[IMC-US] IMC-US Revival (please respond)

[lotus]

Hi. I've been participating a bit in indy.us, but i was traveling 
during march, so i've missed lots of the great discussion you've been 
having.

On Mar 4, 2005, at 11:53 AM, ekearns at umich.edu wrote:
>> 1.  Your working name/nickname

lotus

>> 2.  Your email address

lotus at indymedia.org

>> 3.  Which imc you volunteer with

san diego

>> 4.  What do you want to see happen, do you want to do, how much do you
>> want to participate, or any other comments/suggestions!

In its simplest form, it seems that imc us should be a place for 
important news stories from imc's in the us.

What could come from that? It seems that in its best form, imc us could 
be a place to analyze and identify important political trends and 
issues in the us and support that analysis with stories from around the 
country. That way, imc us could serve as a force to support the 
building of more, stronger nation wide movements and awareness of 
nationwide movements, as well as relating those movements to similar 
movements and their effects around the world. imc us could be a place 
to add more context to local stories by grouping them with other 
current/recent stories from around the country.

An example that's important to me is migration. It seems like there's a 
ton of work of all different types going on around migration in the US, 
but very little cohesion in all that work. It doesn't feel like there's 
a movement, just a bunch of people working on migration. Maybe, by 
tying various efforts together, imc us could contribute to building 
that movement. Its important to me because I do a lot of organizing 
around migration issues here in sd.

With that lofty goal, i'd probably like to contribute to the editorial 
team with news and help in promoting features. I'd also like to do 
tech, as in sysadmin and coding, but as I don't have a ton of time to 
contribute, I'd be happy to work on specific tasks instead of general 
maintenance.

>> 5.  Do you want/have admin access to us.indymedia.org?
>>

i have it. thanks for all your hard work on this everyone!