[Imc-finance] Ford Foundation -- clarifications from the UCIMC:

[blicero]

>    Hi Sascha and all,
> 
>    There are a couple of things I don't understand.
> 
>    You said the money isn't going to be donated to the Indymedia Network
>    as a whole, but to the UC IMC instead. But isn't the money been
>    SPECIFICALLY donated for funding meetings between the various IMCs on
>    the Indymedia Network? Because, if it's the case, then I think (and
>    I'm sure I can speak for the entire CMI Belo Horizonte collective)
>    that this decision should be taken by ALL the IMCs that are going to
>    be part of those meetings and not by the UC IMC, since they are not
>    the only ones who are going to make use of that money. Could you
>    please explain it to me? Is the money being donated specifically to
>    fund meetings between IMCs or is it just an idea of how we could use
>    that money?
> 
>    And the other thing is, even though I totally agree that local IMCs
>    should not have veto power over other IMCs projects and decissions, I
>    believe that each IMC has to know that they are part of a network and
>    that they decisions can sometimes have a negative impact on some other
>    or even several other IMCs. I respect the UC IMC autonomy just like I
>    respect the CMI BH autonomy, but since this donation can have a
>    negative impact on other IMCs, specially on IMC Argentina, I think we
>    should definitely talk this issue over and over and over again until
>    we can reach a consensus about it. Until then, I think no decision
>    should be made about accepting or not this donation.
> 
>    Cheers (and sorry about my poor english),
>    Luis,

Luis is speaking my mind LITERALLY
I would just add a sentence to all this:

since the money was specifically for funding imc network-wide issues,
the place to discuss it is NOT an affinity group, if not after
discussion on the list we collectively addresses as the network-wide
facilitating body for communication on finances issues, ie: this list

I appreciated greatly the work a lot of the people who is involved in
this "affinity group" has done and does for imc network, and all of the
people i think know of this

but really i think that all this has been quite out of process, and i
find it very "defensive" and unreallistic trying to play the part of the
one who is having his/her freedom of action limited by a network wide
discussion on a network-wide investing issue.




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