[Livingwage] Re: break the blackout feature?

[Sascha Meinrath]

Having stories on poverty and local anti-poverty initiatives that coincide
with the Break the Blackout conference sounds like a great idea.  Our
tech-collective has been handling our website and I'm hopeful that someone
can do a quick story on poverty in the area.  We also have a very active
Living Wage movement locally, so there are some natural tie-ins already.
I've cc-ed both groups so that folks who are interested can join the
action.

So would anyone be willing to create a feature for the UCIMC website for
the weekend of October 4-6 -- the more features we have the better, so
spread the word.  The only thing I ask is to please send both me and Jay
an e-mail so I know that I can stop searching for someone and Jay knows
that the UCIMC is on board.

Let us know,

--Sascha

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Jay wrote:

> Hi Sascha,
>
> I know I owe you a couple messages.  I just read your recent e-mails and
> want to respond when I have a moment later today.
>
> In the meantime, something else.  I've been involved in organizing for a
> conference that's coming up next weekend in Philadelphia, the Break the
> Blackout media conference.  <http://www.kwru.org/conference>  The
> conference will bring together grassroots anti-poverty organizers from
> around the U.S. with independent media makers and media-democracy
> activists.  I think it's going to be a great event.
>
> As part of using Indymedia's resources to support the conference and the
> anti-poverty movement in general, I've been trying to inspire local IMCs
> around the world to do features next weekend (October 4-6) about local
> anti-povery efforts, or about anything relating to the struggle against
> poverty, especially where it converges with independent media.  Do you
> think the UC-IMC maybe be able to pull something along those lines together
> for next weekend?  I'm just thinking about something small, but with IMCs
> all over the world posting small features, things grow pretty
> quickly.  I've already had some positive response from India, Argentina and
> Uruguay about the idea . . . so join in! :)))
>
> If you aren't doing features nowadays, could you pass this message along to
> someone who is?   Be sure to let me know if there's a feature up so I can
> let everyone at the conference know.
>
> Thanks!  I like the idea of multiple IMCs focusing on the same issue at a
> coordinated time, but each in its own way . . . ,
>
> Jay
>
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