Eleven Years of Infoshop News
 
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 15:22:40 -0600 (CST)

Eleven Years of Infoshop News

We can't let 2007 ring out here at Infoshop News without a little 
celebration of the fact that December marks our eleventh anniversary. 
The larger Infoshop.org project went online in January 1995. Infoshop 
News got its start on December 5, 2006 with two stories posted, one of 
which was an update on state repression of Italian anarchists. There 
were only two stories posted that month, but starting in January 1997, 
several stories were posted to the website every day or every few days. 
Back in those days, you still had to post pages to a website one by 
one--there weren't any fancy open source content management software 
like there is today. But in that first year of operations, Infoshop News 
posted stories about anarchists around the world, including many stories 
about anarchist protests and legal battles. Infoshop News informed our 
readers that charges had been dropped against anarchists arrested at the 
1996 DNC convention in Chicago. We brought news about anti-capitalist, 
anti-summit protest in Europe. In 1997, Infoshop News covered the 
ongoing McLibel Trial, the arrest of Food Not Bombs founder Keith 
McHenry, the surging pirate radio movement, the mass arrest of over 200 
Critical Mass riders in San Francisco, Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's 
deportation from Australia and much more.

More:
http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=2007i-news-ten-years