the last time media makers, critics, and activists joined in a concerted attempt to weave an international radical media network.. The most notable example, Indymedia, emerged out of the waves of organizing and activism produced by the alter-globalization movement. It served as a bunker of media activism in 1999 to report on the protests against the World Trade Organization occurring on the streets of Seattle and forced commercial media to report on police violence since amateurs with video cameras and notepads were scooping veteran reporters. Independent Media Centers (IMC) arose with each subsequent counter-summit protest and provided inspiration for countless others to join the movement, to “be the media”—as Indymedia people championed at the time.