What does IMC stand for?

Scholars of media studies, cultural studies, sociology, and other fields, as well as activists and practitioners from North America, Europe, Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand, discuss media forms, institutions, and practices such as community radio, street newspapers, participatory video, Independent Media Centers, and community informatics, showing the multidimensional nature of media and its significance to the social, economic, political, and cultural lives of people around the world, from Colombia to Zimbabwe.

Bovard, a writing tutor, has offered to help build an Independent Media Center in Las Vegas.

At the Independent Media Center, photos and video of the demonstrations were uploaded and plans were listed for "upcoming solidarity actions" in London, Edinburgh and Berlin.

The MDS ``Statement on the `New Middle East','' posted in August on the Los Angeles Independent Media Center site, lauds terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, stating, ``We support a new internationalism founded on unity and solidarity with popular, mass-based resistance movements such as Hamas and Hizbullah struggling against those who oppress us all.

Several examples of media reform organizations and efforts were highlighted over the course of the Institute, including the Independent Media Center, also known as Indymedia (www.

Brandon Jourdan of the NY Independent Media Center described his situation.

Over the past ten years, the number of children living in poverty in the District has increased 29 percent," Jamie Lougher, a Mayday DC organizer, told the Independent Media Center.

The first Independent Media Center formed in Seattle in November 1999 as activists converged on the city to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization.