Information in the Basque Country counts already with an important
independent media to join to all those radios, fanzines, etc.
Media in Basque Country counts with institutional press and with
other press, which is independent too but strongly related to
the separatist movement.
This latest one includes papers as GARA, Egunkaria (extrictly
in Euskera (Basque) or magazines like Kalegorria. All of them
like everything in the orbit of the Basque separatist movement
has suffered huge repression. Basque Indymedia has been born trying
to be independent from these two main blocks if such a thing is
possible in the Basque Country.
Its content is integrally in Basque , which is also something
to be much appreciated, and it also provides versions in Spanish
and French the other two languages spoken in this country regarding
the area and the governments in control. Basque Indymedia is as
any other Indymedias, part of the wider International network
of Indymedia.
Indymedia has accomplished a lot since the Seattle IMC was born
in November 1999. This international network with more than 40
IMCs around the world includes now the new Basque one Euskal Herria
Indymedia. Indymedia is a sustainable and independent organisation
on a local level. Indymedia provide people with the possibilities
of running their own media by submitting their own stories. This
is related to the real identity of Indymedia, which is based in
an alternative information without profitable purposes and from
and for people.
One of the other identity features of Indymedia is its position
against globalization, or as Euskal herria Indymedia points out
“we’re into other kind of globalization”, against
the borders, on behalf of solidarity, against the corporations,
on behalf of resistance. And therefore those ones behind this
project come from the activist scene.
As well as the local Indymedias there is a global Indymedia which
can be found at www.indymedia.org
.
Euskal Herria Indimedia: http://euskalherria.indymedia.org/
This is run with contributions from the local Indymedia and with
meetings held on the web.
