Melbourne Indymedia

Reassess our media strategy

Melbourne Indymedia — 2007-06-12T12:42:23

Open publishing has been suspended on Melbourne Indymedia as numbers in our editorial collective are insufficient to manage the site effectively and responsibly. We realise that MIM has played a vital role in reporting activist news from Melbourne, around Australia and internationally. To this end the present collective will be assessing options for how best to provide an activist news service in the future. If you wish to get involved, please contact us, or subscribe to our mailing list.

While open publishing is suspended, our collective suggests if you have a well researched, well-written story about Melbourne events, you should post the story to Sydney Indymedia. We thank our many loyal readers and contributors for several years of grassroots journalism and media activism and hope we can resume reporting with an even better interface at some stage in the future.

Melbourne Indymedia Collective

Broardcasting to the world

Melbourne Indymedia — 2006-09-08T04:41:20

Melbourne Community owned and operated radio station 3CR has started streaming its content over the internet. Listeners can choose low speed or high speed streaming and use proprietary audio programs, or download the opensource VLC - the cross-platform media player.

MelbIndyRadio on 3CR

Indymedia Video

Melbourne Indymedia — 2005-11-03T15:05:24

Oceania Indymedia Newsreal 3 is a compilation of short, critical documentaries focussing on social and environmental issues in South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific. Edition 3 includes pieces on Maori struggles in Aotearoa, East Timorese campaigning over Australia's theft of oil in the Timor sea, life and resistance in the slums of Jakarta, climate change in the Pacific, Food not Bombs in Australia and much more.

The newsreal is produced by EngageMedia, licensed under Creative Commons and distributed online and on VCD.

A listing of the videos and links to download individual pieces can be found on the Oceania Newsreal page. You can download a full version at archive.org, or a bittorrent at indytorrents.

If you are in Melbourne you can purchase a copy at Sticky, the New International Bookshop, Friends of the Earth and more locations soon. You can also contact us about ordering a copy.

[Oceania Newsreal | EngageMedia | Indymedia Video]

Melbourne IMC recovers from Denial of Service attack

Melbourne Indymedia — 2005-11-10T23:01:15

Apologies for the long wait, readers and contributors. We're back online and hopefully more resilient to future saboteurs in the future. The server that hosts Melbourne Indymedia suffered from a DDOS attack, taking the machine offline. We think it was possibly directed at the anti- fascist Fight Dem Back site rather than at Indymedia Centres. Fight Dem Back has now moved to a new server. If you find any problems with the site please email us

Melbourne Indymedia is entirely run by volunteers. To make it better we need you to participate. Our next meeting is Saturday September 17th, 3pm at Kent st Cafe, 201 Smith St, Fitzroy.

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Where to for the IMC movement?

Melbourne Indymedia — 2005-11-10T23:39:54

Almost 6 years after its birth, the Indymedia network has grown to more than 149 websites in about 45 countries on 6 continents. But how good is Indymedia at creating a real alternative to the corporate media?

One US based Indymedia activist asks what happens when - in our attempts not to hate the media but to be it - we end up hating the media we've become? read more | debate at UCIMC

Back Online!

Melbourne Indymedia — 2005-11-10T23:48:22

On Sunday July 17th the server that hosts Melbourne, Aotearoa, Adelaide and several other Indymedia's was defaced by what we believe was a non-politically motivated mass defacement by script kiddies. We are now back online however there may still be some problems, if you find any please contact us.

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