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

[Bart]

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Hey Everyone,


I didn't get any reactions back from the belgium finance team.
So I think I can say we agree with this.

Bart


Sascha Meinrath heeft geschreven:
| 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 LEcuyer
|>>>for Indymedia South Africa



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