There's a lot going on with the project to build an Olympia Independent Media Center (IMC)! Its a great time to get involved! There will be an Olympia Indymedia meeting 6:00 pm Tuesday, May 16 at Media Island, 816 Adams St. (by the public library). Help build our new IMC website and media production space!

Finally, Olympia IMC has space to create media. Media Island is offering us a whole room for media production. Media Island also has a lot of equipment we can use like a copy machine, computers, printers, video equipment and more. Help make this space and equipment useful to local media activists.

The Oly IMC website is live! There is still alot of work to be done on it, but the newswire is working and people are already posting to it. To post, click on "PUBLISH >>" on the left side of the page. You can be a part of creating a new open publishing news and media node for the Olympia, WA community! We are excited about the prospect of having an open publishing media site and production space in Olympia and we would love for people to get involved by producing and posting news and media and by helping us with technical needs, fundraising, and outreach. Olympia IMC has an email list that you can subscribe to in order to get involved with making media open and free in Olympia. Click here to subscribe.

For more information email oly-imc(at)riseup.net.

The mission of the Olympia Independent Media Center is to provide the Olympia area and south Puget Sound region with noncommercial and underreported daily news, and space for commentary and debate. We seek to gather, interpret, write, speak, and record news events as they occur. Our focus is to facilitate self-reporting and self-publishing in our community. We aim to inspire an independent media revolution that anyone can participate in.

Globally, the Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity and liberate the planet.

The first Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established in Seattle, WA by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests.

Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists setup independent media centers in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy over the next year. IMC's have since been established all over the world on every continent, with more to come.

Olympia Independent Media Center