[Imc-finance] Proposal 2004-D anti-wef request imc-poland 500USD

Tue Apr 13 07:13:58 PDT 2004

To make the dispursement, please contact me once the 10pm GMT deadline
passes and we'll take it from there.

--Sascha

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Joeri wrote:

> hey,
>
> deadline is passed already, nobody spoke up against it; in the meantime
> there was an edit of the proposal. This edit basically contained an
> update on the situation and a slightly lower budget
>
> so i guess we don't need an extra discussion period for it and i think
> the proposal can be approved
> if not, please speak up before 10pm GMT tonight
>
> Joeri wrote:
>
> > posted: 2nd of april
> > discussion period: 2nd-9th of april (till 500 usd deadline is only one
> > week)
> > decision deadline: 9th of april
> >
> > Bartek wrote:
> >
> >> ---------------REQUEST-[en]-----------------
> >> [spanish below]
> >>
> >> From the 28th till the 30th April Warsaw, the capital of Poland, will
> >> be the
> >> host of the European Economic Forum, which was usually taking place
> >> in Salzburg, Austria. The Polish president invited the Forum to
> >> Warsaw, and more and more of his compatriots disagree with his great
> >> hospitality. They want to
> >> protest against the EEF. Among many anti-EEF initiatives organized by
> >> local
> >> activists there are demonstrations (www.antyszczyt.w.pl), the
> >> Alternative Economic
> >> Forum (www.wa29.org ), happenings, street theatres etc.
> >> Polish collective of Indymedia (www.pl.indymedia.org)  is keenly
> >> interested in
> >> providing comprehensive coverage of these events. Already now there
> >> is a lot of
> >> information about the summit (the first information on the EEF was
> >> published here!) and the groups willing to protest against it on
> >> Polish imc. In opposition to corporate media we
> >> try to present also the voices of opponents of the neoliberal
> >> politics. Actually,
> >> together with polish independent information service www.poprostu.pl
> >> we constitute
> >> the only alternative to corporate media in Poland, which are
> >> prophesizing  the
> >> would-be catastophe/apocalipse allegedly going to take place togehter
> >> with the
> >> appearance of protesters in Warsaw. We are particularly interested in
> >> presenting
> >> the voices from the alterglobalist movements/ groups, which are
> >> pictured by the
> >> official media as "the main threat to young Polish democracy"....
> >> As an young IMC - collective (Polish imc exists since 2002), we do
> >> not have any
> >> financial resources, and not many options to foundrise in Poland. We
> >> want to secure
> >> fast access to information for the time of EEF both for us and for
> >> IMC people from
> >> other countries and this involves having a space for indymedia work
> >> (with
> >> connection to internet) which could serve as an information centre.
> >> Therefore we
> >> decided to ask you for some financial support.
> >> We haven't got our own place in Warsaw until now. We tried to
> >> cooperate with some NGO's previously, but they dont want to give us a
> >> space for independent media activities for the time of the EEF. We
> >> will need the space not only for the time of the summit, but also for
> >> before - for workshops, meetings with people willing to join imc for
> >> the time of the summit. We also plan to
> >> publish printed edition of news from imc site.
> >>
> >> Our basic needs are: - renting a space for the imc - we will either
> >> try to rent some cheap space from the city (to get that we need to
> >> pay 3 months rent in advance); or - we will try to rent an internet
> >> cafe (risky option, since the police will probably try to convince
> >> its owner to not to do that); (300 USD) - connetcing the place to
> >> internet (100 USD) - printing a newspaper for the time of the
> >> protests (100 USD)
> >> we count 4 PLN for one USD (now it is exactly 3,80 PLN, but this is
> >> changing all the time)
> >> We would need much more money, especially to print leaflets and other
> >> materials about the independent media and the current polish
> >> situation, but we
> >> will try to arrange it somehow. We are going to supply hardware,
> >> video cameras,
> >> cariers etc. Ourselves as well. We would also need much more
> >> equipment, materials
> >> for backups etc. and we will try to organise them. We will probably
> >> try to fundrise
> >> also in one activists foundation, but we donit know the possible
> >> result of this,
> >> since it is so close to the summit already.
> >>
> >> ---------------REQUEST-[es]---------------------
> >>
> >> EN el fin de abril (de 28 hasta 30) vamos a tener en Varsovia (capital
> >> de Polonia) Forum Economico Europeno, que es una version mas pequenia de
> >> Forum Economico Mondial a Davos. En mismo tiempo los activistos polacos
> >> organizan Forum Alternativo (http://www.antyszczyt.w.pl/),
> >> demonstaciones y heppenings (http://www.wa29.org/).
> >>
> >> Indymedios polacos quieren hacer relactiones directas de Forum Economico
> >> y de Forum Alternativo. Nuestras paginas (http://pl.indymedia.org/)
> >> tienen muchas informationes de estos dos evenementos. Juntos con portal
> >> PoProstu (http://www.poprostu.pl/) estamos la uniqa alternativa a las
> >> medias de estado y de corporaciones, que composan una vision de
> >> apocalipsa, que va a pasar quando las altermondialistas llegan a
> >> Varsovia. Esperamos mucha jente a Varsovia, no solamente activistos
> >> polacos.
> >>
> >> Para tener la possibilidad (por nosotros y por Imcistas de otras paises
> >> tambien) de publier los informaciones rapido, preguntamos ustedes de nos
> >> ayudar. En esto momento no tenemos una officina en Varsovia. Para luer
> >> una habitation tenemos que pagar para 3 mesos. Tenemos que renovar estos
> >> lugar un poco tambien y comprara la connecion internet. Tenemos
> >> computadores, cameras y minidiscos, pero tenemos que comprarar
> >> materiales (casetas, pediculas, cd etc). Quieremos tambien imprimar un
> >> periodico cada dia con informaciones los mas recientos.
> >> Dinero que necessitamoes es mas-o-menos esto:
> >> Para luear una habitacion por la officina - 300 USD
> >> Interenet - 100 USD
> >> Periodico (1500 examplaires) - 100 USD
> >> Juntos: 500 USD
> >> (1 USD = 3,80 PLN - dinero polaco)
> >>
> >> -----------------END-------------------------------
> >>
> >>
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