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

[Zimbabwe Indymedia]

Me again.

>Question - Couldn't there be a lot more activity on the imc-zimbabwe
>mailing list? This can be done relatively safely compared to face-to-face
>meetings, though hopefully after the election face-to-face meetings will
>be easier, and ZimIMC seems to have ideas such as newspaper advertisements
>to build up numbers so that there are simply too many people in a meeting
>for goons to act.

Yes. We do need more activity on the list. And there will be. It's just that 
right now, there's so much running around happening - elections on Thursday 
- that it's hard to find time to get to an internet cafe and log on. (It's 
also expensive, and that's something we're having to deal with through 
charity and the kindness of different organisations here.) THe newspaper 
advert is a way of reaching folk whom we ordinarily might not be able to, 
and to direct them, from the front page, to the list.
>As for the formalities of the URL zimbabwe.indymedia.org and cities
>listing, and of course I'm only representing myself(!), I think that
>giving the URL would be justified, but I have mixed feelings about a
>"fast track" cities listing, without anyone submitting the standard
>documents.

Sure. Like I say, we're committed to the process, not just the site.

>I don't see the difficulty of the online Zimbabwe people - in
>combination with "mini" meetings (in backs of people's houses, etc.) -
>filling out the "membership criteria" and "principles of unity"
>documents, posting these to the imc-zimbabwe list for comment and
>criticism by grassroots groups such as the above women's groups (this
>requires someone to email them!), setting a deadline for dissent, and
>then submitting them to new-imc along with their introductory
>why-we-want-to-be-an-IMC essay (or maybe that's already submitted?).

Right you are. It might take a week or so to get these documents submitted. 
Like I say, there's too much going on at the moment in terms of state 
avoidance and mobilising to demand that everyone in the collective draft 
something until after the 10th (last day of polling). The interim solution 
of a holding page sounds like a way of respecting process, and getting us up 
and running...

>PS: Are local languages in Zimbabwe normally written in roman script,
>or is another script (font + coding) required?

No, it's roman script. We've got some radio programmes waiting to be 
uploaded in Shona and Ndebele, but the most common language for written 
communication is English.


In solidarity, ever
Z. A.

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