Archive for the ‘Independent Media’ Category

Using Twitter to Organize Protests

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Today's the 5th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq and there have been a ton of actions that have stopped business as usual for the day. Wired had a great post today about San Fransico's Direct Action to Stop the War group. DASW has been using the micro-blogging service called Twitter ...

Republicans Offer Bloggers a Press Pass to their National Convention

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

digg this post The Grand Old Party--the Republican party--is extending an open invitation to bloggers to report first-hand on their National Convention in September. Their website says that at the 2004 convention in New York City, they experimented with new media techniques and had good experiences. You need to fill out ...

Super Tuesday Protest Round-up

Friday, February 8th, 2008

There were banners held on overpasses in Colorado, creative street theater and posters hung in Boston, an anti-war march in the California that visited both the Hilary Clinton campaign office and the Barack Obama campaign office, and other actions in Grand Rapids and Milwaukee. Check out these pictures: The march in ...

Colorado Indymedia Launches New Online News Project

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008

Announcing dncdisruption08.org! The new website is a result of collaboration between Colorado Indymedia and Unconventional Denver, a Denver-based group planning protests against the DNC. The website already features loads of info on groups currently organizing against the DNC, a closer looks into the inner workings of the convention, resources such as maps ...