[Imc-france-paris] Re: [Imc-europe] Re: imc europe meeting ?

[francesca]

At 10.35 11/08/2003 +0200, Blicero wrote:
> > - get hosting facilities (room, interprets) for a workshop of indymedia
> > activists
> >
>
>i still don't get why not to cooperate with metallo medialab
>the proposal seems interesting to me, not sectarian and open to cooperation
>
>still it present the same issue we faced last year withthe hub of being in a
>space away from esf, facilitating less influence from the buraeucracies, but
>making it difficult to meet al lot of people who came to florence to see
>what'sup and that could be much more interested meeting us than listening to
>hours of speech of kallinikos and co

I think this is a crucial point: we have been evaluating carfully after the 
'Hub' in Florence what might be a good tactic to cross the ESF, by 
confronting the official position of some organizations with concrete 
issues, contents and innovative political and communication practices...
  it is surely more effective to try to bring some of the important issues 
and political methods in within the ESF and not at the margin of the event....
All of this thinking is useless anyways without a clear report of the 
political and logistic situations and possibilities of convergences and 
interaction with other social movements and activists...
For example at the Noborder camp in Puglia we had a very productive meeting 
about the ESF where it came out that also the migrant movement will have a 
very critical approach to the French official position for the ESF that is 
still a sovranist politics based  on national States, and this is an 
obstacle for people that are working with migration, freedom of movement 
and freedom of communication and that consider the critique of the border 
regime and global communication as main topics for the ESF....

.

I think that the most important thing is to build the conditions to 
strenghten an independent network of media and social activists that will 
gain a european dimension of the political/communication action...

>I will concretely propose to the Indymedia network to collectively prepare 
>a couple of workshops on a few issues...and I suggest to focuse also on 
>the wsis and to organize a workshop on it together with the platform 
>Geneve03 [http://www.geneva03.org/] that is active developing the counter 
>activities during the Wsis...
Can someone form France help us to have an overview of the current 
political ESF process? and on what are the alternative proposals?

thanx, Francesca