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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=5>IMC Notes<br>
11/26/00<br>
at 1006 S. Garfield<br>
<br>
Attending: Molly Stentz, Sarah Kanouse, Mike Lehman, Danielle
Chynoweth, Peter Miller, Sehvilla Mann (facilitator), Sascha Meinrath ,
Brian Hagy, Russel Dietrich-Rybicki, Nancy Dietrich-Rybicki, Brent
McDonald, Eric Hiltner, Kate McDowell, Mark Enslin, Ilan Eyman.<br>
<br>
<b>INTRO'S:<br>
<br>
</b>Kate McDowell, Russel D-R, Brent McDonald, Nancy D-R, <br>
<br>
<b>NEWS<br>
<br>
</b>The Week in Review<br>
<br>
Nursing Home. Long-term project. Mike's working on it. <br>
<br>
Buy-Nothing Day. Nancy wrote a letter to the editor. Crit
Mass didn't do anything. Nancy will write an article about
consumerism.<br>
<br>
Race in the Public Schools. Sascha's working on it. People
are needed! It's a big project that could involve several
people. Dec. 9 at 10:30 a.m. - noon.<br>
<br>
Greens/Democrats. Nothing written. Peter and Brent are
planning their WEFT-IMC radio news program.<br>
<br>
Music Department Protest against Ian Hobson. Mark Enslin will look
into it.<br>
<br>
DSC changes, reduction in rights. Brian hasn't been able to do
anything on it.<br>
<br>
ASSIGNMENTS<br>
<br>
Citizen Action conference in Peoria--Danielle's going. Sat. Dec.
1.<br>
<br>
Illinois Dept. of Ag. meeting on Factory Dairy Farm in Bellflower. 6 or 7
p.m.--Molly leaving at ~4. Molly wants to record it. Proposed
3500 cow confinement dairy. Local resistance in Bellflower.
Water, soil, air, communities, etc. Tues. evening, N28, first
public forum. Sierra Club involved, too. Sehvilla wants to go,
too. <br>
<br>
Urbana's greenspace/parking/bike parking plans. 7:30 p.m. Monday at
Urbana City Building. Molly, Russ, Eric will cover it.<br>
<br>
Urbana-Skate boarders in the Urbana parking ramp. Eric will write
an update.<br>
<br>
EU Beef ban--Mad cow in France! Sehvilla will watch it.<br>
<br>
Gazettewatch--Gazette--mucho GMO, strike in Seattle, Haiti election,
global warming treaty negotiation, EU.<br>
<br>
WEFT PROGRAMS:<br>
<br>
Will the reporters commit to finish some sort of story for the IMC news
programs on WEFT?<br>
<br>
Mike already has: ~40 minutes from the Debs dinner, plus news:
Urbana greenspace, Bellflower, faculty without tenure, physicians at
Christie, county jobless rate at all-time low but not living wage,
catholic worker house reopens, disparity in sentencing between drug
dealers and tobacco sales, local election petitions still available,
illiniwek discussions in Edison middle school, 3500 nader voters give
edge to democrats. <br>
<br>
<b>UPDATES<br>
<br>
</b>Equipment -- No update.<br>
<br>
RFU -- No update.<br>
<br>
Radical Librarians and Anarchists -- Meeting 5 pm on the 27th.
Contact Ellen Knutsen for more info.<br>
<br>
Fundraising -- Things are going well. New founding funder, Amy
Aidman. At 13 currently. <br>
<br>
WEFT Programs -- Uniform intro and outro. Mark E., Paul R., and
Eric H. will hopefully take care of producing something each program can
use.<br>
<br>
Tech -- Website is working! <b>urbana.indymedia.org</b> and
<b>champaign.indymedia.org</b> It's functional, but not
clean. If anyone doesn't like the design, they should tell Danielle
what TO do, not what NOT to do. <br>
<br>
Website Launch Party, Nov. 30. Sarah, Peter, Danielle, Molly
Sascha. Where? Paradiso on D1? Red Herring? Sarah
will call the two. Douglass Library--Kate will call.
Time: 8 p.m. Sarah will write a press release to be sent on
Thursday. Bring what we've done, bring a poster showing
accomplishments. Come in costume? Video showings: IMC
video and Seattle video (Ben Harp has it), "This is what democracy
looks like." "Showdown in Seattle"--Mark may have
it. <br>
<br>
Outreach -- Sascha--Nat'l assn of black journalists. Email sent. No
response, yet. Molly is talking to Springfield IMC people next
week.<br>
<br>
<b>SPACE<br>
<br>
</b><i>Cinema cafe.</i> Out of play. Norm and Carolyn are
opening their own thing (cafe/cinema), and they aren't interested in
sharing space with IMC. They're thinking about leasing space to
other media production companies.<br>
<br>
<i>Chub Connor's old space.</i> Review a blueprint. Big,
flexible space. The owners are willing to do what we need for the
bldg. Drawback: they plan on renovating, restoring to orig.
condition (Move entrance so shared with all 3 spaces (Laser's edge,
apartments, IMC); back room will shrink somewhat; replace tin ceilings,
(16 foot high)) while we're occupying the space. Heating
costs will increase when ceilings are raised. Poor lighting, air
flow. New carpeting needed. Electricity not
separately-metered, but they're willing to show us power bills so we can
separate costs. Not central air conditioning. Heat from one small
radiator, remainder from the basement. Landlords will be living in
the building.<br>
<br>
Accept one-year lease? Discount during construction? Rent
after renovation? (Currently $700) Antenna for RFU atop the
building? Not as tall as OJC building. Movie screening and
parties OK? When renovations done? <br>
<br>
Discussion about alternate space took place. (See appendix.)<br>
<br>
Move ahead with Chub space? Yesish, it seems. What answers to
questions are acceptable?<br>
Minimum requirements: new carpet, get rid of fluorescents, knock
down 3/4 walls, max electric bill established, install ceiling
fans. <br>
<br>
Next week have meeting with landlords, initiate paperwork. Next
Sunday, hear answers and decide.<br>
<br>
Next Week's facilitator: Danielle.<br>
<br>
Fin. 2:25 p.m.<br>
<br>
<br>
Appendix: Discussion about alternate space<br>
<br>
Other spaces--nothing currently... 2nd Floor of WEFT? (Bad
because in Champaign.) Should we be raising money to
purchase a building? How long do we expect it to live? What
kind of rent burden to we want to take on? How will having a public
space help?<br>
<br>
Free space would be better. Investment in technology to make money
probably won't work because technology becomes obsolete so quickly and
because the university/other institutions can/will under-sell us.
Can we really expect to fund someplace out of individual donations?
Do we have a viable long-term funding plan?<br>
<br>
If we don't have a storefront, we won't be able to raise any revenues
from sales. Membership in IMC, renting out meeting space, on-site
activities for general public (coffee house/news stand/book store/show
movies for donation/speakers). WEFT also has money to pay for news
production; we could sell recordings a'la Alternative Radio. <br>
<br>
Use WEFT/Dave Monk's spaces? Longer-term, but Dave has accomplished
much with no resources. We could put office upstairs at WEFT and
use a storefront next door.<br>
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