In the summer of 2003 the idea of an independent television show, free from corporate bias and serving the needs of the community, was conceived. Chicago Independent Television is the result of that movement.

Our mission is to provide YOUR CORPORATE NEWS ALTERNATIVE.

Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.

Click here for the Independent Media Centre’s full mission statement:

http://chicago.indymedia.org/mod/info/display/mission/index.php

We are the Chicago Indymedia Video Collective. We operate along the same lines as Indymedia, fostering the same ideals and processes.

Instead of kicking our foot through the television in frustration at the state of the media, we decided to do something about it. Moving beyond critique to action, we are part of a larger movement to reform the media. We are a collective of media producers, activists, videographers and concerned citizens offering your alternative to mainstream corporate coverage of local and international events, movements and expression.

Our television show is a calling card for people to submit their own stories, videos and footage of current events, social justice movements and reflections on the world.

We will broadcast our show as a part of a greater package of distribution that will include festival screenings, internet broadcasts and downloads, CD/DVD distribution and any other avenue we can think of to get our material out there.

We aim to create a collaborative process that forges new paths in the production of not for profit, stimulating, informative media.

We will bring your stories, ideas and artistic expression to a wide and varied audience.

It is our goal to provide an opportunity to everyone to produce material for our show, and also to produce for our other distribution outlets.

Long-term goal: A community video center accessible to all, a regular television show and a wide distribution.
Short-term goal: To produce the first show by the production date deadline in January, and to produce our second show shortly afterwards.

New avenues of distribution are available to us now that were never available before. We intend to be at the forefront of a new movement to use these radical forms of expression to reach audiences everywhere and to bring our stories to the world.

Chicago Independent Television operates according to Copyleft 2004 by the Chicago Independent Media Center Video Collective under the Creative Commons Share Alike License (1.0). The licensor permits others to distribute derivative works only under a license identical to the one that governs the licensor's work. For more information, visit http://creativecommons.org

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Attend an IMC meeting held every month on the 2nd and 4th Sunday, or one of our Video Collective meetings held every 1st and 3rd Monday, at the IMC headquarters. The address for both meetings is: 3411 W.Diversey, Suite 1, Chicago, IL60647. OR

Please submit any video material, bumpers, artwork or queries to the Chicago Independent Media Centre, care of Thomas Yun:
3411 W.Diversey, Suite 1, Chicago, IL60647, or email us:

mayday@riseup.net

OR

andrewmcavinchey@yahoo.com

Please do not send video clips via email as our mailboxes won't take them!