Mission Statement:
...being a document under constant revision, mutable and transformable, a basis upon which to make a start and to which we may add or subtract by consensus, subject to change, to new proposals that may emerge along the way...

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors.
We receive it in trust from our descendants"
(Massaï Proverb)

CONCRETELY:

• We are motivated in the first place by the desire to help promote the conditions necessary for the development of a social fabric in which to practice the devolution to each individual of his or her communicative and political capacity, the capacity to create his or her own word or image, and to express her or himself by this means both within the reality of Canarias and out to the whole world (and vice-versa). Members of IMC-Canarias have produced a short video which seeks to express this aim (see videografitti) .

• This is intended to be a space under continual construction. Each idea which takes wing can grow and will be able to project itself without limits, like a mirror reflected in a thousand mirrors. There will be no information that is simply regurgitated, closed in upon itself, smelling of money in the style of the 'professionals' of the mainstream media. Here there are no experts; everything is to be shared and can be improved upon, anything may be discussed: we find ourselves fertilized by our collective voices and, above all, all possible ears. In the face of the 'freedom of expression' of the madhouse, in which one may be allowed to speak but they try to make damn sure no one is listening, in the face of the mass incommunication of the market's single voice, we propose a social and emancipatory use of the free, open, independent media we find within our reach.

• We invite all to participate, to share our enthusiasm and our work, to sit around the camp fires which are warming the society of tomorrow. Our principles are those of equality and non-discrimination for any 'reason' such as race, sex, age, 'disability' or any such social 'category'. What we do not accept are prejudices or negative values of Power. Any contribution is welcome: small ideas will find here the rebellious tendency to grow and grow; no one will attempt to limit the dimensions they may attain; no one will ration the quantity of energy they may receive.

• Our work will be undertaken without betraying its vocation to be shared. For this reason there will be no unique and conclusive decisions. There will be no princes nor princesses. We will avoid the bad smells emitted by bureaucracy. There will be no responsible individuals: we are all responsible. We are not for sale, nor are we for leasing nor to rent; our aims are antieconomic. There will be no guilty parties nor anyone to be shamed, there will be only companions. There will be no 'classified information': what is there that we may not say or that we dare not hear? Although sometimes we may not be able to perceive our own living voices nor see reflected in those of others our shining eyes, this is an assembly, a floating assembly, â??with our feet off the ground, but deeply planted our roots.â?? So our principles are those of collective organisation, self-managed, non-hierarchical, of decision-taking by consensus and the application of an editorial and administrative policy through a process that shall be direct, participative, anti-authoritarian and horizontal, and that shall be transparent to all members of the collective.

• The liberation of information, of social communication, of the word and of the collective imagination from market forces is one of our goals: our product will be based exclusively on the freely contributed work of volunteers who participate in the collective, without any kind of subsidy or other economic renumeration or profit.

• Finally, it is our intention to form part of the global Indymedia network, accepting as our own the principles of unity and organization that have been applied from their beginning, providing this crossroads of worlds (Africa, Europe, the Americas) that is the Canary Archipielago with a medium through which to reflect and to amplify the processes of struggle, resistance and creation of alternatives which emanate from the different sectors of organized society; making available the loudspeaker, camera, microphone, the pencil and paper with which to advance in the collective construction, through decentralisation, autonomy and mutual aid, of the world we carry in our hearts: that which right now we can see germinating: A world in which there is room for many worlds.