INN Network Updates: Q1 2023 | @GetIndieNews #IndieNewsNetwork
Updated Member Lineup, Highlights & Milestones Achieved, We Need Your Help! Lots of Info Inside!
It’s been a bit since we updated everyone about some of the milestones & achievements INN & our members reached during the previous 3 months, plus scroll down for some network member changes & a request for help!:
INN’s YouTube channel reached 1,000 subscribers! Thank you to everyone for sharing and helping us reach this important goal!
This makes the channel eligible to receive SuperChats during livestreams
We also activated channel memberships ($2.99/mo ea) to support INN - get access to special emoji - subscribe for exclusive stuff!
The biggest in-person gathering of INN Members (to-date) happened in February at the Rage Against the War Machine event at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. Tara was one of the speakers, Collin, Greg, Luci & Darryl (Black in the Empire) all were in the crowd. We assembled a Substack of all the speeches Greg recorded.
Angel Rivera started livestreaming The Handsome Cynic show most weekday afternoons at 2:15pm ET to his YouTube/Twitch channels, plus all the INN channels, including Rokfin & Rumble
Greg BigMadCrab has been busy working on 2 new shows:
Crab & Chris, with Bread & Circuses @phortuenti
Care Bear & Crab, with INN’s Collin Radix-Carter
Greg attended both anti-war rallies in Washington, DC representing INN
Greg is a graphic artist, musician & commentator - follow his stuff on Spotify!
On March 20, Jesse Jett released his 3rd Original Album since joining INN - “And Then, The Sky Slammed Shut” is available for download on BandCamp & Spotify
Joe STFUshitlib is BACK ON TWITTER @STFUshitlib3 (go follow him NOW - then come back!)! Joe also has a YouTube channel & Instagram now - you can follow there in case he gets booted off Twitter again!
Luci (Blue Moon, Red Wine) has been involved with Direct Action, holding elected officials like AOC, Jamaal Bowman, Hakeem Jeffries & others accountable by challenging them publicly at town halls.
Kris Legion resurfaced to publish 2 articles on his Substack & here, one of which he deleted afterwards - here is the other:
Indie launched a new show, exclusively on Rumble - Indie’s Tech Tips - all about helping content creators get more out of the tools available by sharing his experiences. Learn more here!
Anniversaries/Milestones:
Jesse Jett one year with INN - can’t believe it’s been a year already!
Tara Reade’s first livestream was March 30, 2022
In the past year, Tara’s interviewed more than 30 people for “The Politics of Survival,” including 10 named to the Ukrainian “Peacemaker” Kill list (subscribe to her Substack FREE below)
INN News celebrated 1-year since being launched -
In January/February/March alone, co-hosts Reef & Collin have had guests:
, Akile Anai, , , , , Jose Vega & joined for the anniversary episode
Network Member Changes
To keep everyone up to date (and probably long overdue at this point), the following people are no longer members of Indie News Network:
Elias Cepeda
Noli Dee
Uncle Warren / Extra Bulla
Jimi Sunderland
Tommy Nation Politics
We wish all of them the best in their future endeavors and thank them for the time and work they put in to help grow INN.
We Need Tech Help! Interested? Reach Out!
We are putting out a call for video editors, YouTube channel managers & Organic SEO specialists who are willing to help - if interested, please reach out via email - indienewsnetworkinn@gmail.com
Current Member Roster (find all members’ links at https://linktr.ee/innmembers):
Indie Left, How Did We Miss That
Reef Breland, INN News & Reefer After Dark
Tara Reade, The Politics of Survival
Jesse Jett, American Tradition
Collin Radix-Carter, INN News & Komawo Mukwano
Joe, STFUshitlib
Greg, BigMadCrab
Angel Rivera, The Handsome Cynic
Robert Durden, Political Fight Club
Kris Legion, Waking Up with Kris Legion
Todd Hunt, BeTheChange
Bess Goden, Millennialsplaining
Tahtahme, Tahtahme’s Diary
Yeti Jezus, The Yeti Lines
Luci, Blue Moon Red Wine
Darryl, Black in the Empire
The Dissident
Luis Figueroa
INN Links:
Network Channels LinkTree: https://indienews.network
Network Members LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/innmembers
Twitter: https://twitter.com/getindienews
Rokfin: https://rokfin.com/iNN
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