University, College, and High School Students and Education Workers
Publish Your March 4th Breaking News, Reports, Photos and Video to Indybay.org
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The Importance of Radical Activists and Journalists Utilizing Indymedia
As March 4th approaches, your schemes are being firmed up, and the resistance commences against budget cuts and fee hikes, be sure to make plans for documenting the actions in which you participate and witness. If not you yourself, then discuss with others who amongst you can best capture and report on what happens in the streets or occupations. Do not rely on the corporate media to tell your story. They are guaranteed to disappoint with shallow coverage that never tells the full story, especially not from your perspective, or from that of those standing up against the dismantling of public education in California. You and your allies must tell the stories yourselves.Indybay has a proud 10-year history as a radical news website where activists and independent journalists continue to publish their own news in their own words. Indybay.org — the website of the SF Bay Area and Santa Cruz Independent Media Centers — is a unique and invaluable open-publishing resource where every reader can also be a reporter.
Long before corporate "Web 2.0" sites were allowing users to post photos and video, Indybay was hosting a wide breadth of activist's' stories and media from across Northern California and beyond. Besides the obvious problem of patronizing large for-profit corporations that often work against the interests of social justice, corporate websites routinely hand over personally identifiable information to law enforcement or other corporations, whereas Indybay values your security and privacy in ways such as not logging the IP addresses of those who post to the site.
Additionally, at mega-sites your content might get seen but it also can easily get lost amongst personal anecdotes and cute cat videos in not much time. That sort of conten