[Imc-africa] Re: Imc-africa Digest, Vol 7, Issue 6

Sat Jan 17 01:17:08 PST 2004

hi all ,

here eLoi, from barcelona . i'll introduce myself ... i'm from
telenoika.org, video collective, close to madiaq people in spain . i'm going
south with the intention of getting the ((i))mc meeting in dakar, but the
senegal embassy in madrid told me there is a new law in senegal since this
summer that prohibits the circulation of older than 5 years cars in the
country .

i've info from there from october and seems it's really going like this .
only chance to get into senegal was to trafic to enter gambia, but getting
$$militar$$ police on the van and driving straight to the frontier of gambia
. no circulation was allowed into senegal .

so i ask myeself if somebody knows about this situation and  if there's any
chance to enter senegal with an older than 5 years old van....

thanks -p

e

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> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:30:27 +0000
> From: sphinx <sphinx at indymedia.org>
> Subject: [Imc-africa] Most recent update on Delegates for the Dakar
> Conference
> To: imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org,
> imc-ch-process at lists.indymedia.org, imc-uk at lists.indymedia.org
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> Since the last update we got feetback from the second group organising
imc-Kenya
> thus they took the remaining two places for Kenya. Bar from imc-CH did
indicate
> his wish to be in Senegal; so he joins  Libby from imc-NL, and GATSby from
> imc-de all three will pay the trip  for  themselves.
> At this point the picture of the participants to the conference is as
follows.
> The exact number of Senegalese to participate at the Conference is not
exactly
> clear as there have been information sent around the University of Dakar
by the
> professor who Organised for us to use the university infrastructure for
the
> Conference. There are also a couple of Organisations which have been
informed
> about the conference which include; ACADEV, A community cmputer centre,
and RADI.
> There are also  a couple of activists involved in the  "Boundaries to
Bridges
> tour" or coming to Dakar in the frame of the tour who will be present at
the
> conference.
>
> IMC
> UC-IMC had accepted me(Sphinx) like a volunteer to their special project
for
> Africa called IGAP. In that respect they will be responsible for my fair .
> http://brainstorm.ucimc.org/ucimcWiki/igap
>
>
> The IMC delegates whom we need funds to pay their fair include :
> -3 from IMC-South Africa.
> -3 from IMC-Ambazonia(Ex-British Southern Cameroons)
> -1 from group in the process of forming  IMC-Congo
> -2 from forming IMC-Angola
> -3 from forming IMC-Kenya
> -2 from IMC Madiaq(South Spain and Morocco)
>
> This delegates where proposed by the respective imcs.
>
> There are two special cases here where I'll be grateful to know your
opinion.
> There is Pennie Quinton who making who has been doing video and covering
summits
> and protest across the  world for various IMCs but mostly IMC UK sice
2001. When
> not an IMC volunteer, he  is a video  trainer and he works with people of
all
> ages training them to put together short documentary videos, which
includes
> shooting and editing.
> He indicated his desire to participate if his fair will be paid. I wrote
to him
> to him asking him to discuss with his local imc(UK) so he could be
proposed like
> a UK delegate. He has not replied.
> There is also Moussa from Senegal now staying in Switzerland since the
last two
> years. He is involved in a host of Senegal based cultural organisations
and can
> be translator for all the locally spoken languages. He got to know about
> indymedia not long ago and have been trying to take contact with imc-CH.
He
> succeeded  not long ago and participated in one of their meetings. He
discussed
> with CH to propose him as a delegate for the  Dakar conference. The
trouble he
> says, is that IMC-CH is under lots of pressure now due to their being
evacuated
> from their former occupied building in Badnerstr; Zurich.  I did ask
Moussa to
> have someone involved in imc-CH write to imc-Africa list proposing him as
a
> delelgate to the conference. Hope we can hear from imc-CH soon.  I'll be
> gratreful to know what you guys think about this two cases. I'm presently
> drafting a call for donations which I'll send here for you guys to take a
look
> before sending out to other network list.
>
> CALCUTATIONS THIS FAR
>  This is how the figures look like for now as from information from a
travelling
> Agency:
> 3South Africa  = 877*3= 2631 Euro
> 3Ambazonia=750*3= 2250 Euro
> 1Congo =1200 Euro
> 2 Angola =1100*2=2200 Euro
> 3Kenya=1100*3=3300  Euro
> 2Madiaq(Spain and Morocco) = 450 *2=900 Euro
> Total for those confirmed =  12481Euro
>
> Un-concluded(?) ;
> Moussa=600 Euro
> PP=500 Euro
>
> Best Regards
> Sphinx
> --
> but for fate we could have been one another
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:36:19 +0000
> From: sphinx <sphinx at indymedia.org>
> Subject: [Imc-africa] Call for donations.
> To: imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org
> Cc: init at nadir.org
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> Please take a while read through and make proposal. By friday I should
send this
>  call to the various network lists.
> Sphinx
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Since 1999 when indmyedia saw the day of light at Seattle the network has
> developed in leaps and bounds. Much of that development have been in the
global
> North thanks to the well developed multimedia infrastructure. Which both
allows
> for quick and cheap production of  content for the media. Yet there have
been
> great advancements made by indyedmias in South America in adapting the
concept
> of producing media content within a non-hierarchy    organizational
structure,
> in a society with not so good multimedia infrastructure. The existence of
very
> good social structures developed over the many years of social struggles
in
> South America as well as strong support from global North activists  is
amongst
>  amongst the many reasons that account for this development.
> On the other hand indymedia development and growth in Africa have been
very
> slow. To  give the indymedia Africa growth process the push it needs, the
> indymedia African working group in support with other activists groups
took upon
> Organising an Alternative(indymedia) Conference in Dakar from the 1st to
the
> 14th March 2004.
> In this Conference we'll be having delegates from  ; South Africa,
Ambazonia
> (Ex-British Southern Cameroons), DRCongo, Angola, Kenya, Madiaq (South
Spain and
> M orocco), Nertherland, Germany, Switzerland, UK and USA. Three quarters
of the
> delegates will be   from Africa.
>
> The main point of the Conference will be to exchange experiences and
know-how on
> the way forward with indymedia in Africa, with the less developed social
support
> structures as well as the less developed multimedia infrastructure; which
have
> accounted for the quick and rapid growth/development of indymedia in it's
four
> years of existence.
>
> The success of this endeavour is now being threatened by the lack of funds
to
> cover the fairs of  the African Delegates to the conference as well as
take care
> of the delegates during the 14days of the Conference. We are hereby
soliciting
> for donations to support the Conference.
> All Donations should be sent to :
>
> BANK NAME: Landesbank Baden-Württemberg
> NAME ON ACCOUNT: Zentralkultur e.V
> BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER: 269 35 70
> SWIFT NUMBER: 600 501 01
>
> Password: indymedia Africa
>
> Landesbank Stuttgart Branch Germany
>
>
>
> For those who need  receipts for their donations for use in getting tax
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to
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> We'll greatly appreciate any contribution no-matter how small .
> IMC-Africa Working group.
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> but for fate we could have been one another
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