[CIMC-work] (UCIMC is Indymedia's fiscalsponsor)Fwd:[IMC-Process] DNS:

[donald goldhamer]

Chris K,

Please be more careful before you mis-characterize what I said.  I did
not specify Sascha but rather the behavior and structuring of the UC-IMC.
This is not the first time you have risen to UC-IMC's defense without
examination. Perhaps we all can chat on Friday.

"Hosting formal roles" does not begin to describe what I was referring to
-- their history of bypassing collective process regarding funding,
publishing, new-imc creation, and other instances, or the structure and
governance of UC-IMC itself.

Moreover, it is simply very bad practice to have financial and legal
control in _any_ one location, even if it were one which had been adhering
to collective decision making.

--Don

>Garth, Don, CIMC,
>Yeah, it's undeniable that UC-IMC has exhibited a distinct pattern of
>hosting formal roles. On the legal mailing address issue, however,
>Sascha has said that he will wait for the larger IMC network to make a
>decision. See:

>>Just let me know how things are decided.
>>--Sascha
>lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-chicago-working/2004-May/003374.html

>I would characterize this issue, as usual, as being one of activity: If
>a larger network process of decision-making is needed, then it must be
>done, or else formal roles and unrepresentative actions may be taken
>by Sascha (or anyone) simply based on initiative.

>While I appreciate Don's input, I would like to see some documentation
>of Don's allegations of Sascha's "corporate mentality" -- a serious
>characterization -- and his alleged "concentration" of "power." Simply
>holding a formal role does not necessarily confer greater power and/or
>abuse of power.

>I appreciate Garth's stance on the "IMC-book" issue -- I'll address it
>in a separate email.
>Chris K.

>donald goldhamer wrote:
>>I think that UC-IMC would be a bad choice for indymedia.com's registered
>>address, for several reasons:

>> 1. UC-IMC seems to be drifting (have drifted) toward a corporate mentality
>>    which does NOT reflect the nature of IMC.
>> 2. concentration of power (financial AND legal in one location!) is a great
>>    temptation to abuse.  Was the process around "the book" an example of
>>    this? 
>>--Don