[CIMC-work] [Imc-chicago] PLEASE HELP: African Indymedia conference needs your support (fwd)

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
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Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 14:19:13 -0500
From: Jay <jaypsand at yahoo.com>
To: imc-chicago at indymedia.org
Subject: [Imc-chicago]  PLEASE HELP: African Indymedia conference needs
    your support

SUMMARY:

The imc-africa working group is seeking donations to support travel and
other expenses of delegates to the upcoming African Indymedia conference in
Dakar, Senegal, March 1-14.  WITHOUT YOUR HELP DELEGATES FROM ALL OVER
AFRICA WILL NOT BE ABLE TO COME TO THE CONFERENCE.

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Since 1999 when the first Independent Media Center formed in the streets of
Seattle the Indymedia network has grown by leaps and bounds.  Much of that
development has taken place in the Global North which has a well-developed
multimedia structure that allows for quick and cheap media content.  IMCs
in some other parts of the world, notably South America, have grown by
organizing non-hierarchically to make media, despite not having as much
access to multimedia infrastructure.

On the other hand, Indymedia has grown very slowly in Africa.  To give
Indymedia Africa the push it needs, the imc-Africa working group, with
support from other activists, is organizing an Alternative (Indymedia)
Conference in Dakar, Senegal, from March 1 to 14, 2004.  The main goal of
the conference is to exchange organizing experiences and develop ideas for
growing the Indymedia network throughout Africa. Delegates from IMCs or
forming IMCs in South Africa, Ambazonia(Ex-British Southern Cameroon),
DRCongo, Angola, Kenya, Madiaq (South Spain and Morocco), the Nertherlands,
Germany, Switzerland, UK and the USA have committed to attending. Three
quarters of the delegates will be from Africa.

Unfortunately, international travel within Africa is difficult and
expensive.  WE CURRENTLY DO NOT HAVE THE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE TRAVEL OF
DELEGATES WITHIN AFRICA, nor to pay expenses (food/lodging in Dakar) of
those who cannot afford them in during the conference itself.  WE NEED YOUR
HELP TO ASSURE THE CONFERENCE WILL SUCCEED.

   We are seeking donations to cover delegates from:

3 from South Africa  = 877*3= 2631 Euro
3 from Ambazonia=750*3= 2250 Euro
1 from Congo =1200 Euro
2 from Angola =1100*2=2200 Euro
3 from Kenya=1100*3=3300  Euro
2 from Madiaq(Spain and Morocco) = 450 *2=900 Euro

Total for those confirmed =  12,481Euro

We are also seeking 2,519 Euro for expenses in Dakar.  We are therefore
seeking 15,000 Euro total.

All Donations should be sent via Paypal (http://www.paypal.com) to
"imc-africa at indymedia.org", or by bank transfer to :

Zentralkultur e.V
Account No: 269 35 70
BLZ/Bankcode     60050101
S.W.I.F.T-code   SOLASDEST
Password: indymedia Africa
Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg
Germany

For those who need  receipts for their donations for use in getting tax
deductions please indicate by email to imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org or to
sphinx at indymedia.org.

We'll greatly appreciate any contribution no-matter how small.  Thank you
for your help.  All current and future IMCs in Africa thank you as well,

IMC-Africa Working group. 


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