[Imc] Re: Hey Chicago IMC!! New Indymedia Outlet in Champaign-Urbana! (fwd)
chyn at onthejob.net
chyn at onthejob.net
Thu Sep 28 18:02:41 UTC 2000
Great job Paul!
What follows is a response from the Chicago Indymedia center to Paul's
request that we collaborate with them. Looks like paul will be meeting
with them this Saturday in Chicago and they're into the idea of coming to
visit us here.
-- danielle
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:04:37 EDT
From: HammerHard at aol.com
To: herringb at prairienet.org
Subject: Re: Hey Chicago IMC!! New Indymedia Outlet in Champaign-Urbana!
hi, paul:
christine geovanis, here (that's hammerhard...of hammerhard
mediaworks/chicago, a pro-bono media service for chicago's progressive
community)
your timing is impeccable, since we're having our second chicago indymedia
general meeting this saturday at noon, September 30, Loyola University's
Marquette Center, 2nd floor Alumni Lounge, 47 E. Pearson. it would be totally
excellent if you could make this meeting -- i could hook you up with some of
our techs, other activists, et al. this project is really new in chicago,
altho a few of us have been hustling on the back end w/seattle and la
indymedia contacts for a few months to get a group together. i personally
remain flabbergasted that we got 35 people to our first meeting on 9/16 --
and the tech working group had a site up in a matter of days. a lot of us
didn't even really know each other until the first meeting.
re your suggestion about coming down for dinner to brainstorm w/champaign
folks about a local imc -- that would be great, and i can help facilitate
that, but i think it would be more productive for you-all if we could get
some of our tech folks down there, as well. if you can make the meeting on
saturday, we can try to hook this up then.
the saturday meeting w/likely go on for a while, so if you can't make the
whole thing, maybe you could stop by around 1:30 and we could try to drag a
few folks out for lunch before your gig to do some conspiring. what do you
think?
you can reach me at home at 312-733-2181 or at my straight job at
312-603-4653. i'll also have my cell w/me on saturday (w/try to remember to
turn the damned thing on) and you can try me saturday on that line, as well
-- 312-446-4939.
it sounds like you have a really great group coming together in champaign. i
also think chicago folks w/be thrilled at the chance to collaborate more
closely w/our neighbors down south. we're also in (irregular) contact w/folks
up in madison, who also got their site on line recently, and cleveland has
also been up for a couple of weeks now, as well -- we've crossposted a little
from their site, and i would like to reach out to them, as well. so maybe we
could also talk about tightening up a more regional consortium to share info,
tech skills, organizing strategies, etc.
hope to hear from you soon. thanks!
chris
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