[IMC-US] involving the non wired in indy.us

[Tribal Scribal]

That 3rd item has special signifigance for me, probably due to years of 
writing in the alternative news. Whenever we do a WMass IMC table i like to 
spread out copies of the various Indy street papers (The Indypendent being 
the most prominent i s'pose). These papers, imo, are a critical element to 
Indy's work, going beyond the privilege aspects of the internet and reaching 
out into the real world.
Another concept along that line is the media bus, something we're hoping to 
do here in WMass and, at one point, was being considered by the Maine IMC. 
An Indy bus or step-van can bring the tools right into the community, on the 
street, in the park, at events, and into protest situations. Outreach on 
wheels.

d.o.



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>From: john duda <john at manifestor.org>
>Reply-To: "Working Group for IMC-US." <imc-us at lists.ucimc.org>
>To: imc-us at lists.ucimc.org
>Subject: [IMC-US] involving the non wired in indy.us
>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:19:55 -0700
>
>I was thinking about indymedia.us and how, as people have mentioned,
>participation is limited at the moment to people who have the time and
>resources to be online constantly and working on the editorial
>process.
>
>a couple of ideas for new ways of participation that might be worth
>kicking around, refining, or replacing, and proposing at the
>indyconference:
>
>1) inviting people who are committing lots of time to campaigns or
>    mobilizations of national interest to write about what they are
>    doing and their experiences....kind of like incorporating a
>    blogging aspect with more personal reports into the feature
>    process.
>
>2) inviting all the local indymedias to write a feature about the
>    their city/region, but one aimed at people who don't live there and
>    aren't familiar with the local situation.  for example, we could
>    ask imc's to write about poverty and the economic situation in
>    their city, or the current level and history of police/legal
>    repression, or the state of activism or independent media....
>    these could be long term pieces that we feature as we get them....
>
>3) a national print publication...i'm thinking here of things like
>    "schnews" in the uk or "ravage" in holland, where the bulk of the
>    content is a monthly compilation of action reports...we could do
>    something like compile the month's protests and actions from around
>    the country, produce a low production value pdf, and get local
>    imc's to print, photocopy, and distribute....
>
>
>just some thoughts, i'm sure other people have other ideas, it would
>be interesting to hear them.  my major concern is finding ways to make
>imc-us less of just a syndication site and more of a productive
>network....
>
>john
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