[IMC Bombay] Join the Bombay IMC!

[PUKAR Monsoon]

Dear Friends:

As part of its continuing interactions with Mumbai college students 
in mass media, arts and commerce courses across the metropolitan 
region, PUKAR, along with the Comet Media Foundation and other NGOs, 
is facilitating the creation of an Independent Media Centre (IMC) in 
Mumbai.

"IndyMedia" has emerged globally as a non-hierarchical, 
non-commercial platform for the production and circulation of 
alternative news, opinions, and documentation. It is a medium created 
and maintained by local, grass-roots networks of activists, students, 
media practitioners and journalists organised around Independent 
Media Centres (IMCs) all over the world. It is completely open and 
inclusive of all opinions, providing a space for open publishing, 
information sharing, networking around local issues, events and 
protests. IMCs work towards open, democratic, and non-corporate news 
and opinion. There are more than fifty IMCs on every continent, 
managed autonomously with their own mission statements, resource 
bases, and decision-making processes. For more information, visit 
http://www.indymedia.org and the existing India site at 
http://www.india.indymedia.org/.

The Bombay IMC works as a decentralised network of media producers 
and analysts: students, professionals, scholars and sympathisers. 
Pending our registration with the global Independent Media Centre 
network, we have a web-site up at 
http://mumbaidada.bandwidthcoop.org/. This site, like our network, is 
completely open. You can publish your news, opinions, photos, videos, 
creative expressions. You can freely make your own media and network 
with others who do so. The Bombay IMC, and the network of "IndyMedia" 
supporters is not be headed by any person, organisation, or 
corporation, but will work as a loose and open collective, sharing 
information and turning ideas into action.

To join the discussions within the Bombay IMC, go to 
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-mumbai and enter your 
name and password. To see our previous discussions, which are open 
and public, go to 
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-mumbai/. We are using 
this list to coordinate and network in our effort to spread the 
message of IndyMedia in Bombay, discuss ideas for reporting and 
documentation, and talk about organisational issues for the IMC.

The Bombay IMC's open meetings occur twice a month in Bombay: on the 
second Saturday every month at 3.30 p.m. at the Comet Media 
Foundation at Lamington Road, and on the fourth Friday every month at 
5.30 p.m. at PUKAR near VT Station. For more information, contact 
PUKAR at 2077779 or Comet Media Foundation at 3869052. Or e-mail 
<pukar@bol.net.in>

In solidarity,


Sanjay Bhangar
IMC Bombay

Shekhar Krishnan and Rahul Srivastava
Coordinators, PUKAR








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