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Demotix is the award-winning home of global user-generated news.
Promoting free speech, changing the news agenda, giving you a voice, and getting you paid for your photos and videos.

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Demotix' reporters are people just like you - telling extraordinary stories from around the world with images, video, text (and soon audio too). Jump in, have fun, tweet, digg, share - and maybe join the community.

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The news is made all around us. Whether it's a festival, a political rally, a feature, an accident, or an investigation - if you were there, we want to hear about it.

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Demotix is a megaphone: We push your stories out to over 200 news organisations around the world every day, and your stories are seen by 1000s of daily browsers on Demotix. Share, tweet, digg, link - spread the word!

Daily, Demotix licences your stories, images and video to media around the world. 50% keeps us running, 50% goes to you.
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05/12/2011 - Russians protest against election fraud in Moscow - Russia - Thousands of people protest against...
05/12/2011 - Thousands of hands pull giant car in Deepam Festival - Tiruvannamalai - India - On the seventh day of the annual Deepam...
05/12/2011 - The King of Thailand leaves hospital to make his birthday speech - Thailand - King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand...
05/12/2011 - Occupy Dame Street Soup Run to the Dail - Dublin - Ireland - Activists from Occupy Dame Street made...
05/12/2011 - Repudiate the Debt Campaign protest outside the Dail - Dublin - Ireland - The Repudiate the Debt Campaign brought...
05/12/2011 - Photojournalists questioned by police demanding embassy protest images - United Kingdom - Two journalists including myself were...
05/12/2011 - Protest against the predicted win of Joseph Kabila - Dublin - Ireland - Nationals from the Democratic Republic...
05/12/2011 - Vice President Joe Biden visits Athens - Greece - The Vice President of the United States...

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