[Imc-finance] PENDING: PROPOSAL D -- funding request from South Africa IMC

[Sascha Meinrath]

SUMMARY:  funding request from South Africa IMC representatives posted.
DECISION DEADLINE:  August 30, 2002 (Noon GMT)
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Hi Prishani & Francois,

Thanks for posting your grant request.  I understand your frustration;
however, this is the first proposal that was sent to the
imc-finance@indymedia.org list that I know of.  To maintain the
transparency and democracy of our process, we can only consider proposals
made by IMCs to this list and thus reviewable to all working group
participants.

The following proposal has been posted to our list and is available at:
http://kropotkin.indymedia.org/moin/moin.cgi/FinanceWorkingGroupSummary

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*** PROPOSAL D: ***
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 *POSTED: August 28, 2002 by Francois (South Africa IMC; via Sascha)
 *DISCUSSION PERIOD: August 28-30, 2002
 *DECISION DEADLINE: August 30, 2002 (Noon GMT)
 *PASSED: ***PENDING***

To approve the following expenditures for media equipment and supplies for
the South Africa IMC following our emergency funding proceedures:

1 dv camera           R15 000.00 (1,500 US$)
Mini-disk player       R4 000.00 (  400 US$)
Dv & md cassettes      R2 000.00 (  200 US$)
Printing               R1 000.00 (  100 US$)

TOTAL                 R22 000.00 (2,200 US$)

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*** END PROPOSAL D ***
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All constructive comments and support are welcome.

In solidarity,

--Sascha Meinrath
Urbana-Champaign IMC

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, francois wrote:

> Dear IMC-finance group,
>
> It has been some time now since we submitted a proposal for assistance
> around our programme on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)
> and we are disappointed that we have still not received a response from the
> Finance Committee.  Now that the WSSD is upon us and there is significant
> repression of critical voices, we are forced to apply to the emergency fund
> as we are in desperate need of money to ensure a significant Indymedia
> presence at the summit and particularly in covering the protests.  With the
> brute force employed by the police over the last week, it is expected that
> their heavy-handedness will increase over the period of the heads of state
> meeting.  We are in dire need of dv cameras, in particular, to ensure that
> the facts are adequately recorded and to ensure some degree of protection in
> the demonstrations.  With the South African state determined to portray
> protests as the actions of a small group of unruly northern activists who
> have joined with a small group of ‘ultra-leftist’ South Africans,
> Indymedia-SA has a critically important role to play in countering the
> propaganda of the state and the mainstream media.
>
> We have successfully raised the funds to cover half our core expenses.  At
> present, however, we have only 2 dv cameras as we had the unfortunate
> experience of having our third camera stolen last week.  We are currently
> trying all means to get additional funds to beef up our programme.  We would
> therefore urge the Committee to consider the revised emergency request
> below:
>
> 1 dv camera	        R15 000.00
> Mini-disk player	 R4 000.00
> Dv & md cassettes	 R2 000.00
> Printing	         R1 000.00
> TOTAL	                R22 000.00 (2,200 US$)
>
> The amount above would be a significant contribution towards helping us meet
> our overall costs.
>
> We hope that you will respond positively and swiftly to our request noting
> the urgency of the matter.
>
> Yours,
>
> Prishani Naidoo & Francois L’Ecuyer
> for Indymedia South Africa
>
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