[New-imc] imc-beirut status ?

[Hannah Wettig]

Hi you all,

maybe, I can help answering some of the questions
after talking with the people who organize IMC Beirut,
because I think sometimes it can be difficult for
people who don't know our network that well yet to
figure out what exactly is wanted from them.

 --- Petros Evdokas <petros_cyprus at burleehost.net>
schrieb: > 

>  
> I hope you have seen through the materials and
> guidelines, and I hope that it’s clear that the
> technical side of things is the least important.
> Organizing a local Beirut- imc group which operates
> as
> a collective according to imc guidelines, is the
> most
> important task. 

Yes, they have and yes, they are aware of that. The
Beiruti activists scene is fairly small, people all
know each other, so they were under the impression
that just by existing it would be understood that they
are open for everyone, which they practically are.
However, we talked about the importance of inviting
everyone interested to an open first meeting and they
will do that now.


> 
> Can you tell us a bit about your group of
> colleagues, 
> your meetings, etc?
> 

I guess they should do that themselves. All I can say
is, that they are great people, working on several
other leftist projects as well, e.g. a newly found
leftist paper, that works from what I understood
already very much like indymedia (with open meetings
where everyone can walk in and distribute his/her
story and have it discussed.) 

> Taking inspiration from a recent letter by Boud, I
> guess it'a good thing to refer to this page:
> 
> "THE NEW-IMC PROCESS:
> Please look up the 
> http://newimc.indymedia.org
> site, in particular the ten steps:
> 

So, looking at point 7, I am not commenting on any of
the following points. Just the mailing list, because
Blicero seemed a bit confused about it, I guess I
can't explain it right, but I'll try again:

There is a mailing list set up, however subscription
is not available (that's what it says when you look on
the mailinglistlist), people have tried to subscribe
to it and it doesn't work. There used to be an
administrator for the IMC Beirut mailinglist, but he
has left the country, so they need to put a new
administrator in charge. How is that done?

Greetings
Hannah (IMC Germany alias blue)


> > 1.Pre-organizing: the first step is to talk with
> people in your community
> and try to get the sense if there is interest in
> forming an IMC. 
> 
> > 2.Look at the documents linked at this site (see
> below). 
> 
> > 3.When you think you're really ready to do some
> good organizing, fill out
> the form at the bottom of this page. 
> 
> > 4.Open a mailing list: newlist.indymedia.org 
> 
> > 5.O - R - G - A - N - I - Z - E !!!! 
> 
> > 6.With your forming collective, write a mission
> statement (see below) and
> editorial policy, maybe contact imc-tech at this
> stage. 
> 
> > 7.When you're really ready, and only when you're
> ready, reply to each of
> the membership criteria points one by one, and send
> to
> > new-imc at indymedia.org. 
> 
> > 8.Your new-imc contact proposes your site to
> new-imc, if no one blocks
> within 3 days, this is passed to imc-process; if no
> one
> blocks
> > there within 7 days, you become part of the
> network and are put on the
> cities.inc list once your web site is ready. 
> 
> > 9.The fun begins. Get involved in the global lists
> and Indymedia
> discussions and decisions. Offer to work with other
> IMCs from your area
> > or elsewhere around the world. Do good work. 
> 
> > 10.Change the world, for the better of course. We
> wouldn't expect
> anything less. "
> 
> You might begin by re-activating the imc- Beirut
> email
> group, which seems to be unused?
> 
> Thanks,
> Petros
> ---------------------- 

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Hannah Wettig
Schönleinstr. 29
10967 Berlin
Tel.: 030/6940256
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