The Austin Independent Media Center is one branch in a global collective of autonomous grassroots news outlets. We are a collective of volunteer journalists and media activists who aim to inform and organize the community about important issues affecting our society. We use media production as a tool for promoting social and economic justice, and report on issues commonly overlooked or underreported in the mainstream media. It is our goal to facilitate political and cultural self-representation, which is lacking in the narrowing mainstream media.



We are a community-based organization using media to illuminate and analyze local and global issues that impact us all. We seek to generate alternatives to the biases inherent in packaged media, and to identify and create positive models for a sustainable and equitable future. We are dedicated to addressing issues that the mainstream media neglects and we do not conceal our politics behind a false objectivity. We will empower people to "become the media" by providing democratic access to available technologies and information. Unlike corporate media, we espouse open dialogue, and recognize the importance of placing the means of communication and creativity back in the hands of the people, away from the drive of profit.



Currently, there are more than 150 Indymedia Centers, in over forty countries spanning six continents, which link the entire globe with local grassroots coverage of critical issues overlooked by the mainstream corporate media.