[CIMC-work] Fw: [IMC-Process] imc-women proposal

[Chris Kaihatsu]

CIMC,

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This issue has been receiving responses from several IMCs -- see the
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Chris




[IMC-Process] proposal from womens list
clara clara at ifrik.org
Mon Oct 27 15:48:46 PST 2003

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Indymedia Netherlands is supporting the imc-women proposal.

Love and solidarity,
Clara

At 02:18 14-10-2003, Discussion List for Women Involved in the IMC network
wrote:
>http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcWomyn
>
>Proposal for New-IMC Process
>
>The imc-women-list exists since summer 2001 and consists of women active
>in indymedias in Latin America, North America, Europe, the Middle East
>and Australia. Since two years, we have discussed in many facets the
>depressing situation of patriarchal repression in society which
>unfortunately doesn't stop at the doorstep of leftist groups.
>
>Many concrete situations came up, in which women felt discriminated
>against in their local group. In most cases we were able to support the
>women emotionally and to give advice. But we feel that this is not enough.
>
>Women are a small minority within many indymedia groups, some groups
>only consist of men. This may be due to the fact that people perceive
>indymedia mainly as a website and don't realize how much work needs to
>be done concerning building political relationships, outreach, editorial
>work etc. Therefore indymedia attracts relatively more people who are
>interested in computing than people who are not. Accordingly, the
>underrepresention of women within indymedia reflects the
>underrepresentation of women in Information Technology related fields.
>
>However, only some incidents in which women felt discriminated against
>within their groups were tech related. Several complained about being
>silenced in meetings, some had experienced open sexist behavior, many
>stated that there was a general atmosphere that made it hard for women
>to work within their indymedia group.
>
>This means that gender discrimination is not only due to the fact that
>techies have an important role within indymedia and techies tend to be
>male. It is apparent, that non-tech as well as tech males discriminate
>against women.
>
>Many of our male co-activists have taken an active stance against gender
>discrimination within indymedia. And we hope they will keep up this
>stance as we don't perceive our struggle as females versus males but as
>a general cause.
>
>However, the discrimination by individual men and the patriarchal
>atmosphere in some groups has reached such a degree that we believe
>action needs to be taken.
>
>Furthermore we believe that similar mechanisms that minimize women's
>involvement also work against the participation of ethnic and sexual
>minorities and maintain a homogeneous class structure.
>
>We talked about different measures to change this situation. As a result
>of our discussions, we would like to propose that these issues be
>addressed during the process which new imcs undertake.
>
>Proposal:
>
>We propose that the following questions be incorporated in the
>application form:
>
>A. How does the makeup of your collective reflect the diversity of the
>local community (e.g. in realtion to gender-, sexual-, spiritual-,
>and/or cultural-identity)?
>
>B. If your group currently does not represent the diversity of the local
>community, particularly in relation to groups who are underrepresented
>in mainstream society and denied access to vehicles of expression, what
>steps will be taken to address this on an ongoing basis?
>
>C. What steps will be taken to involve individuals in workfields new to
>them? What measures will be taken to overcome a gendered work division?
>
>
>
>
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