[IMC-US] m19 coverage

[Tribal Scribal]

Actually i "expressed an interest", noting that i'd be in NYC and hoped to 
post photos and text if i could get access. As it turned out my loaned out 
camera wasn't returned to me so no photos. In any case, nyc imc was well 
covered as usual.  Sadly, i wasn't in wmass to cover local events and only a 
few report-back sentences came my way. :/

d.o.


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>From: bht <bht at indymedia.org>
>Reply-To: "Working Group for IMC-US." <imc-us at lists.ucimc.org>
>To: "Working Group for IMC-US." <imc-us at lists.ucimc.org>
>Subject: [IMC-US] m19 coverage
>Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:39:04 -0800
>
>hey all.  again i was disappointed in the amount of participation in the 
>m19 stuff with us imc.
>
>as before the austin conference, it was me and bradley and john doing a 
>brunt of the work.  i saw bradley helping asad int he chatroom last night 
>before i went to bed.  that was nice.
>
>mostly i am disappointed that no one (aside from betsy) asked to help or 
>expressed any interest.  this begs the question, are people interested?  
>and if people are, what is the hold up?
>
>we are starting a collective bookstore here in portland.  In addition to 
>our house, we also own a commercial space just next to our house.  There 
>are nine of us in the house.  We havent been moving forward on the 
>bookstore because some folks in the house dont see it as urgently as 
>others, yet continue to express interest in being a part of it.  But time 
>constraints and an inability or fear to speak up has led the projet to 
>stagnation.
>
>So it has been three people doing alot of work in the space and then 
>bringing the ideas we have from working on it to everyone else because we 
>operate on consensus.  When people that dont do anything just balk at some 
>of the ideas, it kills progress and just makes you not want to do anything. 
>  THis happened a few months ago with this project, us imc.
>
>My housemate neil, led us through an examble from one of the collectives he 
>had been involved in in the past where during the summer many of the folks 
>that expressed interest as being part of it wanted to go to other things 
>and he basically covered all shifts and kept the store open.  This led to 
>people being angry and feeling that he was taking over the bookstore, 
>because he was the only person doing the work.
>
>I am not getting at it quickly enough, but when three people are left to 
>deal with a project the project will begin to reflect those people.  The 
>longer it is left that way, the less accessible a project becomes.  
>Eventually it will lead to some people feeling so left out that the only 
>course of action is to decry an injustice and point out folks for taking 
>over a collective project.  I am not at all interested in that as a 
>possibility.
>
>I am not interested in putting so much effort into a project while so many 
>others just watch.
>
>as always, an unorganized, yet completely serious thought from bht.
>
>here to the possibility of woking WITH some of you one day.
>bht
>
>
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