[IMC Bombay] communication in IMC India and IMC Bombay

[boud]

hi IMC Mumbai,
  Glad to hear that you've had some contact with other indymedia
people - the new people who want to participate in IMC India could
do with communication support from IMC Bombay. There's not much 
discussion on imc-mumbai, so it's hard to tell how things are going
generally...

calluna wrote:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-process/2003-August/005084.html

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> Having just returned from India where I worked some with IMC Bombay I want to 
> throw my 10 rupees into the fray. IMC India is completely non-responsive both 
> to international inquires, such as mine, and local, such as IMC Bombay 
> volunteers. Because of this other Indian activists that I worked with found 
> them very suspicious, as do I.

Writing an email which concerns IMC Mumbai and IMC India without cc-ing
to imc-mumbai at lists.indymedia.org and imc-india at lists.indymedia.org
could also be seen as very suspicious.

Or else maybe we have to assume that communication errors do happen and
have the patience to sort them out. 

calluna, please consider constructive support on the imc-india mailing
list.  There are highly motivated people there who are justifiably
angry at the present newswire situation, but there are also people who
have had positive contact with the Madurai collective in the past.


> Now this whole problem brings up isses that, to me, are reminiscent of what has 
> and is happening with IMC Palestine. We need to formulate some real probelm 
> solving skills here. Just recently on a well respected Indian news listserve 
> someone wrote "I wouldnt touch the IMC with a million foot pole." This pains me 
> because we do produce really good news, views and projects but I believe that 
> if we continue to let these problems fester it could be a catalyst for 
> something scary.

So why don't you introduce yourself on the imc-india mailing list, and
help facilitate an acceptable proposal? The new people with the energy
to do something are probably new to non-hierarchical decision-making.

Here's a chance to test hypotheses about problem solving skills.

solidarity
boud