[Imc] Re: another edition of the Public i?

[Dorothy Martirano]

Hi Sandra,  Very interested, but no time on that day.  I would like input
anyway, and my input has to do with the
email I sent out earlier today.  Shelley also has an idea, it mirrors mine. I
just proposed to her that we collaborate.
Something must be in the air today. Next week I can make it, probably a few
minutes late.  Dorothy Martirano

Sandra Ahten wrote:

> Does anyone have an idea about how to put some fire into the public i?  Does
> it start with firing the current editors?
>
> OH my did I get your attention?
>
> Most people I know can't get through an edition of the public i.  I don't
> know why it is so f'ing boring... but it is.  It's about as boring as the
> meetings are.
>
> When people talk to me about it... they always apologize for what they are
> about to say... so they don't hurt my feelings.
>
> I thought it was just me.  But others say zzzzzz too.
>
> BTW... this is not to knock the individual efforts and writing that were in
> this last issue or any previous issue.  Individually there was merit there.
> But somehow it just does not come together with any kind of dynamic.
>
> Let get this thing rocking and rolling or put it to sleep. I saw that there
> were no papers over at Strawberry Fields as of yesterday... and frankly... I
> didn't care. Apparently no body else did either.
>
> There are better ways to spend our energy that to put out a paper that even
> the choir won't read.  Just one good letter to the editor in the NG would do
> more good and take a lot less effort.
>
> So here are some ideas.
> The print group provides the mechansim to publish what a group of passionate
> people want to print.
> ie. SDS groupies
> AWARE volunteers
> WEFT women
> YOGA teachers
> ARTIST whose last name begin with W
>
> We do the work... but their group would dictate the content.
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> We let one person or a duo be the editor for an edition.  They get to
> recruit all the writers / illustrators for that edition. They get to do
> anything they want
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> WE GET RID OF THE 7 divisions/ editors as we know them.
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> WE TURN IT INTO a take-off on the ONION
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> We print on demand.  When we get enough articles that enough people really
> care about... instead of articles that are forced out by deadlines.
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> We stop worry about printing our own paper and instead start figuring out
> how to get information into peoples hands, hearts and heads.
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> Anyone who is interested: meet this Thursday (April 25) and next Thursday
> (May 2nd) at the IMC at 5pm.  I'll provide something to eat. Can you bring
> something too? I'm faciliting.  The meetings will end promptly at 6:30.
>
> Sandra Ahten