[New-imc] Online form: Proposed new IMC! (IMC Beirut)

[rockystorm at hotmail.com]

Submitted by: Imad <rockystorm at hotmail.com> on Monday, December 2nd, 2002 @ 2:38:18 am (-0800)

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imc_name:
IMC Beirut

city:
Beirut

state:
Lebanon

country:


contact_name:
Imad

contact_email:
rockystorm at hotmail.com

contact_phone:


tech_name:
Bassem

tech_email:
bassem.chit at balamand.edu.lb

tech_phone:


supporting_groups:
Green Line (environmentalists NGO), Al Yasari (A

  bulletin, translation: “The Leftist”), Boycott group (works on boycott

  of companies supporting Apartheid in Israel), Anti-War campaign

regional_focus:
yes

critical_dates:


resources:
We are a group of around 15 people, most of us being experienced in activism and organizing. One is working as a web designer, two others know html. We are also getting technical help from IMC Germany.

We can offer our translation skills as most of us speak English and/or French and of course Arabic.

outreach:
We have announced the open meeting, which was held four weeks ago, on every activist mailing list in Beirut. We also put up posters in those areas of Beirut where people go out on the streets as well as in bars, cultural center.

introductory_statement:
Indymedia Beirut is an independent alternative media collective. It seeks to cover all events without censorship – especially those events marginalized by existing local media outlets, the vast majority of which are affiliated with dominating capitalist and political parties and/or individuals. 

It is concerned with the coverage of activism and the struggles for democracy, social justice, and environmental and human rights. 

It is also committed to the exposure of all regional political infractions of Lebanese sovereignty – from those within Lebanese-Syrian relations, to the continued Israeli military aggressions.

Indymedia Beirut is moreover dedicated to the disclosure of the Lebanese government’s domestic policies, which propagate the goals of corporate globalization.

We seek also to publicize the \"unpublishable,\" from the violations – \"legal\" and illegal – of Palestinian refugees\' rights, to the violations of political, sexual and ethnic  minorities\' rights, to the plights of all those marginalized due to migration/immigration trying to escape war and/or neo-liberal policies.