[New-imc] Postings from the road

[Jay]

Hi Kevyn,

My name is Jay and I'm part of the Philadelphia IMC, and I'm also involved 
with the new-imc list.  I saw your e-mail come across that list a couple 
weeks ago and haven't been able to respond until now.  I don't know if 
anyone else has contacted you yet in response to your message.  If so, 
great.  If not . . . hi!

I think your idea of traveling around with remote media-making gear is 
tremendous, and I'm sure people will really be excited when you and your 
grease roll into town. :)  Generally "local IMCs" are based in geographic 
areas, and come to be as a result of a lot of nuts-and-bolts face-to-face 
organizing.  I don't think a roving bus would qualify as "a local IMC" per 
se, but that doesn't mean it can't be a project a lot of IMCs could support.

My suggestion would be to start contacting local IMCs in the areas you'll 
be visiting, and spend some time while you're there getting to know them 
and how the network works.  After you've passed through a few IMCs, I'm 
sure those people will help you make contacts as you go along.  Shortly 
into your tour, people along the way will be expecting your visit.  They'll 
also get to know you personally, and some trust will develop in a way that 
will help pave the way for increasing connections with the network.

In other words, I say go for it!  Gather as much gear as possible, and 
contact IMCs directly to invite yourself to visit.  I'm sure they'll be 
happy to see you, and will add some of their ideas for your tour onto the 
ones you already have.

I hope this is a helpful suggestion.  Others from the new-imc working group 
may have other ideas, or another take on the matter entirely.  Whatever the 
case, very good luck on your adventures, and I'm excited to hear the great 
media that will come out of your bus.

Jay

At 10/1/2002, you wrote:
>My name is Kevyn, and I an an activist who is traveling North america over 
>the next few years, in a Grease powered bus, and since I am not located in 
>one city, but wished to set up an IMC, i thought I would contact you, and 
>see what your thoughts were.
>My thoughts, were either to tie into other IMC in the cities as I travel 
>through them, or take the next step and maybe become a roving IMC?
>I also wanted to put a proposal out, for direct action events, for some 
>interlinked participation with Indy Media. I am hooking up a micro-powered 
>FM broadcaster on the bus, so when we are, for example, in Calgary for the 
>G-8, or Washington for the IMF meetings, we could broadcast a low powered 
>FM signal in the evenings for a few hours.
>This is to address the issues which have been raised at recent actions, 
>that without direct internet hookup, it is hard for activists, and 
>journalists to keep up with what is happening at the moment.
>We hoped that there could be an IndyMedia rep in each area, who would be 
>willing to broadcast a "news" update say for one hour or half hour in the 
>evenings. Then we could easily get people to tune in at a certain time to 
>hear updates if they wished.
>As well, it would allow those participating in an action to tune in on 
>portable radios, which could be a big boost to moral.
>Recent example in Washington, this would have been an extremely useful 
>tool, to help add support to those arrested and sitting on the buses.
>
>Anyhow, if you have the opportunity to respond to this long email, I would 
>appreciate it.
>If you think it should be directed to another, please let me know who I 
>should contact.
>
>luv and peace,
>kevyn
>(Pagan Cluster)
>
>Follow the gypsy travels at
>www.greasegypsy.com
>
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