[CIMC-work] re: our Chicago Social Forum workshops--update

[Mitchell Szczepanczyk]

Update regarding the CSF and our workshop(s).

Haymarket Books has withdrawn from having a workshop, so that variable's
out of the equation.  "All" I/we have to do now is to merge our two
workshops.

What I might do is to create a workshop called "Making Your Own Media",
which would be modeled on the participatory model I gave for the CIMC
workshop idea (but generalize it so it's not just CIMC, thus allowing
CMA to take part).  We could tie that in with CMA's work through its
mandate to support independent media.  (I may postpone the 
logic-and-the-media workshop idea for CMA for another time.)

Thoughts/comments on this proposal is welcome.  I'll discuss this in depth
with both CIMC and CMA at their respective group meetings this week.

Thanks all.
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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
     http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org

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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 20:05:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Mitchell Szczepanczyk <msszczep at midway.uchicago.edu>
To: imc-chicago-working at lists.indymedia.org, eclist at chicagomediaaction.org
Subject: re: our Chicago Social Forum workshops

Just to inform both CIMC and CMA:

I've been negotiating the Chicago Social Forum workshops for both
groups, and it's turns out that the schedule is really harried (or 
at least planning it is--I'm supposed to be getting a copy of the
tentative Forum schedule tonight).  There are at least five scheduled
media-themed workshops, and I'm asked to somehow *merge* the CIMC and CMA
workshops into a single workshop (seeing as how I have ties to
both groups and the workshops were more or less my idea).  What's more,
I've been told of a possibility of merging the two workshops with a
*third* workshop planned by Haymarket Books.

The matter is still one very much up in the air, and one which I'll be
working on in the coming days.  But I wanted to brief you on the
happenings and alert you to look for further bulletins on this matter as
events warrant.

To quote from the movie MASH: "That is all." (gong) :-)

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_ Z  Mitchell Szczepanczyk
  /  http://home.uchicago.edu/~msszczep http://www.chicagomediaaction.org
     http://www.geocities.com/szczepanczyk http://chicago.indymedia.org