Indymedia or the Independent Media Center Network (IMCN) is a worldwide network of 159 media centers spanning 50 countries across 6 continents connected through a collective online infrastructure and basic set of principles. The IMCN's organizational and technical infrastructure is managed by working groups drawn from individual collectives and connected via dozens of listserves. Still, the majority of activity and control is at the local level. Within this mix of collectivity and autonomy, to what degree to these centers resemble or deviate from each other? Moreover, do individual media centers form a network in name only or is there a broader consistency? Using local Indymedia mission statements as a guide, I present findings from a comparative analysis of all accessible and translatable centers (N=101) to address these questions. My analysis is placed in the larger context of dissentworks theory – developed to explicate new forms of emergent self-organization in digital environments.