The following is a call to indymedia activists, alt-journalists and artists everywhere to take part in media organizing and coverage of the 2007 US/Mexico No Borders Camp in November.

As long as the US/Mexico border, or indeed any borders, have existed, people have been struggling against them. Borders are a highly militarized, violent boundary marking an internal space of strict migration controls while allowing for unrestricted movement of capital and wealth. For years around the world people have been resisting this regime - A global movement is rising. One of the many tactics in this movement is the no border camp – a place for direct action and community. Join us for a transnational No Borders Camp on the Mexico/ US border, in Mexicali/Calexico, November 5-11 2007.

The camp is a creation of temporary autonomous space, a mobilization against the systematic violence, indignity and exploitation experienced by migrants in the United States of America and Mexico, and all over the world. As with any activist gathering or rallying in recent times, repression of this mobilization by the State is only to be expected. Also to be expected is a gross misrepresentation of the event and its participants and motivations by corporate-owned mainstream media outlets. For both of these reasons, an alternative newsgathering and information distribution mechanism is imperative at the camp: alternative media; Indymedia.

The camp will be about people gathering to create the worlds they want, and this is a call for media makers of all kinds to be there and use their skills to document those new worlds, and create new visions of those worlds. We invite media activists everywhere to not only attend the camp but also to get involved with advance efforts to organize an infrastructure for DIY media coverage and community journalism (media center, equipment sharing, tech solidarity, etc). Members of 2 nearby Indymedia collectives, Arizona and San Diego, are already involved, but they need your help.

The vision for the media structure includes a convergence space media center as well as in-camp media facilities, radio coverage, daily printed news updates, coordinated video production, empowerment of all camp attendees as well as local residents to tell their own stories and get reports to the rest of the world, and cross-border media support and cooperation between the Mexicali and Calexico sides of the camp.

To begin plugging in and getting involved, please join the no borders camp media listserv: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/noborderscampmedia

or write to nobc-media@blac.detritusSTOPSPAM.net

For more information about the camp itself, see http://noborderscamp.org

See you in the desert in November!!!

Sincerely,

No Borders Camp Indymedia Working Group