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Good EveningSunday 16 Mar 2003
author: Miklos Platthy (mplatthy@hotmail.com)
Good evening to everybody
Less talk more journalism. If one wanted to go to a forum, there a thousands on the Web. For indymedia to be a credible Alternative media site then there must be journalistic guidelines to follow.
If I am studying a subject whether it is the proposed War on Iraq or an oil spill in the Pacific Ocean, then I do not wish to read simply one persons opinion of events that have no basis other than their own judgements. What indymedia needs is less judgement. From what I have seen there are many indymedia sites that are blossoming, reporting facts that have been neglected in the mainstream media or not published at all. For indymedia to flourish I must realise that I am responsible for indymedia, that I am responsible for the world around me. The realisation that I am 'the world' is all that is necessary for this sense of responsibility to come about. For my world is my nourishment, and for me to be properly nourished I must contribute to the world that I depend on. I have frequently in the past seen with the eyes of a separate observer, as if I had no relation whatsoever to the events passing around me. I do not wish to change you or to bring about change, this is not an action born of desire, but of care. I care...I love..... A love that is not born from a feeling of emptiness or attachment, but a love that resonates throughout reality as a bell resonates through the air. A love that awakens one to the 'reality' and not the fancy of self* (*a self born from previous experience, that has been developed, that believes and that wishes everything to be different). To see the world as if one had never seen it before, the movements, the breeze and awaken an interest that has lied dormant for so long.
It is this sense of care or understanding that brings about a revolution in mind and attitude, a revolution that occurs within ones heart. A revolution that changes everything.
A few questions and points which I put forward before I cease my writing.
*Why do you write? Is this action born from a desire to change, and where does this desire come from?
*I see indymedia not for what it was, but what it is. Indymedia is an Internet community that has been set up specifically to give and 'open' media to the peoples of the world, it is a project that encourages people to write, to care, to participate, to be inspired and to challenge the values that have been entrenched in the collective consciousness of our communities, whether we are from the US, India, the UK, Latin America or anywhere for that matter. I myself am from Sydney and the more I read, the more I realise that I see myself in the opinions and the stories that are put forth. Somewhere within me is the desire to trivialise and to ridicule. Where is that emotion born?
Enough chatter from me.
Love
Miklos
P.S. With regards to the volunteers that make indymedia possible. A question to you: What role does Catalyst play in keeping Indymedia running at www.indymedia.org? Or what role did the play in creating it?