Darwin
indymedia (DIMC) - is an affiliated indymedia collective - the last
and only attempt to disaffiliate us was made by a person our (then) mainly Aboriginal
collective described as "racist" "Any
collective wishing to call itself Darwin Indymedia would therefore require, as
part of it's constitution, to exclude this individual (mick lambe) and would automatically
forfeit it's place as an IMC if he were ever to become a member." [1] - proposal
by Andrew Lowenthal
Obviously I take this personally and will not tolerate the existence of a network
that uses such ugly,
racist tactics to enforce its will as well as excluding Aboriginal
people from the Oz network
Brisbane indymedia is gone too - thanks to autocratic interference from these
illegitimate
autocrats who have dehosted the DIMC twice and wiped hundreds of darwin
indymedia's articles from the www
Concentration of mainstream media is a real problem in this country and two regions
in Australia which are essentially US bases are excluded from the world wide indymedia
network they supported and joined in good faith as autonomous entities - this
is worrisome
The historical domination of Melbourne and Sydney over debate in regions far removed
from them in Australia is not something that means much in cyberspace - if the
available forums are open, unbiased and prepared to accept the diversity they
claim to embrace
The DIMC were working out of One
Mile Dam Aboriginal community when the race/hate campaign to destroy
our collective began on sydney indymedia - article after article calling our people
liars, ignoring the evidence provided by our Aboriginal members and images of
a battered Aboriginal woman we were caring for at One Mile Dam with hate comments
appended incessantly for months For
reasons the indymedia network refuse to explain - our collective have been without
an indymedia domain for over 2 years - A clear breach of indymedia's Principle
Of Unity (POU) and general autonomous ethics Darwin
indymedia was the only activist site in the Northern Territory with any political
weight due to its link-up with 300 other indymedia sites world-wide - and the
indymedia network's claims of autonomy and political freedom
- a medium that local activists were organising and exchanging views in without
political censorship - working on the premise that the best ideas deserve to win -
our aim was to unite people and provide an alternative view to Corporate reporting
- We deleted the HATE posts that were a feature of Oz indymedias and succeeded
in hosting a relevant and useful indymedia that was praised for the quality of
its presentation and incisive reporting Darwin
activists were attacked and abused in defiance of indymedia's Editorial Policy
(Ed Pol) for 4 years - up until the disgusting and illegitimate interference in
our local affairs that saw our site seized and given to people we expelled for
unethical and intimidatory behaviour that has continued for nearly 3 years. Essentially
anyone I associated with was abused and libeled with impunity on these State sympathetic
sites - The hate and constant abuse which continues despite my facing prison is
very real and very harmful to my political and social life - I intend to fight
this ugly misuse of indymedia to harm political activists and the autocratic domination
of a supposedly progressive media network by some nationalist/bullyboy
types preventing people with oppositional views speaking out We
had 2 sites seized and hundreds of articles on local political issues removed
from the www - with no process - not even an explanation
- something the State would appreciate given our site's political influence and
ability to reach international sites This
network is not about autonomy -
not about Open Publishing - This network is politicised and run as an elitist
space by a few people with no grassroots support in the cities they supposedly
represent The
Darwin collective has more active, credible, diverse members than the indymedias
based in major cities. There is obviously something very wrong about the collectives
there People from
different cultures (Aboriginal and others) with different views are not welcome
on Oz cyberspace as the hosting of hate/race campaigns that continued for months
on sydney indymedia and were later emulated
by NZ imc demonstrated The
plagiarising of my last seven articles about politically sensitive
issues - stripped of my name and links and hosted on these 'indymedia' sites was
a direct attack on my work, using these sites I could no longer ignore "Any
collective wishing to call itself Darwin Indymedia would therefore require, as
part of it's constitution, to exclude this individual (mick lambe) and would automatically
forfeit it's place as an IMC if he were ever to become a member." [1] - proposal
by Andrew Lowenthal Much
of my work online is appended with Ed Pol-breaching hate gibberish (due to politicised
editing) because White Australians will not accept their role as beneficiaries
of an ongoing genocide This
means the measures taken to redress wrongs against Aboriginal people are doomed
to failure and will be oppressive by their very nature and origins Criticism
of the White Australian's racist, militarist and nationalist ethos
strikes to their very core of self - It is my preferred target and provokes a
predictibly adverse reaction due to the politicisation of 'Australian' institutions
which are based on this White Australian racist, militarist and nationalist ethos The
ability to provoke reaction is a necessary skill in exposing such realities Always
better to strike at the head than the tentacles, which appear in... ...East
Timor, the Solomon
Islands, Iraq,
Vietnam.
et al, in unison with the United
State's policy
goals and Australian capital interests | 