OKIMC (Oklahoma Independent Media Center) is part of a global people-powered movement to take back the rights to information gathering and distribution. Working to overcome years of elitist and corporate control of media, Indymedia activists, and others working in similar pursuits, are creating
We are a grassroots, community-based collective striving to provide universal access to news media without corporate filtering. This is a progressive outlet committed to amplifying the voices of everyday people and especially those working for justice and equality in Oklahoma and around the world.
The original Independent Media Center (www.indymedia.org), was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle. The center acted as a clearinghouse of information for journalists, and provided up-to-the-minute reports, photos, audio and video footage through its website. Using the collected footage, the Seattle Independent Media Center (seattle.indymedia.org) produced a series of five documentaries, uplinked every day to satellite and distributed throughout the United States to public access stations.
The center also produced its own newspaper, distributed throughout Seattle and to other cities via the internet, as well as hundreds of audio segments, transmitted through the web and Studio X, a 24-hour micro and internet radio station based in Seattle. The site, which uses a democratic open-publishing system, has since then logged more than 2 million hits, and was featured on America Online, Yahoo, CNN, BBC Online, and numerous other sites. Through a decentralized and autonomous network, hundreds of media activists have since setup independent media centres in London, Canada, Mexico City, Prague, Belgium, France, and Italy, with more to come.
For more information visit the global IMC site - www.indymedia.org
Oklahoma students began meeting in 2000 with the goal of establishing an IMC to serve the state. The first web site was set up in 2003. The collective was accepted into the global IMC network in 2004.
Participants have changed over the years, showing more age diversity, with activity levels varying, but the web site remained, although it went through several transformations, and lost some content in the process. An Oscailt-powered site ran from 2004 until Spring of 2007, when the current version, using Drupal, was unveiled.
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Beyond submitting content, what other ways can I get involved or support OKIMC?
Mailing lists/groups ...notification lists
Join the OKIMC Collective (vol form)
Work Teams
Other: report abuse, spread the word, subscribe
Donate
donate $, help raise $, donate equipment, services, thank you (page),
If you have general questions or comments, you can email us at okindymedia (at) yahoo (.) com.
If you have a press release, you can post it here yourself; it will be reviewed by our volunteer editors and published if it is appropriate for our site.
If you experience problems with posting, you may email it as a text document to the address above. With this form of submission, we cannot guarantee receipt, or timely processing (i.e., there may be a significant delay in publishing, depending on the availability of volunteer editors).
Indymedia is a democratic newswire. We want to see and hear the real stories, news, and opinions from around Oklahoma and beyond. While we struggle to maintain the newswire as a completely open forum, we do monitor it and remove posts.
In general, posts may be removed for any of the following reasons:
We think stories contributed to this site should be free for non-profit re-use. Copy left is an idea central to Indymedia (for more information, check out http://www.opencontent.org/ and http://www.creativecommons.org). If you want to change that for your story, please give your conditions in the submission.
After stories have been published, they may be edited, linked or even deleted by the collective running this site. Please read our privacy and disclaimer statements.
The OK Indymedia web site contains links to other websites, whether controlled by Indymedia affiliates or unrelated third parties. OK Indymedia is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of any linked website.
Currently, the OK Indymedia site uses personal information as a basis for identifying the authors of published articles, and in order to allow individual user login to certain site functions (e.g. to administer the newswire). Names (and additional information that a user may choose to post) are publicly available on the OK Indymedia site.
All email sent to the OK Indymedia mailing list is stored and publicly accessible at the list archive, including the sender's reported name and e-mail address.
Subscription-based News Emails
Users may subscribe to receive site notifications, newsletters or other information via email. Users may remove themselves from such services at their discretion. Any email sent to an OK Indymedia list will include directions for how a user may remove him or herself from the list, or a URL where the user may find such directions.
Other Notification
In order to arrange for the production of web content, print publications, and audio and video features, OK Indymedia may use personal information to contact users on an individual basis.
Name, Email, Phone Number, Address Display
Users' personal information may be publicly available through published articles. Users have the option to opt out of publicly displaying their real names by typing in a pseudonym; users may choose to not disclose address or telephone contact information at all. Requests to remove personal identifying information from published articles must be sent using the contact form
General
In cases where users voluntarily and publicly disclose personal information in conjunction with content published subject to the OK Indymedia content usage policy, such personal information may or may not be disclosed as part of a non-commercial assemblage of Indymedia content, whether in print, electronic, audio or video. The producers of any such compilation will make every effort to contact the original author to determine whether credit/disclosure is desired.
At no time, unless a user specifically authorizes such disclosure, will OK Indymedia disclose individual user personal information that is not publicly available to unrelated third parties.
The OK Indymedia email lists, hosted at lists.indymedia.org, are configured such that all text messages sent to the list, along with names and email addresses, are disclosed in the message archive. In addition, a complete list of subscribers may be available to third parties at the lists web site, although users can opt to conceal themselves from the subscriber list. Users concerned with privacy issues are encouraged to sign up for an anonymous email service.
Security
To secure site integrity, OK Indymedia employs measures including but not limited to security audits, use of encryption tools and software, and other reasonable security measures and procedures. Internal access to web server access logs and any non-public user information is restricted to site administrators and individuals on a need-to-know basis.
Enforcement
In the event that OK Indymedia becomes aware that site security is compromised or non-public user information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including but not limited to law enforcement activities or external security attacks, OK Indymedia shall take reasonable measures which it deems appropriate, including internal investigation and, if required, cooperation with our web host.
If OK Indymedia becomes aware that a user's personal information provided to OK Indymedia has been disclosed in a manner not permitted by this Privacy Policy, OK Indymedia shall make reasonable efforts to notify the affected user, as soon as reasonably possible, of what information has been disclosed, to the extent that OK Indymedia knows this information.
Updates to the Privacy Policy
To update the privacy policy, we will post the changed version and its effective date on this page
Content (text, image, audio, or video) posted to this web site is owned by its author. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the people contributing to the site and are not necessarily endorsed by OK Indymedia. As an all-volunteer organization, OK Indymedia does not have the means to guarantee the accuracy of news or opinions posted to the newswire.
Because, unless otherwise stated, site content is licensed free of charge for non-commercial use, there is no warranty for the content. Except when otherwise stated in writing, the OK Indymedia collective and/or other parties provide the content "as is" without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk of use of the content is with you. Should the content prove faulty, inaccurate, or otherwise unacceptable you assume the cost of all necessary repair or correction.
In no event unless agreed to in writing will the OK Indymedia collective, or any other party who may mirror and/or redistribute the content as permitted above, be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the content, even if the OK Indymedia collective or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
Last updated Mon, 28 Jan 2002