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Region IMCs
United States 47
Europe 33
Latin America 15
Canada 11
Oceania 8
West Asia 3
Africa 3
South Asia 2
East Asia 1
Total 123
Source: www.indymedia.org. Accessed: December 5, 2003. Author's analysis.
[expand this table overtime to show changes in IMC regionality... i.e. Remember to check every few
months or so.]
In addition to the IMC movement, other digital tools have facilitated the dissemination of
anarchist information and news, specifically the “a-infos news service” which is a multilanguage
news, information, and announcement exchange service run by TAO
Collective. 77 Other sources of anarchist information come from the Mid-Atlantic
Infoshop, the A-Infos Radio Project (Radio4All.net) 78 , and dozens of smaller message
boards and hundreds of emailing lists.
Various North American collectives also provide electronic service free of costs (read:
mutual aid) to radical activists, including email, listserves 79 , and web-hosting.
Mutualaid.org, tao.ca, riseup.net, and resist.ca are the major North American projects
providing these services. Indeed, it has been frequently noted (cite) by anarchists, that the
Internet itself is structured and operates on anarchist principles. It is logical, then, that the
Internet has been a useful tool for the dissemination of anarchist ideas and for anarchist
communication.
Another major form of independent media that has a long North American history is the
self-published pamphlet, or zine (short for “magazine”). Kucsma (2003) writes about the
importance of zine culture to providing an undercurrent of resistance to social
movements.
org_a.sxc: (1) collect individual IMC dates from imc_process (and new-imc). (2) goto
77 TAO = The Anarchy Organization.
78 Hosts thousands of free mp3s of speeches, debates, conferences, and radio broadcasts from all over the
world, all of a Left-leaning or anarchist nature.
79 For a deeper look at the electronic methods of organizing by anarchists, the chapter Organization details
the various email listserves operated by and for anarchists.
[ Williams 86 ] [ this is a draft. do not cite. ]