[New-imc] Fwd: Things happening in Iceland

[Tony]

>From: Haukur Már Helgason <haukur.mar at berlin.de>
>
>Dear Tony.
>
>Our situation has changed for the better.
>
>Eldar Astthorsson, the editor of the website http://www.palestina.is and an
>active member of the Iceland-Palestine association, contacted me about the
>building of an IMC web in Iceland. We will join forces to get it going, and
>have, together, access to quite a force of people, I believe.
>
>Tell me two things: Do you have a server that could host our web for free,
>and do you have a ready-made IMC web publishing system that we could simply
>copy to start our web? Both things would certainly save us a lot of time and
>trouble -- although we know web-savvy programmers who are willing to do it,
>my experience is that the good-hearted freelance programmers are always
>troublesome and slow. Maybe programmers in general are that, but I don't
>know the other sorts.
>
>For trust: Eldar is a working journalist, my CV is here:
>http://www.hi.is/~haukurhe/cv-e.html
>
>Chao!
>
>Haukur.
>
>
>This is our situation:
>
>Participation in the building of a regular IMC web was not as expected. Such
>a web is however needed now more than ever, as our Prime minister goes crazy
>(I send you an interesting article about that at the bottom of this email.)
>
>What I and my friends have done is to build a basis, with articles about
>politics, global and local, culture, humanities and literature, on this
>site:
>
>http://www.hi.is/~haukurhe
>
>This web is made in the name of Nyhil -- 'Ny' means New, so the concept is
>coined from New and Nihilismus, to symbolize our attempts to rise anew from
>all voids.
>
>Nyhil is a closed companionship, although growing, consisting of poets,
>political thinkers and activists, students, writers, musicians and
>filmmakers, between 22-25 years old.
>
>Our new web is being built here:
>
>http://www.nyhil.cjb.net
>
>and will be opened shortly. Attempts to include an open news thread on our
>former web failed (no one participated), but we will try again on this
>latter one. We also plan to introduce our new web seriously, as we are at
>the same time publishing the first book under Nyhil's label (poetry from
>Eiríkur Örn Norddahl) -- the rumour about our current web has very silently
>spread around.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Haukur.