Certainly, at Undercurrents we are keen to continue this trend and are keen to train other groups to use the techniques we've been using. Please contact us for details of future collaborations or Training. If you really want to know why we need Indymedia.org. However the mainstream media is demonising even this and proving itself increasingly unsuited to covering such events. Let's sidestep the obvious reason outlined in the opening quote as no-one likes to think of themselves as a cog in someone else's machine and take a more charitable view of the problems they face.
Editors seemingly find the leaderless structure of such gatherings impossible to deal with.
There are rarely press conferences or handy soundbites from established spokespeople. The end result is that the aims of the protesters as a whole are typically grossly misrepresented. Again the coverage of Mayday by Undercurrents, Indymedia compared to that mainstream media enforces this. Surely the best way to find out the motivations of the protesters is to hear it from them directly. On Mayday the uk.indymedia people printed leaflets encouraging protester on the scene to upload their comments, photos, audio etc.