[CIMC-work] Meeting notes, 11 Jan 2004

[Ian Bicking]

Meeting Notes, 11 Jan 2004
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In attendance: Don, Garth, Thomas, Ian, Mitchell, Rita.

Festival
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Coming this Friday.  Thomas is looking for mics; they have a PA
system, but he doesn't think they have the rest of the equipment.
The projector is ready.

Proposed schedule:

* Arrive to setup at 5pm
* Festival starts at 8pm
* Introduction; someone from Indymedia and someone from Hasta Cuando;
   then someone from CIMC talk about what Indymedia is about.
* Show first movie, Independent Media in a Time of War, 8:15. 35min
* During breaks we'll be playing the Bush In 30 Seconds clips, asking
   people to look at photos.
* 7min break before each segment
* 8:57, Chiu Nigret will play
* 9:37, Live From Ground Zero, 15min
* 9:52, Start from Report Back from the FTAA, 30min (who will
   introduce?  Different names are being talked about)
* 10:22, Chiapas Media Project Video, 15min
* 10:44, Video Collective introduces television show
* 10:50, show the show, 30min
* Closes at 11:20

100 capacity.  Garth is going to make food, chili.  Garth wants
healthy food.

Located at 941 W. Lawrence, Preston Bradley building.  Parking
generally possible.

Mitchell is posting announcements to various mailing lists and
calendars.

AIDS Video
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Rita would really like to do a showing with this video.  Suggestions
were brought up to involve the Anti-Bashing Network in a panel
discussion or something after the showing.  Rita offerred to do
showings to other groups too.

CIMC / Chicago Social Forum
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January 31st.

CIMC has a foot in the door for doing a workshop.  There were a total
of five groups doing media workshops, now there's only three.  There
were proposals to merge CIMC with another workshop, probably the CMA
workshop.  Mitchell is willing to put CMA on back burner, and let
CIMC take over a shared workshop.

We discussed some of how that might go.  We need to give the
organizers some sort of summary, we talked about something like:

* History of IMC
* Concepts and General Principals
* Breakout into subgroups:
   * Video
   * Audio
   * Photo
   * Writing

Finances
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$1400 in the bank.

Website Redesign
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We talked about what were really some tweaks, and rearranging some of
the links on the page.

Upcoming Features
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* Jan 12 SOA trial.  Happening in Atlanta -- may just link to that
   site.
* March 20 -- one year after.  Students are talking about a
   March 8 or 5 something.
* January 15, CABN gay marriage town hall.
* Jan 14 Richard Perle council on foreign relations.
* Garth still hasn't gotten Hogan piece up.

They are all pretty much open to anyone who wants to do coverage.