[New-imc] introduction

[Andy Mulkerin]

Hi all

My name is Andy and I am involved with the effort to create an IMC for
Pittsburgh. Our temporary site is located at
www.pitt.edu/~arm58/pittsburghimc.html. We've been in dialogue with a
fellow named Chris Strohm who has been guiding us through the process.

Here is our mission statement. We may still change it but this will
probably be it for the long haul:

The Pittsburgh Independent Media Center is a voluntary collective
dedicated to serving the local community with a system for disseminating
print and online news. Our coverage will be the issues and events ignored
by mainstream media, and also those issues that mainstream media covers
with the inherent bias of a news organization run as a business. We
believe that the job of disseminating information does not belong to a
privileged class of reporters and editors, but to everyone. It is our duty
as citizens to act as journalists so that the public knows the truth in
every instance, not just when the truth is to our political and economic
rulers' advantage. We seek to be an inclusive organization which will grow
as a community, and not as a hierarchy.

We are looking into getting a space and we publish a monthly print edition
called The Wrench. You can find it in PDF on the site.


Thanks for your help, i look forward to working with you all!

Andy

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but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of
injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a
counter-friction to stop the machine.
-Thoreau

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