[New-imc] Re: Zimbabwe IMC ready to go...

[Zimbabwe Indymedia]

hi gang

here's the thing. many of the people who are interested in the imc are 
barely computer literate, and have troubled access to email. the meetings in 
harare, and tonight bulawayo, have been held at the back of people's houses 
because the police are after us, will beat us if they find us (these 
gatherings are illegal) and have stooges in internet cafes looking over our 
shoulders.

this hasn't, however, stopped people reading and approving the imc 
principles of unity (printed out and distributed at meetings). we don't have 
an email audit trail, unfortunately, because we've been too busy mobilising 
and training folk on how to post stuff.

bearing in mind the limited time available (8 days to elections and upheaval 
thereafter), though understanding that you've little in the way of proof 
that this is more than just a virtual community, what do folk think?

cheers, ever
zim admin


>From: Evan <rabble at protest.net>
>To: Zimbabwe Indymedia <zimimc at hotmail.com>
>CC: <new-imc at indymedia.org>
>Subject: Re: Zimbabwe IMC ready to go...
>Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 08:37:02 -0800 (PST)
>
>basically you really need to read through the new imc process documents at
>newimc.indymedia.org and go through the process before we can setup teh
>zimbabwe.indymedia.org domain name for you. The site looks good, but the
>point of the process is to get folks to particpate in the network and to
>make sure that you are familure with the indymedia workings. Also we like
>to do this so that the new imc is reflective of a real group and not just
>a virtual project.
>
>That said we do have a process for new imc's which form right before a
>major action. Basically we include them in the upcoming events listing on
>the global indymedia site and we can do a feature about it. I know at some
>times we've also given then imcname.indymedia.org domain name out early
>just not listed them on hte cities list until they've gone throughthe
>process.
>
>I think we should definately do the upcoming actions and feature, but what
>do people think about the domain name?
>
>in solidarity,
>evan
>
>On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Zimbabwe Indymedia wrote:
>
> > Hallo gang
> >
> > The Zim IMC is up and running, in beta. We're still ironing out a few 
>bugs,
> > thanks to a dedicated team of wizards up North. Posts have started 
>coming in
> > too, many of them. And many more to come over the next few days. Is 
>there a
> > chance that we might register zimbabwe.syntac.net as 
>zimbabwe.indymedia.org
> > ?
> >
> > Onward!
> > zim admin
> >
> >
> >
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