[Imc-makerspace] A Call to Arms (OR: let's hang out and talk about revolution)

[Chris Ritzo]

Colten,
There's interest beyond makerspace already. Maggie & Jeanie & I with the IMC
library talked about hosting a Occupy Wall St solidarity thing on 10/9, but
things can happen more quickly too. This is also just the kind of thing that
the IMC was started for.

-Chris

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Colten Jackson <jazzyjackson at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've hooked myself some momentum on a fresh subreddit I started about 6
> hours ago: the99.reddit.com
>
> It's intended to be a parallel movement to OccupyWallSt, but on a larger
> scale. Inspired by the General Assembly method being used by protesters in
> NYC to gain a consensus on grievances, demands, and how to move forward, I'm
> proposing we build a structure for General Assemblies across the country to
> build consensus on a town, to county, to region, to state, to nationwide
> level. The method for communication I've chosen being reddit - seeing as how
> its popular, dead simple for people to start a new subreddit to have
> locally-relevant conversations, and allows for in-depth conversation on
> several topics simultaneously. If you go to the link above, you can read
> move about what I have in mind and read the introductions of a few people
> who have expressed why they have joined the subreddit. I'm hoping for it to
> become more well established and get some direction before / as it gets
> larger.
>
> So, what do I want to talk to you makerspace types about? I have some ideas
> on how the makerspaces and IMCs across the country can help with this: I'm
> going to contact the OccupyWallSt media tent and see if I can set up some
> way for us to collect raw footage, ftp it over to a server a little heftier
> that macbooks on mcdonalds' wifi or whatever their working with on Wall
> Street. Mirror them through other makerspaces, fire up a torrent so anyone
> can download raw footage for the purpose of putting together media reports.
> Maybe leverage the IMCs to use the raw footage (epic collab between public
> media and makerspaces) - maybe turn makerspaces into video editing and
> social media labs where we can better organize some of these General
> Assemblies here in Urbana, document it, make stories to pass on to media
> about the progress being made and the possibilities of this movement.
>
> Well, I've been working off coffee since midnight, so I hope I've been
> articulate enough here. Can we get anyone interested to meet at the
> makerspace for a special session this weekend?
>
>
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