[IMC-US] Re: founding documents for IMC-US

[SuZQ]

Dear Joshua,

I am not interested in disrupting IMC-US internal process.  I am
interested in learning what is going on and how it is going on, and doing
my best to ensure that it is done in a democratic and open way ... that
is, ensuring linguistic diversity and geographic accessibility of
meetings.  I am still deeply committed to the idea of Indymedia as a
regionalist and internationalist project rather than as a project
self-identified on the borders of any supposed "nation-state", but I would
like to have an inside perspective about how this project
is being made so as to form an intelligent opinion before acting.  I will
offer technical assistance, in the form of translation or experience, in
whatever way I can, to make the process more inclusive.  I'm subscribing
to this list mostly to listen.  I hope that kind of presence is welcome on
this list.

With respect,
Susanna

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Joshua Breitbart wrote:

> The list is not hosted by lists.indymedia.org, so it's not listed there. It's
> hosted by groogroo.com, which hosts the Urbana-Champaign IMC. You'll see it
> listed here: http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo
>
> We haven't had any meetings yet. But those are valid concerns that should be
> taken into consideration. I've often worried how the NYC IMC's base in Manhattan
> is geographically prohibitive to people in the Bronx, for example. The Michigan
> (statewide) IMC attempted to address the issue in its early stages by moving the
> meetings to different cities in different parts of the state.
>
> Just as important if the other sentence you quote: "The IMC-US affinity group is
> open to all people who wish to help with the project." Based on your comments to
> the new-imc list
> <http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2003-September/004336.html> I
> question whether you wish to help the project.
>
> If you have changed your mind and have constructive criticism (suggestions,
> items that can be resolved - not fundamental objections) then I think everyone
> would be willing to hear them and respond. But if you simply want to stop a US
> IMC from happening, please do it through some means other than disrupting our
> internal process.
>
>
> In solidarity,
> Josh
>
>
>
>
>
> Quoting SuZQ <suzq at riseup.net>:
>
>  Hi.  This is SuZQ.  I subscribed a little while ago, but for some reason I
>  haven't been receiving posts to the IMC/Us lists and my posts keep
>  bouncing.  One more attempt at intro...
>
>  I'm SuZQ, IMC Philly.  I am involved with translation (french, english,
>  spanish, german, and italian), information dispatch, radio and legal
>  concerns.
>
>  I have a few questions; perhaps someone could help clarify them...
>
>  > The IMC-US affinity group is open to all people who wish to help with the
>  > project.  Meetings are publicly "advertized" and invitations to join the
>  > group were sent to all US-based IMCs.
>
>  Where are these meetings?  The US is so large that any face-to-face
>  meetings would be geographically exclusive (and internet meetings are
>  exclusive anyway.)
>
>  Also, why is this list not on lists.indymedia.org?
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Peace,
>  SuZQ
>
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