[IMC-US] let's get together yeah yeah yeah

[muna rva imc]

it's 3 in the morning here in beautiful crummy ole virginia. i'm just off the
plane from guatemala, and have just spent the last several hours, woe is me,
sifting through a million billion emails (a billion more left to go).

and i immediately feel there is cause for worry about our us indymedia (so
what's new?). 

forgive the silly subject name, but seriously: irc meeting stat. ASAP. wonderful
emily brought it up a while ago, people seconded and thirded the idea, and still
it has yet to happen, so now she's bringing it up again.

this week. suggested times, your response needed:
monday, march 21 - 2pm eastern
tuesday, march, 22 - 5pm eastern
wednesday, march 23 - 6pm eastern
thursday, march 24 - 5pm eastern

name your time, or name a new time. i'm off to the APOC conference down in
asheville this weekend, so friday, saturday, and sunday might be tough for
me... i await further details as to my schedule, but don't let that stop you.

what's the place? irc.indymedia.org, #us... everyone know how to get there?

once we get this first meeting nailed down, let's set regular weeklies.
regardless, have folks been checking into this room? i'm trying to make it a
habit to log in there when i'm online, and it's been invaluable. people don't
need meetings necessarily to meet...

why, just moments ago in that very same virtual place i was talking with bradley
(and mahtin a bit) about the possibility of creating a response team. bht seems
to be holding down this task to a large extent by himself, also with the help
of john... and the two are the only ones able to create new us admins. bht and
john: can other folks share this responsibility? i would be willing to
volunteer for this. hopefully, this would help incorporate new admins much
faster and more thoroughly... perhaps a regular new admin irc meeting would be
handy?

listen.

i know it's hard. i know we're all overworked. but everyone on this list is here
because we're willing to help. i see us running low on energy, and this makes
the soley-syndiction suggestion interesting... but not so good for precisely
the same reason. we need each other more than ever. we're under incredible
attack. i see it across the americas and across the world. and it all radiates
from the u.s. of a... we have got to be united in this, we have got to talking
to each other, supporting each other, and reaching ever outward. simple
syndication is not going to do this.

... this coming from someone functioning (or not functioning) on three hours of
sleep and a day spent on buses and planes.

thank you for rocking it on M19. i wish i had been here to help (though it was
rad/sad to be in guatemala while CAFTA was going down). personally, i want to
see coverage of mass actions and protests just as much as the local -- they're
both equally important and crucially connected, and they're both not covered by
the shithead er i mean mainstream media (how's that jacko case coming?).
richmond imc's waiting on reportbacks from fayettesville -- it sounds like us
indy could use 'em. plus, just before i left, yet another virginia military
cadet story broke, this time with the cadets donning confederate flags and
massive amounts of duct tape and rope (curious yet?) -- yet again, everyone
from regional tv afflilates to the washington post are picking up the story...

okay. sleep.

yours,
muna


Quoting john duda <john at manifestor.org>:

> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 05:37:46PM -0500, ekearns at umich.edu wrote:
> 
> i think a regular irc meeting would be a great idea, and would really
> help convince us that other people are really out there and willing to
> work on the project.
> 
> 
> > a couple things,
> > 
> > I don't feel like there are any solid working relationships on this list.
> I've
> > only been reading the discussion for a couple weeks now, but I see the
> same
> > email addresses (almost all men), from the same IMCs that are always at
> the
> > forefront of any discussions surrounding indymedia. I don't like listservs
> > because it's too easy for the people who spend the most time in front of
> their
> > computers to speak the loudest and have the most consistent input. I know
> that
> > I'm continuing the trend of writing an unorganized, ranting email, but I'm
> > trying to figure out why I'm not active with the site and my inclination is
> to
> > identify all of the problems before beginning to think of solutions....
> > 
> > could we maybe have an irc meeting within the next week? It seems as if
> several
> > people have concerns about this project. I feel like it would be
> constructive
> > if we made a list of those concerns and then got together to talk about
> them.
> > Maybe regularly scheduled irc meetings could be a part of our process? I
> would
> > feel more comfortable participating in real time discussions as opposed to
> > reading/writing long winded emails. anyone else?
> > 
> > emily.
> > michigan imc.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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