A prominent manifestation of these dual
goals is the Independent Media Center (Indymedia),
a global network of more than 100
autonomously operated and linked websites,
which was established in conjunction with the
anti-corporate globalization protests in Seattle
in 1999. In her insightful account of a variety of
alternative media projects with which she has
been personally involved, Halleck (2002, chapter
9) notes that the Indymedia network, which
has become one of the most important sites for
alternative news and activist mobilization, provides
counter-information to that offered by
mainstream media on a wide range of issues
and events as well as extensive links to activist
groups both within and outside the anticorporate
globalization movement.