[Imc-uk-features] Indymedia Iraq sets up - needs help

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> Hello All

I have been ill for over a week now so forgive me for forwarding this 
important email but obviously we need to give this as much help as 
humanly possible especially as the anti-US administration and UK 
occupation protests are stepping up and the former Baath party is again 
being given powers

many thanks
1 of IMC UK


> Indymedia Iraq sets up - needs help
>
> Dear all, this has come in from independent journalists on the ground
> in Iraq, who are trying to set up an Indymedia Iraq, with local
> students and others who want to distribute the truth of what is going
> on in Iraq. Please circulate this on your network, cheers davey
> (pandora project)
>
>
> From: Ramzi Kysia [mailto:rrkysia at yahoo.com]
>  Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 06:59 PM
>
>  Dear Friends,
>
> I've been able to locate 4 of the students who we worked with on the
> dialogue exchange: Haider, Hamza, Walid & Majed. All are very
> enthusiastic about starting a newspaper & setting up something like
> indymedia baghdad.
>
>
> Over the next few days, we are going to: - locate a house to rent,
> that can serve as an office for the project, as well as office/living
> space for VitW & friends here in Iraq.
>
> - compile a list of equipment we have on hand (computers, printers,
> cameras, office supplies, etc...)
>
> - compile a list of equipment we *need* (computers, printers,
> cameras, office supplies, etc... LOL)
>
> - locate a printing company that can print 10,000 copies a week, of
> an Arabic/English newspaper that we are going to start.
>
> We NEED from you:
>
> - MONEY: start raising $$$ *NOW* - this project is going to need
> money to pay for rent, equipment, printing costs, and web costs,
> ASAP!!! We will work toward making it self-sufficient as soon as
> possible, but that, for sure, ain't right now! Voices is sending a
> small group of people here (one in a week, a couple of more soon
> after) - so we need to send in money & equipment with them.
>
> - EQUIPMENT: for a fact, I *KNOW* that we're going to need at least 2
> more computers, 1 more office printer, 2 broadcast-quality video
> cameras, and 2 digital cameras. Another satellite modem & satellite
> phone would be nice too (as well as $$$ to cover the costs of the
> current sat modem over the next, several months).
>
> - WEB HELP: we need help, from the outside, on setting up a website
> for the newspaper and/or indymedia Baghdad, where we can post text,
> pictures, & video produced here - English *AND* Arabic. Some of these
> kids are very web savvy, but the infrastructure is NOT in place for
> them to start doing web work from here right now. The war took out
> telecommunications in a *big* way - certainly for weeks, likely for
> months.
>
> I (we, I hope!) are going to help out with advice, training,
> equipment & money - but this is going to be an Iraqi project, from
> top to bottom. These folks can finally speak for themselves - let's
> help them do that!
>
> Please let me know how all of you can help, ASAP! Let's roll... Love,
> Ramzi
>
>
>
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>
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