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IndyMedia still has an agenda. The "Publish" part of IndyMedia only functions as a glorified bulletin board for their "newswire" forum and as they say, "when someone abuses our trust, and posts a story that is way outside what the website is set up to do, we may remove it". I know of several instances where legit posts were published and removed because it contradicted Indymedia's stance.

Just because people donate their time to work for them doesn't mean they're a pure upstanding organization. Also - Being a non-profit doesn't mean you can't make a profit.

Indymedia has a "who owns that" section, tracking conglomorate media ownership. Ironic that they promote actions without any resources for who and what the specific groups in the movement are. While the radical left has become critical of ANSWER in the past year, they were most certainly aware of the Workers World Party connections before now. They helped to obscure who groups like ASNWER are run by. In fact, their site even obscures their own connection to the Independent Progressive Politics Network, and makes little mention that it was formed mainly by Dan Merkle. Their legacy is Protest.Net, and Paper Tiger TV amongst others. The IPPN recieves funding through connections to the Alliance for Democracy, a socialist group, and that would mean money has probably filtered in through the Democratic Socialists of America. Dan Merkle has been outspoken in supporting ANSWER, despite recent criticisms, and pledged to continue supporting their rallies, because as he puts it, anyone in their position, with their success, is likely to have some dirt on them.