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    1Main 1/2007

    Photos from 1 Main antiwar demonstration in Downtown Champaign

    There are 24 images in this gallery

    Last updated: February 2, 2007 - 3:01am

  • The Case for Socialized Medicine in the United States, and the Struggle to Achieve It

    Building Photos

    Random shots of U-C IMC building

    There are 5 images in this gallery

    Last updated: January 4, 2008 - 12:39pm

  • unity march 1

    C-U Unity March 2007

    Photographs from the Champaign contingent of the 2007 Unity March

    There are 36 images in this gallery

    Last updated: October 18, 2007 - 12:54pm

  • Misdemeanor Defendants

    Champaign County Charging Graphs

    Graphs related to data on Champaign County criminal charges and defendants 2000-2006

    There are 4 images in this gallery

    Last updated: March 18, 2007 - 3:30am

  • CU Property Values vs CU Schools

    Champaign GIS

    Images from James Mortland's GIS work on C-U schools and demographics

    There are 3 images in this gallery

    Last updated: December 14, 2006 - 12:17pm

  • 10 "Glocal" Artists Interpret Genocide

    genocide

    Through varied mediums, the exhibition illuminates the realities of modern day genocide and seeks to motivate its viewers to begin dialogues with themselves and others, asking questions and demanding answers as to why and how genocide can be condoned today.

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    Last updated: January 24, 2007 - 7:15pm

  • GEO lead negotiator, Christopher Simeone, updates the crowd on the continuing negotiations with the University.

    GEO rally Dec. 6th, 2006

    Costs of Natural Gas on the rise.
    Costs of Electricity on the rise.
    UIUC administrators’ salaries on the rise.
    Graduate Employee wages frozen!

    Turn up the heat on Frozen Wages!!

    GEO Rally in support of living wages
    Wednesday, December 6th 2006
    12 Noon at the Alma Mater
    (Green & Wright streets)
    Champaign, IL

    There are 10 images in this gallery

    Last updated: December 6, 2006 - 2:36pm

  • singles out animal advocates

    sample image gallery

    There are 2 images in this gallery

    Last updated: November 8, 2006 - 11:00pm

  • toxic tour

    Toxic Tour June 2007

    These pictures were taken during a Toxic Tour presented by Dr. Ken Salo with Martel Miller.

    There are 6 images in this gallery

    Last updated: July 16, 2007 - 12:29am

  • Another shot of the former power plant

    Toxic Tour Photos August 2007

    Some more recent photos-and a map of the area

    There are 5 images in this gallery

    Last updated: September 4, 2007 - 9:31pm

  • World Social Forum IMC in Kenya

    30 independent journalists from Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Kenya joined together for a total of 4 weeks in Nairobi, Kenya. The African delegates were joined by a handful of folks from Urbana IMC, Prometheus Radio Project in Philadelphia, and some German indymedia activists.

    We build two radio stations from scratch - soldering the transmitters and cables by hand, in part to build knowledge of how to maintain and repair such equipment. One station remains in Nairobi in the hands of the Kenya IMC, and the other in Kisumu in western Kenya in the hands of Maseno University, a small, resource-strapped public university. A number of small (1/4 to 1 watt) transmitters that can broadcast to a small neighborhood and usually fall under the radar of communications commissions, were distributed to organizations in 2 Nairobi slums, 4 Ugandan communities, Nigeria IMC, Cape Town, and elsewhere.

    We also built a 4 color printing press from scratch, printing 100 Indymedia Africa shirts and leaving the press behind for future poster and t-shirt projects.

    We wrote and printed a newsletter with a run of 5,000 which we distributed at the World Social Forum and in the slums.

    And we broadcast live as RadioHuru 107.9 FM during part of the World Social Forum from a tiny room where we interviewed a steady stream of grassroots activists. For example, we interviewed a Nigerian about the ongoing Ogoni struggle against Shell oil, a Somalian women's group about their efforts to promote solar and sustainable energy sources and minimize the use of charcoal which is devastating their land, and gay and lesbian Kenyans in their struggle against discrimination.

    Quickly noticing that most Kenyans were not able to attend the World Social Forum because of the registration costs, we visited three of the biggest slums of Nairobi, hosted by community organizers we met through Kenya IMC. In round table discussions, we interviewed dozens of people focusing on housing, education, media access, and youth issues. In Korogocho, a half million person slum, we met with Koch FM, a new low power station.

    The most important thing we did was to build solidarity across borders in the long term effort to build global independent media networks. We have built strong relationships with plans for future collaborations. We worked closely with a group called Pro-active Youth in the slum of Kangemi. They do everything from organizing the removal of the piles of street garbage to educating youth about their Constitutional rights in a neighborhood familiar with police sweeps. They have built a network of 32 groups and meet in a tiny abandoned police kiosk. They would like to develop a independent media center of sorts - a radio station, resource center, and meeting space. We have discussed Urbana IMC playing a role in supporting the acquisition of a used shipping container that would provide a secure space for a center on the land they have access to.

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