[CIMC-working] 030126 CIMC meeting notes -- January 26, 2003

[Chris Kaihatsu]

030126 CIMC meeting notes -- January 26, 2003

Notes of Chris Kaihatsu -- brackets and blank spaces are my own. Attendees
should feel free to post corrections and/or additions to
imc-chicago-working@indymedia.org.

In attendance: Chris G., Chris K., Dick, Don, Emily, Ian, Joel, Rita


EXCERPTS -- CONSENSUS ITEMS:

Don: we need a board of directors for the bank account

Dick: Proposal: Don, Ian, Rita

- CONSENSUS -


FUNDRAISING

Dick: consensed on PayPal, right?

Ian: we can accept donations through PayPal 2 weeks after bank account is
active

Dick: we need $ to cover anti-war stuff, asap

- DON, IAN WILL HEAD PAYPAL -


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AGENDA:

1. servers
2. upcoming features
3. banking/finance
4. fundraising
5. DC coverage


SERVERS

Ian: we got responses back from New Mexico bandwidth co-op and a guy from
Urbana-Champaign IMC -- NM is a bit overloaded

Don: backing up database is not easy -- it has to be static -- still lookin=
g

Ian: CIMC is limited in resources -- problem is time and bandwidth in
backing up -- U-C IMC is running only off DSL and limited, modest hardware
-- they're willing to fundraise for server hardware and a T-1 line

Dick: SF IMC?

Ian: no response -- seems they don't have the manpower

Don: seems that Chicago is a big enough place -- we should be able to find =
a
cheap commercial partner

Ian: in SF, Seattle, $50/month non-profits offer co-location

Don: some groups used Lumpen for awhile -- Chicago should have an incubator
for progressives

Ian: DC, NYC both on stallman -- we should consider St. Louis IMC

Chris K.: [I know of a place with a T-1 line I can look into.]


DESIGN

Chris K.: Emily will be sending website graphics to Ian -- [Emily dropped
off press passes, 1/4-sheet mock-ups, will be sending electronic files of
her design work to me for posting to this list]

Dick: we need to listen to our readership -- we will get responses to our
redesign -- we should announce it

Don: we could put up parallel, static designs

Dick: a brief header, in the center column, to announce it

Dick/Don: the logo really needs to have the caption "Haymarket 1888", on
bottom

Dick: it could look as if it's carved into the statue base

Ian/Don/Chris K.: will do a conference call to St. Louis IMC


UPCOMING FEATURES

Dick: the shit hits the fan either tomorrow or in 3 weeks

Chris K.: Ruppert reports that the invasion will begin on Tuesday, with the
State of the Union address

Dick: the State Dept. put out a global call to Americans abroad, through
embassies -- the last time was in '91 -- 24-hour notice -- sharp debate in
the US administration -- either this week or wait three weeks -- public
support is continually hemorrhaging -- Blair's ass is cooked, will ask for =
3
weeks, will get dumped by Bush anyway -- Feb. 15 will be largest worldwide
demo in history -- military forces have reached minimum levels, with a base
at ____ and Basra -- they could do a 1, 2, or 3-week air war to wipe out
Iraq's infrastructure -- maximum force by the end of February, but can't
wait beyond March 1st -- support ships are limited to 2 weeks -- ports at
Aden, Yemen -- insufficient at Qatar -- high risk this week -- ANSWER,
United For Peace @ NYC, Feb. 15 -- Chicago, anti-war emergency response thi=
s
week -- tomorrow morning [Mon. 1/27] 8am, Iraq Peace Pledge at Federal
building to block entrances -- 18 arrested last time -- 5pm, Clark/Jackson,
Not In Our Name, emergency anti-war demo -- Tuesday, ANSWER @ INS, 22 W.
Jackson, response to State of the Union address -- shit will hit the fan in
NYC tomorrow morning, 9am, UN building, mass civil disobedience, No Blood
For Oil, an NYC coalition -- keep an eye on it for our CIMC center panel

Rita: Free Speech Radio News will pick up from CIMC wire

Dick: Feb. 15 international call-in-sick day and emergency response to
bombing -- Cliff Kelly, WVON

Chris G.: did some audio in DC -- connect-the-dots approach -- consequences
of pouring billions into war effort -- broader corporate agenda of policy -=
-
Cliff Kelly would be open to that approach, consequences for blacks in
Chicago -- what's driving the bus -- how the world works -- corporate press
portrays scattered issues, no connections -- Chicago Defender has a big
pass-around circulation, but conservative board -- Sun-Times is a little
fascist rag -- intellectuals like Lester Jackson [sp?] would be committed t=
o
unpacking for the people what drives the war agenda -- audio pieces would
need to be tiny and tight -- go after key interviews in the black community
-- focus on community people, not elected officials

Don: ______

Chris G.: Margaret Burroughs, Rev. Paul Jakes, Aaron Patterson, women,
wives, mothers -- _____ would get credit but no money

Don: Stan West

Rita: put it on our site, let them [come to us] -- put up clips, be like an
AP [Associated Press]

Don/Dick: we would also be providing an outlet for Stan West's material

Chris G.: I want a destination point for audio, like Free Speech Radio News
archive page, or WINS -- non-tech method of posting

Rita: see DC-IMC audio site

Don: CIMC Radio graphic could link to a regular article page that can be
edited/updated through story admin

Chris G.: okay


FEATURES

Rita: focus?

Dick: arrests first night -- hundreds will do jail solidarity, then cover
the police response, then the activists' response, then the city press
conference -- it's an evolving series of stories

Don: there could possibly be a large mobilization of people in defense of
those arrested

Rita: demos at police stations, like 26th and California

Dick: by 9pm, 10pm each night, possible arrests -- plan is to take Lake
Shore Drive -- emergency spokescouncil for civil disobedience activists --
see [imc-chicago-working@indymedia.org] list [archive] -- CIMC will have a
meeting in time to plan for Feb. 15 -- actions will be everywhere: suburbs,
campuses -- public's reactions to administration's lack of reaction to
protests -- rumor is that Al-Jazeera is timing their English reporting for
the outbreak of bombing -- Mon. Feb. 1, review and training for activists o=
n
the implications of the USA Patriot Act, anti-repression -- our center pane=
l
archive has some of the best links to civil liberties stories --
anti-repression legislation could soon be taken up by the City of Chicago

Chris K.: San Francisco voted a resolution [against USA Patriot Act]

Don: Evanston had hearings on it -- in Chicago, there are aldermanic
co-sponsors -- Daley will fight this one

Chris G.: who? [which aldermen?]

Dick: FBI just issued release to interrogate 50,000 Iraqi nationals to "fin=
d
traitors" -- when war starts repression could be severe -- we need to know
the important dates to cover [on pending resolutions] -- we need heads-up o=
n
language of resolutions

Don: briefing tomorrow -- legislative campaign

Chris G., Dick: Azteca update -- developments next week -- Mexican Fine Art=
s
-- circulate dates, ____


FINANCE

Don: Chris G., did CIMC pay you for Madison [expenses]?

Chris G.: no

Don: rent is paid through March -- about $200 is left after that

Chris K.: RAM [for Mac] came in

Don: we need a board of directors for the bank account

Dick: Proposal: Don, Ian, Rita

- CONSENSUS -


FUNDRAISING

Dick: consensed on PayPal, right?

Ian: we can accept donations through PayPal 2 weeks after bank account is
active

Dick: we need $ to cover anti-war stuff, asap

- DON, IAN WILL HEAD PAYPAL -

Chris G.: report: regular screenings at New World Resource Center can't
happen -- not open till March or April -- we can re-create the last big
fundraiser at Women In the Director's Chair, or Hothouse -- need a video
projector, and we don't know their calendar -- do ad book, screen Indymedia
and other anti-war documentaries

Dick: find videos

Chris G.: I need a 5-week lead time -- late February, early March --
Hothouse, fallback

Rita: Jeff offered space

Chris G.: great

Dick: people should start looking for documentary listings on past emails,
websites -- please email to me, email producers and cc to me -- looking for
10-15-minute clips, or Indymedia -- Kevin Clark got back from Iraq, wants t=
o
give interviews

Rita: [I'll take that up]

Dick: first demo at World Social Forum was anti-war -- would be a good tape
-- could ace the [Indymedia] network

Rita: I think I can find a video projector

Chris G.: we could sell beer at WIDC -- need volunteers for day-of

Don: March 1, Congressman Conyers in town for CCDBR

Chris G.: March 7, 8 for WIDC -- ?


=80 office:=20

Mac 6500/250 mHz 603ev, 64MB (max. for this model, with RAM just received -=
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97MB with virtual memory)


PHONE MESSAGES:

Chris, story on Ameritech workers locked out -- 773-865-1718

Reenie Marks [sp?] -- "fantastic program on miners [From the Trenches]" --
wants copy or transcript -- 764-8551

Steven Novotny [sp?] -- X-Ray -- Cincinnati magazine -- wants info on the
former Cincinnati IMC -- 513-471-5528

Allison ____, reporter, Red Eye, Chicago Tribune -- wants info on the
protest "tomorrow", would like to find organizers -- Fri. 312-222-5411, Sat=
.
312-371-4993

(unnamed), wants info on Logan Square meetings or organizations --
773-278-1886[?] -4886[?]

Amy _____, WBEZ 848 morning program, wants info on CIMC -- 630-440-8252