[IMC-US] An indymedia strategy session at the Urbana-Champaign Barnraising: Nov 11-13

[Todd Wolfson]

Call for participation:
An indymedia strategy session at the Urbana-Champaign
radio barnraising

* * * Post responses to 
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/101957/index.php
or email to amylorraine at phillyimc.org * * *

IMCistas!

As you may have heard, radioheads and IMCistas will be
converging on 
Urbana-Champaign next weekend to help launch the
UC-IMC low power radio 
station, the first IMC to have a low power FM license!
The UC-IMC will 
also open its new space - in the downtown post office.

At 3pm on Friday we'll pause in our labor and take
some time to look at 
the successes and challenges the global indymedia
network is facing. We 
hope someone from your IMC will be there to represent!

Here are some questions for consideration:

   - What are the biggest successes that the IMCs
represented have 
experienced? What about the biggest challenges?

- Who is using Indymedia today and to what ends? Is
Indymedia its own 
movement? How can it be integrated (or at least better
integrated) into 
struggles for justice - locally, regionally, and
globally?

   - How can we build indymedia sites into a daily,
online alternative 
to local newspapers, with regular, reliable coverage?
What technology 
and infrastructure is needed? What innovations are
various IMCs 
pursuing 
to this end?

   - How can we better syndicate and share regional
news?

   - What role can topic pages play in increasing the
reach of 
indymedia? How well are we using categorization
technology that is 
currently available to us?

   - How can we better share resources and knowledge?
Is there interest 
in starting a movement of hosting one another for a
period of time - an 
"Indymedia Activist Exchange"? What about an exchange
between IMCs and 
related movements? What would we need to sustain this?

- How could we build an economic base to support
indymedia makers?  
What 
would an online or regional version of Free Speech
Radio News look like 
where freelance contributors were paid? Can we
facilitate the starting 
of media coops to provide high paying, part-time work
to indymedia 
makers? Would this be a good direction for indymedia
to take?

In addition to the big session, there will be an
opportunity to 
organize 
follow up caucuses as there is interest.

If you are planning to come, make sure you register by
the deadline of 
November 6. Click here to get to the registration page
or for more info 
on the barnraising:
http://www.prometheusradio.org/urbana/

Also, let us know you're coming by giving a shout out
HERE: 
http://www.ucimc.org/newswire/display/101957/index.php
-- or dropping 
an 
email. Whether you can come or not, please add any
additional questions 
or discussion points you have.

Cheers,<br>
Danielle Chynoweth, UC-IMC
Amy Dalton, amylorraine at phillyimc.org
Josh Breitbart, breitbart at indymedia.org


		
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