[Imc-finance] Good question.

[ted]

> In addition to our members being "asked to say 'YES' or
> 'NO' to something they don't know about", we also have
> more compound problems: we have not yet agreed on what
> Criteria will guide our group decisions.

I would like to suggest:

http://www.global.indymedia.org.au/front.php3?article_id=205&group=webcast

and/or :

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2001-May/000160.html



>We need to ask
> "what priciples will guide these financial
> allocations?" And as we develop these criteria, we also
> need to check, do they reflect our politics? And all
> this is way too high of a priority to "just get on
> with" and start pissing away the donations imc received
> from our generous supporters.

I beleave the answere lays with-in the Unity Statment.

NOT in exacting words... but I think the ideas expessed in the document can be
relied upon as a guild, to give some guildance as we build our process &
proceedures.


>
> (And by the way, if our benefactors wannted to seed the
> third world with equipment, they could have joined Bill
> Gate's charity efforts -

We need to take that back...  (inoculations for aids does nothing to solve
poverty)

>our network is about radical
> politics; it's insulting that the Dominant Themes among
> us keep being technology and equipment, as if they bear
> an inherent sanctity.)

Again, its addressed in the UNITY statement.

(ted... running late today...   good stuff from everybody)  it seems like
we're on the same boat.

at times, looking looking in different directions...

at least, we're ALL on the same boat..!