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

[info at nephridium.org]

Submitted by: Martin <info at nephridium.org> on Monday, November 4th, 2002 @ 8:15:48 am (-0800)

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imc_name:
Lancaster IMC

city:
Lancaster

state:
Lancashire

country:
England

contact_name:
Martin

contact_email:
info at nephridium.org

contact_phone:
-

tech_name:
Robin

tech_email:
r.d.green at lancaster.ac.uk

tech_phone:
-

supporting_groups:
ShiftingGround
The Folly Gallery
Kinematograph
Green Action
The Basement - LARC


regional_focus:
yes

issue_focus:
yes

event_focus:
yes

critical_dates:


resources:
We hope to build our own server in the long term.
We have good organising skills and a good intellectual basis; and the group that os forming the IMC has a very broad base in political activism as well.

outreach:
Leafletting, talking, emails, public meetings, postering and the ususal stuff.

introductory_statement:
This is the Lancaster IMC Mission Statement v1.0:

Lancaster Independent Media Centre (Lancaster IMC) is a not-for-profit collective made up of various and diverse groups in the Lancaster area, including journalists, students, educators, film makers, artists, researchers, activists, and concerned human beings. Affiliated with the Indymedia network, we cultivate and maintain links with many related regional and global networks dedicated to providing grass-roots, non-corporate coverage of \"the  news\".

With the aim to strengthen the wider Lancaster community, we provide a communication hub through which to collect and transmit information emanating from the local and global levels.
We aim to provide services for local independent media producers and artists to share the diverse skills involved in all aspects of media (e.g., journalism, editing, and computer and information technologies and theory) with interested members of the public. In recognition of the fact that technical decisions have social and political consequences, and that old and new technologies are ambiguous - potentially both exclusive and inclusive-, we aim to democratise technical skills and languages, and promote those that are, so that they are accessible, intelligible and transmittable to and by all.

We are organised as a collective in which decisions are made by consensus and debate through electronic discussion lists, as well as at regular face-to-face meetings. We strive to operate with a horizontal internal structure, reflecting seriously upon and constructively addressing all informal hierarchies that may emerge within the organisation. Participation in organised activities is open to all; and do-it-yourself activities are encouraged.

We are committed to freedom of and access to information. It is in this spirit that we reserve the right to filter materials that promote discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and other such social divisions. In the event that we receive such material, we will collectively review each case in its specific context to determine the most response-able course of action.