[IMC-US] NCMR reportback

[onto]

Carly's photos:
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/108954.shtml

Again, muchas gracias for sharing the experiences and stories of this 
conference. For those of us who weren't there, it really helps us to 
hear the critiques, the meetings, the actions, the people and the process.

Without taking this of track, I want to share with the imc-us crew this 
piece that was written after the Media EmergenC conference in San Diego 
last October. Members from San Diego Indymedia, radioActive sanDiego, 
and the Prometheus Radio Project helped write it.

"Towards a Critical Analysis of Media EmergenC"
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/en/2005/02/107671.shtml

What we (inconclusively) concluded was that all the faults that everyone 
is mentioning about the NCMR are also possible at an Indymedia 
conference. Although there can be radical counter-hegemonic content at a 
conference, the FORM of the conference itself can be alienating, i.e, 
Speakers vs. Audience, Organizers vs. Organized, 
Experienced/Wise/Teachers vs. Ignorant/Common/Students. To really 
challenge the big picture (i.e., to do media justice), new forms of 
knowledge sharing, interacting, meeting, and conferencing are needed. Or 
perhaps there are indigenous forms of conferencing that we can learn 
from . . .

Also, there was the problem of 'attracting outsiders' by bringing in big 
names (ie, liberals) at the expense of having a smaller conference with 
more grassroots presentations.

Also, race, gender and class can be emphasized in the content of a 
conference while still avoiding and alienating those communities (locally).

That all said, it still rocked.

thanks again,
onto

http://sandiego.indymedia.org

(p.s. bienvenidos aymara!)



bht wrote:
> heres my 'officail' reportback.
> http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/05/317554.shtml
> 
> please people that have contact with carly in SD email her to remind her 
> of the importance of getting the images she took online asap.  also, 
> kat, someone said that you captured audio of indy things that would be 
> useful.
> did anyone get contact info for the woman that was videotaping the 
> indymedia caucus, and what about dee dee i beleive she was shooting 
> video as well.  before i posted that article i searched desperately for 
> an image of indymedia at the conference and came up empty handed, it 
> sure would be great to get one or two.
> 
> betsy, can you and gina get your sets of photos up soon as well?
> and again, anyone else that want to write a reportback article, or post 
> media that they captured that would be excellent.
> bht
> portland imc volunteer
>