Together, as media activists in Central and Northern California and throughout the world, we will use the tactic of Indymedia to share news and information from within the struggles for a world based on freedom, cooperation, justice and solidarity, and against environmental degradation, neoliberal exploitation, racism and patriarchy.

Indymedia erodes the dividing line between reporters and reported, between active producers and passive audience: people are enabled to speak for themselves. We will share an open publishing newswire of text, photos, audio and video contributed directly to the Indybay website and Santa Cruz IMC will have a newswire specifically for articles relating to the Monterey Bay Area.

For Santa Cruz IMC, this is a chance to expand our website resources to include a page en español as well as topic and regional pages. A photo gallery and bittorrent downloads are some of the other new options for viewing and distributing media contributed to SC-IMC. The open-publishing newswire for SC-IMC is now separated into the following three sections: Local News, Global News and Other/Breaking News.

The Santa Cruz IMC Calendar also has a new website address: http://indybay.org/santacruz/calendar. This calendar is specific to the Monterey Bay Area, but is also integreated into Indybay's calendar for the Bay Area, Central Valley and North Coast.

http://indybay.org/santacruz is now ready for your articles, photos, audio and videos and you can now post event announcements to SC-IMC's new Calendar located at http://indybay.org/santacruz/calendar.

Please select "Santa Cruz IMC" when publishing to both the newswire and calendar.

Publish your news
http://www.indybay.org/publish.php

Add an event
http://www.indybay.org/calendar/event_display_add.php

All articles published on santacruz.indymedia.org will remain archived so you can still view all the articles and link directly to them. January 31, 2006, will be the last day to add a new article or comment to http://santacruz.indymedia.org.

At some point in the future, as Indybay volunteers update the code that runs Indybay.org, an attempt will be made to merge content from santacruz.indymedia.org into http://indybay.org/santacruz.

You can find archives of santacruz.indymedia.org by visiting the following links:

Features
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/index.php

Newswire
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php

Other Press
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/otherpress/index.php

You can also use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to view screenshots of the santacruz.indymedia.org homepage from 2001 - 2005.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://santacruz.indymedia.org

All the reporters, photographers, sound recorders, videographers, organizers and activists who contribute to SC-IMC's open-publishing newswire are the heart and soul of Santa Cruz Indymedia.

If you would like to get more involved in Santa Cruz Indymedia, please send an email to scimc-AT-indymedia.org. If you have any questions or comments about SC-IMC's regional integration with Indybay.org, please leave a comment on this article or send an email to scimc-AT-indymedia.org.

Yours Truly,

Santa Cruz Indymedia editorial volunteers



* Please note, Santa Cruz Indymedia's web feed for features and the open-publishing newswire has been updated to the following feeds:

SC-IMC's features:
http://www.indybay.org/syn/santacruz_features_long.rdf

SC-IMC's open-publising newswire:
http://www.indybay.org/syn/santacruz.rdf

What is a web feed and how do I use it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_feed