[Imc-midwest-regional] [legal issues] This does concernme... FW: [IMC-Process] Where we at?

[penny at innermode.com]

C. Mitchell,  I advise you, from experience, not to blow on this fire. Ignore
him and he will go away.

christopher mitchell wrote:

> It concerns yoU??
> I'm a bit concerned myself ;-P
> actually I am more annoyed - he claims to be suing me for slander...which
> means that he has to prove actually monetary damages from my false
> charges.  As I have significant evidence that he is actually posting as
> multiple personalities / names, I am not really worried.
> As far as being worried about non-wingnuts suing us, I still would not be
> that worried.
>
> --christopher
>
> At 12:23 AM 6/30/2001 -0500, 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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