[Imc-finance] PENDING: PROPOSAL D -- funding request from South
Africa IMC
Sascha Meinrath
sascha at ucimc.org
Wed Aug 28 16:56:13 2002
Hi Vishal (et al.),
Thanks for sending this to translation. These are good questions Vishal
-- in answer to your first, as far as I know, no funding ammount criteria
was set for emergency funding. Francois, could you respond to Vishal's
second question since that may affect what process we utilize.
Thanks,
--Sascha
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Vishal Singh wrote:
> all.
>
> as far as i could tell this proposal was not sent
> translation@lists.indymedia.org so i went ahead and did so.
>
> also i have a couple of questions before i can personally make a decision
> about sending this money or not:
>
> 1) i origially thought that the emergency funding was limited to $500 but
> after reading the meta-proposal again it seems that there is no limit to
> emergency funding. is there no limit to emergency funding?
>
> 2) if we approve this in the two-day deadline, how much time will that
> leave SA-IMC between when they recieve the money and when the WSSD is
> finished? if it is less than two days then the money may not be of much
> use - at least not for this one event. in which case we would not be in
> an 'emergency funding situation'.
>
> i am not representing a local imc with this email- just myself.
> peace.
> vishal.
> st louis imc.
>
>
> > SUMMARY: funding request from South Africa IMC representatives posted.
> > DECISION DEADLINE: August 30, 2002 (Noon GMT)
> > ***
> >
> > Hi Prishani & Francois,
> >
> > Thanks for posting your grant request. I understand your frustration;
> > however, this is the first proposal that was sent to the
> > imc-finance@indymedia.org list that I know of. To maintain the
> > transparency and democracy of our process, we can only consider
> > proposals made by IMCs to this list and thus reviewable to all working
> > group participants.
> >
> > The following proposal has been posted to our list and is available at:
> > http://kropotkin.indymedia.org/moin/moin.cgi/FinanceWorkingGroupSummary
> >
> > *******************
> > *** PROPOSAL D: ***
> > *******************
> >
> > *POSTED: August 28, 2002 by Francois (South Africa IMC; via Sascha)
> > *DISCUSSION PERIOD: August 28-30, 2002
> > *DECISION DEADLINE: August 30, 2002 (Noon GMT)
> > *PASSED: ***PENDING***
> >
> > To approve the following expenditures for media equipment and supplies
> > for the South Africa IMC following our emergency funding proceedures:
> >
> > 1 dv camera R15 000.00 (1,500 US$)
> > Mini-disk player R4 000.00 ( 400 US$)
> > Dv & md cassettes R2 000.00 ( 200 US$)
> > Printing R1 000.00 ( 100 US$)
> >
> > TOTAL R22 000.00 (2,200 US$)
> >
> > **********************
> > *** END PROPOSAL D ***
> > **********************
> >
> > 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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