[New-imc] RICHMOND

[Jay]

Hi Jake and the Richmond IMC,

This is Jay from Philadelphia and the new-imc working group.  Congratulations
on reviving the Richmond IMC.  You're right to have filled out the new-imc
form.  We've had a couple cases in which IMCs that used to exist have fallen
into the hands of a new group of people.  We've encouraged those IMCs to go
through the new-imc process.  Generally the old versions of those IMCs didn't
last, at least in part, because there wasn't enough organizing up front to
enable the IMC to sustain itself.  The new-imc process encourages an IMC to get
its act together before moving forward.  That may seem like a pain, but we've
found the hard work results in a much more solid long term IMC than those built
on the fly.

We've been doing a decent job of sharing the work of helping aspiring IMCs here
at the new-imc working group, at least as far as U.S.-based IMCs go.  Anyone
out there on the new-imc list who wants to help Richmond through the process? 
Maybe Sarah?  Anyone else?

While we're trying to figure out who's going to help you, be sure to soak in
all the information at "newimc.indymedia.org".  That will really help you on
the way.

Looking forward to seeing the Richmond IMC thrive,

Jay

At 04:31 PM 07/05/2002 -0700, jake at riseup.net wrote:
>
>A proposed new IMC is being requested.
>Details are as follows:
>
>Proposed IMC Name:     Richmond
>Contact Name:          Jake Hosen
>Email:                 jake at riseup.net
>Phone:                 7575646704
>City:                  Richmond
>State:                 Virginia
>Country:               United States
>Tech Contact Name:     Jake Hosen
>Tech Contact Email:    jake at riseup.net
>Tech Contact Phone:    7575646704
>Regional Focus:                yes
>Issue Focus:           %issue%
>Event Focus:           %event%
>Critical Dates:                
>Supporting Groups:     -PAN Virginia
>-Food Not Bombs Richmond
>-Tidewater Action Group
>-Students for Global Justice (UVA, W&M)
>Food Not Bombs Harrisonburg
>Other comments:                Our collective is based around the state and
draws from a 
>large variety of political viewpoints, lifestyles and socioeconomic groups.  
>Our group has worked to bring together communities across virginia, through 
>educational efforts and direct action ranging from protests and civil 
>disobedience to community projects like food not bombs, in addition we have 
>organized for mass mobilizations, most recently being the WEF protests, and 
>S29, A16 and A20 protests in DC working to make it affordable/possible for 
>all interested people to attend the protests and meetings surrounding them.
>Resources to contribute: in the future we can likely contribute server 
>space, for now we would like to continue to have richmond.indymedia.org in 
>the future we can contribute server space/bandwidth through the 
>Charlottesvile Activist Tech Collective.
>
>Why we want to be an IMC: Richmond.indymedia.org currently exists, myself 
>and several other people effectively inherited the site from an outgoing 
>group of activists.  Unfortunately the information and passwords to fix some 
>techincal problems on the site has been lost and we require these to make 
>the website fully functional again.
>
>We hope to use the site as a way to establish a common ground for persons 
>across the state to discuss ideas and promote events that would not normally 
>be covered in the mainstream media.
>
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