[New-imc] imc Bagdad

[boud]

hi everyone,
   So how about blue pi and petros facilitating together and getting
the imc-baghdad list going, maybe as initial administrators? If you
two could work together constructively ;), then i think things would
look promising for supporting iraqis to work together and take over.

i think someone else (christopher from twin cities in the US?) asked to
create the list, but it hasn't been created yet.

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, blue.pi wrote:

> for once I have sort of a similar concern as Petros (even though I don't 
 ...

> About IMC Bagdad: I only had this email by Ramzi (btw, that's an Arabic and 
> not an American name) forwarded to me (it arrived on some Lebanese 
> mailinglist), are there more contacts? If yes, can you email them to me, so 
> I can give it to the people who will be going to Iraq? 

By the sounds of it, the IMC Baghdad emails have been circulating so
widely, they might as well be posted to a public imc-baghdad list, or
else they'll turn into urban legends.

That way, if VITW and AFSC do raise the money for computers, satellite
phone etc, they'll at least be under pressure to give it to a local,
non-hierarchical group in a way that there are no strings attached.
Or at least, the local group will be able to talk directly by email to
the network and consense with other Iraqis (contacted via IMC Beirut,
IMC East Med,...)  on developing a local, independent media group with
no strings pulled by any authoritarian group (US as a State or other).


BTW, congratulations to IMC Beirut on getting http://beirut.indymedia.org
up and running! :) 

solidarity
boud