[Imc] IMC Minutes 3/31
Laura Stengrim
stengrim at students.uiuc.edu
Sun Mar 31 22:12:14 UTC 2002
Present: Liam, John, Laura, Brent, Mike W., Orion
Possible publishing date: After 1st Week in April, at least. Deadline 4/7?
Sections:
H. Rights-- Al Kagan (1339);
Labor-- GEO meeting/article offered by Ben Scott (1000-1500); living wage;
fair trade coffee by Meredith Kruse (500+), international workers day on May
1st, friends of the 3rd world bio;
Arts-- Laura (600?) picture of Sandra's painting
Government-- Liam on 85% Coalition (1533+); visuals (pics of members)
Media-- FCC protests (950+) adding local twist, taken from the DC IMC (w/
pics)
Environment-- Earth Day - April 21 - SECS article solicited (1000), Michael
Moore coming to U of I on April 17th; Orion is also formatting Andy's graphic
article on ecohousing into a text document w/ pictures, poems; Green
conference (Orion is working on a story for WEFT and Mike will also think
about it), buildings for NPs as a future article
Community Forum-- nada? or letter from Brent on funding indymedia (450);
Newspoems-- one has a story w/ it on Muslim discrimination against women; two
poems total
Contributors-- no new sustainers
Other notes:
*Deadline: depending on layout, waiting for Darrin (April 10th?) or Paul;
Brent's copy of Quark is PC, not Mac.
Distribution: there were some helpers this time and it is done; next month's
distibution -- ?? Should we send e-mails out ahead of time? Brent might just
do that. John has most of the route lists.
Funding:
Wanted: print spokesperson for steering committee, within the next 3 weeks.
Maybe we can have a rotation -- Mike W. offered to attend the next several
steering meetings.
Working group structure: needs a spoke in order to be an IMC working group
General Membership meeting: Working group minutes
Outreach: Add the new blue "wanna get involved at the IMC?" flyer/graphic to
the paper
Writers: Mike can solicit writers (?), Liam will write next year for Public I
if he works in Springfield on state politics,
Orion is selling fundraiser raffle tickets...
Topics for next week's meeting: Organizing distribution, preparing layout,
final drafts due, ongoing talk about funding, outreach, sponsorship.
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