[Imc-newsroom] Re: WORT visit

[Al Kagan]

This is perplexing.  I know Mark raised this with at least some folks 
at WEFT.  It is a shame he is out of town.  Regarding co-sponsorship, 
there is no financial commitment involved.  The IMC will deal with 
all the expenses. The hope was that we could all have a fruitful 
discussion on how to do more and better news and public affairs.  As 
far as I know there are no specific proposals on how to accomplish 
better collaboration.  That would have to be discussed at the 
workshop or later on.

Some of us have been discussing these ideas publicly for several 
months beginning at the first AWARE teach-in with Bob McChesney, and 
then at AWARE events and meetings.   Some WEFT people come to these 
meetings.  I have personally discussed this with Carl Estabrook, Paul 
Mueth, Peter Miller, Danielle, and Mark Enslin.  I don't know where 
the communications breakdown happened.

Anyway, what we need to do now is see if people from WEFT want to 
participate and/or co-sponsor.  Mick needs a special invitation.


At 6:32 PM -0500 1/28/02, Pauline Bartolone wrote:
>Hey folks.
>
>I talked to Mick Wolf about the WORT visit on the 9th, and there is 
>confusion/miscommunication about what it means for WEFT to be a 
>"co-sponsor" of the WORT event. According to him, noone from WEFT 
>was notified about sponsorship or other participation.
>
>What kind of participation does the IMC request of WEFT to be 
>co-sponsor? What else do we request from them besides reading a PSA 
>on the air?
>
>On the flyer for the event that Al Kagan made, it mentions using the 
>event to strengthen collaboration between WEFT and the IMC. How 
>exactly is this going to happen? Is there going to be a panel of 
>reps from each organization? Or is there going to be some sort of 
>discussion about collaboration after the WORT workshops?
>
>I told Mick I'd tell him the scoop during the WEFT Courier on Wednesday.
>
>Can anyone enlighten me?
>
>Thanks, Pauline
>
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Al Kagan
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