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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12as I live in a different state and different country.
I even live in a different country within a different state which is also a different country.
And air travel is still very expensive but if any multi-national-corporation is out there with hard hitting "yuff culture" experts they could like send me a travel allowance grant of about 4,999$ so I could like "get about more".
though I would have tons of input for such a meeting, I can not attend, as I am in NY... any chance of a live feed?
Still meeting in the Stags Head, eh? I went to my first Socialist Militant meeting there back in, oh, 1987?
Wow, brings back memories...
now you stag's headers remember just because we're not there doesn't mean we don't know what you're up to.
or how much you drink.
or if you smoke.
I propose a non residents in Ireland indymedia meeting to be hosted by collection paid for by all political parties in a nice new building to be built at great cost somewhere pretty with good weather and a reputation for party atmosphere.
Then us "the NYC- Sicily- Germany- London- Barça- Canada etc.," people you never see [isn't it sinister really] will drink and smoke in _your name_
How about it - we have regular posters and writers from Galway/Cork/Limerick/Belfast etc - you know who you are - get your mates and others involved - have a regular sociable informal meeting - create more content - bitch about what isn't on the site that should be - then do something about it - take it outside the pale - we're old and tired - but Vinnie's wonderful oscailt machine is not. Look what it can do ;-)
Indymedia Cork : http://www.indymedia.ie/index.php?region_id=5
Indymedia Belfast:
http://www.indymedia.ie/index.php?region_id=9
Indymedia Limerick:
http://www.indymedia.ie/index.php?region_id=7
Indymedia Galway: http://www.indymedia.ie/index.php?region_id=6
Unfortunately I'm not living in Dublin at the moment myself but I hope there might be some interest amongst indymedia participants around ireland in organising something simultaneous with the events outside of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva. More details below.
Take care,
h.
WSIS? We Seize!
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62068
Dissembly Language: Unzipping the World Summit on the Information Society
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61863&type_id=all&search_text=WSIS
WSIS - AN IMC ISSUE?
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-europe/2003-November/001586.html
IMC involvement Wiki
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WsisImc
Apologies for gratuitous use of Indymedia to adverise my own wares, but readers might be interested in my own blog on Irish Indymedia and the impact of the Web on left-activism generally. I hope it is not irrelevant to this thread, but if Indymedia editors judge it to be so, I'll have no problems with them removing this comment.
The blog is here: http://marcmulholland.tripod.com/histor/index.blog?from=20031108
While relevance is up to the reader, not to the editors! (within reason)
some thoughst about Media Activism to consider:
-- -- --
Organizing Indymedia/Alternative Media At The Local Level
by Danielle Chynoweth http://www.ucimc.org/feature/display/13982/index.php
for the Media Reform Conference in Madison, November 7-9, 2003
''3) Keep it simple, decentralized, and low to the ground.
We had some folks who wanted to make structure before making media. The majority of us said no. We insisted on a structure document that fit on one page - this was to prevent getting too caught up in conflict over structure and to prevent those "in the know" of some long policy document from wielding power over those "not in the know."
4) Empower those who work, not those who just talk.
We created a structure that centers around working groups - low to the ground, action-oriented groups that largely determine their own paths. Each working group sends two representatives to a weekly steering group meeting where information is shared and IMC-wide problems are addressed. Our entire membership, about 300 people, is called to meet twice a year to discuss large-scale policy changes and future directions. All decisions on all levels are made by consensus. When someone wants to get involved they join a working group. If what they want to work on is not represented in a working group, they don't wait for permission to do work. They start their own group, which exists outside of the IMC, until they can prove their viability, at which point they can petition the IMC to become an official working group. This is an easy way to sort out the talkers from the do-ers.
5) Groups that have been shut out or misrepresented are your natural membership base.
Although we come up with various plans to bring in new members, our best recruiting tool is to do good work and fill a need - those who benefit from IMC activities then get involved.''
writing pieces for the site
adding your views to existing threads on site
doing things outside
-indymedia news-printed summarys, global-local, put in cafes, librarys, walls? ....
-indymedia news-street theatre to read the news from cardboard TV, (fun and serious together- reaching wider audience)
-indymedia exhibition-ilac library, part of may exhibtion with irish social forum feedback..
-indymedia screenings-rotating to different nodes @ city, brings IMC to new places, gets new response, gets more involved
-indymedia workshops- as above, giving skills to those without- schools, libs, community centres- the rotation is healty, helps against remaining the "same old heads" type clique
talking and doing globally
-interaction with other IMC`s @ globe- development of ideas- chatroom, virtual web conferencing
-further ideas about how real and virtual space can be used together- ie explore MARCEL network
http://www.mmmarcel.org/ main organiser don foresta, put on a paddys day gig between paris, dublin, boston: 3 local nodes doing their thing, hooking up together for one global network. via realtime through braodband (im not a tek head i dont know too much re this, perhaps you do?)
social stuff
gigs, wanders, films, talks, spaces to go......
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2003/07/273800.html
communication is a funny old thing, were only beginning to get into it
make it as fun, exciting, inclussive, welcoming as possible
and who wouldent want to get involved to make the world fairer and greener
simple
* Use capital letters
* Write real sentences
* Put the dope away and start making sense
a lot of the time indymedia threads degenerate into negative name calling- this does not help anyone. a while ago someone at the social forum made a good comment- create a "ranting section" and place all that shite in there
being positive, creative and productive is healthier. why do people waste their time?
the indymedia public get together happened last night, @ 15 attended, and a salvaged adjustable film screen was donated to indymedia. this can help in outdoor screenings when the weather gets warm again, or for screenings indoors now....
its great that we have this resourse (www-email-indymedia) but still nothing beats meeting people in the flesh
see you soon
dunk
hope so.......