Indymedia Celebrates May Day with another Spectacular Brunch

To Celebrate May Day (International Workers’ Day) this year, Rochester Indymedia is hosting another spectacular Sunday morning brunch fundraiser! Your sliding scale donation of $5 - $10 (no one turned away for lack of funds) goes toward:

-Providing activist groups with web space and email lists!
-Covering the news that corporate media won't!
-Providing free video editing training and equipment!
-All this and so much more!

Details:
Rochester Indymedia May Day Pancake Brunch!
May 1st, 2011
11AM-1PM
$5 - $10 Sliding Scale Donation
Flying Squirrel Community Space, 285 Clarissa St.
For more information, email: RochesterIndymedia (at) rocus.org

Menu:
-Fluffy Vegan Pancakes
-Tasty Tofu Scramble
-Scrambled Eggs and Cheese
-Crispy Potatoes
-Orange Juice
-Locally Roasted Coffee from the Womens’ Coffee Connection

Check us out online! Rochester.Indymedia.org

We are looking for volunteers! Email us at: RochesterIndymedia (at) rocus.org if interested!

The Rochester IMC is a non-commercial, democratic collective of Rochester area independent media makers and media outlets, and serves as the local organizing unit of the global Indymedia network.

Principles of Unity: Rochester IMC

1. We strive to provide an information infrastructure for people and opinions who do not have access to the airwaves, tools and resources of corporate media. This includes audio, video, photography, internet distribution and any other communication medium.
2. We support local, regional and global struggles against exploitation and oppression.
3. We function as a non-commercial, non-corporate, anti-capitalist collective.

Rochester IMC involves volunteer participants and allied collectives organized along anti-authoritarian principles of open and transparent decision-making processes, including open public meetings; a form of modified consensus; and the elimination of hierarchies.

Rochester IMC participants shall not act in a manner that endangers, intimidates, or physically harms any member of the group, including by sexual harassment or acts of violence. Indymedia members shall strive to act in a respectful manner to other members of the collective as well as the public.

Our Goals:

* To encourage a world where globalization is not about homogeneity and exploitation, but rather, about diversity and cooperation.
* To cover local events that are ignored or poorly covered by corporate media.
* To provide edited audio, video, and print stories of the above on the internet for independent media outlets and the general public.
* To facilitate the networking and coordination for the coverage of local events as well as gather information about events to cover.
* To provide links to alternative media, activist, and research groups.
* To seek out and provide coverage underscoring the global nature of people's struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice directly from their perspective.
* To offer community classes for training in internet and media skills.
* To encourage, facilitate, and support the creation of independent news gathering and organizations.

Independent Media Center Network Principles of Unity:
1. The Independent Media Center Network (IMCN) is based upon principles of equality, decentralization and local autonomy. The IMCN is not derived from a centralized bureaucratic process, but from the self-organization of autonomous collectives that recognize the importance in developing a union of networks.

2. All IMC's consider open exchange of and open access to information a prerequisite to the building of a more free and just society.

[3. All IMC's respect the right of activists who choose not to be photographed or filmed.]

4. All IMC's, based upon the trust of their contributors and readers, shall utilize open web based publishing, allowing individuals, groups and organizations to express their views, anonymously if desired. **see appendix: Open Publishing document —> still in proposal phase, at this address: lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-April/001707.html lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-communication/2001-April/000874.html

5. The IMC Network and all local IMC collectives shall be not-for-profit.

6. All IMC's recognize the importance of process to social change and are committed to the development of non-hierarchical and anti-authoritarian relationships, from interpersonal relationships to group dynamics. Therefore, shall organize themselves collectively and be committed to the principle of consensus decision making and the development of a direct, participatory democratic process] that is transparent to its membership.

7. [All IMC's recognize that a prerequisite for participation in the decision making process of each local group is the contribution of an individual's labor to the group.]

8. All IMC's are committed to caring for one another and our respective communities both collectively and as individuals and will promote the sharing of resources including knowledge, skills and equipment.

9. All IMC's shall be committed to the use of free source code, whenever possible, in order to develop the digital infrastructure, and to increase the independence of the network by not relying on proprietary software.

10. All IMC's shall be committed to the principle of human equality, and shall not discriminate, including discrimination based upon race, gender, age, class or sexual orientation. Recognizing the vast cultural traditions within the network, we are committed to building [diversity] within our localities.