[Imc-midwest-regional] [legal issues] This does concern me... FW: [IMC-Process] Wherewe at?

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I strongly suggest completely ignoring all emails that contain the name "Biodun
Ignalia".  Trust me.  Talltom in MPLS.

Chris Kaihatsu wrote:

> ----------
> From: Biodun Iginla <biginla at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 07:30:22 -0700 (PDT)
> To: Kathleen DiNuzzo <kdinuzzo at hotmail.com>, imc-editorial at indymedia.org
> Cc: imc-process at indymedia.org
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: FW: [IMC-Process] Where we at?
>
>
>
>   Kathleen DiNuzzo <kdinuzzo at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: evan at protest.net
> >To: imc-process at indymedia.org
> >Subject: Re: FW: [IMC-Process] Where we at?
> >Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:15:00 -0700 (MST)
> >
> >This is to the rest of the list, not Kathleen, or who ever she may
> >actually be. We need an environment of respect on our mailinglists. From
> >what i read of Chris's email he seemed to be a constructive and
> >valuable contribution to the discussion. Thank you Chris!
> >
> >Kathleen's posts are contradictory and incendary. Beyond questions about
> >whether or not "she" is actually biodun, she hasn't introduced her self in
> >the roll call or contributed the development or work on this list.
>
> Hey Bio:
>
> Your name is still coming up on IndyMedia lists. You might want to do
> something about that.
>
> Hey IndyMedia Folks:
>
> Now I'm getting really pissed. I vacated the IndyMedia collective and
> listservs months and months ago, yet my name is still appearing on these
> lists. I'm temporarily subscribed to send this message, then I'll
> unsubscribe again.
>
> I now work in corporate media, where I started out, and to where I've
> retreated after my bitter experiences at IndyMedia. In corporate media my
> work is respected and valued, and at least I know who my friends are. All of
> them are not hypocrites pretending to be anarchists and anti-racists.
> They're actually "behind enemy lines," so to speak, doing some real work for
> social justice, and actually exposing events that had been underreported and
> also doing their best to highlight issues being debated within activist
> organizations. I'll give you a concrete example:
>
> Last May, during the May Day protests in Minneapolis, IndyMedia activists
> posted a complaint in the IndyMedia newswire that corporate media completely
> ignored the protests--a complaint I'd heard repeated ad nauseam the few
> inane collective meetings I attended when I was wasting my time with
> IndyMedia. This particular complaint was far from accurate. This is what I
> witnessed myself at the May Day protest in downtown Minneapolis: A Channel 5
> (ABC affiliate) reporter with a mike and a camera-person approached an
> "activist," wanting her to talk about the demonstration, to provide her
> perspective. The "activist" simply dismissed this reporter and said: "I
> don't want to talk to you. We have our own media." (By which she meant
> IndyMedia, whose own "reporters" were milling about with press passes that
> won't get them through any secured press conferences in any continent on the
> planet.)
>
> This incident reflects well the "culture" of IndyMedia.
>
> You people flatter yourself if you think I give a rat's ass about what's
> going on at IndyMedia or even have the time to find out what's going on. If
> Kathleen (a former colleague in the mid-80s in New York corporate media)
> hasn't bothered to introduce herself, that's her prerogative.
>
> A lawsuit is pending against Christopher Mitchell of the Twin Cities IMC for
> maligning me on this list: It's simply delayed because he doesn't have any
> money yet. Acts like his should no longer go unpunished. If my name comes up
> again in a negative way, I swear I'll have to take legal action. This is
> serious business. Some of us are not in Kansas--or in school--anymore. Some
> of these postings with my name in it have the potential to be harmful, since
> what I do is public. Therefore, there will be legal consequences if these
> practices persist. I mean it.
>
> Biodun Iginla
> Writer, Author, News Analyst
> e-mail: biginla at email.com
> Cell: 1-612-214-6112
> Sites: http://biodun.homestead.com/biodun.html
> http://www.xlibris.com/bioduniginla.html
>
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