The Boston Independent Media Center is a collectively run media outlet for the creation of radical, objective and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. Indymedia provides resources and infrastructure for activists, citizens, communities and groups to tell their stories. The most radical aspect of this new movement is its non-hierarchical nature. The decision making is by consensus.
All participants are themselves empowered.
As it's presently constituted, public television is incapable of almost any kind of reporting on the sort of systemic critique that this global movement represents. We have a nominally public communication apparatus that is structurally imbedded in the corporate system. Any sustained critique of that system cannot take place within that apparatus. Public broadcasting sees itself as an adversary to independent production. In terms of video production, PBS stations have set themselves up as fortresses against not only independent producers but community groups of any stripe, except perhaps the Junior League or the chambers of commerce.